The problem with criticism of "Precious"

[Louisiana1976]

"I wanna say I am somebody. I wanna say it on subway, TV, movie, LOUD. I see the pink faces in suits look over top of my head. I watch myself disappear in their eyes... I talk loud but still I don't exist." — Precious

Not everyone is singing hosannas.

Indeed, though it is — maybe because it is — among the most critically-acclaimed movies of the year, Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire, has inspired a fierce backlash. Jack White on The Root.com (full disclosure: Jack and I worked together a few years ago at Hampton University) slammed it, unseen, as over-hyped and a waste of time.

Courtland Milloy of The Washington Post called it "a film of prurient interest that has about as much redeeming social value as a porn flick."

Armond White of nypress.com said it was more demeaning to black people than any film since D.W. Griffith's crudely racist Birth of a Nation in 1915.

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