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Mario Van Pebbles, is a man that I have a lot of respect (love) for and I am a huge fan of his father the late, Melvin Pebbles ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Van_Peebles ) I first met Mario Van Pebbles at a soul food restaurant in down town Hollywood, which was owned by a lady that my grand mother knew from Mississippi. I had conversations with him about the business of Hollywood and the Black Image while standing in line to see the film Love Jones when it first opened, years ago and also hanging around the set of his show, Street Lawyer. Yes, I know everybody with talent around Hollywood.
I recall Mario telling me how hard it was to get the Black Panther film made in Hollywood because it dealt with the CIA cocaine running in the inner cities and all of these years later, we still see Bank of America, Interpol and Wells Fargo Bank running cocaine in the inner cities along with Obama, the man who doesn't even have a legit American Social Security Number, busted in a gun running scandal.
In other words, the US Gov created the social problems for blacks & latino males and Hollywood makes it into something glamorous but when you buy that government sponsored crack rock and go shoot up a street in Chicago because you saw a Hollywood film, the slave/prison world of providing free labor to corporate big wigs is very real and it aint glamorous nor is it fun. It means you're a dumb @!$%# or spic who has fallen for the white man's tricks.
Mario Van Pebbles is a man that I can only describe as the Malcolm X of Hollywood. He often calls meetings of top black film makers to his home to discuss how to improve the black male image in the media because he recognizes the constant attack on black men, in an effort to dehumanize the African American Male, so we can learn to accept that the U.S. Court System executes innocent black men, has more black men in prison than were in slavery and the fact that most black men that are employed by AT&T are working as slaves in these corporate prison slave systems call centers set up by American Corporations in an attempt to avoid paying a living wage.
