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OneBro

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2. The Root didn't pull any punches.
Sun May 12, 2019, 08:02 PM
May 2019
https://thegrapevine.theroot.com/hard-pass-jeremy-savilles-loqueesha-panned-as-modern-d-1834689471

From the article:
On Friday, social media let out a collective ‘wtf??’ after a trailer for an upcoming movie went viral: a white bartender disguises his voice as a stereotypical black woman’s to get the radio host job he couldn’t as a white man. They named the movie Loqueesha and I wish I was making this shit up but yet here we are.

The main character (played by Jeremy Saville who also wrote/directed) is a family man who needs to pull in some extra cash to secure bribes and falsify admissions applications send his son to an expensive private school for the ‘gifted’. One day, while watching some Jerry Springer-type circus of ig’nant black folks on TV, he thinks out loud, “That’s who needs their own show; if I were a black woman it’d be perfect.”
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