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Straight Outta Compton
2015 · Film · 147 min
Directed by F. Gary Gray
In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and anger about life in the most dangerous place in America into the most powerful weapon they had: their music. Taking us back to where it all began, Straight Outta Compton tells the true story of how these cultural rebels—armed only with their lyrics, swagger, bravado and raw talent—stood up to the authorities that meant to keep them down and formed the world’s most dangerous group, N.W.A. And as they spoke the truth that no one had before and exposed life in the hood, their voice ignited a social revolution that is still reverberating today.
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It recommended me straight outta Compton, and I watched it. Thanks
Apparently, black women having hair problems is a common and well known thing among black women, and not well known to others. Butt problems, too. I found this out when my local public radio station ran a piece around the time the movie "Straight Outta Compton" came out looking at how Compton has changed since the time in which the movie was set [1].
They were talking about how it is now largely an Hispanic area. They talked to a young black girl, around age 9:
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When JaTiara Fuller, walked into the classroom on her first day of fourth grade, she was surprised. She was the only black person in her class. “There was no diversity,” she remembers. “There were no Indians, no Asians, no Filipinos, just Latinas and me. That’s it.”
Fuller's mom, who grew up in Compton, was sure the school had made a mistake. She thought her daughter had been put in a class for students who needed to learn English, so she went to the administrator’s office to sort things out. “And they were like, no she’s in the gifted class, that’s where she is supposed to be,” JaTiara says.
She made friends easily with other kids, though there were a few things that made her stand out. "They couldn't relate to my hair problems or my butt problems”, Fuller says. “It was a foreign world to them.”
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So, if black women having hair problems is indeed a big thing among black women, then it would not be surprising that Google knows it.
[1] http://www.marketplace.org/topics/wealth-poverty/straight-out-changed-compton-27-years-later