During the 1970s, there was an era that America, there was the black panthers and they were very popular for the African American community. This came after the civil rights movement was coming to an end and changing America. It also changed Hollywood as well with it has more African American directors that gave more African American cast and crew members jobs. This also changed the type of movies that were coming out and it created a new genre of film called Blaxploitation and it showed the world how the black communities were seen. With it being a new type of film it has been just an African American version of every type of earlier cinema film that has been out. The problem with the films that were showing the more negative side of the African …show more content…
With Super Fly being about drug dealers selling cocaine it also advertised it increasing the use of cocaine use in the same communities that it was helping creating jobs for in the inner city. With this movie being very popular in the African American community it also influenced a lot of children at the time who did not know much or have any role models in their life to lead them in the right direction. The influence of Blaxploitation films became so bad it became unpopular and it was almost shunned upon for African American to make these type of movies. That did more destruction by their films than constructions with the movies giving bad influences on the African American community and a also a terrible stereotype for people who did not know about the community and thought that all African American males where like that. These movies such as Super Fly also gave a bad influence on the African American women because all they were seen as were sex symbols from being prostitutes for the most part or they had these long and dramatic sex scenes exposing a lot of their