your hair aint no longer than - so you'll never fling it all back. You afraid to walk in the rain. oh what a shame whose to blame? Dont you ever worry bou that. Cause i dont mind being black. Shut up wit ya old mixed up head. I aint never gonna be afraid. Love it! Them girls carried on bout them nappy heads and weaves. lol oh 80's i miss you and the 90's.
LOL the "W's" got some nerve talkin bout "dont you know your hair stands on high cant you comb it and dont you try" and most of their hair look like it been through a tornado lol
@emaresea OMG!!! I was thinking the SAME THING lol.. Everybody looks like they need Conditioner and a good HOT OIL TREATMENT.. EVERYBODY lol.. Stragley hair all tangled and all over the place....
I use to watch this movie all the time on DVD when my mom had it. I even learned how to do those dance routines! That would be so cool if there was a Broadway for this movie, I would love to be apart of it!
I was absolutely knocked out by this number the first time I saw it. Look at all those happy faces at the end, as if they knew they were doing something different in the movies. Brilliant.
@DreamGyrl360 WHO ARE U TELLING!!! IF THE COLOR PURPLE AND SISTER ACT CAN MAKE IT TO BROADWAY....SCHOOL DAZE IS LONG OVERDUE FOR A BROADWAY PRODUCTION!!!...SPIKE HAS DEFINITELY GOT TO MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!
And another thing if you look at thier dance number not as a two teams against one another and as one emotional entity it is just beautiful! them girls did they thang!
Awesome little known fact: Did you know that during filming Spike Lee had the darker skin women stay in a less prestigious hotel, while he had the lighter skin actresses stay in the a better hotel with all the male actors...just to make a bit of tension that would play out on film? That is brutal. But he is a zany filmmaker and it worked the tension is evident and I bet it wasnt no hard feelings once the filmed wrapped. They all contributed to a great black american film
It's sad that we;re still dealing with these same issues. Light skin vs. Dark Skin. Natural Hair vs. Status Quo. Self-worth vs. Self loathing. All the while no one wants to look back at the Lynch principles that started the madness OR look forward to a future without such nonsense.
@mommak10 yeah It does! part of the appeal of this for me is that I'm half white/half mexican. I got called "stupid white girl" from the mexicans and "too mexican" from the white girls. I would see mexican girls dying their hair blonde and wearing blue contacts and white girls dressed like a chola dying their hair dark and wearing dark lipstick...................the whole thing confounded me to no end!
@asolis8 That's terrible! :( I'm sorry about that. Don't let me get started on my race, African American. Even today light-skinned blacks get viewed as more beautiful than dark-skinned blacks. The whole thing confuses me and makes me sad. :(
@mommak10 Noone is ever reallu happy. I always felt like the oddball of my family. My mother is Gabriel Unions color & my dad & sis are Iman's color. Im in between Tyra Banks & Rihannas color oddly. My sister used to make fun of me & say I was adopted. My family "innocently" made fun of it but I though it was wrong, so I thought I was ugly. Im 16 now & my sis recently told me she was jealous of me because I was light, "pretty", had straight hair and "european" features. It breaks my heart. :(
If I was in this scene wuld I b a jiggaboo or a wannabe? #teamjiggaboo all day long! lol naw im not callin myself a jiggaboo, but nuthin iz kooler than a nappy headed black girl...
I'd been waiting for this to be uploaded!!! And yes, it is so sad that we still plague ourselves with such thought processes today. The most artistic way of displaying social discourse with racially-charged overtones. I wish we had more love for ourselves. Black women, let's RISE above this!!
STRAIGHT HAIR IS NOT CURLY! TISHA IS THE ONLY ONE WITH A WEAVE. LET ME SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS GOOD HAIR AND BAD HAIR. LOVE YOUR ROOTS!
Great movie these issues still go on today. The self hate I hate seeing a black or latina woman putting on a blonde wig along with blue contacts. Seriously who are you trying to fool. I always hear young guys say I want a redbone with long hair and a study done with children and they choose the lighter doll. I am a brown girl with naturally curly hair but I love and enjoy being a woman of color. People always ask if my hair is weave & its not.
I dont get how in the beginning the girls thought that the other girls hair was fake? Why do black women think that we cant have long hair without it being fake or that we cant have light eyes. They have such a low mentality.
@kianna621 : I am just tired of the self hate from either side of the color spectrum. We have to realize we are beautiful whether we are dark or light skinned, whether we have kinky, curly, or straight hair.
thick hair is healthy hair, and it really don't matter whether ur dark or fair, it's all about how you carry urself..cause UGLY comes in all shades as well as beauty..run with that..please
Its a shame this rhetoric of self hating Black issues can still be seen present day...whats even worse is the fact that we have a conscious and talented writer, producer, and director who was able to capture such a critical issue and display it in cinematic culture and not recieve the proper accolades from both White and BLACK hollywood...smh but loving this clip...
i find it kind of amusing how misunderstood spike lee is. if you watch his movies in their entirety and listen to his interviews in their entirety all you would really see is someone who is reporting the way things are. he is my favorite filmmaker of all time.
@DreamGyrl360 WHO ARE U TELLING!!! IF THE COLOR PURPLE AND SISTER ACT CAN MAKE IT TO BROADWAY....SCHOOL DAZE IS LONG OVERDUE FOR A BROADWAY PRODUCTION!!!...SPIKE HAS DEFINITELY GOT TO MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!
They have never done a commentary on skin/hair issues in a major (that I have seen) since! Would like this topic to be addressed more in Black film...
aww, when i was growing up, there wasnt much said about skin color (unless you were really dark, then your were teased.) now so many women are going natural, fox news did a report about it.
seeing this years later through older eyes , really has become even more evident as to the great director Spike Lee was and what he was doing as an independent filmmaker - respect.
I am fucking tired of hatred and racism, it's the 21st century, not the 19th century and we need to love all colours of the rainbow and stop thinking of people as apes, niggers, spicks, faggots and pale - skinned crackers! I am tired of hatred!
Humanity needs to wake up and remember without another person are surival in this world fruitless!
I absolutely LOVE this movie! I read in an article that Spike made the Wannabee girls sleep in a separate room from the Jiggaboo girls to build realistic tension on the set.
Great expose on self-hatred versus self-acceptance in the "black community", (which extends beyond what America defines as black)...a lot of latinos wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for an African ancestor somewhere along the line. Loving yourself for who YOU are is sexy in my opinion. This film is all about identity...which is why the "pretty, light-skinned" girl plays herself and has sex on command, she doesn't love herself or her own body enough to be in control.
The whole point is that it's not just about skin tone...it's about modifying your looks to conform to mainstream conceptions of beauty versus choosing a more natural style. "Jigaboo" is meant to be an insult for a "dark, nappy-headed" black person, just like "wanna-be (white)" is for the hair straightening, contact wearing blacks. There are people who try to downplay their African-ness all over the world for whatever reason, usually self-hatred in my opinion.
The girl kneeling @ 1:03 is not dark she is brown.
The jigaboos were very dark with nappy coarse beady dready hair. The brown girls even in todays time are more or less identifiable with the bougie girls.
Im 14 and i saw this on 1 of tha sky movie channels earlier this yr. I was so fascinated and in stitches. I think this is one of the best scenes in the film. Tha film is realistic 'cus these fings happen but its funny aswell.
The film is good at tha end when 1 of tha guys are saying 'wake up!' Its a eye opener for young black people, of all shades and colours.
All the musical performances in this film were amazing. I was 13 when this came out and have seen it dozens of time. They don't interrupt the film, just move it along. Lee was/is one of the best commenters on black life and culture.
"Don't you go and worry 'bout that, 'cuz I don't mind being black!"
spike lee is definitely a realist and he speaks the truth as sad as it may be. this scene reminds me of my sister she's light with long "good hair", and I'm chocolate and when i was young my hair was short and "nappy". I use to get it so bad and for most of my childhood I was insecure, because everyone pointed out our differences and she even got treated better than me. As I got older I grew out of feeling ugly because of my skin tone, and now you can't tell me nothing!!!!!!!!!!!!
I agree. I saw School Daze when I was fifteen. I saw this movie and was instantly hooked on Spike Lee joints. That's why I like Spike; he is a realist and does not hold punches. His movies are on the real. As for your situation..I am bi-racial and so are my siblings. I am all-and-out treated like a white person! I am constantly in fights with sisters...always. It is a damn shame people are STILL hung up on complexion and it is done by US!!!
Hey, it's ok. They are probably jealous because they've bought into the European standard of beauty. Not saying that you aren't. Of course you are. And so are they. They probably don't know it though. Hold your head up sister. This sister and plenty others will love you. You are us and we are you.
don't you know that my hair is so strong it can break the teeth out the comb. ha ha ha that part always kills me. also if you noticed there is a dark skinned girl with so called nice hair.
All this color thing is a trip. I was dating a light skinned guy because we would spend hours on the phone. We really liked each other. But someone told me something I stopped the relationship. Finding she only did it because I was dark and he was light. CRAZY we need to stop the color and hair insecurity. I have hair anyone would want had it spit on by my own CRAZY.
But anyway, this was what the shallow 80's was like. It was all about light skin and long hair.Or if you were darked skinned your werent considered that beautiful, but if you had long hair you got a pass. lol! That mess was crazy. I love this movie though it has a great message that needed to be told back then and the choreography was amazing.
Is it me or was the one dark skinned girl that was with the wanna bee's hair nappy looking too. The only thing about it is that it was long. The weaves back in the 80's were terrible.
SAD but honestly we don't see that this is really an awesome number. What we do see and only want to see is the stereotype. Yes I understand that he's making a statement BUT NO ONE COMMENTS ON HOW WELL THIS SONG IS SONG, ACTED OUT AND CHOREOGRAPHED.
I sooo agree with you...It's an all African American cast with great techniques and awesome lyrics. This is one intense scene. I wonder why it never got any recognition?
i don't take offense but i think that you should be carefull of how you say things, because you could hurt someone who's hair isn't like your by saying yours is good, because it means thiers is bad. think about it if you had a daughter and her hair wasn't at all like yours and it was tightly curled you wouldn't what her to believe her hair is bad. God bless
There is no "good hair". It's all good, it the slave-mentality, that you so ignorantly are demonstrating that makes think your straighter hair is somehow also "good".
The only thing said right was there is nothing wrong with being dark-skinned.
Baby cakes try again....lol i come from a dominican family of dark skin women who sit on their long, silky hair. And we laugh at the lite skin girls with nappy hair like a brillo pad lol...cut out the stereotypes and try again.
i always say, you are not your hair, your hair dont make you, you make your hair, plus straight and nappy are both beautiful hairstyles, altough i do think people who get there straightned so its easier to manage hun
u would think something stupid as that. but to answer your question,the answer is no. U missed the entire point. Furthermore I don't need validation from any sorority or anyone else for that matter. It is funny how some miss the point Spike tried to convey.
How in the hell do you know if I missed the point what I said had nothing to do with the movie but come off like you have this hate for frats and it's getting a little old if you want to put them all in one group that's up to you but the ones I know are good people and I like them so stop telling me all the things YOU think is wrong with them because I stop caring so long ago
God ! I Love This Movie ....
cherrrianna 2 days ago
this should be on Broadway. I would pay to see it!
BabyGirlGoddess 1 week ago
Dont you ever worry bout' that cause i dont mind being black :)
xxCometbejerknxx 1 month ago
your hair aint no longer than - so you'll never fling it all back. You afraid to walk in the rain. oh what a shame whose to blame? Dont you ever worry bou that. Cause i dont mind being black. Shut up wit ya old mixed up head. I aint never gonna be afraid. Love it! Them girls carried on bout them nappy heads and weaves. lol oh 80's i miss you and the 90's.
tonyvalentine3 5 months ago 2
LOL the "W's" got some nerve talkin bout "dont you know your hair stands on high cant you comb it and dont you try" and most of their hair look like it been through a tornado lol
345juanita 5 months ago 4
@345juanita Ikr? None of them have anything remotely straight looking lol.
langolava 2 weeks ago
@345juanita Lol, in context, thats how alot of women with "striaght" hair wore it in the 80s.
detroit46 1 week ago
If you like this watch good hair documentary by Chris rock.. It's on demand (free) right now if you have HBO subscription :)
YoungCub 6 months ago 2
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I love this movie
SeanStoneTSG 6 months ago
Everybody's hair looks damaged; that's what makes this routine so funny.
emaresea 6 months ago
@emaresea OMG!!! I was thinking the SAME THING lol.. Everybody looks like they need Conditioner and a good HOT OIL TREATMENT.. EVERYBODY lol.. Stragley hair all tangled and all over the place....
Nyijuel 6 months ago
I know this whole song by heart. Wow
delledean2020 6 months ago
whaHaha who are the 4 idiots?
jelizzle 6 months ago
This looks like a Delta/AKA fight!! LOVE IT!!!
derrick1889 7 months ago
"your just a jiiiiiiiiig-gaboo....tryin' find sumthin' to do" ....that line just killed me! LOLOL
cnote4461 7 months ago
still fucking brilliant
dulaone 7 months ago
I use to watch this movie all the time on DVD when my mom had it. I even learned how to do those dance routines! That would be so cool if there was a Broadway for this movie, I would love to be apart of it!
DeJaMonet313 7 months ago 6
@DeJaMonet313 Film your audition I wanna see you do it and post it
jdeucey24 7 months ago
"Tar Baby!" OMG that was so mean lol
mskittyb1 7 months ago
@1:48 she is pretty dark
skcarroll46 7 months ago
I was absolutely knocked out by this number the first time I saw it. Look at all those happy faces at the end, as if they knew they were doing something different in the movies. Brilliant.
TestingPlay1 7 months ago
I'm not playin' witchu Rachael!
xanfus 7 months ago
@DreamGyrl360 WHO ARE U TELLING!!! IF THE COLOR PURPLE AND SISTER ACT CAN MAKE IT TO BROADWAY....SCHOOL DAZE IS LONG OVERDUE FOR A BROADWAY PRODUCTION!!!...SPIKE HAS DEFINITELY GOT TO MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!
soulful1984 7 months ago
If I didn't see this posted on someones tumblr page then I would never knew this was so good.
iStayGilly18 7 months ago
And another thing if you look at thier dance number not as a two teams against one another and as one emotional entity it is just beautiful! them girls did they thang!
maxsax2003 7 months ago 2
Awesome little known fact: Did you know that during filming Spike Lee had the darker skin women stay in a less prestigious hotel, while he had the lighter skin actresses stay in the a better hotel with all the male actors...just to make a bit of tension that would play out on film? That is brutal. But he is a zany filmmaker and it worked the tension is evident and I bet it wasnt no hard feelings once the filmed wrapped. They all contributed to a great black american film
maxsax2003 7 months ago
That was phenomenal dancing! I love School Daze! It's one of my favorite movies of all times!
ASU19992006 7 months ago
where's the hair washing station in the beauty shop????? how u gonna do hair without a HAIR WASHING STATION!!!!!!!!!!!! D:
sassynerdprincess281 7 months ago
Man this is a musical!!!!!! Forget about Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang! This is the BOMB!
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CarmineBritt 8 months ago
It's sad that we;re still dealing with these same issues. Light skin vs. Dark Skin. Natural Hair vs. Status Quo. Self-worth vs. Self loathing. All the while no one wants to look back at the Lynch principles that started the madness OR look forward to a future without such nonsense.
Oyin6003 8 months ago
The music and choreography is just BRILLIANT! All those women did there thing in this number!
saleemah31 8 months ago
@mrtjG92 lmfaoooo you are too funny
tamrocks4 8 months ago
AKA's vs. DELTAS!!!!!
324clw 9 months ago 13
@324clw hahaha!
sbgal13 8 months ago
@324clw First thing that popped into my head.....
junyah1 7 months ago
@324clw LOL! All day!
beachbody03 1 month ago
Shocking, I like both Spike and Perry!
Ddys2005Grl 9 months ago
Lol why was she pulling that black girls hair...there was none :/
CurlyHead827 9 months ago
DOWN with Madea! Spike I"m with you. Enjoy
soflyzeta 9 months ago
@soflyzeta I've noticed a lot of people who like Lee don't like Perry and vise versa I wonder why...
Iwuzhere321 9 months ago
@mommak10 yeah It does! part of the appeal of this for me is that I'm half white/half mexican. I got called "stupid white girl" from the mexicans and "too mexican" from the white girls. I would see mexican girls dying their hair blonde and wearing blue contacts and white girls dressed like a chola dying their hair dark and wearing dark lipstick...................the whole thing confounded me to no end!
asolis8 9 months ago 3
@asolis8 That's terrible! :( I'm sorry about that. Don't let me get started on my race, African American. Even today light-skinned blacks get viewed as more beautiful than dark-skinned blacks. The whole thing confuses me and makes me sad. :(
mommak10 9 months ago
@mommak10 Noone is ever reallu happy. I always felt like the oddball of my family. My mother is Gabriel Unions color & my dad & sis are Iman's color. Im in between Tyra Banks & Rihannas color oddly. My sister used to make fun of me & say I was adopted. My family "innocently" made fun of it but I though it was wrong, so I thought I was ugly. Im 16 now & my sis recently told me she was jealous of me because I was light, "pretty", had straight hair and "european" features. It breaks my heart. :(
Iwuzhere321 9 months ago
@Iwuzhere321 you are right. People just need to wake up and see the beauty in everyone. Everyone is beautiful in thier own way.
mommak10 9 months ago 3
@mommak10 And sad to say, its still going on in 2011! We can NEVER overcome racism if there's racism within your own race
missmocha313 8 months ago
@mommak10
This is not true of every African American. There are many that are indifferent or like chocolate skin more than yellow.
lionzion22 8 months ago
i love the voice of the girl who goes "you're afraid to walk in the rain, oh what a shame, who's to blame?"
hisboo911 9 months ago
Why are girls so mean to each other?
Iwuzhere321 9 months ago 2
LOL WTF some the wannabes hair was even NAPPIER than the jigga-boos wrong in every way.
MrTJG92 9 months ago 3
If I was in this scene wuld I b a jiggaboo or a wannabe? #teamjiggaboo all day long! lol naw im not callin myself a jiggaboo, but nuthin iz kooler than a nappy headed black girl...
TheBambieyes 9 months ago
Who's worried about hair when the lights go off? They're all the same... Inside.
FLORES702 10 months ago
Thats too bad it still goes on today [2011], i live in the south and more black guys down here tend to ack like that than women do
houston4848 10 months ago 12
I'd been waiting for this to be uploaded!!! And yes, it is so sad that we still plague ourselves with such thought processes today. The most artistic way of displaying social discourse with racially-charged overtones. I wish we had more love for ourselves. Black women, let's RISE above this!!
divafabulista 10 months ago
my college did this scene
dlass7710 10 months ago
STRAIGHT HAIR IS NOT CURLY! TISHA IS THE ONLY ONE WITH A WEAVE. LET ME SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS GOOD HAIR AND BAD HAIR. LOVE YOUR ROOTS!
deefirst 10 months ago
this part of this movie always stood out to me. And what's sad is WE doin this bullshit to ourselves STILL
DivaBabyTX512 11 months ago 2
eat you heart out GLEE
krystalxlyte 11 months ago 3
I wish all disputes were resolved by a song-and-dance, instead of weapons and fist. (sigh)
maxsax2003 11 months ago 6
how else could you tackle the taboo subject of black women's hair! I love it!!!
asolis8 1 year ago 2
@asolis8 don't forget Spike Lee also takled the subject of the color complex too. :)
mommak10 9 months ago
Great movie these issues still go on today. The self hate I hate seeing a black or latina woman putting on a blonde wig along with blue contacts. Seriously who are you trying to fool. I always hear young guys say I want a redbone with long hair and a study done with children and they choose the lighter doll. I am a brown girl with naturally curly hair but I love and enjoy being a woman of color. People always ask if my hair is weave & its not.
Anjaayla 1 year ago 5
I dont get how in the beginning the girls thought that the other girls hair was fake? Why do black women think that we cant have long hair without it being fake or that we cant have light eyes. They have such a low mentality.
kianna621 1 year ago 2
@kianna621 : I am just tired of the self hate from either side of the color spectrum. We have to realize we are beautiful whether we are dark or light skinned, whether we have kinky, curly, or straight hair.
Girlforaction 1 year ago 4
@kianna621 THANK YOU!!!!!!!!
bgroupie 10 months ago
@bgroupie Happens all the time Unfortunately.
kianna621 10 months ago
Well done Spike
fa1a2ha 1 year ago 2
i really like at 4:23...and the whole little the slow kick on each leg they do thruout the whole dance...
babygirlakapooky 1 year ago
@babygirlakapooky yes!! that lil slow kick thing is my FAVORITE dance move lol
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phatblackwoman 1 year ago
thick hair is healthy hair, and it really don't matter whether ur dark or fair, it's all about how you carry urself..cause UGLY comes in all shades as well as beauty..run with that..please
BossBra23 1 year ago 2
lol i would have to be a wannabee the Gamma rays are prettier *kanye shrug*
HotGirl696 1 year ago
Jamine Guy !!
bleuivy 1 year ago
@bleuivy She was so pretty now she ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE A GUY
FragileActtz 1 year ago
Is 'Rachel' the same woman as 'Ella' on the "Hous of Payne?"
bleuivy 1 year ago
High school musical know they stole this movie concept!
cuzitsnecessary 1 year ago
@cuzitsnecessary how did they steal it? what scene? I haven't seen high school musical yet.
sparklingmoonmares 6 months ago
i love this dance number in the movie, at least the weaves they wore look real.
innerbeauty24 1 year ago
Its a shame this rhetoric of self hating Black issues can still be seen present day...whats even worse is the fact that we have a conscious and talented writer, producer, and director who was able to capture such a critical issue and display it in cinematic culture and not recieve the proper accolades from both White and BLACK hollywood...smh but loving this clip...
justkidding45 1 year ago
this is still one of my favorites ever!
polyurithine 1 year ago
i hate this damn quality
Vibez94 2 years ago
i find it kind of amusing how misunderstood spike lee is. if you watch his movies in their entirety and listen to his interviews in their entirety all you would really see is someone who is reporting the way things are. he is my favorite filmmaker of all time.
colorform69 2 years ago
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Vibez94 2 years ago
thru out the whole movie...seein them dance and sing was the best part and pretty much the whole movie was great and still is.
da1nonlyRa 2 years ago
wow...im mad they had the nerve to show a L'Oreal ad on the top right side with beyonce expressing her ever so"fake good hair" smh
latoya04 2 years ago
If they don't put this on broadway...!!! Come on Spike Lee, what're you doing with your money these days?? This would be a PHENOMENAL stage play!!!
DreamGyrl360 2 years ago 29
YESSSS!
RAWKNtoni 2 years ago
@DreamGyrl360...........He's to busy bashing Tyler Perry About his plays wishing he thought of it first........YES THIS NEEDS TO BE ON BROADWAY!!!!!!
mijam2irie4u 7 months ago
@mijam2irie4u Spike Lee bashes Tyler Perry????? Thats Funny. I didn't know that.
dulaone 7 months ago
@DreamGyrl360 WHO ARE U TELLING!!! IF THE COLOR PURPLE AND SISTER ACT CAN MAKE IT TO BROADWAY....SCHOOL DAZE IS LONG OVERDUE FOR A BROADWAY PRODUCTION!!!...SPIKE HAS DEFINITELY GOT TO MAKE IT HAPPEN!!!
soulful1984 7 months ago
What the fuck
stopglobalswarming 2 years ago
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im mixed n a fine-ass papi chulo! them wannabes betta have some good hair on top of their head n down below on their pussies
royalhighness411 2 years ago
2:15 coldblooded...lol
deatha44 2 years ago
They have never done a commentary on skin/hair issues in a major (that I have seen) since! Would like this topic to be addressed more in Black film...
queenjahneen 2 years ago 5
great choreography....awesome movie...i luv spike!
bwebs25 2 years ago
aww, when i was growing up, there wasnt much said about skin color (unless you were really dark, then your were teased.) now so many women are going natural, fox news did a report about it.
deionc 2 years ago
Every Woman (of any color) needs to see this vid if they've never seen it before, because there is too much controversy
OriginalJuicy 2 years ago
lol @ "knock her down x3" 4:18
psisigma6 2 years ago
seeing this years later through older eyes , really has become even more evident as to the great director Spike Lee was and what he was doing as an independent filmmaker - respect.
ohworldgirl 2 years ago 2
I am fucking tired of hatred and racism, it's the 21st century, not the 19th century and we need to love all colours of the rainbow and stop thinking of people as apes, niggers, spicks, faggots and pale - skinned crackers! I am tired of hatred!
Humanity needs to wake up and remember without another person are surival in this world fruitless!
Cunard51 3 years ago 4
I absolutely LOVE this movie! I read in an article that Spike made the Wannabee girls sleep in a separate room from the Jiggaboo girls to build realistic tension on the set.
wordjunkiee 3 years ago
Great expose on self-hatred versus self-acceptance in the "black community", (which extends beyond what America defines as black)...a lot of latinos wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for an African ancestor somewhere along the line. Loving yourself for who YOU are is sexy in my opinion. This film is all about identity...which is why the "pretty, light-skinned" girl plays herself and has sex on command, she doesn't love herself or her own body enough to be in control.
Landj16 3 years ago 5
I love this song & movie!!!!!! Job well done, spike lee
AKFan16 3 years ago
2 things i nvr agot about this film:
- at 1:03 the girl kneeling is NOT light she IS dark and i dont understnad why she is there
-what does jigaboo mean? i know it means dark skinned but why jigaboo
Kandiiqueen 3 years ago
The whole point is that it's not just about skin tone...it's about modifying your looks to conform to mainstream conceptions of beauty versus choosing a more natural style. "Jigaboo" is meant to be an insult for a "dark, nappy-headed" black person, just like "wanna-be (white)" is for the hair straightening, contact wearing blacks. There are people who try to downplay their African-ness all over the world for whatever reason, usually self-hatred in my opinion.
Landj16 3 years ago 2
The girl kneeling @ 1:03 is not dark she is brown.
The jigaboos were very dark with nappy coarse beady dready hair. The brown girls even in todays time are more or less identifiable with the bougie girls.
MyriamFrench 2 years ago
Fantastic! So imaginative, original, and at the same time - a good treatment of a very sensitive subject.
cwebgrrly 3 years ago
And tha main character out of tha light skinned girls plays tha mom on my wife and kids. Haha i couldnt get over that when i watched this.
xtellitlikeitisbabyx 3 years ago
Yeah, the actress's name is Tischa Campbell-Martin. I love her!
princess722 2 years ago
Im 14 and i saw this on 1 of tha sky movie channels earlier this yr. I was so fascinated and in stitches. I think this is one of the best scenes in the film. Tha film is realistic 'cus these fings happen but its funny aswell.
The film is good at tha end when 1 of tha guys are saying 'wake up!' Its a eye opener for young black people, of all shades and colours.
xtellitlikeitisbabyx 3 years ago 7
All the musical performances in this film were amazing. I was 13 when this came out and have seen it dozens of time. They don't interrupt the film, just move it along. Lee was/is one of the best commenters on black life and culture.
"Don't you go and worry 'bout that, 'cuz I don't mind being black!"
SuperHussy 3 years ago 7
what is a giggaboo plz im black but i dont know!?
shkra89 3 years ago
where's the brown-skin sistas from the hood with the 'around the way'hair-style?
blacksultan85 3 years ago
A spectacular big band dance number and one of the most poignant displays of colorism ever in cinema.
sickemdudley01 3 years ago 41
Right on.
P2K725 3 years ago 5
The talented and prolific Otis Sallid was the choreographer. Dyane Harvey was his assistant.
alvasworld 3 years ago
I think that Debbie Allen did the coreography.
clickidyclack 3 years ago
I believe they said that Whitley(Jasmine Guy) Choreographed this. She did an excellent job!
darkkkonyx 3 years ago
spike lee is definitely a realist and he speaks the truth as sad as it may be. this scene reminds me of my sister she's light with long "good hair", and I'm chocolate and when i was young my hair was short and "nappy". I use to get it so bad and for most of my childhood I was insecure, because everyone pointed out our differences and she even got treated better than me. As I got older I grew out of feeling ugly because of my skin tone, and now you can't tell me nothing!!!!!!!!!!!!
phoenixsimone 3 years ago 5
I agree. I saw School Daze when I was fifteen. I saw this movie and was instantly hooked on Spike Lee joints. That's why I like Spike; he is a realist and does not hold punches. His movies are on the real. As for your situation..I am bi-racial and so are my siblings. I am all-and-out treated like a white person! I am constantly in fights with sisters...always. It is a damn shame people are STILL hung up on complexion and it is done by US!!!
apolloniasixer 3 years ago 6
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Hey, it's ok. They are probably jealous because they've bought into the European standard of beauty. Not saying that you aren't. Of course you are. And so are they. They probably don't know it though. Hold your head up sister. This sister and plenty others will love you. You are us and we are you.
kittytr99 2 years ago
its a movie off with that shit damn
Vibez94 2 years ago
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To hell with you numbskull. It's more than a damned movie. It's also a statement. You're probably one of those people with self-esteem issues.
kittytr99 1 year ago
again its just a movie kitty lol you dumb ass chill out your the only one responding being a BITCH
Vibez94 1 year ago
You are one sick, sad cow. That's why your comment was removed.
kittytr99 1 year ago
No i removed it cause it was dumb, and your a nice person for saying that =)
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brainsNbeauty86 2 years ago
That big girl was GETTIN IT!
trevor2987 3 years ago 31
Hmm I have light skin and nappy hair. i guess i would be an exception. LOL. I love the choreography the most!
ElisaNY 3 years ago 2
don't you know that my hair is so strong it can break the teeth out the comb. ha ha ha that part always kills me. also if you noticed there is a dark skinned girl with so called nice hair.
maya2cool 3 years ago 4
i love how the fair girls say not with that kitchen of yours and the darker girls are like now your taking to far.
maya2cool 3 years ago
Does anyone have the lyrics to this song?
rexleej 3 years ago
i've never seen this before...wow
Stepper4life15 4 years ago
Really? This is mad old... from the 80s
edr1882 3 years ago
i know..i was a late 80's baby
Stepper4life15 3 years ago
All this color thing is a trip. I was dating a light skinned guy because we would spend hours on the phone. We really liked each other. But someone told me something I stopped the relationship. Finding she only did it because I was dark and he was light. CRAZY we need to stop the color and hair insecurity. I have hair anyone would want had it spit on by my own CRAZY.
FamilyTracingVideos 4 years ago
high yellow hefa..lmao
gothicgirl0666 4 years ago 3
But anyway, this was what the shallow 80's was like. It was all about light skin and long hair.Or if you were darked skinned your werent considered that beautiful, but if you had long hair you got a pass. lol! That mess was crazy. I love this movie though it has a great message that needed to be told back then and the choreography was amazing.
chocolate12583 4 years ago 4
Is it me or was the one dark skinned girl that was with the wanna bee's hair nappy looking too. The only thing about it is that it was long. The weaves back in the 80's were terrible.
chocolate12583 4 years ago 4
yeah i noticed that to, i was thinking everyone else got a perm and a weave but she just got the weave.
maya2cool 3 years ago
just love them when they dance tisha cambel suits in this movie
Cresantstar 4 years ago
Did you see those dance moves? These are some pros! :D
Vio12 4 years ago
yea there nice dancing in it
but the part where one dances crazy to another and one says what are you doing
and she runs off LOL
Cresantstar 4 years ago 2
SAD but honestly we don't see that this is really an awesome number. What we do see and only want to see is the stereotype. Yes I understand that he's making a statement BUT NO ONE COMMENTS ON HOW WELL THIS SONG IS SONG, ACTED OUT AND CHOREOGRAPHED.
CobFob 4 years ago 4
I sooo agree with you...It's an all African American cast with great techniques and awesome lyrics. This is one intense scene. I wonder why it never got any recognition?
laniersingers2007 3 years ago 2
I think good hair is well kept hair.
FallnAngel07 4 years ago 4
The effects of slavery was really portrayed throughout this movie. It wasn't just about Black college experience.
Like it was said at the end of the movie, we need to wake up.
Rap or money isn't the downfall, it's the self-hatred.
meganjerai 4 years ago 2
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Them dark skin bitches needed a perm bad.
dldowell1122 4 years ago
I'm dark skin and I have good hair....Oh and it ain't nothing wrong with being dark skin......THANK YOU.
TlovesJ2007 4 years ago
what do you mean good hair?
Lindamorena 4 years ago 2
What I mean is that my hair is soft and straight. I hope you didn't take this offensive.
TlovesJ2007 4 years ago
i don't take offense but i think that you should be carefull of how you say things, because you could hurt someone who's hair isn't like your by saying yours is good, because it means thiers is bad. think about it if you had a daughter and her hair wasn't at all like yours and it was tightly curled you wouldn't what her to believe her hair is bad. God bless
Lindamorena 4 years ago 2
My hair is soft and nappy.
It's good hair. Nothing makes your hair any better accept for that slave mentality you need to shake off.
DarlingMsM 4 years ago 4
Boy did you miss the point.
There is no "good hair". It's all good, it the slave-mentality, that you so ignorantly are demonstrating that makes think your straighter hair is somehow also "good".
The only thing said right was there is nothing wrong with being dark-skinned.
DarlingMsM 4 years ago
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Baby cakes try again....lol i come from a dominican family of dark skin women who sit on their long, silky hair. And we laugh at the lite skin girls with nappy hair like a brillo pad lol...cut out the stereotypes and try again.
BOWIEDANCEQUEEN 3 years ago
i always say, you are not your hair, your hair dont make you, you make your hair, plus straight and nappy are both beautiful hairstyles, altough i do think people who get there straightned so its easier to manage hun
lollipopgoodgood 3 years ago 2
oh is see you tryna be on the good side of tings huh. . . bitch
multiculturalbella 3 years ago
This song is actually titled "Straight & Nappy"
HarlequinTheatre 4 years ago
Can't nobody tell the story like Spike! Preach Preacher!
llindsa 4 years ago 3
Soros and Fratz are not anything but citizenship to Black enterprise.
mpendwa0 4 years ago
I LOVE THIS PART ALSO.
TlovesJ2007 4 years ago
OOOh i love this movie...one of my fav part 2...thanks 4 puttin it up!!
skyleo 4 years ago
No prob....
jdeucey24 4 years ago
I like that tall chick @5:10...
MRKEITHWW 4 years ago
love this movie.... the bst ever
shaquekah 4 years ago
Can we say "AKA's and Delta's"!!!!!!!!!
cdm021 4 years ago
I know AKAs and Deltas they don't look like that most of those guys could use a makeover
devore504 4 years ago
hyoutube. com/watch?v=EuTUT335glU
coachbagqueen 4 years ago
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youtube. com/watch?v=EuTUT335glU
coachbagqueen 4 years ago
Go on and stare, see if I care!
warmspiritme 4 years ago
youtube. com/watch?v=EuTUT335glU
Deep deep material about Frats and so on.
coachbagqueen 4 years ago
major propz =).
msanchez806 4 years ago
youtube. com/watch?v=EuTUT335glU
Interesting facts about Geek Frats and the influence it has. U gotta hear this.
coachbagqueen 4 years ago
Were you blackballed by AKA and DST
devore504 4 years ago
u would think something stupid as that. but to answer your question,the answer is no. U missed the entire point. Furthermore I don't need validation from any sorority or anyone else for that matter. It is funny how some miss the point Spike tried to convey.
youtube. com/watch?v=QRc6YDhNKXA
youtube. com/watch?v=EuTUT335glU
coachbagqueen 4 years ago
How in the hell do you know if I missed the point what I said had nothing to do with the movie but come off like you have this hate for frats and it's getting a little old if you want to put them all in one group that's up to you but the ones I know are good people and I like them so stop telling me all the things YOU think is wrong with them because I stop caring so long ago
devore504 4 years ago