ok. i respect singleton work in boyz in the hood and poetic justice . i be greatly disappointed with baby boy . i think we could start with the terribly racist and sexist role represent by the main actor . some might applaud the work for show the way thing be but every perspective have a bias . his perspective be mirror by racist and sexist thinking from the moynihan report in the 60 suggesting that black male be child and and should be send to war . his film echo sexist sentiment that black woman be the cause of black men plight . the film do not challenge racism or white supremacy at any level and in fact conversely it coax the men to live up to the american dream of individualism . it just show a few idiot try to gain ground without a cent of integrity and strategy and or intelligence . it feed into stereotype of black men and woman a sexually overactive and temperamental . surround that theme be an animal like and consumerist and macho ism that speak to black men a irrational and hormone driven and dangerous and brutish . i must say the bad scene be the rape incident . for one thing this girl play the nagging role and another stereotype for black woman and who actually never communicate with her partner . they yell and have sex and but that be about it . why can not there be a movie where black people actually have a real conversation and understand one another instead of a dog eat dog fight . the long conversation they have be about who have sex who when . which remind me and the bad scene be when jody hit his girlfriend and and then go down on her . what be that about . mix domestic violence with sex glamorizes and condones it . the girlfriend do not defend herself against her rapist . in fact she only care about her child watching and not her own safety . instead of kick him out and she complain to jody in an effort to induce pity in him . bad acting and and a weak acting role combine . i do not believe that this portray urban youth culture . the most pressing decision of these young people life be to find out who to have sex with and and if the person they care about be cheat on them . it also portray people drive by base desire who live within a fantasy exemplary in the neighborhood without cop and garbage in the street and druggies or prostitute and only and fresh lawn with plush green grass and and garden . i think singleton can do good .