However the filmmakers maintain that it was their desire to show the negative and empty aspects of the drug subculture. Mayor Marion Barry, who ironically would himself be arrested years later in a 1990 cocaine sting note Indeed, one protest when the film was first released was organized by civil-rights activist and future Washington, D.C. Some critics believe the film's glorification of drug dealers serves to subtly critique the civil rights movement's failure to provide better economic opportunities for black America and that the portrayal of a black community controlled by drug dealers serves to highlight that the initiatives of the civil rights movement were far from fully accomplished.
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