On Friday, October 3, Seminarians came for an evening of fun and fellowship to watch "Coming to America." This event was held at the home of BSU member Angela Taylor.Every year that we've been at Duke Divinity School, BSU has had a special showing of the eighties favorite, "Coming to America." Yes, it's a funny movie, but for us it is so much more. It is a movie about class (remember the dad who owns a Mcdonalds-like restaurant versus the barbers in the barbershop?), gender (the princess to be that barks like a dog?) and ontological strugglings of Black American life (the jerry curl boyfriend/ family/good hair complex).
Yes, we certainly laugh at the outrageous bridal song, "She's your queen to be," but we should be looking at the comparison of Murphy's African paradise and the ruins of Africanism and it's values as depicted in his view of Black American life when he arrives. What do Africans see about African-Americans when they "Come to America?"
Photo date: 1988 "Coming to America" Eddie Murphy Photo by Bruce McBroom - © MPTV - Image courtesy MPTV.net
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