You called it, though, didn’t you, Putney?
I find it funny though that the definition of the word still has more to do with black people than with other races, although the writer does get into the Rush Hour films a little, which are NOT exploitation films in any way, shape or form! LOL.
I find it funny that the writer says that blaxploitation empowers black people, while raceploitation ridicules them. By the end of Fight for Your Life, the black audience IS empowered. He beats down the racist. And by the end of Bone, the white woman is lost without her black stud.
I think this is just a case of a writer finding some kind of a niche and milking it for all it’s worth. It just proves you’re not the only one to coin the term.
Now that I think about it, I don’t believe I ever saw a movie where a chinese family was kidnapped and the kidnappers lashed them with racist epithets before opening a can of kung fu whoopass on em. Maybe that’s what makes those films mentioned blaxploitation?
