![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() While some elements may seem problematic to today's sensitivities, movies and other forms of art help us show how far we've come. Cinema is a snapshot of the time and culture from when the movie was released. Let's set aside the fact that Kindergarten Cop should never be in the same sentence as Gone with the Wind for any reason. So are Birth of a Nation and Gone With the Wind, but we recognize films like those are not 'good family fun.' They are relics of how pop culture feeds racist assumptions. ![]() It's true Kindergarten Cop is only a movie. There's nothing entertaining about the presence of police in schools, which feeds the 'school-to-prison' pipeline in which African American, Latinx and other kids of color are criminalized rather than educated. IRL, we are trying to end the school-to-prison pipeline. National reckoning on overpolicing is a weird time to revive Kindergarten Cop.
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