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The program focuses on illegal drugs, and the continued effect they have on the African American community via an exploration of the recent drug-culture film Superfly and discussions with local drug rehabilitation employees. Program includes clips from the recent film, an interview with actor Ron O’Neal conducted by John Slade and man on the street’ interviews regarding drug use.
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This film kept me from using heroine
Great film. Great music 🎶🎵
In this movie, Superfly seem like the police were the biggest cocaine dealers
Wow wow wow wow 😁
1 of the best movies I seen as a kid, I will never forget RON Oneal. good actor that was played down and stero typed
Love him
The last part of the video was in January 1972 i was still im my mom's stomach and i came in April 1972 hard to believe this was 53 years ago i wonder if any of these lovely people are still living and to this very day in 2025 still same things going on …super fly was such handsome man ron o neal rest in eternal peace ❤
Got me going back to watch SuperFly✌🏽 from the DMV 2025
Excellent Discussion…Ron's Message about the character as a hustler and the reality of that's not the way to go, needs to be revisited and repeated Today! Great Film Project.
This single movie destroyed a whole nation yet the comments are filled with praise. Black folks are so sleep. 🤦🏿♂
Mayfield's Superfly soundtrack should have won the Grammy for Superfly.
Not Bruh Isaac Hayes for the Shaft soundtrack. IMO!!
Mayfield made a point of writing his tracks on that album protesting selling drugs and that lifestyle.
At that time, heroin was the drug to sell not cocaine. But in the Superfly movie they had to go with cocaine for political reasons.
Listen to his album and you will see what I am talking about as to why Mayfield basically wrote a protest album against selling drugs.
BTW, in the movie the main point was Priest wanted to move weight/keys and get out of hustling before he lost his life or took somebody's life or ended up in jail. It was not a glamorous life which he is saying.
This is what O'Neal is alluding to in this interview. IMO!!
But both Shaft and Superfly were classics that should be in your movie collection along with the MACK (GOLDIE GOLDIE) and Across 110 th street (🎵 where the pusher won't let the junkie go free🎵).
RIP: Ron O'Neal, Richard Roundtree and the great and talented Bruh Curtis Mayfield.
BTW, the main character O'Neal played was not named SUPERFLY.
His name in the movie was PRIEST.
In DC/DMV Superfly was a term used to describe guys who were hip, dressed fly and were in some cases thorough, street smart and savy.
Frfr!!
🗣♊️👤Rising
THe black men were angry about Ron O'Neil. They were jealous of him. They call him names when he plays superfly.
@1:20
FUN: to indulge in the activities with fools.
The original text.
I see a song writer.
Ron O'Neal should of won an award for this role in "Superfly". 😎😎😎
Ron O'Neal was ALSO in the movie "The Mack" in the background. 😎😎😎
Ron O’Neil was a very articulate, handsome man. Superfly is a great movie
Charismatic, personable, well spoken. Ron is that deal!!!!
😍🤤
He should have been a bigger star.
" we wuzz, pimps and sheeeeeet"
Ossie Davis 🐐🤍🕊️
How little people understood how bad it was going to get with crack in the 80s. Very sad. And look at how bad it's gotten in the white community also with meth labs and meth and then oxycontin and heroin and fentanyl. More people have died from overdose deaths in the last 8 years than in the last hundred years before that.
12:42 in the beginning
As intelligent as this seems,we seem to not know where all the problems stem from. WE ALL RON ONEAL (actors)
We are the greatest people to walk this 🌍 ✊🏿✊🏿💪🏿💪🏿💚❤️🖤
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This man just do something to me. Lol He's even looking good and dressed nice with them white boots on. Lord have mercy😁
Rest in peace, Ron O’Neal 🙏🏾💯💯💯❤️✊🏾✊🏾 .