If you're any kind of a film nut, you've heard about this movie. Blaxploitation as angry violent sardonic art. In your face and surreal political satire about racism in America. But as focused as it is about the human damage caused by oppression, the director was sadly oblivious that filming a naked little boy laying on top of a naked moaning woman and simulating intercourse is one of the worst kinds of oppression: exploitation of a child Women are there to get naked and have sex with Sweetback, that's about the extent of their characters. A gay stereotype farts and shits in a toilet. Sweet back runs through most of the 2nd part of the movie. And runs.
And runs. Earth Wind and Fire music before their commercial days.

I will write more later but for now I wish to posit that this film was more the beginning of the Blaxploitation genre than Cotton Comes to Harlem.

It was a more independent irreverent finger to the man than Cotton was.