bell hooks and Hoop Dreams

I also think bell hooks may have been a little critical of them film, but not without reason. It's like Biggie says in his song Things Done Changed, "either you're slinging crack rock or you got a wicked jump shot." The successful black basketball player is a common and often used stereotype, and although it is not necessarily a negative stereotype, it's a stereotype none the less. I see what everyone is saying when they say that race isn't the emphasis of the film and that the film could have worked with a person of any color, but if that's true, why didn't that happen?