Strange Fruit #69: ”Good Luck with That” Filmmaker Chuck Deuce; the Gentrification Dilemma

Chuck MF Deuce is a fixture on our Louisville hip hop scene, writing, performing and producing with Skyscraper Stereo. But he recently turned his attention to filmmaking, and his first full-length movie, Good Luck With That, premiered last Sunday night at Baxter Avenue Theater. He joined us this week to talk about the film and to join us for Juicy Fruit. We talked about Britney Cosby and Crystal Jackson, the black lesbian couple who were murdered in Texas. When we recorded this, police were still looking for clues. Since then, we've learned the shocking news that Britney Cosby's own father is suspected of killing the two women because he didn't like that they were gay. Also in Juicy Fruit, the Malaysian flight disappearance happened while Dr. Story was on a trip, triggering her flight anxiety. And a new documentary called Whitelandia explores the racist origins of Oregon, and gentrification in Portland, which is the whitest major city in the USA, and getting whiter. Then we dove into a topic we've covered before, but could talk about for hours: Chuck brought us an article by Ebrahim Aseem, in which he says black men view white women as more desirable than black women—an assertion we mostly disagreed with and don't see much of in our generation and younger (although Dr. Story says she sees it plenty). We also discussed some obstacles to young black folks trying to meet each other in Louisville specifically.