Street Fight DVD, 2005

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Film Description

Documentary about the 2002 mayoral race in Newark, N.J. Both candidates are African American, and both are Democrats. In one corner is young Cory Booker, an idealistic Stanford and Yale Law School graduate determined to better the lives of Newark's poorest citizens. In the other, incumbent Mayor Sharpe James, a wily career politician who scrambled up from poverty to become the city's de facto dictator, plagued by corruption scandals but beloved by the same impoverished voters Booker hopes to reach.
Curry takes a linear path with his film, following Booker's campaign from its hopeful beginning to its bruising close. Along the way, it documents how the politics of race come to eclipse economic and social issues. Specifically, it's about James' charge that Booker, light-skinned and erudite, just isn't black enough. In a series of increasingly bizarre assertions, he accuses his opponent of being white, Jewish, Republican and probably gay.

Street Fight is a cultural snapshot, capturing of a climate in which competition has become thuggery, calumny has replaced debate and realpolitik has degenerated into reality politics. Sadly, it also captures how eagerly an uninformed public gobbles up the theatrics of it all.