Reminder that the current trend of movies aimed towards minorities

blaxspoitation didn't fail, it simply ran out of steam and fizzled out as people realized the movies were made by white people who had no real idea what being black was about.

Not to mention at the time black people were still in the overcompensatory period where they were trying to put forth the best face possible to prove civil rights weren't a mistake.

of course once they realized they were being prejudged for being black and people with ignoring their actions, they gave up on that.

If a broadway musical is so successful it gets a movie made out of it, then it didn't fail.