Menace II Society (1993)

   Marketed as a film by and about "real" Black people, it does not
   show how Black people can make it out of the ghetto, nor does it
   turn the ghetto into a less oppressive place.  There is a lot of
   violence in the film, but the point is not to show exaggerated or
   exotic brutality. The point is to show that it happens.  Short on
   sollutions except for one naive Muslim character, it's still a lot
   better than the mindless action-adventure junk. Worth seeing as an
   unapologetic picture of Black national life.