The film with a black male in a significant role (at least that I can think of) is T.I. in ATL. In this film he is poor high school student that is struggling to get by in the lower/lower middle class of Atlanta. He doesn't have any white friends, and if fact there isn't an white people with any relavent role in the film. The is an upper class antagonist, but he is still African American man that grew up in the same neighborhood as T.I.'s character.

T.I.'s group of friends seemingly hate or look down on anyone or anything that would be a white characteristic even if that role is black by an African American.

There is obvious comparison to the readings and how African Americans are protrayed...ie gang relations, poor, not many white relations, but the one that I would like to address is the primal instinct of T.I. in the film. In the film his family is the most important thing. His brother is all thats left after his parents died in car accident. T.I. blindly protects his brother no matter the consequences and pulls him out problem situations. He is filling the role as care taker of his family protecting him and making sure that he is able to grow to become a man himself and that I feel is the #1 primal instinct.