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The ever edgy Mad TV created a skit called Nice White Lady, poking fun at movies like Stand and Deliver, Freedom Writers, and Dangerous Minds, where hero teachers single-handedly save troubled urban youth from...themselves.

Here, radical and educator Bill Ayers deconstructs the skit, and explains why it's so emblematic of the genre.

Photo: Freedom Writers, starring Hillary Swank, is one of the most recent examples of this type of film.