"The scene shows a young Sweetback (played by the director’s son Melvin (sic) Van Peebles) having sex with a 30-year old woman." The son is Mario Van Peebles,

"The scene shows a young Sweetback (played by the director’s son Melvin (sic) Van Peebles) having sex with a 30-year old woman." The son is Mario Van Peebles, and to call rape "having sex" is spin (even the Wikipedia article on the film calls it rape). This author later waters it down to "statutory" rape, but would he do the same if the genders were reversed? To miss such an obvious name goof makes me wonder if Salon bothers with any fact-checking anymore... or if anyone there reads their own content. This basic error remains in place after 2.5 years.