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Between the US and BFI disc which is the better?

Without checking, the BFI disc is probably cut.

Yes, the Child Protection Act meant cuts of one minute and 15 seconds to the opening sequence. Van Peebles approved the cuts, which involved obscuring any sensitive material with a black screen. The audio remains intact.

The BFI disc is also an NTSC-PAL conversion resulting in the expected ghosting issues, etc. However, it does also contain an eight-page booklet (two reprints and newly commissioned introduction by Kodwo Eshun) plus the bizarre featurette 'The Real Deal (What It Is...)' in which we see MVP take a dump, recreate the opening sequence with his 'secretary' and inform us how he tried to get compensation from the Director's Guild of American after catching gonorrhoea during the shoot!

That sounds amazing and I might when I have free money have to get the BFI anyway, but it sounds like American is the way to go. Thanks.

As long as you wouldn't need the hoh subtitles the BFI provides; I assume most non-native speakers would prefer the British edition because of them and in spite of the censored sequence in the beginning.