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do white racists love this?


since the plot involves certain blacks who hate each other, abuse each other, and one who murders another, I wonder do the racists "like" this movie, since to them it "proves" black pathology...

"With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility"
Stan Lee, 1962

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White racists would be too busy wondering why they made a whole MOVIE with an almost an entirely black cast. I don't think they spend too much time thinking about black psychology, or pathology, or anything else but the color of their skin.

"Thus began our longest journey together." To Kill a Mockingbird

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I'd say yes and no. Yes, because of what you just implied. No, because it sort of places them back at square one...

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Now that you mention it, yeah they might, but simply because a White man likes this movie does not mean that he is a racist.
I love the movie and I am a White man. I love it because it is a realistic portrayal of an aspect of our history that I not proud of and does it in a dignified way that still greatly respects the characters and the period.
Plus, I thought that the acting was superb.

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This movie is appealing not only to a lot of racist whites but to whites in general, largely I think because the film alleviates the castigation whites have historically received for their racist treatment of blacks.

One thing I vividly remember about this movie was that shortly after its release in '84, I found myself embroiled in a debate with a white guy over racism in America. At some point during our argument while I was recounting instances of how whites had been racist to blacks, he countered by saying, "But blacks can be racist to each other." Obviously, he had just seen this movie, and because I had just seen it too, I had no choice but to agree with him and did so somewhat reluctantly.

But the message that this movie drives home--at least for me--is that racism, contrary to what many think, isn't spawned by evil, rather it is spawned by ignorance. And ignorance with respect to cultural and social issues pertaining to race, particularly the black race, is harbored not only by certain whites, but by certain blacks as well.

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"do white racists love this?"...

Versus the black racists who might also like it?

Your heading on your thread is moronic and solves nothing.

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remember hypstyle with great stupidity comes retarded posts, like this one. you are to stupid to be allowed on the internet.

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RACIST...have not seen movies like Hart's War, The Tuskegee Airman, Red Tails, Defiance, or a Soldier Story. They would dismess the true portrayal of bravery as lies and Hollywood propoganda

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No because white racists don't watch movies made after 1960

For every lie I unlearn I learn something new - Ani Difranco

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"No because white racists don't watch movies made after 1960"

That's even more stupid than the OP.

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