Black Racism

I think you make some good points on how whites are portrayed in this movie. I enjoyed the movie from the start, and admired the way it tried to explore the college experience from different perspectives. It did a good job in my opinion. I also think there is a large bias in the portrayal of the white student, Remy. He was conveyed as this largely confused, alienated guy who tried to define himself by becoming a white supremacist. He was taken in by people that capitalized on his confused state. But is this portrayal necessarily wrong? I'm not saying that white people who fall in with the wrong crowd and become monsters are worse then people of different colours of the same situation. But there is a huge difference in ideology, and that is the main point that the film is trying to get at. Nazism threatens everything: it doesn't just attack one social group or race or class. It is specifically against the so called principles of the U.S i.e. multiculturalism, diversity etc. This is an ideology that was advocated by people that murdered 6 million people. And there are groups out there in the world that not only justify this slaughter, but believe it was righteous, or completely deny that the holocaust happened. Singleton may have put more emphasis on the struggles of inner city blacks trying to rise above their station, but he didn't paint white people into cartoonish, two dimensional figures. There were white lesbians, white jewish people, white rockers, and every other kind of person that a race can make up, all with differing social and political viewpoints. I think the movie obviously defended the idea of black extremism over white extremism, but the ending was clear: extremism of any race always ends in tragedy. Malik's girlfriend was gunned down by Remy who had wanted to take out Malik. Malik and Remy were members of the Black Panthers and the Neo Nazi's. Overall, I thought the film was fairly balanced.

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