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If the Shoe Were on the Other Foot...

posted 17 years ago by Smorchid
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First off, I have not seen this movie. Therefore, I cannot say for sure that it is as blatantly racist as the trailer is, but I would bet so.

The topic I am commenting on is this:

Toward the middle of the trailer, we see the little boy hidden in the back seat of a van belonging to some other would-be immigrants while the white border patrol officer searches it. The thing that offended me so much was the way the border patrol was made out to be evil and maliciously hindering this little boys chances of seeing his long lost immigrant mother again. The ominous music and the tone of the overall scene was absolutely sick. The kid's mother is not supposed to be in our country, taking advantage of our benefits in the first place. But now they have the little boy crossing the border illegally and making the law enforcement out to be the enemy.

But, if whites were to produce a movie bashing Mexicans so clearly and utterly, it would be a monumental controversy. Can anyone else see that?

I realize that every single reply to this topic will be hateful and disagreeable to me, so I won't come back to this forum to argue with you people.

I just wanted to point this out.

[–] Chili_Peppers 16 years ago

First of all, people argue that despite the fact that immigrants do contribute to the economy that they take jobs away from legal citizens BUT let's get real, they work jobs such as maids in rich neighborhoods and picking vegetables (obviously not all but some). WHO THE HELL WANTS TO DO THAT WORK?? No one! Oh yeah, they're stealing my chance to go out and pick tomatos. U.S. citizens are ashamed to work at places like McDonalds, I'm sure they wouldn't jump on the jobs that most illegal immigrants are working so that point, in my opinion, is a bunch of bulls**t.

Second of all, not all cops are bad but there are plenty that are. I'm a U.S. citizen and it feels LOVELY when my family's driving and we get stopped for somethign as miniscule as a faulty brake light yet the cop demands for everyone's ID and sticks his head in the window to check if there are others since we're hispanic. Oh yeah, way to go cop!

Third of all, with the recent immigration craze many families have been torn apart, children left without parents, etc, because "this land is our land". This type of stuff forms the perspective given in the trailer. Hell, I'm American and I see Border Patrol/Immigration officers from the same perspective.

Fourth of all, if there's going to be argument of "They don't deserve to be here" then let's face the facts. Unless you're NATIVE AMERICAN, you DON'T deserve to be here. They were the ONLY ones who were actually here first.

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[–] hbll16 13 years ago

It really says something when you won't even come back to your own thread. You probably just don't want to be proven wrong.
They're not made out to be evil. I didn't feel like that scene had that tone at all. Your opinion probably influenced you to feel like it was that way. This movie didn't show Mexicans "bashing" whites. Yes, people in the United States may feel Mexicans shouldn't cross over to our country illegally, but people in Mexico are still people like Americans and they do it for a reason. They can't help it if they were not born in a place Americans happened to be born in and can't achieve the quality of life they desire in their own country. There's two sides.

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