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this movie is incredibly racist!


I'm watching this movie and I can't believe that Matt Damon, who used to be one of my favorite actors, in the 90s, had the gall to narrate this trash! This movie, not only doesn't mention the numerous African-Americans who were affected by the financial crisis of 2008 and then goes onto to target two, well-known (in the African-American community) pioneers. Sorry but why is there something wrong with people making money? Ruth Simmons is one of the most respected leaders in the African-American community and sorry, but Stan O'Neal is one of the FEW African-Americans who works on Wall Street. I have a friend who is African-American, who lives in New York and jobs on Wall Street for black people are hard to come by. I find it incredibly RACIST that these two, along with Kenneth Chenault, the head of American Express, who is not mentioned in this movie but who I read about in a similar article (where the person was stewing over the fact that he made a lot of money. Hello? He's the CEO) are mentioned as if African-Americans live in some post-racial society where all of us are doing so much better than the average white person. We're not. Most of us are struggling to make ends meet and look up to the people that succeed. In a society, where in the black community, basketball players and rappers receive the most accolades, to target these persons who are educated, articulate and black, doesn't sit with me too well. In the money, a Chinese woman is presented as the victim of the global outsourcing when THE AVERAGE AMERICAN CAN'T FIND A JOB. Also, they talk to a Hispanic woman. Well, guess what? SOME Hispanics are doing a lot better than a lot of working-class African-Americans. When I was in Fayetteville, North Carolina, the hotel we stayed at, not one African-American worked there from what I could see but loads of Asian and Hispanics worked there. I talked to my aunt, she said that's happening a lot. Now, apparently, because we have a black president, and a few entertainers who have made millions, that means that the majority of us black people are doing great. Well, guess what? We're not! For those who can't rap or sing or act or play a sport, the jobs available suck. But seeing these two African-Americans gave me a sense of hope but apparently, according to this movie, they shouldn't be making that kind of money. What's better? Going back to the days when black people could only find jobs working in a factory or as a maid? Well, that's the present reality for my parents. This movie is racist and I'm going to tell everyone I know not to watch it.

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You're kidding me, right?

So the entire point of the documentary was lost on you because either 1) not enough persons of color targeted in the expose or alternatively 2) any person of color was included at all.

If it makes you feel any better, you can watch "Walmart - The High Cost of Low Prices" and see how the average Chinese worker lives, which was touched upon only lightly in this film. Or watch many available vids on the conditions Indian and Asian child laborers work and live in.

Or, if you prefer to stick closer to home, you'll find women are still making what, 60 cents to her male counterpart's dollar? How about lack of affordable health care or day care for the single moms? Don't even get me started on how the quality of how our society functions as a whole has steadily deteriorated because while more mothers must work full-time, that fairy-tale village hasn't materialized to work together to raise the next generation.

So please, I don't think anyone can claim a monopoly on suffering.

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Obvious troll is obvious LOL

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The original poster hasn't a clue. The vast majority of people painted in a negative light by this film were white. So, saying that the film maker was overly critical of the two black people he mentioned negatively is ridiculous. Also, I don't recall the OP saying that anything said about these two "black leaders" was untrue.

Some people see racism everywhere they look; whether it exists or not. That is unfortunate. (It is also unfortunate that they also seem to relentlessly post comments on their topic of choice all over the internet). To criticize the movie because the one American family with a bad mortgage that they focused on (very briefly, I might add) was Hispanic and not black??? Give me a break! Did it ever occur to the OP that perhaps this family was selected because the fact they do not even speak English makes their being put into a $950,000, 100% LTV mortgage that much more egregious?

Oh, I almost forgot. The film was also supposed to spend an appropriate amount of time discussing how black people seem to have a hard time getting hired by Wall Street investment banks.

Again, the OP hasn't a clue. The movie is not racist. To say that it is, is a ridiculous and unsupportable claim.

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There were just as many white scum bags as there were black scum bags in the film. Infact the entire Wall Street culture is run by scumbags of all colors shapes and sizes. Get over it.

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yah right.

This pimeda is NOT a black person!

Many black persons are ashamed of Stan O'neal, and rightfully so. He's a villain.
He got away with less money than the whites (or jews?) Dick Fuld, 450 million, paulson 200 million, Stan 90 million.

They didn't show white people who were suffering either.

This isn't racism. 95 percent of the crooks in the movie are white, I guess 2 or 3 are black. the victims are latino and chinese. Now, that the 10 million chinese who got fired, suffer the most of all, is a certainty. The latinos, debatable, but soooooo not the point.

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This movie is about how millions were defrauded and the only thing you got from it is that it's racist?

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This is one of the funniest reactions to a film I've read on here. You might as well call Harry Potter anti-nasal because nobody asks why Voldemort doesn't have a nose.

Nobody gives a *beep* It's about money, not your skin colour.

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The moment I knew this film was racist was actually during production when Matt Damon started stripping naked in the recording booth, shaking the mic stand like a spear, and smothering himself with shoe polish, giggling,

"Hee hee hee! I can just speak in this gentle, lilting, liberal voice and they're none the wiser cos they - can't - see - my - face."

To this day, Charles Ferguson has been suspiciously silent on the incident, which in itself speaks volumes.






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