Dude, honestly? You don't get it really? Four hundred years of enslavement, stole them from their homeland, whipped, raped, tortured and murdered them for four hundred years, on top of unpaid forced labor. Then institutional racism for another hundred or so years where it was common place to see black people being lynched by the KKK (Which is a society that still exists today, by the way), and on top of that mass segregation which only ended about fifty years ago. They had to use colored fountains, colored bathrooms, sit at the back of the bus, and couldn't get anywhere near the same work opportunities as white people. People who lived through that are still alive today. The oppressors and the oppressed.
[EDIT: Forgot to mention: you know those lynchings I mentioned, earlier? Did you know, at the time they were treated like a public event and people would come out and have a picnic while the black individual was often castrated, beaten and hung, or burned. And you know what's even worse, on top of the disgusting fact that people would bring their kids and have a picnic at it...at the end, it was also common for people to cut off a piece. As a souvenir. It's absolutely horrifying.]
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philpip
10 years ago
Funny that there is a thread on this subject (and that I'm bothering to reply), but I felt compelled to for 2 reasons.
1- I don't remember the word being used.
2- The only reason I watched this movie is because Jan from The Brady Bunch was in it.
The only thing offensive about this movie was right here in IMDB, where someone referred to a car built before 1990 as being really old.
I guess words being offensive is subjective.
Or should we all just calm the *beep* down?
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AceTheMovieCritic
10 years ago
Not sure if you intended to reply to my post, but I do tend to agree with you. If it makes sense in the context of the film, by all means go right ahead. I very rarely fall on the side of censorship. My post was directed at someone saying the word in general shouldn't be considered offensive, and seemed to belittle the racial history behind it, which I found ridiculous. I wasn't talking about the film. Which by the way, I also don't remember hearing it.
Zagreus waits at the end of the world, For Zagreus is the end of the world.
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MrBelette
10 years ago
It's the character Teddy Cleland who used it when Dwight asked him if his brother Wade ever hurt someone.
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liam-kelly-1
10 years ago
I weep for the future when one word can make people so uncomfortable.
Grow a spine and move on.
Assuming Direct Control
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