I WANTED TO LIKE WHITE MOMMA, BUT HER CLUNKY PREJUDICES GOT IN THE WAY

A decent, though indigent, elderly white woman takes in a poor, ignorant, thriving, amoral black youth and teaches him the upstanding morality of the good, Christian white folks. I wanted to like this movie, but I can't sit though a movie that dehumanizes black people. As Harden and Davis walk to register B.T. in school, he meets an middle-age black woman and he yells,"Hey, Annie." That scene is a lie and insulting to black people. No, black teenager is going to address a black woman his grandmother's age as "Annie". She woulld be addressed as "Miss Annie" as a sign of respect. In the school Ernie Hudson's character, a black man in the registration office, tells White Momma that her black son is hopeless and destined to failure, supporting the idea of blacks disrespecting and devaluing each other. The school B.T. is to attend is grafittied beyond imagination. The black and Latino student body has no respect for age and almost knocks White Momma off the stairs. The classroom is a jungle of flying paper airlines, chain-smoking teens and chaotic confusion. I turned it off, I couldn't take any more stereotypes that could only be rectified by a good white person. This movie is designed to make white audiences feel good and superior while uplifting the poor, downtrodden, ignorant, thriving blacks.