how embarassing...


I live in london these days, but I remember when I was a kid growing up in Atlanta, GA that it was because of the winn-dixie grocery store chain I was constantly reminded that there were people who wished that I had been born into a life of slavery.

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huh?

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Let this serve as an example why you shouldn't post when you're trashed.

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I guess you are talking about some of the mild and not-so-mind racial references in the movie. For example, how do you get that many white people together in one town in the south ? and what about 'The Open Arms Baptist Church'... it's full of white folks, I think it's open to anyone as long as they are straight and white. Also note that the few blacks in the movie are working... and in menial jobs no less.
On the other hand the film contains some balancing situations that seem to dispel the notion that this film has racist undertones. '1' whites living in mobile homes... isn't that trailer trash. '2' a single parent that is not a black woman. '3' Dave Matthews is in a mostly black rock band.
This movie is clearly aimed at a specific demographic. My children enjoyed it a lot more than I did. I guess I'm just not straight-white-family enough. I did enjoy 'Hoosiers', that family movie is about, you won't believe this, an all white basketball team. I found 'Rocky II' a little hard to believe... two white guys fighting for the world championship of boxing.

only in hollywood

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Hi,
Well anyway, I like the movie "BECAUSE OF WINN DIXIE"

Peace,
Amanda

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ah, I see what you did there...

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For example, how do you get that many white people together in one town in the south ?



Why are you so stupid, because you're black or what? America is 70% white, why wouldn't you get that many white people together in one town?

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To muldoomstone:

Good grief, even I find THAT remark offensive, and I'm white and not Southern!!!

Er...I THINK the point was, why were there hardly any people around who were
NOT white? (Seventy percent is still only seventy. Not eighty, ninety, or one hundred.)

(And besides, that "seventy percent" figure [in case it's even accurate] is
probably for the entire country, including places that are 95% white, places
that are 35% white, etc., etc.!)

(And, while I realize that you probably meant something like, "If you're black,
maybe you're just prejudiced against non-blacks", not, "Black people are stupid"
...do you even have a CLUE what it SOUNDS LIKE you're saying when you say,
"Why are you so stupid, because you're black or what?" [Even if you really
meant to call the person prejudiced, not stupid, that's still inaccurate and
unfair...you don't know if the person is prejudiced or not.])

To anyone:

My personal opinion: Of course there is still prejudice around. On both sides.
(Actually, on at least four: White and black, AND North and South.] BUT...
I still don't know what [apart from the NAME Winn-Dixie, and that those stores
are found in the South] the store chain Winn-Dixie has to do with that [if,
indeed, it has anything to do with that!].)

Kit =^__^=
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The US is not 70% white. More like 48%

"Whatever I feel like I wanna do. Gosh!" Napoleon Dynamite (2004)

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According to the US census (last taken in 2010), America is 72.4% white. Drop that to about 71.8% to include undocumented residents. Where are you getting 48%? You sound ridiculous.

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You obviously don't live in the South. The town I live in is more blacks than whites, but I go to a Baptist church, and there are NO black people who attend. It's completely 100% white.

So don't judge if you don't know.

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Just wondering why everything has to turn into a race issue. ENOUGH white bashing,sick of hearing it over and over. Time for people to stop being brainwashed by idiots like Jesse and Al. This is a movie about a girl's love for a stray animal and good friends. NOT a race issue at all.

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You nuts man.

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Whatsupwitdat??????????

the legend killer

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what an astounding leap of logic...

must be building up a case for reparation.

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You are a sick individual.

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In a grocery no less.

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I don't think any of you have a clue what the first poster was talking about.
It doesn't sound made up at all to me. (I wouldn't mind more details, though,
as to exactly WHY the Winn-Dixie chain would remind someone of that.
I mean, was it the name [which I guess does sound like Dixie (the South)
winning, although I never thought of it quite like THAT before!], or
something else less obvious, or both, or what?)
(Oh, well. I guess I'll never fully understand either, probably.)
(Anyway there certainly were, and probably still are, people wishing that
certain other people's ancestors had remained enslaved. I'm just not sure
what the Winn-Dixie store chain has to do with that [if anything].)

Kit =^__^=
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie's_Land

Dixie is America's south and the south is where africans were held in slavery until civil war and since then African Americans are still treated like crap in the south. So I think the starter of this thread is black and has bad memories of living in the south.

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I'm not racist by any means... in fact, my fiance is black. Although he's not the father to my child, he treats her as if she's his, since her father (a white guy) is worthless. Most of my fiance's family want no part of our lives because I'm white. They think I'm trash and have called my daughter ugly numerous times. I'd just like to point out that not all racist comments are directed to black people, from white people. It's often the other way around.

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Thanks so much for your post about this movie. Apparently the other people making posts do not know that Winn-Dixie was founded in Burley Idaho! Not very southern at all is it! Lol!

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The original poster was referring to the name of the (real) grocery chain mentioned in the title of this movie which can be easily construed as a cheer for the Confederacy.

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Jesus Christ people....it's a grocery store. And its going out of business too, chill the hell out.

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I agree. This movie is about a DOG who brings people together as FRIENDS. Why does everything have to be a race issue? Get a life people and enjoy the movie for the REAL meaning. If all you want to do is complain about race,then go talk to Jessie Jackson.

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i think the original poster of the message "jonah hex" is referring to some incident in his childhood, not something from the movie, and because he didn't expand on it more there's no use speculating what he's talking about.

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I'm from the South and, I've got to tell you, I'm a little tired of the constant beating up on the South.

The South is no more racist than any place else. It's just that people outside the South think that because we had some very bad laws that were racist and were not supported by most Southerners.

I grew up in Lower Alabama in a town not very far from where this movie is set. I don't doubt that there were racists and bigots in our town, because there are in every town, but over all, we all got along very well. Our high school was fully integrated and every Friday night, all of the kids, black and white came to our house for the big post-game party.

Even my grandparents, going as far back as the 30's and 40's, were known for their huge parties (a little note of trivia for you: among people who regularly attended their parties were a young welder by day, struggling songwriter by night named Hank Williams, and a former Naval officer turned engineer named James D. Buffett, father of rock star, Jimmy Buffett). These parties were fully integrated and any body was welcome.

My parents closest friends were black and one of my fondest memories of childhood is "Miss Martha", the black lady who took care of us, teaching me to whistle and play piano.

I understand that this doesn't really prove anything, but that's my experience growing up in the South and I wish more people outside the South new more about towns like mine and less about the stereotypical angry, black hating white person of the South.

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[quoteI guess you are talking about some of the mild and not-so-mind racial references in the movie. For example, how do you get that many white people together in one town in the south ? and what about 'The Open Arms Baptist Church'... it's full of white folks, I think it's open to anyone as long as they are straight and white. Also note that the few blacks in the movie are working... and in menial jobs no less.
On the other hand the film contains some balancing situations that seem to dispel the notion that this film has racist undertones. '1' whites living in mobile homes... isn't that trailer trash. '2' a single parent that is not a black woman. '3' Dave Matthews is in a mostly black rock band.
This movie is clearly aimed at a specific demographic. My children enjoyed it a lot more than I did. I guess I'm just not straight-white-family enough. I did enjoy 'Hoosiers', that family movie is about, you won't believe this, an all white basketball team. I found 'Rocky II' a little hard to believe... two white guys fighting for the world championship of boxing.[/quote]




Hey man, I think you should play the game Resident Evil 5. I REALLY think you'd like it :)




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Why does everything have to be a race issue?




Because idiocy still exists.

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Back in the 1800s Winn Dixie did not pay their help...they worked them like slaves!

Quit being yourself!

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Let me do a KWIK CHECK of those facts here.....

Ephemeron.

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