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colored people?

posted 16 years ago by imdb-jeroen
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I live in holland, and I'm not from 1916 so maybe I'm way offline, but why is there not one single black or colored person to be seen in this film?
Was New Jersey that white in those days? (and New York, where some scene's take place?)
Is it a nostalgic racist falsification? (the good old days when everything was good and America had only "us real Americans")
Or is it maybe the opposite: a slightly overdone political correctness (black people in those days would probably be servile or in some other way stereotypes; to avoid having to portrait those stereotypes, just let them out)
???

[–] mdecoy-1 16 years ago

Apparently one of the boys in Matawan creek the day of the attack was "colored" however they excluded it not because of racial issues, but because it could not be verified.

There were colored people in NJ back then, I am not really sure why none were included in ths movie.

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[–] johnmc963 16 years ago

Its just a movie... its just a movie .... its just a movie

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[–] Radiant_Rose 16 years ago

Don't you mean it was really great before white people started invading and picking on Native Americans?

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[–] fleming1972-1 16 years ago

According to Wikipedia, two of the three towns were resort towns. Most non-whites at the time probably couldn't afford to visit these places or were possibly banned from there.

[–] tommyuk 13 years ago

It's probably due to demographics at the time.

[–] barbarossa4188 11 years ago

Why do you care ? **** of moron.

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