Anybody else notice that in the dancing scene Jessica Stroup's character was not even in there. The only person not in the final scene. The thugs & cheating husband were even in it, but not her.
shareThough I do not think the movie is racist, I did notice she was not there. However, I think one of the thugs was missing, too. David Banner's character, if I'm not mistaken.
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Stop it already, is a good movie, and you have no idea why she was not there. Perhaps she was busy! Please note that only one of the thugs was there.
shareBULLSHYT, David Banner is not in the scene either......I think its just a case of the two not having any rhythm ( not able to dance).....or it could have been a thing that, when that part of the movie was shot, they were not available.
"T.J." dont consider himself no pimp, more like a male madame....that wasnt too well throughtout"
Wait, wait.
You're claiming the movie is racist from the 2 or so minutes at the end that have nothing to do with the movie's story (why would the bad guys and the cheating husband be dancing with the rest of the family)?
I smell troll. Except why the hell would you troll the This Christmas boards? Seriously, gb2trollschool.
Either that, or you're just a dumbass.
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So the movie is racist because she isn't in the stereotypical soul train line? That they seem to throw in every movie with a majority black cast.
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I don't think Mekhi Phifer (sp) was in that last scene either. this movie was FAR from racist. That family completely embraced Claude's White wife!
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Nope, Mekhi was in it at the end. Just watched it again(Christmas tradition now, I watch it at least once a day the week before Christmas)
shareLast year, I watched "This Christmas" at least once a day for a month before Christmas...as a matter of fact, probably from the time I bought the movie when it came out on DVD until Christmas. Watching it right now. Chris Brown is about to sing at the club.
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I didn't think that it was racist.
shareCan you not read? The trivia section clearly says "The "Soul Train Line" at the end of the movie was the actors/actresses themselves dancing, they were not in character". How does that have anything to do with race????? Grow up, the racist drama is getting OLD...
shareIt was just bloody nice to hear Idris Elba use his English accent for a change!
shareIn all seriousness, the movie does show the double standard that exists when it comes to race in the US. One part that comes to mind is when the daughters boyfriend starts talking about how he goes to an "all black university" and that the fact that everybody there looks like him is "a bonus", and everybody in the table starts saying "uh huh", "yep" "you got that right".
I can just imagine this same part but with a white actor talking about how he goes to an "all white" university and how he likes the fact that everybody there is white. People would probably accuse him of being a white supremacist, neo nazi, KKK, and whatever else, but when its a black guy saying it, apparently its perfectly fine.
Or the fact that even though most of the male characters were dark skinned black men, most of the female characters were light skinned mixed actresses, a pattern seen in a lot of movies and in hip hop music videos. It's as if the black community was ashamed of true dark skinned black females and had this mentality of "the lighter the black girl the better".
Your complaints might carry some weight if black people had enslaved and oppressed white people in the U.S. for four hundred years. But they didn't.
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Wrong. Slavery was still alive and thriving in the U.S. 150 years ago. And it wasn't like black people were suddenly allowed to live as equal Americans the moment the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. Racial segregation wasn't outlawed until less than 50 years ago, well within living history. Many parents, still alive today, can tell you what it was like when they were forbidden by law to sit where they wanted on public buses.
Also, is there a reason you feel you need to refer to an entire race of people as "kinky heads"?
Also, if black people have "more rights" today than white people, can you explain why a disproportionate number of black men are on death row today, although a greater percentage of white men commit capital crimes?
Your ignorance would be shocking if it weren't so commonplace. And if you can't understand how the black community was marginalized for almost the entire history of America then you're more than just ignorant, you're an idiot.
Beautifully said. But don't read too much into that guy's post. Most likely a troll.
shareAltough I agree that in some movies and in a lot of videos, there is a tendency to have mostly light women cast along darker males... but in this flick, the mother is darker, as well as Regina King (who ended up showing the most sexy skin). Also, if I remember correctly, when the showed a picture of the absent patriarch, "Senior", the picture was of Giancarlo Esposito (again, I may be wrong about this) and he is half italian, so having children that look mixed (above and beyond the fact that black folks come in all shades) is fitting.
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