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White People: Did you find this movie racist?


First off: I'm a black guy and I enjoyed this film a lot, but I couldnt help but notice that like all the white guys except O'leary were bad guys and then we found out that O'leary was bad too. I'm wondering if I'm just trying to hard to seem "politically correct" to other races (I never get offended by films with black guys as villains) so to anybody white who is reading this: What did you think of the film and were you offended?

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Not in the least. I loved this movie and totally understood that the white characters were there to represent "the man."

Besides, let's not forget Capt. Kangaroo Pimp.

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nope...hilarious

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This movie is incredibly racist, and that's the point! It's a comedy. Whoever gets offended by the material in this movie clearly doesn't get it, and film's context.

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I have not seen this movie, but I have seen Under Cover Brother... or Under Cover Brotha ... and many more.

I do not normally seem racism, unless some inbred retard wants to play that card. We are one race - the human race - though we do have a lot of diversity and different cultures.

IF we ALL had the same genes - we would be inbred too ... like the royalty in Europe or the Greeks in Egypt! Neither of which turned out very well...

I do think people are often offended by things they should not be offended by. I'm sure there are still some rednecks somewhere that are truly prejudice, but that never really affected the Chinese or Jews all that much... in modern American society.

Infact, you could say a lot of minorities thrived, despite various early primitive though processes.

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Not offended at all. One of the funniest films I've seen in a long time.

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I thought it was awesome. I wasn't offended at all. Oh and Michael Jai White is the man.

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Yeah me too. Not offensive at all. Just brilliant.

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Michael Jai White is the man.


He totally is. I saw Blood and Bone last year and was totally blown away by his martial arts skills and how cool and badass he was there.

And then I saw this just now and he kills it in comedy too.

And both movies are from 2009.

Poorly Lived and Poorly Died, Poorly Buried and No One Cried

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If this was actually a serious film, then yes the fact almost all the White characters are portrayed as villains would annoy me, but seeing as the whole film is a spoof of the 'Blaxploitation' era films, then no of course I don't mind it, the whole point is it's spoofing the fact that those films had the stereotypical 'evil White guy' characters all the time, it's making fun of that fact.

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I wouldn't be offended even if it was a serious film and all of the white people were villians. Why would you?
Q. to black people: do you find American History X offensive? ( Even though the main character realizes that being racist is bad)

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In American History X the only two black characters who get any real development are both good guys. You've got Avery Brooks' saintly teacher and you've got the guy who befriends Ed Norton in prison.

"Unless Alpert's covered in bacon grease, I don't think Hugo can track anything."

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I pretty much concur with Indigo. As it's a spoof based on a past era of films, I can hardly be offended as a white guy, especially when many of the villains were also black (i.e. Chicago Wind and gang). However, I was wondering if actually some black people wouldn't be offended by this film, considering some of the pretty harsh stereotypes in it (e.g. pimps, the little girl on the street stating that her dad's name is also Black Dynamite, etc.). My hope, though, in this painfully PC world we live in, that most people who have seen this movie regardless of their color found it as funny as I did.

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I think people are way too caught up in what's PC and who might get offended by a certain joke and how such-and-such a group is portrayed in movies. That said, even if I was of the PC inclination, I'd have a hard time getting offended by a movie that spoofs an already ridiculous genre of film. I mean, you don't go to a movie called "Black Dynamite" to pick apart the racial depictions contained therein.

Was I offended when "Human Tornado" painted white people to look like we all belong in the klan and spend our days scheming on how we can screw over the black man? Not really, at that time blacks were getting a raw deal in American cinema and I understand that Dolemite and Co. saw it fitting to give us a taste of our own medicine. Ultimately, white folks don't often get offended by negative depictions of white people; the ones who care about evenhanded racial portrayals in the first place are more likely to get offended on behalf of minorities when a black\mexican\mideasterner\whatever gets portrayed stereotypically on screen.

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I wasn't offended, and I wouldn't be no matter what the film was about. I always find it a bit silly when people are offended by a film. They CHOOSE to be offended, when they could simply ignore it and move on with their lives.

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Im a white englishman. and love this film, me and my friends have got a crate of beer in and watched this film a few times, and no one is offended by it.

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It was hilarious, anybody who can't laugh at themselves is a complete self righteous idiot

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Im white and never found it offensive.

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