Anyone else feel that the daughter character was a racist and the mother character was rather sensible?

I appreciate your take, thanks for sharing your thoughts on the matter.

This is a common opinion from casual anti-black racist types who willingly choose to ignore the context of black Americans being systemically terrorized by white supremacist culture for the entirety of the country's history. She's a character who understands this reality as a black American which is why she said if the world falls apart that trust shouldn't be given out easily (in general) but especially to white people(unfortunately). It's not difficult to see it as understandable from her perspective if you're not an anti-black racist & are actually able empathize with the black American experience. It's also important to note that she never suggests that all white people are bad or that none of them can be trusted.

Julia Robert's character was very realistically portrayed as someone who is hardly some mouth frothing racist, but still harbors some casual, semi-unconscious anti-black racial tendencies. She had every right to be cautious & question the man and his daughter but her bias is clearly shown by her condescending tone of disbelief when asking "This is 'YOUR' house?" (which is noticed by the daughter) & insistence that they must be the hired help.

Those of you who fully empathize with & see nothing wrong with the initial attitude of Julia Roberts' character yet are quick to be dismissive & accusatory towards the black daughter, rather ironically validate her paranoia about trusting people. I believe the film sets this up intentionally which is pretty clever.

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