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Where are all the white characters?


Oh never mind.. i see them... They play the corrupt cops and politicians...

Thank you for fair representation and inlcuding us, Spike!

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John Cusack's character is based on Father Michael Pfleger. A white Roman Catholic priest who has been a staple of the community for over 40 years & is one of the most outspoken activists against racism, sexism & gun violence.

So yeah, take your racism & shove it. It's called research. Anyone can do it. Even racists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Pfleger

There. It's on the Internet. Thus it's official

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Shouldn't you be crying at a Nancy Meyers movie?

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It's racist to point out a lack of white characters in a movie? hahahahaha ...

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That's what I was thinking.

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Not really. It's an honest question.

Though your average hypersensitive knee-jerk SJW will find racism EVERYWHERE. Where's Archie Bunker when you need him:

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Oh, really? There a character based on Father Pfleger? Sweet! I got a book about him, with his cool hell-raising activist self. When that clip of him calling out Hilary Clinton during the 2008 election was made a big deal out of, I laughed my a** off when I saw it (because what he said was true) plus some white folks didn't like him because he was cool with Obama's former pastor, Rev. Wright. then found out about more about uuhim and his work. Plus it's cool that Cusack's in a Spike Lee joint, anyway. Having grown up on Lee's films,I was looking forward to seeing it anyway,and that little tidbit just makes it sound more interesting to want to see.

As for the OP, you need to quit trolling. You don't ever jack about the lack of black characters in main roles in about 80% of Hollywood so don't even try to go there---because you don't have a leg to stand on when it comes to that subject.

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You don't ever jack about the lack of black characters in main roles
You're kidding, right?

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Where are all the white characters?
They're in all the other 95% of movies in Hollywood.

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Kind of funny what a fool the OP made himself out to be since the only prominent white guy in the trailer, Cusack, is arguably the most positive character in the movie.

Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

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Unlike other Hollywood movies that whitewash reality, this movie takes place in South Side Chicago - which is 95% black. And yet, one of the main characters is still white.

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Oh please, reality is reality, most movies being mostly about white people isn't any more whitewashing than this movie being mostly about black people is "blackwashing".
Or than that most movies in bollywood are about indians is "indianwashing".
Or than that most movies in Asia are "asianwashing".

Western culture is white culture, you might not like it, but it's the truth.
And there is nothing wrong with white people making movies about white people, anymore than there is something wrong with black people making movies about black people.
THAT is equality, that is anti-racism.
Your whitewash *beep* is just racism in a new shiny PC jacket.

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I'm probably wasting my time since you're clearly ignorant, but there's a difference between a movie about a predominantly black neighborhood having a predominantly black cast... And a movie taking place in Ancient Egypt having a disproportionately white cast. One is distorting reality and the other is 100% in line with reality.

It's obvious when you start dropping terms like PC and attempt to twist the priveledged majority of Hollywood as some sort of unfairly prosecuted group, that you're so far removed from the realities of the society we inhabit to even hold any form of legitimate discourse with.

Continue to live in your bubble and think that the current state of Hollywood is a functionaly level playing field. And keep thinking that Western Culture is somehow a legitimate excuse for whitewashing whatever culture they depict in films.

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Who the *beep* mentioned egypt you drooling *beep*

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Western culture is NOT white culture. I'm not white and I'm a part of western culture. YOu're a nitwit.

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You're a *beep* retard. Congrats.

If I move to china, that doesn't mean china suddenly isn't an asian culture, you can't throw some carrots in the ocean and call it soup you *beep* moron.

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China has 56 ethnic minorities, many of whom are not East Asian, including Uyghurs, Tajiks, Tatars, and Russians. Russians are definitely "white" by American standards, and the others are similar to Middle Eastern peoples, who are also counted as Caucasian in the US Census.

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There's some white guy dressed as a pharaoh in the trailer.

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Since there aren't many white characters maybe Spike will tell the truth and show the black on black savagery that goes on in Chicago everyday.

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Who cares???

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Yes, if there's one group that's really just tragically underrepresented in today's cinema landscape, it's white people.

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