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TheBoost
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Racist Movies You Didn't KnowWere Racist
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3-Mar-2010, 5:57 PM

I'm not a guy who sees racism everywhere, but I am able to admit sometimes its hard to see and often more complicated than to allow simple answers.

I can admit that even a work of genius that's blatantly anti-racist like "The Lord of the Rings" can carry within it echoes of a racist structure of the real world (evil is black people from the South and East). I don't personally think Jar-Jar is racist (I hate him for other reasons), but I wont totally dismiss people who see in Jar-Jar troubling echoes of minstrellry and coon shows.

http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/44258486.html

So when I came across this list, which has been making the net rounds for a couple weeks I gave it quite a bit of consideration. My opinion is that half of it is already obvious to anyone, and half of it is totally moronic.

Thoughts anyone?