[J Edgar]

I am a white male, and I haven't seen the movie, but somehow I think this critic has asked some valid questions.

PS: By way of full disclosure, my girlfriend is a beautiful American lady from Texas of African and Mexican decent.

[dr_lew]

... but somehow I think this critic has asked some valid questions.

I didn't notice any questions at all.

[Sherman Logan]

While I disagree with the author’s conclusions, I also think he makes some good points.

In almost all movies the movers and shakers of the story are white guys. The heroes and villains. The “people of color” generally function as victims. They are objects, not subjects. A species of wildlife, if you will, rather than people. I haven’t seen this movie yet, but it sounds like the same story.

A movie that didn’t do this utterly confused the critics. Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto. There were no white guys in it, only Indians. So they were by default both the heroes and the villains. This confused liberals so much they thought it was insulting to Indians.

Liberals aren’t in the least interested in the native victims they cry about. They’re only interested in the stories of their oppression by whitey.

Take “black studies,” for example. It isn’t about black history and culture at all, it’s about the oppression of blacks by whites.

[rabidralph]

There is more genuine diversity and openness in the Republican party/conservative movement than in all of Hollywood.

By way of full disclosure, I am a black woman from Jamaica and a naturalized American citizen.