Posted on 06/30/2021 11:21:31 AM PDT by Red Badger
Yeah, today we have hundreds of thousands of gang-bangers, twerkers, and rappers to accomplish that on YouTube.
It would have been a fine movie if they had stopped the film it at the end of the Civil War. Still a good movie. What makes it so good is it now drives libs bonkers!
I watched a lot of WW II movies. One, Operation Burma, has one officer saying that the Japs needed to be “Wiped of the face of the earth!”
Anyone ever notice that the plot of Operation Burma is actually Northwest Passage rewritten?
I worked with a white guy who loved to read those Mandingo novels.
Is Black Panther on the list? They built a wall and wouldn’t let White People live there.
(Although they had a very Progressive [and Patriarchal] system of choosing their government). /s
I wasted the time to read the entire article.
Except for Birth of a Nation glamorizing the KKK, not only are the rest no big deal, many anti racist films are wrongly claimed to be racist.
Mandingo was a total all out attack on white slave owning racism. So much so that it was believed the film might result in violence against whites.
But sensibilities are so twisted now that the white abuse of blacks depicted in the film is now criticized as black stereotypes.
I saw the movie. James Mason was a (deliberately) reprehensible white character.
What we have is a total inability to apply critical thinking.
**”North” (1994) had Inuit/Eskimo racism**
Compared to “Savage Innocents” with Anthony Quinn?
Then there is a tale by Jack London in which an Eskimo is washed out to sea, returns years later, and tells his people about the outside world and they do not believe him. He also finds he cannot tolerate the rancid smells of his old village.
Years ago I saw several South African films which might “take the cake” on this nonsense.
I saw Fantasia in 1971. An excellent film! Some in the audience did not like it. One woman said it was “Terrible! I hope they at least show a cartoon!”
No- “you don’t mess with the zohan” is funny as hell.
Actually, the black stereotypes in Black Panther (a film I like and feel very badly the actor died so young) are so extreme that it would be called racist if it wasn’t done by a black director and intended to promote a black story.
When the Wakandans gather, they have every possible African tribal stereotype represented, including natives with drastically enlarged mouths. Perhaps most extreme is one of the main characters being called “Great Gorilla” and his tribe assembles and battles by grunting like monkeys.
That’s before you even get to all the black racism, for example rants about how “people who look like us” are being victimized in other countries.
Now, if you live in Africa and your main character assumes the powers of an African black panther, I don’t see a problem with a tribe being depicted as having the powerful qualities of gorillas. But it’s supposed to be completely unacceptable.
Given the chance. I wouldn’t mind being compared to a mountain lion.
“What was James Mason thinking?” ( Mandingo)
It’s a movie! He gets paid to act! He also played the Chinese Ambassador to Genghis Khan, and Erwin Rommel. Robert Morley played the Emperor of China.
some people have too much time on their hands and go bonkers trying to find something to spew about.
In a similar vein, in Shogun Richard Chamberlain comes to realize his British shipmates are smelly and beneath him, and the Japanese are a cleaner, smarter, superior people.
Who cares? Depicting and comparing cultures is completely normal, until leftists screw around with it.
I can watch the Japanese depicted as noble in Shogun, evil in some WWII movie and the world keeps spinning.
The real danger would be deciding not to criticize the Imperial Japanese or the German Nazis.
We watch Roots once a year in reverse so it has a happy ending
The article could have included “Northwest Passage”, starring Spencer Tracy, Robert Young, and Walter Brennan. Fictionized story of Rogers’ Rangers attack on the St. Francis village in Canada during the French and Indian War. Great victory or massacre depending what side you were on.
**Not one single blaxploitation film on the list.***
What? No THE WIZ? The Play was great! The movie a disaster!
I guess as long as he includes Samuel L. Jackson in his movies, Tarantino gets a pass.
**So much so that it was believed the film might result in violence against whites.***
I remember when ROOTS was first shown on TV. There was some vandalism by blacks in Hot Springs Arkansas due to it.
"The only good Jap is a dead Jap" was a common sentiment when I was a kid, and I'm pretty sure it was used in a war movie or an early TV show.
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