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On Saturday we sometimes ask people whose writing we like to fill in for us. Our readers get to read something a little different, and we get to finish giving our dog full-body cornrows. Today's guest column is from the Bobby "Fatboy" Roberts, who's written movie reviews, and film commentary for Ain't It Cool News. Today he takes a look back at some films that didn't know they were being racist. Congratulations, America! Now that we've elected a black president, there's no more racism! But don't be so modest, crackers--go ahead, pat yourselves on the back! If it wasn't for you making a bunch of well-meaning but ham-handed and accidentally racist films, why, the rest of us would have never learned our lessons! Hail our conquering heroes, the real champions of equality in America... #5.
GLORY
The Aim: To tell the story of the Civil War's first company of black soldiers, literally fighting for their own freedom and humanity. The Clueless White Guy Who Fucked it Up: Ed Zwick, director of The Last Samurai (starring Tom Cruise as the last samurai) and Blood Diamond (starring Leonardo DiCaprio as an African). You can already see a pattern here. How He Fucked it Up: He cast Denzel Washington, Andre Braugher and Morgan Freeman (great!), and then centered the movie squarely on Ferris-fucking-Bueller (what the fuck!?)
Now, Zwick is sorta handcuffed here because his script is based on the letters that Colonel Robert Shaw sent to his family. And not THAT Robert Shaw. Although if a civil war were ever fought against slave-owning, secessionist sharks, it'd be Colonel Quint's company that saved our country.
But still, for every scene where Freeman and Washington are successfully conveying the emotion, the pain and the strength needed to fight for a country that considers you less than human, there are three scenes where Zwick cuts to Broderick moping aimlessly like someone shit in his Cheerios. Because in Zwickworld, there's no way a white audience could possibly know they're supposed to feel bad about slavery unless Ferris Bueller shuffles around his tent like Michael Cera at a Civil War reenactment. #4.
CRASH
The Aim: To shed a light on everyday prejudices and how quietly destructive they can be when left to simmer for too long. The Clueless White Guy Who Fucked It Up: Paul Haggis, creator of Walker, Texas Ranger. How He Fucked It Up: Haggis had his car stolen from him one night, and like most sane people who are robbed at gunpoint, he went home and wrote a sympathetic screenplay about his attackers. In Haggis's case, "sympathetic" means he turned them into Heckle 'n' Jeckyl, and wrote everyone in the film to be shrill, stupid stereotypes hiding their prejudice under a thin veneer of sophistication. It won a ton of Oscars for being a thought-provoking and insightful look at prejudice in America. Seems almost impossible to concisely sum-up, right?
There. That's the essence of Crash, distilled into its purest form. I just saved you 90 minutes and a stress headache, without losing an ounce of subtlety and nuance. Plus it dramatically reduces unnecessary exposure to Sandra Bullock. #3.
The Toy
The Aim: To teach children about the importance of family and friendship, and the worth of sharing and generosity. The Clueless White Guy Who Fucked It Up: Richard Donner, director of Superman and The Omen. How He Fucked it Up: By attempting to make slavery cute and adorable. Donner's no stranger to being accidentally insensitive to black people. For a man who made "Verisimilitude!" the mantra of the Superman production, it sure didn't apply to the black populace of Metropolis, the entirety of which was one dude. Who was a pimp. And took time out of his busy day selling ass to congratulate Superman on his "bad out-FIT" before whooing like Ric Flair.
But The Toy is the ultimate example of Hollywood's isolation from anything even remotely resembling the real world. Because sane people with a tenuous connection to reality would have noticed that the plot of the movie hinges on Jackie Gleason purchasing a black man for his son to play with. And it's not as if Richard Pryor starts the movie with a shred of dignity and then has his pride slowly disemboweled by a sniveling, 12-year-old, fuckhead named "Master Bates." No, Pryor is a janitor, chosen to be "The Toy" because he's funny when he bugs his eyes out and bumps into things. As his reward, he gets firecrackers shot at his face.
In it's defense, the movie does contain a facile attempt to make up for promoting slavery as a pillar of family strength, by having Masterbates and Pryor wreck a Ku Klux Klan fundraiser. It couldn't be any more halfheartedly apologetic if the movie stopped and Donner poked his head into frame and said, "No, it's OK. I have loads of black friends. It's cool." |
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Great, you managed to call two kids "f**kheads" in your article. Maybe you should lighten up (a little) on the passing issue of racism and concentrate a little on the growing issue of ADULTISM. Maybe you could start with yourself.
The problem with this article is that in an attempt to be humorous, it dumbs down the intended message of the films to make it's point. Edward Norton's character is redeemed because the one person who was there for him during his whole time in prison was a black guy and from this he learned to stop treating every black person like crap. Similarly,it was the white guys, the skinheads who raped and abused him, showing him that the world isn't as simple and divided along race-lines as he thought. As for the lifetime of racism, they make it explicit that he learned it as a teen, so the article basically muddies up the facts in an attempt to be humorous and fails to point out actual instances of racism. As for a comment someone else made, racism is not just hate and exclusion. Many good honest Christians genuinely felt that black people were an inferior species and they did so with love in their hearts. Racism isn't just hate. Even the nicest guy can be a racist. Racism is holding a prejudice about people, feeling they are inferior or of greater or lesser value because of their race. Hate is not a factor. So yes, unintended and underlying racism does exist, it is an actual problem, and it doesn't always come in the form of violence. Sometimes it's following a black person around a store because you think they'll steal something or not trusting a black employee to handle money.
this was horrible what a waste of time
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Racism is a realistic thing, so I think that these movies have to show racism in order to break the stereotypes. You can't have an anti-racist film without being racist somewhere in the movie. I loved Driving Miss Daisy, and I didn't think it was very racist at all. The old lady was a bigot, not some lynching white b***h.
Do The Right Thing was extremely racist, much more racist that Driving Miss Daisey. It was an alright movie, but no way should it win any best movie awards.
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The reason people have problems with this article is not because they're denying the existence of racism or saying it shouldn't be rooted out and criticized. It's that this article represents everything that is wrong with overzealous political correctness (and no, complaining about political correctness does not mean you're Rush Limbaugh lamenting the fact that you can't be racist in public anymore). The word "racist" is thrown around so much that it's essentially meaningless now, which should bother anyone worried about actual racism (as opposed to "unintentional" or "latent" or "underlying" racism). Every cultural misunderstanding does not automatically signal racism. Racism is hatred and exclusion. In order to avoid being racist in Glory, should they have completely excluded the white officer whose writings the film was based on? Sure, I think he was miscast, but that's hardly racist. Neither is it racist to suggest that a racist can be redeemed. Politically correct fanatics make it seem as though the only way a white person can *not* be a racist is to apologize for being white like some white Uncle Tom. Basically you can have no opinion of any racial issue, and you certainly can't disagree with or disapprove of a black person's opinions on racial issues, even though many black people have differing opinions themselves. Black pimp character? Racist! Black professor with two PhDs? Racist! Think a black character is funny? Racist! Smart or inspiring? Racist! Richard Pryor wrecking a KKK fundraiser? Still somehow f**king racist! (If you're white.) I know it feels good to focus on your victimhood as a black person, or if you're a white person, to patronize black people and make yourself feel hip and progressive, but try engaging in rational thought processes.
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Every black man who plays a positive role (e.g., providing a positive or transformative in a "white man's" movie is a "magic n***o?" See the description of Crash? Ironically, that is exactly what this article amounts to. You take multiple perspectives on complex racial issues and reduce it to "racist white people." No one's perspective on anyone else's experience in this world is going to be perfect. This includes people from other races, countries, sexual orientations AND people in general who have experiences, and are part of groups, which do not have names and lobbyists associated with them. And guess what? The "black perspective" (whatever that is, because speaking of a h**ogeneous black experience is as racist as anything else) is not any more authentic, comprehensive or "true" than anyone else's, not ever for Mr. Obama-wannabe down there.
Wow, so many people hated this article. Goes to show you how wilfully ignorant people actually want to be about racism. He was pretty much spot on about every single example here. The biggest mistake was leaving out the butt rape as motivation to forsake your skinhead brethren. And his daddy issues. And his black teacher. Who was also a magic n***o character. But as far as DiCaprio's portrayal of a white Zimbabwean (who insists on calling himself Rhodesian, which nobody, but nobody, except for racist 70-year old white farmers do), his accent was f**king terrible, and his character was des**cable. But then again, his character was supposed to be des**cable, which is why he sacrificed himself to save Djimon, a nice little inversion of roles actually (where usually the wise-cracking black guy will sacrifice himself to save the white dude). By the way, I grew up and still live in South Africa, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. From a white mom and black dad (Obama-style). Just so's you can't accuse me of white guilt. All in all, people are seriously unwilling to notice the nuances of f**ked-upedness that exists in Media today, everything from journalism, to tv, to cinema. Furthermore you angrily DEFEND your willful ignorance. I read a s**tload of Cracked.com, and I have never seen replies like these. Seriously, you people (yeah I said it; you FUCKING people), need to realize that your reactions to this article are symptoms of your underlying complicity of a racist society. And you're all f**king racist. Laughing my ass off.
Watanabe was the Last Samurai, not Cruise. Also there ARE lots of white people who live in africa, and DiCaprio did an accurate portrayal of one.
this wasn't even funny plus American History X was actually really good this guy can go f**k himself.
Uhh, I don't think you sufficiently supported your idea of any of these movies being racist. This article wafts of white guilt.
Yeah, hard to overlook the butt rape in American History X. If that's not enough to give you new perspective, I don't know what is.
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I thought American History X was a story about a devout skinhead that got run out of the local prison gang and buttraped by them in the shower, whilst living and working with a man of color-let's be honest, he's a magic n***oe-that rinses and dries his brainwashed mind.
Blood Diamond (starring Leonardo DiCaprio as an African). No all people living in Africa are black. Not a funny article.
The only thing I can say is, I've never seen any of those movies. No wonder my life has been so boring up until now.
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"The Toy is also racist towards rich white people. Or at least, shows them in an extremely sterotypical way. Way to only point out how it's bad towards black people, author" BTW, The Toy is a remake of a French movie where all characters were white. The spoiled little brat, his horrible rich dad, and the poor sap (or idiot, depending on how you saw it) who accepted being bought as a toy, the point of the movie being "how much humiliation would you accept for money?". Of course, there was a social comment, but no racist undertone.
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The article just seems lazy, and not because he didn't talk about "reverse racism." AH-X, Driving Miss Daisy, and Glory were movies that spanned years, does the author want an 8 hour movie to explain the transition from racist to tolerant? The entire argument about Glroy seems to be that the author doesn't like Matt Broderick, fair enough, but that doesn't make the movie more racist, it just makes it worse overall. I agree that Crash was just a big liberal guilt piece with crappy charater development, but it wasn't so much racist as it was incoherent. The author should sit down again and watch Gran Torino (the Asian neighbor kids are nice so I no longer hate them and will die for them), Lakeview Terrace (because a white man and black woman being tormented by a black cop is very realistic), and all the Rush Hour movies (because all skinny black guys are funny and all Asians know karate). Also, how does Song of the South get left off this list? Try harder Fat Boy.
The article just seems lazy, and not because he didn't talk about "reverse racism." AH-X, Driving Miss Daisy, and Glory were movies that spanned years, does the author want an 8 hour movie to explain the transition from racist to tolerant? The entire argument about Glroy seems to be that the author doesn't like Matt Broderick, fair enough, but that doesn't make the movie more racist, it just makes it worse overall. I agree that Crash was just a big liberal guilt piece with crappy charater development, but it wasn't so much racist as it was incoherent. The author should sit down again and watch Gran Torino (the Asian neighbor kids are nice so I no longer hate them and will die for them), Lakeview Terrace (because a white man and black woman being tormented by a black cop is very realistic), and all the Rush Hour movies (because all skinny black guys are funny and all Asians know karate). Also, how does Song of the South get left off this list? Try harder Fat Boy.
what you've just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.
The Toy is also racist towards rich white people. Or at least, shows them in an extremely sterotypical way. Way to only point out how it's bad towards black people, author.
Fatboy, the guy in American History X kept Norton's character from being beat to death by the other black inmates. That's why Edward Norton trusted him and, when he was released, felt that he owed him his life since he'd saved his. Where's the humor in this article?? I thought this was an entertainment site???
Yes Fatboy, you raise an interesting point about American history X. Just because something's funny, or clever, or in black and white, doesn't make it right. Maybe that applies to articles and people named Fatboy? Until other evidence is given I'm going to have to assume it does. I liked American History X.
my response is merely this: why insult or humiliate the actors? Come on now, haven't we gotten far enough in the right direction to overcome our mistakes of the past...their are many ways to think of things, many angles to each presentation. Don't forget the many white people who died to unite our country. Once in a while I would like to see or read something giving the American Indian apologies...a race was almost extinguished in its process to take over and then unite this country. Racism is so easily misunderstood and then shouted out from the rooftops. What this all comes down to is the Elite and the wealthy few who control and dominate....aren't we all....slaves of sorts?
did you know that the movie Glory is based on shaw and the civil war but ALL of the other characters are made up? that's right, they never existed. in fact, besides a few of the details such as locations, civil war, and time period, the whole movie is based on plot line. also, the TOY had pervasive anti klan references as a subplot throughout the entire movie, start to finish. the fact that pryor is bought of his own free will (provoked by necessity for funds) by a little white kid at a store shows the irony and cements the core of a slave movie. think about it, when he is being bought, ned beatty and the other cronies debate the logistics with masterbates. they point out every reason why they cant do it except it is morally wrong. it just didn't occur to them about that. hell, one even says "you cant do that..." "why not" "well, because you can't." it's not for sale? has he expired or gone out of date? on the other hand, if i came to your job and said i wanted to buy you, would you ask how much or would you be calling your local legal team of terror? to save you the effort of a reply, i am offering you $10.
wow this is bad
He stopped being racist in American History X because a black person saved his life in jail and protected him. Did the guy who wrote this even see the movie?
"And he does it with professional tub-o-guts Ethan Suplee" "Tub-o-guts?" So what you're telling me is that it's NOT okay to be racist, but it IS okay to be weightist? It is okay to dehumanize and bring down those who are fat? He's not an ACTOR he's a TUB-O-GUTS?! Wow... how about we try not to be racist or weightist, huh? You kind of make your argument null and void by injecting it with other prejudices.
Ya,... so this list was retarded.
Ya,... so this list was retarded.
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I'm a social worker, and I while I think this list is a load of crap and completely missing the point and obviously written by a white guy, I'd just like to leave this comment to show that not all who hated this list are whiny b***hes complaining about racism against whites. Don't even get me started on the whole racism against white people bulls**t, I'm not saying it doesn't exist, but it all originates from the system of marginalizing non-dominant racial groups. White people can never fully understand the depth of their white privilege, myself included. That said, this list is still a load of crap, for completely different reasons. Basically I just wanted the author to hear that from someone who is not complaining about white racism.
I'm a social worker, and I while I think this list is a load of crap and completely missing the point and obviously written by a white guy, I'd just like to leave this comment to show that not all who hated this list are whiny b***hes complaining about racism against whites. Don't even get me started on the whole racism against white people bulls**t, I'm not saying it doesn't exist, but it all originates from the system of marginalizing non-dominant racial groups. White people can never fully understand the depth of their white privilege, myself included. That said, this list is still a load of crap, for completely different reasons. Basically I just wanted the author to hear that from someone who is not complaining about white racism.
Pot, meet Kettle. Kettle, meet pot.
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Not only that, gypsydavy, but in "The Toy" and "Glory" there was nothing to suggest that the central white characters were racist to begin with, especially in "Glory". Wow...I don't think I've ever seen an article where so many people told the author what a load of crap it was. This guy would be smart to write his next article on Warriors Who Did Fucked Up Shit To People After Killing Them or something.
Wow, a lot of people really hate this article. But while your point is made in a very in your face manner (what? In a Cracked article!) you still make a good point. The problem with the movies on this list (and really a lot of movies dealing with racial issues) is that they all just employ this magical poof not racist anymore logic. Like one day you can be a huge racist, but because you knew met a black person who you deemed to be quite all right then hey, not racist in the least bit anymore! To be fair, in a movie like American History X that has a lot to do with the film skipping over most of Norton's character's time in jail once begins to deal with racism. Still, these movies don't really acknowledge that dealing with a person's racist feelings can be a slow process. Also, most people just don't want to watch a long, drawn out movie where a character is only a little bit less racist by the end of the film. Audiences want big, recognizable changes instead of slow progress like how it happens in real life. People also like watching movies that they don't really have to do much thinking about as well and can just view while saying themselves, "Gee, that's nice. That old lady wasn't racist anymore!" Thanks for calling it out on Crash though. I hate that movie. And not just because I don't think it does a very good job of actually discussing racism, but mostly because of how smug Hollywood was after awarding the Academy Award to it. It just reeked of, "Ha, you see Middle America! Racism is bad! You certainly would have never figure this out were it not for our gracing you with the magnificence of Crash. Never mind that we very rarely give large roles to persons of colors and actually help to perpetuate a great deal of racial stereotypes. Thank us for enlightening you!"
So...was the racism that Mr. Robers has displayed against white people in this article unintentionally or intentionally racist? Either way, the author needs to get over himself...
The author fails at life ... This was not only a f**king waste of my time, but it was also an insult to my intelligence - If this is ALL you got from those movies, and if you think these are the points that they're trying to make, then I actually feel sorry for you... I mean - when was the last time that you've seen 100s of commenters on the internet agreeing that someone is a failure ? Think about it ... You should not be allowed near a computer What a looser...
"Do the Right Thing" was a pile of crap, and I'm surprised more people don't find IT racist, even if it was directed by a black guy. But I probably Just Don't Get It because I still don't get your argument for American History X being racist. Your arguments seem more of the "it really wasn't that good of a movie" persuasion, which, fair enough, but that isn't the same thing as being racist.
Why does each one of these movies have a "clueless white guy", are you implying only white guys can be clueless? That would be defined as racist, my friend, so get off your soapbox and open your eyes. Do you enjoy driving, having showers, indoor plumbing, or sleeping in a comfortable bed? These, among other thinhs were invented by WHITE people, so next time you enjoy one of these things, remember who you have to thank.
The number one unintentially racist article about racism: This one Clueless White Guy Who Fucked It Up: Bobby "Fatboy" Roberts
Personally, the thing that bugged me about Driving Miss Daisy was that Hoke found an outlet for his racial discontent by listening to Martin Luther King Junior. It's supposed to indicate the seriousness of racial issues or something, but... it's like a returning soldier who deals with his shell shock by taking long bubble baths. That is to say, it's ignorant and a little gay, much like the movie itself. Ironically, this means that the filmmakers made the same mistake that Miss Daisy was making in the movie.
ironictonic: lemme guess....your.....white? white arent you? hahahahahahhahaha now, you are entitled to your own opinion, however, do you truly believe the Bullsh**t you type there below this? im sorry, maybe you should open your mind up alil bit....just a lil, and kinda take in the FOCUS of the movies and then redecide where you stand on all this. these, along with a plethera of other movies i could name right now are either directly or subtely racist and intentionally so. its what hollywood does. in fact, its what most people who can get their views noticed or aired on a broader spectrum does. its a huge reason african americans cant move past p-o-s rolls like how...oh, say 50% of black ppl who have won an oscar did so by playing a stereotype part or by straight being a slave in the movie....(and im not talking just back in the 40s of sum crap, remember The Green Mile? that came out in the so called age of Equality in america ) oh, and its why katrina suvivor who were black were openly dubbed to be looting a corner market during the flood however, the same news reporter reported some white survivors as "gathering supplies" tho in actuallity....they were stealing/looting s**t too. Only it was for an acceptable reason cause they were white...but you expect someone black to do it so might as well call it what white ppl expect it to be - looting. Right? racism is far from dead in america....its far from forgiven, on anyones part......and its far from being over too unfotunately. Every year we find new reason to hate some new, or hate our old enemies even more. What you think theyre doing with Muslims right now? Demonizing them the same way america like to demonize ppl. Only were hiding it under the guise of "terrorism" OMG! Maybe you should read the news a lil more. heres a list of thing from this year you may find intersting and perhaps youll be willing to make note that some of these racists do include members of the movie making industry: judge in LA refuses to marry interracial couples Man in texas who buys hotels demands hispanics leave their lanugage, accent and heritage outside of the work place. Blackface apperas in Vouge and Australian game show. Neo Nazi protest.... (enough said) DRIVING MISS DAISY!!! (yup, it was racist) theres more, but my fingers are getting tired. If youd like more evidence that your opinion may need a lil tweeking, ill be happy to share more info with you. I can explain the reason theses movies were racist too...and in terms you may even understand. thatll be an accomplishment! :) peace to all
Oh, just read at the end of the article "Do the right thing" was "an honest, evocative examination of why America just can't get over its own inherent racism." Anyone who has actually met a white person and has seen this movie knows what the problem here is.
Uh, more like the writer of this article is your typical African-american RACIST. Where are the Spike Lee movies on this list? How about some of the horrible sterotypes of Latinos (by your standards, American Me would be racist). The writer of this article in not only unfunny, but thinks that racism refers only to mistreatment by white people of africandescended black people. I have to agree that Crash was some contrived bulls**te though, even though this racist article was in no way funny
Glory was racist? Dude...the utter lack of understanding with which you seem to have approached this list is staggering. Shaw was a HUGE part of what happened in that regiment. I think the way the movie covers the shared experiences of men from different "races" is actually the opposite of racist. And what is this bulls**t about America not being able to overcome its inherent racism? Get the f**k out of my country with that stupid bulls**t. It's people like you and attitudes like that which keep us from moving on because you constantly have to bring race into things. Get over it already. We're all people. Move past the differences and focus on what makes a person who they are. Actually that's the message of American History X. I'm pretty sure it was less about "bad stand up comedy" and more about finding something of value in someone you have learned to hate and discovering that people are the same no matter the color of their skin. The "comedy" wasn't what changed him. It simply allowed him to like the guy, which opened his eyes to the lies he had been invested in. Lies which put him in prison. Lies which were destroying his family. It is a powerful message, and a powerful film. Now go back to listening to your Al Sharpton radio show with the other racists in the country and leave the rest of us alone. We're tired of it. We've moved beyond it. It's time you did the same.
@DrV: "How many people here think American History X is actually a good movie?... Seriously, get the f**k out of my gene pool." I have already reproduced and I think American History X is a good movie. However, I don't think I'm in your gene pool, anyway. In my gene pool we walk with our eyes set straight ahead, never down at the sidewalk, and we don't weep at the sound of thunder. I think your gene pool is the one that stinks of tears and piss. I'm not within five blocks of that one.
You mad?
This is bulls**t Cracked! What about ALL the blacks who are racists?? Like Spike Lee!!! You know what I'm tired of?!?! I'm tired of the whole "white people are the ONLY ones who are f**king racists" argument! When all you think about is how whitey is racists because they don't agree with your way of thinking or logic then it only proves how f**king racists YOU really are! Give me a f**king break! Yes, there are racists white people! But there are also racists black people, asian people, and hispanic people in this f**king country! And they tend to act MORE racists than white people nowadays because they are ALWAYS pulling the f**king RACE CARD!! I didn't enslave you, my parents didn't enslave you, my grandparents didn't enslave you, hell, even my great-grandparents(they came over from Italy) didn't enslave you!! And guess what morons, you, your parents, your grandparents, and your great-grandparents weren't enslaved either!! So grow the f**k up and stop pulling the f**king race card already! And get on to YOUR OWN RACE because you people play up all of those stereotypes!!
I spent most of this article scratching my head in bewilderment. Like many of you, I hate it when someone tries way too hard to point out racism, especially when it isn't there. This reminded me of that baseball-a*****e article where every player listed who played before 1947 was "racist". It wouldn't surprise me if the same fool wrote it. On the bright side, I got to see the black guy from Superman again ("Man, that is a bad out-FIT! WHOOOOO!"). He's right up there with "DO YOU MIND IF WE DANCE WITH YO' DATES?"
Whack article is whack. And Edward Norton didn't stop being racist because the black guy was "funny", it's because the black guy kept the other blacks from beating his ass after he got out of favor with the Aryans. He learned not to judge people by the color of their skin.
You forgot to mention that every movie directed by a white guy is racist
I've ready every article on this site, yet only after this one have i written a comment. i understand the point you're trying to make, but you don't use reason to back it up. also, even when they're making valid points, cracked always makes it at least entertaining and fun. Two of the movies you "critiqued" are great movies that in fact PROMOTE diversity. Denzel won an oscar for his performance for good reason; the final shot is supposed to show you how similar a seemingly-racist Denzel and a seemingly-racist Broderick were. And American History X hinges on the fact that in prison, Norton is able to see that morals and kindness are present past your skin color. The whole point was that we are capable of change - especially away from hate. It's 4:15 and i'm writing this. That should tell you how much this article sucked. (or how much aderol i took?)
I am sorry but this writer is a politically-correct obsessed bulls**tter. None of these movies are racist except The Toy and the first one. Also, Do the Right Thing was not nearly good enough to win an Oscar, which by the way is a worthwhile award. I bet this writer thinks indie and arthouse movies are infinitely superior to anything in wide-release which is something only conceited, trying to be hip p***ks say (for the most part at least). Whoever wrote this article is an overly liberal snob. I hate political correctness; its such bulls**t 90% of the time. And by the way, you egotistical twat, don't be fooled by the last name, I'm a minority (Asian/Pacific Islander). I'd rather have people call me a slanty-eyed math expert who can't drive for s**t than and ignoramus like you being a anal freak about what's secretly racist
Killing Miss Daisy. Drive-by Miss Daisy. Eat s**t, Hollywood.
You know the main problem with this article? I started out knowing absolutely nothing about most of these movies, and all I know about them now is that some guy thinks they're racist. No explanation of plot or valid arguments as to why, just a bunch of "This movie is racist. OK, moving on; this movie is racist too." I actually have seen American History X, and this article leads me to believe that the author just read the synopsis and judged it from that. Now, maybe he was dead on about the others, but I can't tell, because he didn't actually tell us anything about them. Or make any jokes. What exactly was the point of this?
Funny thing about American History X: it's the favourite movie of every single teenage basement neo-Nazi. Pretty ironic for a movie that's obviously trying to be anti-racist.
Why don't we carpet-bomb Atlanta and get rid of all the ignorant racist nig-biscuits that treat this city like their toilets? With Idaho and Atlanta gone, all of our problems with racism will be solved! Moron...
This is an incredibly ignorant article, written by an author who only proves himself to be the false, white apologist he attempts to decry. But, considering the site it's posted on, all that could be forgiven if the article was funny. But it's not! Not funny, Cracked. Give us articles that make us laugh. If you should achieve social change at the same time, fantastic, but make us laugh first.
What the hell Cracked? I'm actually forced to read the comments section to get some entertainment from your site now. Remember when you didn't suck massive hairy balls? Also, don't let asshat douchebags that have the nickname "Fatboy" write preachy opinionated crap and post it on your HUMOR website. Everyone knows that fat people haven't been funny since Chris Farley died. Well, funny ha ha, not funny sad.
I don't think these movies are necessarily racist. And I especially don't want to read an article where I'm told that one movie should have won an Oscar over another. I don't give a s**t about the Oscars and I don't imagine anyone reading this article does
This was the worst column I've ever read on this site. Keep your day job.
"a white person falls over themselves to show how 'cool' they are with someone from a minority." That's how Obama got elected, and see how that's working out? That Crash sum up is also the sum of all political discourse from Obama cultists.
I liked American History X, but that's because I enjoy curb stomps, and I personally like Edward Nortons acting.
White guilt is silly, but so is the sentiment, "We're intentionally saying racism is bad and the minorities have it rough; that means we're completely above racism and can't possibly do anything wrong in the process." Centering things on white characters at every opportunity honestly is one of our old, creepy habits. Like how Wind Talkers wasn't about the titular American Indians so much as how great Nicholas Cage was in leading and standing up for them (complete with slow motion hero montage at the end). This is one of those sad cases where Cracked's competitors did it a lot better using a more glaring example and remembering to tell jokes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVF-nirSq5s
Oh s**t. Gotta stop reading the comments now. Yikes. I am just going to love on my opinions and let you weird ass people who are wrong do whatever it is that you are doing here. [nuzzles opinions]
This guy should retire from life.
It would help if this article had jokes instead of being just another guilty white guy trying to prove he's different.
"a white person falls over themselves to show how 'cool' they are with someone from a minority." That's how Obama got elected, and see how that's working out? That Crash sum up is also the sum of all political discourse from Obama cultists.
How many people here think American History X is actually a good movie? Raise your hand. Alright, thanks. Now make sure you never reproduce. Seriously, get the f**k out of my gene pool. That movie spent two acts humoring us with neo-Nazi antics and used the third to cram in racial acceptance, family values, and school violence. Now, that's just bad story-telling. I've said it before and I'll say it again: I don't care how pretty that "beach at sunset" closing shot is with its golden-hour lighting and heavy handed voice over. In the end, American History X is still pure didactic bulls**t.
@skkflip. Awe, that's adorable. You read my bio. And then you made a generalization about people who dealt with hurricane Katrina. A generalization about how their all ignorant thieves. And you're here talking about rasicm. Hillarious!
@skkflip. Awe, that's adorable. You read my bio. And then you made a generalization about people who dealt with hurricane Katrina. A generalization about how their all ignorant thieves. And you're here talking about rasicm. Hillarious!
"a white person falls over themselves to show how 'cool' they are with someone from a minority." That's how Obama got elected, and see how that's working out? That Crash sum up is also the sum of all political discourse from Obama cultists.
"a white person falls over themselves to show how 'cool' they are with someone from a minority." That's how Obama got elected, and see how that's working out? That Crash sum up is also the sum of all political discourse from Obama cultists.
"a white person falls over themselves to show how 'cool' they are with someone from a minority." That's how Obama got elected, and see how that's working out? That Crash sum up is also the sum of all political discourse from Obama cultists.
I have early on in the making of "Glory" that there were more subplots involving Broderick's character since, again, it was based on his writings. But, fearing that the movie would be another film about blacks through the eyes of a white man, they cut a lot of that out. Also, you have to admit that his characters' support of the troops and his push to make certain they were real soldiers is worth noting in the story.
Not a very good article simply, as it assumed everyone has already seen these movies and so makes no attempt to evebn lay out a basic plot of give examples. I've only seen "American History X" and so was clueless about the other entires.
I agree that Hollywood is pretty clueless about race in general, but it's not cool and ironic to just say HURR WHITE PEOPLE ARE STUPID. This article is making the same desperate "I'm not racist, I swear!" statement as the directors of these movies unintentionally made.
Sorry, I know that was way too long. I didn't mean to post it three times. Damn wireless signal cuts in and out randomly in an attempt to ruin my rants.
This list really should have contained Broken Blossoms, a film by D.W. Griffith. The film was an attempt by Griffith to counter the crticism against his film Birth of a Nation, one of the most important movies in the development of filmmaking (and sadly, one in which America is 'saved' by an army of KKK members.) Anyway, Broken Blossoms tells the story of a Chinese immigrant living in victorian London who fights against prejudice to try and save a woman from her abusive husband. Unfortunately the hero's name was Chinky, he was an Opium-fiend and generally acted and appeared more like a FuManchu tribute act....
to lou_sfar: racism is racism. doesn't matter if it's white on hispanic, black on asian, native american on indian. you say "it's not reverse racism, it's karma." That's f**king retarded. You obviously don't understand the concept of karma. Continually, you obviously don't understand the concept of reverse racism. Reverse racism isn't when a racist decides that he isn't racism anymore, the word for that is "progress." Reverse racism is when individuals who feel as though they have been the victims of racist oppression retaliate by using racism to oppress the oppressers. It's a classic two-wrongs don't make a right scenario. Seriously lou_sfar, don't use big words from the thesaurus if you don't know what you're talking about.
Sorry, I know that was way too long. I didn't mean to post it three times. Damn wireless signal cuts in and out randomly in an attempt to ruin my rants.
Your take on Derek's transformation in American History X was so oversimplified, I think the only explanation is that you A: did not watch the entire movie, and thus have no business criticizing its message; or B: Are so used to having your "hidden" messages served to you on a silver platter (Phantom Menace thru Revenge of the Sith) that you feel angered and frustrated when the narrator doesn't explain it to you. Either way, this makes you a horrible movie reviewer. The rest of this list was fairly spot-on, so I have to assume you just needed one more for the list so you threw in the most racism-fueled movie you could find, and not that many people have heard of Romper Stomper or The Believer, and Higher Learning had too many rappers with firearms charges on their records. The point isn't that the guy in the laundry room was funny. After quarreling with his neo-nazi pals in prison because they WEREN'T RACIST ENOUGH for him, they ass-raped him, and proved themselves to be hypocrites and liars, which tarnished his distorted mental image of white people as being a brotherhood victimized by the rest of the world. When he was away from his "white brother" protectors, he was sure he would be killed by a black guy sooner or later. However, the black guy in the laundry room felt sympathy for him, and convinced all of the black prison gangs to leave him alone. Thus, when he was friendless and vulnerable, a black man was more of a friend to him than all his supposed "brothers". He then began to see through the propaganda, and felt compelled to protect his younger brother from following in his footsteps, due to the guilt he felt over brainwashing his impressionable kid brother. But hey, your two paragraphs on the movie really tore it a new one and almost had a joke, so good for you.
Your take on Derek's transformation in American History X was so oversimplified, I think the only explanation is that you A: did not watch the entire movie, and thus have no business criticizing its message; or B: Are so used to having your "hidden" messages served to you on a silver platter (Phantom Menace thru Revenge of the Sith) that you feel angered and frustrated when the narrator doesn't explain it to you. Either way, this makes you a horrible movie reviewer. The rest of this list was fairly spot-on, so I have to assume you just needed one more for the list so you threw in the most racism-fueled movie you could find, and not that many people have heard of Romper Stomper or The Believer, and Higher Learning had too many rappers with firearms charges on their records. The point isn't that the guy in the laundry room was funny. After quarreling with his neo-nazi pals in prison because they WEREN'T RACIST ENOUGH for him, they ass-raped him, and proved themselves to be hypocrites and liars, which tarnished his distorted mental image of white people as being a brotherhood victimized by the rest of the world. When he was away from his "white brother" protectors, he was sure he would be killed by a black guy sooner or later. However, the black guy in the laundry room felt sympathy for him, and convinced all of the black prison gangs to leave him alone. Thus, when he was friendless and vulnerable, a black man was more of a friend to him than all his supposed "brothers". He then began to see through the propaganda, and felt compelled to protect his younger brother from following in his footsteps, due to the guilt he felt over brainwashing his impressionable kid brother. But hey, your two paragraphs on the movie really tore it a new one and almost had a joke, so good for you.
Your take on Derek's transformation in American History X was so oversimplified, I think the only explanation is that you A: did not watch the entire movie, and thus have no business criticizing its message; or B: Are so used to having your "hidden" messages served to you on a silver platter (Phantom Menace thru Revenge of the Sith) that you feel angered and frustrated when the narrator doesn't explain it to you. Either way, this makes you a horrible movie reviewer. The rest of this list was fairly spot-on, so I have to assume you just needed one more for the list so you threw in the most racism-fueled movie you could find, and not that many people have heard of Romper Stomper or The Believer, and Higher Learning had too many rappers with firearms charges on their records. The point isn't that the guy in the laundry room was funny. After quarreling with his neo-nazi pals in prison because they WEREN'T RACIST ENOUGH for him, they ass-raped him, and proved themselves to be hypocrites and liars, which tarnished his distorted mental image of white people as being a brotherhood victimized by the rest of the world. When he was away from his "white brother" protectors, he was sure he would be killed by a black guy sooner or later. However, the black guy in the laundry room felt sympathy for him, and convinced all of the black prison gangs to leave him alone. Thus, when he was friendless and vulnerable, a black man was more of a friend to him than all his supposed "brothers". He then began to see through the propaganda, and felt compelled to protect his younger brother from following in his footsteps, due to the guilt he felt over brainwashing his impressionable kid brother. But hey, your two paragraphs on the movie really tore it a new one and almost had a joke, so good for you.
Or ANY spike lee movie
well, i wouldn't say this article i s**t. that's way off. there's some funny stuff going on and it's well-written. but the problem here is the author makes two egregious mistakes. 1) Crash isn't racist. Crash shows underlying racism. That was the director's intent. He's not peddling a specific version of black people or white people. I'm not really sure how the author of this article botched this unless he was under time pressure and/or he was just trying to be cute. 2) American History X isn't racist. It is about racism. The movie doesn't end with a 'hey, I like black people now' sentiment. It ends with a (spoiler alert) tragic murder in a bathroom, showing that just b/c one skinhead see's the light, it doesn't mean the whole f**king world changed. It's just as ugly and tense as ever. How is that racist? What could the director have done to make this movie unracist in the author's eyes? If you want to talk about unintentionally racist movies or shows, there are many to choose from. Just look in imdb for anything were a Latino is a maid, a black person is a funny sidekick reliant upon the guidance of the strong white leader, or a white person falls over themselves to show how 'cool' they are with someone from a minority. That's just for starters.
well, i wouldn't say this article i s**t. that's way off. there's some funny stuff going on and it's well-written. but the problem here is the author makes two egregious mistakes. 1) Crash isn't racist. Crash shows underlying racism. That was the director's intent. He's not peddling a specific version of black people or white people. I'm not really sure how the author of this article botched this unless he was under time pressure and/or he was just trying to be cute. 2) American History X isn't racist. It is about racism. The movie doesn't end with a 'hey, I like black people now' sentiment. It ends with a (spoiler alert) tragic murder in a bathroom, showing that just b/c one skinhead see's the light, it doesn't mean the whole f**king world changed. It's just as ugly and tense as ever. How is that racist? What could the director have done to make this movie unracist in the author's eyes? If you want to talk about unintentionally racist movies or shows, there are many to choose from. Just look in imdb for anything were a Latino is a maid, a black person is a funny sidekick reliant upon the guidance of the strong white leader, or a white person falls over themselves to show how 'cool' they are with someone from a minority. That's just for starters.
that article was f**king s**t, and i'm with dr venkmann
Black people hating on whitey is not the same as whitey hating on blacks, because for most of this country's history black people have had no power. Sure they could call you a cracker if you happen to be white, but that's not the same as a minority group being held back by a majority. The minority group has no power. Without the power, calling a white person cracker is an empty slur. The majority has power and can subjugate races it feels are inferior. I think some white people are scared of those who use to be powerless minorities now gaining an equal footing, because they are afraid that the minorities might do to them what they did to the minority. This is not reverse racism. This is karma. Besides, wouldn't reverse racism be a racist treating those he hates as equals.
It would help if this article had jokes instead of being just another guilty white guy trying to prove he's different.
It would help if this article had jokes instead of being just another guilty white guy trying to prove he's different.
It would help if this article had jokes instead of being just another guilty white guy trying to prove he's different.
I'm having a hard time how films that intentionally deal with racism are being unintentionally racist. bad article is bad
Why what a great list Fatboy your thoughts should be preserved in a thing that is held by another thing. Its f**king early. I think the list was pretty good.
as is Bobby "Fatboy" Roberts, you two should go fight to the death so your genes aren't passed on
DrVenkman is a stupid little man
American History X was bad ass. Crash, not so much.
worst article on cracked..EVER i was really interested in the topic when i saw it on the main page, but this was so horribly written.
DrVenkman you're f**king retarded. American History X was a great movie. You know, if you're gonna get offended watching a movie about neo-nazi, why watch a movie about the life of a neo-nazi? That's just retarded. But you know the positive reviews it's gotten, the awards nominations those don't mean anything I guess. What do you expect from someone from New Orleans. A city where people think it's more important to steal booze and stereos rather than food and water during an emergency.
This article was not funny. The writing lacked any wit, silliness or even crudeness to make it funny, it was just lame. Every race has been a slave at some point in history, and there are more then just two.
This article sucked. There's nothing funny, nothing insightful, and little accurate. Glory is a racist film because Matthew Broderick's most memorable movie is Ferris Bueller? Crash is a racist film because they didn't make the film nine hours long to fully develop the twenty or so main characters? Compound this not-even-half-baked bulls**t with the d******kery that displays your own racist ignorance ("Leonardo DiCaprio playing an African? But all Africans are black, everyone knows that!") as well as your failure to understand common language ("Samurai" is singular AND plural, so maybe [just maybe] the film's title is about the group of the last remaining true samurai in Japan rather than about painting Cruise's character as THE last samurai); I seriously question why Cracked posted something so utterly crappy.
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How many people here think American History X is actually a good movie? Raise your hand. Alright, thanks. Now make sure you never reproduce. Seriously, get the f**k out of my gene pool. That movie spent two acts humoring us with neo-Nazi antics and used the third to cram in racial acceptance, family values, and school violence. Now, that's just bad story-telling. I've said it before and I'll say it again: I don't care how pretty that "beach at sunset" closing shot is with its golden-hour lighting and heavy handed voice over. In the end, American History X is still pure didactic bulls**t.
Sorry! Every time I click refresh the f**ker reposts.
Haha, I get it. People in the CRACKed community are CRACKers. That is what you meant, right?
Haha, I get it. People in the CRACKed community are CRACKers. That is what you meant, right?
Haha, I get it. People in the CRACKed community are CRACKers. That is what you meant, right?
Meanwhile, Do the Right Thing not only doesn't get a spot on the list, but is even praised in comparison, even though the message of that is, "If someone is being racist, start a riot! That'll teach 'em!" I've never seen a movie more racist than Do the Right Thing, because in the end, every single race was des**cable and stereotypical...white, black, and everything else Spike Lee could shoehorn in. It's as if Spike Lee thinks he is the sole member of a true Master Race, and everybody--and I do mean EVERYBODY--else is a bunch of inferior savages. He hates every other race, but he also hates other black people. At least that's what Do the Right Thing seems to suggest.
Whether or not the article was particularly good, I'm glad to see all you crazy CRACKers discussing racism. It's a shame that most people puss off of the subject, even though it's such a big part of our society.
By the way, I think all of you bakas forgot that you're at a comedy site. These are NOT serious reviews of the movies. The author is twisting thins around for the sake of comedy. Y'all need to take your atama out of your oshiri and check out the context.
Lou, if you weren't so ignorant about how fiction actually works, you would know that all works require characters that are mere plot conveniences. The 'magic n***o' character is just a rather outdated way of ironing out plot wrinkles and shaving a few minutes off a feature - his presence does not either make a film racist or a bad film. Recall that The Shining, a brilliant film, is one of the most shameless abusers of the trope.
Shitty article. I agree with what's already been said but possibly the downright stupidest thing was the Glory piece. How does Matthew Broderick playing Ferris Bueller have any effect on the point you're trying (and failing) to make? Apart from that, the historical story told in the film is just as much about Denzel Washington and Morgan Freeman's characters as it is Matthew Broderick's. And the part about casting Leonardo DiCaprio as an African being a bad decision is just downright ignorant.
I'm white. I have royalty in my family. My ancestors were conquered by the British Empire and sold into America as servants. Where's my damn movie?
Fucking Richard Donner. But he also made Goonies. Goonies, man! That's like finding out the first appearance of Wolverine was writter by Adolph Hitler. O.k. Maybe not exactly like that. I mean, genocide is never cool. But Hitler also didn't make Timeline. This article was awesome, by the way. Madbunny, I'm sorry if you wasted ten bucks on that American History X poster hanging over your bed. But fact is, that movie is didactic bulls**t dressed up to look like social commentary. And just because someone doesn't use the same examples you would have, how exactly does that reflect on their film-dissecting ability in any way shape or form? You know what? Now I'm pretty sure YOUR racist. (Note: That was mearly an example of jumping to an illogical conclusion based on a differing of opinion. I am aware that there is, as of yet, no proof that Madbunny is actually racist.)
Kinda lame.
Thank you for making everything so black and white for me. I've never trusted shades of gray.
Wow, what a terrible article. I was going to be nice and let you have The Toy, but come on, that's the most obviously racist movie on the planet this side of a KKK training video. You're whole premise for Glory was it was bad because a white guy was the star. The white guy who was just as much a part of the story and struggle as the black guys. And American History X, really? Maybe you should pay just a bit more attention to what's going on in the movie and then actually think about it rather than assuming that since the black guy made jokes that was the whole entire basis of their friendship. Maybe Cracked should stick to it's own writers.
Also, just so you know, there are plenty of white guys in Africa. Hell, the whitest guy on the planet, Dave Matthews is South African.
Dude, seriously you suck at dissecting movies for their content. Why didn't you put in Star Wars for example, so that you can show how Lando is the empires b***h, How JarJar was in a cheap on screen embodyment of the ignorant creole from Forest Gump, or put in any modern black comedy, full to the brim with ignorant ass black racism? Also, and this is far, far worse than your s**tty article; it wasn't funny. There is plenty of humor to be found in unintentional (and occasionally failed intentional) racist stuff, too bad you couldn't find it.
Empty slur, oh man, I haven't lol'd so hard since the last time a fellah like that thought he was a person.
The Clueless White Guy Who Fucked it Up: Ed Zwick, director of The Last Samurai (starring Tom Cruise as the last samurai) and Blood Diamond (starring Leonardo DiCaprio as an African). You can already see a pattern here. 2 things wrong with this comment. 1) Tom Cruise was not the last samurai. Katsumoto (Ken Wantanabe) was the character who is the last samurai, befriended by Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise). 2) From what I remember of Blood DIamond, Leo was not an african in this movie, he was english or some such.
@Lou_Star Wow...what a douchebag you are. Of course, counter-racists like yourself will always have some f**ked up justification for hating white people. And the problem is that you truly believe the bulls**t that is spouting out of your hateful mouth. That makes you no different than a skinhead or religious zealot who feels the need to bomb churches or schools. In short, you're a dumbass.
Black people hating on whitey is not the same as whitey hating on blacks, because for most of this country's history black people have had no power. Sure they could call you a cracker if you happen to be white, but that's not the same as a minority group being held back by a majority. The minority group has no power. Without the power, calling a white person cracker is an empty slur. The majority has power and can subjugate races it feels are inferior. I think some white people are scared of those who use to be powerless minorities now gaining an equal footing, because they are afraid that the minorities might do to them what they did to the minority. This is not reverse racism. This is karma. Besides, wouldn't reverse racism be a racist treating those he hates as equals.
Black people hating on whitey is not the same as whitey hating on blacks, because for most of this country's history black people have had no power. Sure they could call you a cracker if you happen to be white, but that's not the same as a minority group being held back by a majority. The minority group has no power. Without the power, calling a white person cracker is an empty slur. The majority has power and can subjugate races it feels are inferior. I think some white people are scared of those who use to be powerless minorities now gaining an equal footing, because they are afraid that the minorities might do to them what they did to the minority. This is not reverse racism. This is karma. Besides, wouldn't reverse racism be a racist treating those he hates as equals.
Moreover, it is not some 'funny black man' who changes Derek Vinyard alone, it's also the efforts of the very intelligent (black) Dr. Sweeney.
What a horrible, horrible article. FYI, American History X does not try and absolve Derek Vinyard, it only serves to illustrate how people can change. The moral of the story is that hate perpetuates hate. Nothing more. Also, you refer to Derek Vinyard as 'Captain Curbstomper', but, inasmuch as he may have used extreme bruality, the African-American gents weren't at his house for tea, they were at his house to steal his truck. But seeing as how you write like a limp-wristed 'guilty of being white' liberal, in the same situation you'd probably throw the thief the keys to your (hybrid) Kia and say, "Go ahead, brother, you've been oppressed enough! Attica!". At which point you'd be shot.
Good article. Not as good as the top 9 most racist Disney characters, but pretty good. I hate when movies about black people struggling for the right to simply be thought of as human beings, feature a white person showing up and saving the day (because we all know that black people couldn't have done it on their own). Why couldn't Glory have simply made Ferris Bueller a minor character? He could still be part of the story, but not the focus of a picture about black soldiers fighting for a nation that didn't even see them as people. The same goes for The Last Samurai. Yeah, I know that Tom Cruise wasn't the last samurai, but as is evidenced in this very thread, the actual last samurai is such a minor character no one can even remember his name. Again, why make the main character in a movie about the end of the Japanese feudal system white. Why not make Ken Wannatabe (sp) the lead? The other type of movie I hate is one that employs the magic n***o, ala Bagger Vance, The Green Mile. These aren't fully thought out characters, they're plot conviences. Anyway, keep it up. At the very least you've upset the soft racists that seem to populate the internet, and that's always a good thing.
You are terrible at dissecting movies. You are also terrible at being funny while dissecting movies.
"Do the Right Thing was an honest, evocative examination of why America just can't get over its own inherent racism".... No, Do the Right Thing was Spike Lee b***hing about Italians for two hours. It had nothing smart to say at all.
Was this written by a self-loathing white liberal or a black guy trying to sound like one?
I can hardly believe that you have actually seen any of these films. Not only are you way off the mark for most of them but your writing is just horrible. I had to read through sentences 3 or 4 times just to understand that they weren't smart or funny. I'm also dissapointed to see that you're dragging back another racist stereotype, white men are the source of all evil. Seriously, take a long hard look at the world today and just because somebody has the balls to make a movie about a touchy subject AND IT SUCCEEDS doesn't mean you need to go against it for the sake of it.
tkwelge, did you copy any other notes down verbatim from racial studies 101 that you'd like to post here
Saying something is racist is not saying that that thing was just as bad as slavery. It's just saying that...something is racist. Other things in the universe can be bigoted w/o actually being chattel slavery or the Holocaust. And why do non-minority people act like saying something's racist means THAT THING SHOULD BE DAMNED TO HELL FOREVER!!! Racism is kinda like air pollution: sometimes it can kill you, sometimes it just smells bad. Doesn't mean that I f**king hate air and want to get rid of it...I'd just like less of the noxious fumes, thanks.
@CaptainFeral: The point is that a movie about Japan has an American White guy as the star. Just like Glory...it's supposed to be about the Black soldiers, but the White Guy takes center stage. Let's, all together, make a list of every movie about racism that WAS NOT 1) written by a White person 2) Directed by a White Person or 3)starred 1 or more White people in leading roles. And even when a movie DOES fit that description, it doesn't guarantee that it won't perpetuate racism against minorities. Racism is complicated. Which is why it's possible to make a movie about how slavery was like, OMG, totally wrong! and *still* come out with a racist as hell film.
You know nothing of these works. How you got to write a column in Cracked is absolutely amazing.
While everyone is angrily typing about how wrong you are (and you are), they also seem to forget how blisteringly unfunny this is. (which it is)
"I love these anti-racist articles! This one was SO SPOT ON with the commentary (I especially LOVE that you called out American History X!! I watched that movie in a class once and my head exploded trying to explain to white kids how a FUNNY-COON-COMIC-RELIEF Black Character is always, always racist.) From what I can tell, most of the people who hate this article (and the Disney one too) have a Glenn Beck level understanding of what racism actually means. It's not just when one person is mean to another person. Racism is White people being the center of everything. Every story. Every moral lesson. Every standard of humanity. And (newsflash!) all those things can and do happen even when the White person like really, really loves the coloreds, you guys! Other movies that need to be on the list: 1. District 9 (just came out, but is THE most racist "anti-racist" movie I've seen in my lifetime) 2. Mississippi Burning 3. Dangerous Minds/Freedom Writers/White Lady Saves the Brownz (MAD tv did an awesome parody) 4. Australia" ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................I'm sorry, but racism is more than simply being white-centric. This is some new definition of racism that I think that people who endured REAL racism wish they could have experienced. You're basically comparing the horrible shame of slavery and bigotry with poor casting in movies. Most of this article is the author taking these movies out of context anyway. So basically to be a non racist anti racist movie, all white characters need to be secondary and we don't need to focus on any of that "white guy being understanding bulls**t!" An anti racist movie that pushed all white people into the sidelines would be hard to pull off, and would basically end up being like "Do the Right Thing," which was actually pretty racist in and of itself. Maybe some black people need to learn that not all racism comes from white people. I say that it would be hard to pull off an anti racist movie without a large white component, because whites are seen as the epicenter of racism, which is usually the point of these movies that can be seen as racist from the OTHER direction. I mean, just because i have certain chromosomes in common with people who did bad things, now I have to take some of the blame? If you're gonna make a movie about racism, it's gonna involve white people, though. It's just hard to talk about race without offending somebody's sensibilities.
"I love these anti-racist articles! This one was SO SPOT ON with the commentary (I especially LOVE that you called out American History X!! I watched that movie in a class once and my head exploded trying to explain to white kids how a FUNNY-COON-COMIC-RELIEF Black Character is always, always racist.) From what I can tell, most of the people who hate this article (and the Disney one too) have a Glenn Beck level understanding of what racism actually means. It's not just when one person is mean to another person. Racism is White people being the center of everything. Every story. Every moral lesson. Every standard of humanity. And (newsflash!) all those things can and do happen even when the White person like really, really loves the coloreds, you guys! Other movies that need to be on the list: 1. District 9 (just came out, but is THE most racist "anti-racist" movie I've seen in my lifetime) 2. Mississippi Burning 3. Dangerous Minds/Freedom Writers/White Lady Saves the Brownz (MAD tv did an awesome parody) 4. Australia" I'm sorry, but racism is more than simply being white-centric. This is some new definition of racism that I think that people who endured REAL racism wish they could have experienced. You're basically comparing the horrible shame of slavery and bigotry with poor casting in movies. Most of this article is the author taking these movies out of context anyway. So basically to be a non racist anti racist movie, all white characters need to be secondary and we don't need to focus on any of that "white guy being understanding bulls**t!" An anti racist movie that pushed all white people into the sidelines would be hard to pull off, and would basically end up being like "Do the Right Thing," which was actually pretty racist in and of itself. Maybe some black people need to learn that not all racism comes from white people. I say that it would be hard to pull off an anti racist movie without a large white component, because whites are seen as the epicenter of racism, which is usually the point of these movies that can be seen as racist from the OTHER direction. I mean, just because i have certain chromosomes in common with people who did bad things, now I have to take some of the blame? If you're gonna make a movie about racism, it's gonna involve white people, though. It's just hard to talk about race without offending somebody's sensibilities.
"I love these anti-racist articles! This one was SO SPOT ON with the commentary (I especially LOVE that you called out American History X!! I watched that movie in a class once and my head exploded trying to explain to white kids how a FUNNY-COON-COMIC-RELIEF Black Character is always, always racist.) From what I can tell, most of the people who hate this article (and the Disney one too) have a Glenn Beck level understanding of what racism actually means. It's not just when one person is mean to another person. Racism is White people being the center of everything. Every story. Every moral lesson. Every standard of humanity. And (newsflash!) all those things can and do happen even when the White person like really, really loves the coloreds, you guys! Other movies that need to be on the list: 1. District 9 (just came out, but is THE most racist "anti-racist" movie I've seen in my lifetime) 2. Mississippi Burning 3. Dangerous Minds/Freedom Writers/White Lady Saves the Brownz (MAD tv did an awesome parody) 4. Australia" I'm sorry, but racism is more than simply being white-centric. This is some new definition of racism that I think that people who endured REAL racism wish they could have experienced. You're basically comparing the horrible shame of slavery and bigotry with poor casting in movies. Most of this article is the author taking these movies out of context anyway. So basically to be a non racist anti racist movie, all white characters need to be secondary and we don't need to focus on any of that "white guy being understanding bulls**t!" An anti racist movie that pushed all white people into the sidelines would be hard to pull off, and would basically end up being like "Do the Right Thing," which was actually pretty racist in and of itself. Maybe some black people need to learn that not all racism comes from white people. I say that it would be hard to pull off an anti racist movie without a large white component, because whites are seen as the epicenter of racism, which is usually the point of these movies that can be seen as racist from the OTHER direction. I mean, just because i have certain chromosomes in common with people who did bad things, now I have to take some of the blame? If you're gonna make a movie about racism, it's gonna involve white people, though. It's just hard to talk about race without offending somebody's sensibilities.
white people ruining movies makes me SO MAD I just might hate that entire race RAR (what's that called when you just hate an entire race? I forgot the name of that thing)
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I poo poo on this outside writer
This article was so inaccurate and moronic that it just blows my mind. You even open up with an inaccuracy. Tom Cruise was -not- the last samurai. Samurai is -plural- you moron. Those samurai he was with? They were the last samurai. Did you even watch any of the films referenced in this article or were you too busy being taught not to eat paste?
Umm...Do The Right Thing is far more racist than any movie listed here. Also, Spike Lee is a notorious bigot. I was expecting to see THAT movie on this list, so imagine my laughter when you expressed your admiration for it and trashed Driving Miss Daisy.
By the way, the end of American History X shows that just because the white kid decides racism no longer exists doesn't make it or its repercussions go away. How often do you actually hear something like that as opposed to people patting themselves on the back for their supposedly colourless vision?
YEAH GO BOBBY ROBERTS!!!!!!!! Awesome article. Fuck the haters, and f**k American history X!!!! All the haters in the comments got swastikas tattooed all over there bodies.
YEAH GO BOBBY ROBERTS!!!!!!!! Awesome article. Fuck the haters, and f**k American history X!!!! All the haters in the comments got swastikas tattooed all over there bodies.
horrible article, it's like you purposely tried to take shiit out of context and bludgeon everything to fit your own little theory. and honestly, shame on you for even bringing American History X into this, there are limits to how much of a f*ggot you can be.
This entire not only seeks to name whole forests by a few trees within, it doesn't even bother to name those trees. If you want to do something like this, you need to do a better job of pulling references from the films. Along those lines, I feel the format of the article did not lend itself to revealing the racism inherent in these movies. Instead, by focusing on 'The Clueless White Guy Who Fucked It Up' you paint a much more racist picture of great black actors being wholly unwitting subjects to the whims of the big white boss man. Do you really think Richard Pryor didn't know what he was doing in the Toy? Do you really think you're in any sort of a position to inform Morgan Freeman that he perpetuates negative stereotypes? Maybe there's a little something -you- missed in between the lines.
I am a bit disappointed in this article, American History X was not a racist movie. The message was about how horrible and irrational racism is.
horrible article, it's like you purposely tried to take shiit out of context and bludgeon everything to fit your own little theory. and honestly, shame on you for even bringing American History X into this, there are limits to how much of a f*ggot you can be.
Second of all, ITS NOT OFFENSIVE TO BlACKS. YOU MISSED THE ENTIRE POINT OF THE MOVIE. you really must have not paid attention to the movie. Just because the black kid killed Norton's brother doesnt paint a bad view of Blacks. this movie is about the struggle blacks, whites, mexicans, and others share because of this strong race identity. this movie could have easily been turned the other way around and made the little black kid and his bigger brother (or older friend) be the good guys. There were no real "bad guys" in this movie. This movie is just as much about gangs as racism. The blacks gangs and white neo nazi feel they have to commit acts of violence in order to keep their people safe. That little black killed Norton character in retribution of the lost black members of the gang. Thats not racist, thats how gangs work. That black kid is a victim, i felt sorry for him when i watched the movie. I never saw the black guys as enemies in this movie.
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Great article. Fuck all these complainers, they can go die in a fire.
american history x's whole idea is that racism is wrong. because the main character's kid brother was racist and blew smoke in the black guys face in the beginning of the movie, the black kid wanted retaliation. it shows how f**ked up the world gets when people are racist. the people they love die because of their influence. you are a terrible person for even suggesting this movie was bad and/or racist against a certain race.
I love these anti-racist articles! This one was SO SPOT ON with the commentary (I especially LOVE that you called out American History X!! I watched that movie in a class once and my head exploded trying to explain to white kids how a FUNNY-COON-COMIC-RELIEF Black Character is always, always racist.) From what I can tell, most of the people who hate this article (and the Disney one too) have a Glenn Beck level understanding of what racism actually means. It's not just when one person is mean to another person. Racism is White people being the center of everything. Every story. Every moral lesson. Every standard of humanity. And (newsflash!) all those things can and do happen even when the White person like really, really loves the coloreds, you guys! Other movies that need to be on the list: 1. District 9 (just came out, but is THE most racist "anti-racist" movie I've seen in my lifetime) 2. Mississippi Burning 3. Dangerous Minds/Freedom Writers/White Lady Saves the Brownz (MAD tv did an awesome parody) 4. Australia
As a someone who loves Cracked.com, I would have to say the part this idiot wrote on American History X is the worst thing ive ever read on this site. AMERICAN HISTORY X is in NO WAY racist. Actually its the complete opposite. You must have never paid attention to the movie. This guy seems to forget the WHOLE PART about how his NEO NAZI clique was dealing drugs with other races in return for h**osexual favors. Now if you ever took a history class, ever, you would know this was huge blow to the idealist that is Norton's character. From the perspective of Norton's character, the Neo Nazi clique was betraying Nazi ideals by screwing other dudes (nazis didnt like gays, its not good for reproduction), having sex with another race (diluting white genes), and dealing drugs (norton's character was against the use of weed). By him excommunicating himself from the clique and then getting gang raped by them, he realised that white people can be just as horrible as the other races he lived with. NOW YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER this happened just before he befriended the funny black guy. Him seeing the bulls**t in his white friends at jail was a huge step in the change of thought in the Neo Nazi belief.
"because we all know that black people couldn't have done it on their own" ...cough..Liberia. __ Do the Right Thing was also a s**t movie. DMD is clearly the superior movie to Spike Lee's self-congratulatory wank
I love these anti-racist articles! This one was SO SPOT ON with the commentary (I especially LOVE that you called out American History X!! I watched that movie in a class once and my head exploded trying to explain to white kids how a FUNNY-COON-COMIC-RELIEF Black Character is always, always racist.) From what I can tell, most of the people who hate this article (and the Disney one too) have a Glenn Beck level understanding of what racism actually means. It's not just when one person is mean to another person. Racism is White people being the center of everything. Every story. Every moral lesson. Every standard of humanity. And (newsflash!) all those things can and do happen even when the White person like really, really loves the coloreds, you guys! Other movies that need to be on the list: 1. District 9 (just came out, but is THE most racist "anti-racist" movie I've seen in my lifetime) 2. Mississippi Burning 3. Dangerous Minds/Freedom Writers/White Lady Saves the Brownz (MAD tv did an awesome parody) 4. Australia
Yeah, gotta disagree with American History X. Sure Norton got his wall of hate shook up by just some crass humor, but that's the point. It showed how foolish his view was and how he can easily connect with someone he thinks so beneath him. As others have stated though, the ending of X did undermine the plot and character development. BTW, isn't The Toy supposed to be a satire about white elitist detached attitudes towards black people? I think you pointed to evidence of that yourself.
What a s**t article. nuff said
A minority (lol) of these were good picks but mostly the author just shows that he didn't quite come away with what he should have from these movies.
@Janus That was kinda the point I think, as I did the same thing, just like the whole point of Crash was that racism exists. It might have been heavy handed, but I agree FUCK this guy.
There is a difference between being funny in a snarky kind of way and just being snarky in a cool, hate-everything-because-I'm-on-the-internet-and-obliged-to-do-so kind of way. I'm not just typing this because you unapolagetically slammed a few movies I'm rather partial to. I mean, hell, I didn't write them, why should I care? No, I'm typing this because as of recently I've been finding some of the less-than-awesome columnists slowly replacing all humor with "Isn't EVERYTHING retarded? WOW, EVERYTHING in the world is soooooooo RETARDED!" I don't know, maybe I'm just being b***hy. Everything seemed to be in order; topic about movies, numbered list, poking fun at whitey, but in the end, It just wasn't funny. I always told myself I'd never type an angry response to an article because I myself could not do a better job. I'm beginning to reconsider both of our writing abilities, Fatboy.
Sarcasm????? If not WOW, the central concept of American history x centered around the MANIPULATION of Edward Norton's character by whoever the f**k that old racist character was, and E Norton of his character's little brother. It had nothing to do with finding merit that he had never viewed of someone of a different skin color, are you f**king retarded?
This is awful. Absolutely awful. Content aside, it still makes me wish I was blind. Please note that poorly thought-out, and even more poorly written, tirades of hate-tinged vitriol are not "funny", or even "entertaining". Try looking those words up before you write your next article. Actually, save us all the trouble and just don't write anything else. Ever. Cut your hands off, instead. Fuck you.
I seldom post, but this article just reeks of "poorly thought out". Very little humor, skimpy content, and a badly handled attempt to make the topic interesting. On a related note, I misread "crackers" and thought it was a new title for Cracked readers.
wow...I rarely say this. But, this article is just bad. Sure, you picked the correct flms (mostly) but you picked them for the wrong reasons! You claim to have summed up Crash, even though you didn't sum up anything or even show WHY the movie was racist. American History X isn't racist because the white guy befriended a black guy in prison (actually, that's decidedly UN-racist) it's racist because the ending of the film completely undermines the message the film was trying to convey in the first place. "Black people aren't all horrible people" and "They're no different than you and I" go out the window when the poor reformed white kid turned his back on a black guy for one second and was promptly murdered. Clearly the message there is "Black people are all violent and you should be afraid of them". Plus, making fun of an old lady? Not the character, but the actual actress? Shame on you.
*BOO* You f**king SUCK!
I love how all of your reasons for these movies being racist are basically all bulls**t. So you say Glory was racist because Matthew Broderick also played Ferris Buller? You know he also did the voice of Simba in The Lion King. Which by your logic probably makes The Lion King racist because Matthew Broderick isn't black and he did the voice of an African character.
@ttom I was going to say the exact same thing. The guy in that realized that race doesn't (well, shouldn't) mean s**t when he gets raped in the ass by an Aryan group and saved by a black guy.
wow...I rarely say this. But, this article is just bad. Sure, you picked the correct flms (mostly) but you picked them for the wrong reasons! You claim to have summed up Crash, even though you didn't sum up anything or even show WHY the movie was racist. American History X isn't racist because the white guy befriended a black guy in prison (actually, that's decidedly UN-racist) it's racist because the ending of the film completely undermines the message the film was trying to convey in the first place. "Black people aren't all horrible people" and "They're no different than you and I" go out the window when the poor reformed white kid turned his back on a black guy for one second and was promptly murdered. Clearly the message there is "Black people are all violent and you should be afraid of them". Plus, making fun of an old lady? Not the character, but the actual actress? Shame on you.
This article was s**t. Honestly. This is pretty easily the worst article I've read on cracked to date. Also, I'm not a huge fan of American History X or anything, but he didn't lose the racist attitude because the black guy was funny, he lost it because he was raped in the ass by his own race and the black guy prevented him from getting stabbed to death in prison, which is a pretty stark lesson that you're race doesn't designate if you're going to be good or bad. Two thumbs down.
Good article. Not as good as the top 9 most racist Disney characters, but pretty good. I hate when movies about black people struggling for the right to simply be thought of as human beings, feature a white person showing up and saving the day (because we all know that black people couldn't have done it on their own). Why couldn't Glory have simply made Ferris Bueller a minor character? He could still be part of the story, but not the focus of a picture about black soldiers fighting for a nation that didn't even see them as people. The same goes for The Last Samurai. Yeah, I know that Tom Cruise wasn't the last samurai, but as is evidenced in this very thread, the actual last samurai is such a minor character no one can even remember his name. Again, why make the main character in a movie about the end of the Japanese feudal system white. Why not make Ken Wannatabe (sp) the lead? The other type of movie I hate is one that employs the magic n***o, ala Bagger Vance, The Green Mile. These aren't fully thought out characters, they're plot conviences. Anyway, keep it up. At the very least you've upset the soft racists that seem to populate the internet, and that's always a good thing.
Good article. Not as good as the top 9 most racist Disney characters, but pretty good. I hate when movies about black people struggling for the right to simply be thought of as human beings, feature a white person showing up and saving the day (because we all know that black people couldn't have done it on their own). Why couldn't Glory have simply made Ferris Bueller a minor character? He could still be part of the story, but not the focus of a picture about black soldiers fighting for a nation that didn't even see them as people. The same goes for The Last Samurai. Yeah, I know that Tom Cruise wasn't the last samurai, but as is evidenced in this very thread, the actual last samurai is such a minor character no one can even remember his name. Again, why make the main character in a movie about the end of the Japanese feudal system white. Why not make Ken Wannatabe (sp) the lead? The other type of movie I hate is one that employs the magic n***o, ala Bagger Vance, The Green Mile. These aren't fully thought out characters, they're plot conviences. Anyway, keep it up. At the very least you've upset the soft racists that seem to populate the internet, and that's always a good thing.
Don't understand the summary of CRASH... I mean, that wasn't really a summary of the WHOLE MOVIE... or even half, or a quarter.
I signed in for the first time in a year to tell you how crap your article is. Stop writing, you don't have they gray matter.
So Glory is racist because it teaches that all black people are better actors than Matthew Broderick? Is that a stereotype?
Don't understand the summary of CRASH... I mean, that wasn't really a summary of the WHOLE MOVIE... or even half, or a quarter.
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Fatboy doesn't have a clue, and completely missed the point on most of these films. The only one that belongs on the list is AHX and he even f*cked that up! The film is "racist" only because at the the end of the film it demonstrates that it doesn't matter whether you're a liberal PoCo singing "Heal the World" - you turn your back to a n*gger and they'll stab it. As the old saying goes "Around black never relax"...
Fatboy, take note: people are deliberately f**king double posting just to make sure you see what a moron you are and how badly you've misunderstood everything on your list. Never write for Cracked again. And please to God don't come away from this thinking that "America is so racist that they cry whenever their racism is exposed" because I've lived in London, one of the most progressively multicultural cities in the world, all my life and this article is just racist drivel.
good list but crash should be higher. i couldn't believe what i experienced in the theater (and yes, i am embarrassed to admit paying to see it) -- basically two hours of a supposedly progressive call for the end of racism, driven by plot devices hinging on complete racial stereotypes. like when sandra bullock gets scared that she'll get robbed and shse looks stupid for stereotyping, then the two black guys (whatever the rapper's name was) STEAL HER CAR. yea, way to point out the fallibility of racial stereotypes. that's a great way to do it.
"Driving Miss Daisy" is quintessential Magical Negro. Hell, Morgan Freeman IS a magical n***o. That's just how it always works. That's why it won: because of Morgan f**king Freeman. He's the super duper magical n***o. He can do anything.
This is s**t. Keep pc whiners off Cracked, they're about as funny as Harry Connick Jnr.
Growing up, I had a VHS copy of The Toy that I watched over and over. It's amazing how much is lost in those films when you're a kid. I totally missed the Master Bates joke or the KKK side, or the racialist message completely. I do remember having the strangest sense that something was really wrong with the film, especially in the comic relief scenes with Pryor. They weren't funny, they just seemed cruel. Ironically enough "Master Bates" ended up becoming a major porn star for a bit (I blame you Richard Donner!). I think he was probably doing s**t like this: http://bit.ly/8ardc .
"then he symbolically asserts dominance over the black race via a playground game of basketball, and he does it with professional tub-o-guts Ethan Suplee on his team." Just because his opponents were black doesn't mean they were good at basketball, you racist!
F**k this article for trying to make fun of old peoples teeth.
"then he symbolically asserts dominance over the black race via a playground game of basketball, and he does it with professional tub-o-guts Ethan Suplee on his team." Just because his opponents were black doesn't mean they were good at basketball, you racist!
i've only seen one of these films, american history x and i think this article got it wrong. nortans character doesn't bond over bad jokes, its cus he was put in a position where he couldn't see himself as above other people because of his race and the only friend he had when he lost so much was a black guy. thats why he had his revelation. the little brother is interesting cus as he types his essay its unclear how he feels about it. and the point of him getting shot is that he can't escape from what he is perceived to believe and his older brother recently realizing that everything is wrong DOESN'T fix everything the article says: "oh look, a black guy made bad jokes to him in prison, guess that fixes everything *sarcasm* oh wait it doesn't, thats bulls**t" which misses the point COMPLETELY. and you forgot one key thing, the whole thing started when their dad made racist comments over dinner. message: comments like that which seem "harmless" snowball into people getting killed and its the later generations who are influenced and suffer. that seems like a fairly clear message, ye were really grasping at straws here.
Yeah cause Leo playing an African is also racist in Blood Diamond. Yep there aren't any white Africans. Mate you're the Clueless Guy who f**ked this article up
The comments section of this article just sent racism itself back to All In The Family. Stop being jewish.
this could have been a great article, one of my favorites, instead its a pile of garbage that desperately needs to be rewritten with more examples. y'know, the research we've all come to love from you guys.
This list needs more Boss Nigger. Yes, I have watched that movie and I am not ashamed.
this article fails. horribly.
Wow. Seriously? Talk about white guilt...the majority of these movies are COMPLETELY misunderstood and misrepresented. It reeks of twisting the facts to fit these movies into the assumption. I've always been one of those that rolls my eyes at all the people in the comments crapping on the articles...but this is a major, major fail.
Wow. Seriously? Talk about white guilt...the majority of these movies are COMPLETELY misunderstood and misrepresented. It reeks of twisting the facts to fit these movies into the assumption. I've always been one of those that rolls my eyes at all the people in the comments crapping on the articles...but this is a major, major fail.
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Okay, profanity filter, I'm confused. The word "f**k" comes through free and clear on my computer, and the word "n***o" is filtered from my tender virgin eyes. Not to mention the fact that this, like many other Cracked articles, is peppered with readable profanity. I'm fine with the use of profanity, and if I weren't, I'd just stop reading the articles, but will someone explain to me what the criteria are? Because if "words that are perceived as remotely intolerant" is the setting, I'm shocked and appalled, as a strong independent woman, that the phrases like "babe" and "stone cold fox" are getting through. I'm also unclear on what the hell the author's definition of "racist" is, but I guess that's been covered thoroughly enough.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA okay... I'm done.
Wow, really commentators? Certainly not my favorite article, but I thought it was interesting. But then, I hated every single movie on this list.
Heh. Hehhehhehhehhehhehheheh! Ahhhh.... So true. Ok, I'm done now. Good article.
This article sucked my pucker.
I agree with most of the comments: not funny at all, preachy, and this guy clearly fails to really understand any of these films. Oh and hey, LeSprack: if you're questioning the quality filter at Cracked, just take a quick little glance through the Topics pages. That should answer your question.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA okay... I'm done.
wait wait wait n***o isn't allowed but Negro is?
Since Cracked doesn't have a clue about what racism really is... I'll just play with the bigoted censor filter. Since n***o (knee-grow) isn't an acceptable word, can I talk about my "United Negro College Fund" scholarship? No? Can I talk about members of the Negroid race? Just in case Negroid is unacceptable, how bout Capoid? C'mon Cracked. Shame on you. Shame, shame, shame.
A very disappointing article. These movies were misrepresented (not crash though, that's an awful movie). Baby steps. I know 'at least they were trying' is not a good reason to let racism fly, but once you start misrepresenting information, your indignation becomes less valid.
@ skrbraves While Edward Zwick may have have got some middle-eastern features and a darker skin tone than most white Americans do, this does not make him a black man.
@ skrbraves While Edward Zwick may have have got some middle-eastern features and a darker skin tone than most white Americans do, this does not make him a black man.
I'm very disappointed that Cracked would publish this article. Is there no quality filter anymore? Very upsetting.
Very poorly written. Missed several blatant key points in his list. This guy obviously thinks he's a hilarious cracked writer. Could someone explain why in the American History X spot he didn't mention how black people are the ones that are portrayed as ignorant and inferior at the end of the movie? I'm sixteen, I've only seen parts of the movie, and even I caught that. Don't let this guy write for Cracked again.
Not a very good article but holy f**k, I didn't think so many people loved American History X this much. The movie really does undermine itself by making Lamont a colossal magical n***o. ...You guys will look up the term before you flame me for using the word "n***o," right?
Epic Fail. Sorry Cracked, you should stick with comedy and stop trying to 'teach' us all how to think like small minded pseudo-comedy writers who are the crusaders of right and justice. In other words, you need to get laid, by real girls (or guys) instead of masturbating. I would also wish people would stop making the same damn mistakes about Blood Diamond and The Last Samurai. What, did you read a description off of Maddox's website and go with that? Don't get me wrong, I love Maddox, he is the only True man left in the world, but he does get some things wrong. Blood Diamond...Leo was from South Africa and yes there are white people aplenty in South Africa...so that makes him a white African. As for The Last Samurai, Tom's character is NOT the supposed to be the last samurai. He was telling the story of his time when he joined an ancient family, who's lord was The Last Samurai. Please, get it right.
Seriously the (completely unnecessary) profanity filter stops n***o (the word pronounced like knee-grow)? It's not terribly offensive, just antiquated. What if somebody is commenting in Spanish or even just Spanglish and just wants to reference the color black?
The thing that struck me instantly was "The Clueless White Guy Who Fucked it Up: Ed Zwick", um....yeah....Ed Zwick is a black guy. Take 20 seconds and go to IMDB to look at a picture before you make a fool of yourself. As soon as I saw that I knew the rest of the article wasn't worth reading. Thats a pretty huge mistake to make when you are writing an article about racisim.
This article sucked!
Glory is racist? So is American History X? As a black man I had no idea massa. Thank you massa for telling me these works of cinema genius are racist. My small n***o mind had no idea that anything so empowering to my race could be a means for the man to keep me down...Fuck you.
I think the real problem with this article is that it suggests white people are racist. If you look at Crash, everyone, not just the whites are racist, but the author just sums that idea up with a black kids saying "that's racist", which is a ridiculously oversimplified mindset. Is it racist to suggest that not only white people have prejudicial misconceptions? Of course not, we are all human. Also, I DO think Spike Lee is racist, and sexist too. In Inside Man, Denzel's character tells a white cop to "leave race out of this" then later calls Clive Owen a "mayonaise motherf**ker" and no one bats an eyelid. Imagine the furore a comment like "black bastard" would have coming from a white actor. For me, Hollywood has actually gone too far to try to prove it isn't racist. In American Gangster, the suggestion seems to be it's ok to be a lying, murdering, drug-dealing thug with terrible business sense, so long as you're black.
There are plenty of white people who were born and raised in Africa. So, DiCaprio playing a white African isn't far-fetched. Not to mention the fact that he was a WHITE BLOOD-DIAMOND SMUGGLER...which, considering that whitey is evil, makes perfect sense. Also, Do The Right Thing sucked, and so did Driving Miss Daisy. The Oscars are the only thing that sucks more.
What happened to the first nine American Historys?
You just...totally missed the point. Tried way too hard to find controversies in the way these films were executed. Really, I don't think you even understood the films.
Not only does this article not center itself on movies that are truly unintentionally racist, it fails, even with the author's smartass rhetoric, to twist the premises of these films as the slightest bit racist. Far more accurate would it be to say that these films portray an incorrect or misguided assessment of racial conflict. In any case, the worst thing about this article is that it's just not funny. Not at all. Though I agree that "Crash" is complete garbage.
I feel a little sorry for the author, but I'm still gonna ski in on the avalanch of "Not Funny" comments. Can't wait to see the write up for this article in the round-up. PS. Mr./Ms. Moderator, what's up all the double, triple and quadruple posts?
Not informative, not funny, and just not true. Leave this s**t out, publish something we want to read.
I usually try to refrain from criticism of articles here, since most of the time, the articles I dislike are on subjects which simply don't apply to me, and I can see how, as much as I hate an article, there would be an appropriate audience for it, but this has to be the most poorly written piece on this site. I haven't seen "Driving Miss Daisy," or the "Toy" so I won't comment, but the synopses of the other three movies are completely off base, and the humor derived from them barely qualifies as such. This piece has no flow, no form, no structure, it digs for humor where there simply isn't any. There's not one coherent thought present, other than the overwhelming theme of "Lol, good movies are actually bad." This is trash, pure and simple. I have a hard time believing there wasn't a better article Cracked could have published. This is pitiful. I'll look through some more of the author's writing, and hopefully this is just an abnormality rather than a trend, since if this is an example of the man's top notch comedy, he should pursue other avenues.
without a doubt the worst article i have read on this site ever
UNINTENTIONAL MY ASS, and I loved American History X!!! Awesome article. :D
Not a very good article but holy f**k, I didn't think so many people loved American History X this much. The movie really does undermine itself by making Lamont a colossal magical n***o. ...You guys will look up the term before you flame me for using the word "n***o," right?
So any movie with even a slightly-flawed black person or a white guy not bowing down to him is racist? This writer needs to stop acting like the czar of Political Correctness, or at least get his ass of of Cracked.
Nice response, Utiti. Unlike Naughty Bear, you actually added something to this conversation.
Definitely the worst article I've ever read on Cracked. Not even the least bit funny-- not because it was offensive, but because in lieu of jokes it's just a lot of rambling and complaining about movies that this guy just happened not to like. And the examples weren't even any good-- so "Glory" is a racist movie because it stars a white person? And the article is "The 5 Most Unintentionally Racist Movies ABOUT RACISM"-- how is The Toy supposed to be about racism? And by the end, particularly the Driving Miss Daisy part, the guy just didn't even bother trying to fit his comments to the list anymore and just talked about how he thought the movie was stupid. Swing and a miss for the Cracked staff picking this guy to write an article...
Do us all a favor, JellyBelly, and walk away from the typewriter
Man... I read this when I woke up, but I just had to come back and comment about how screwed up is this article. Really. Despite Crash (which I've always hated anyway, thought it was a little poorly thought. I actually thought I was being a nitpicking a*****e when it was released, but it is good to see people agreeing with me), the other movies just don't deserve such maniacal rant. As said in the comments below, The Toy was actually a remake of a movie the wasn't about a black guy. And you couldn't mess up the story of American X story more even if you tried. You completely "forgot" about the rape scene by skinheads, the principal and the surviving in the jail with the protection of only one guy, a guy that was black and knew he was a skinhead. Crediting the change of mind on the fact the black guy was funny is just plain horrible. I never read an article from this writer before, but if they are all like this, seriously, Cracked. let him go.
If Cracked.com doesn't sort out this constant auto-linking to Ask.com, I'm just going to stop coming here. This is the most annoying bulls**t I've had to put up with in the last ten minutes and I'm not going to take it anymore.
Fire this guy. I Googled his name and he's the worst comedy writer online. I wouldn't even call him a comedy writer but a pretentious douche who think he's hilarious. Anyone would be better than this jive turkey.
This article was all over the place. It flows like s**t. I like almost all of the articles I read on this site. At least a little bit. But this s**t was awful and boring. It rambled on aimlessly. Oh and I'm from Idaho so thanks for maligning my entire state as some mecca of racism. Carpet bomb us? Fuck your mother.
squirrelpocher: my "fail" comment was to the article, not your comment. I guess thats fail on my part for not making that specific. Yes, what I have said was that "even racists weren't 100% racist". Meaning even racists would put their economic interests ahead of their beliefs beyond some point. eg: if you're a racist, you still go to the black barber if they cut your hair better than a white person.
Also, its important to point out that skin heads are just another gang. Unlike the klan, their #1 motive is profit, the racial stuff is secondary. Its not any different than Latino gangs not letting blacks or whites joining them, or the Crips not letting whites or Latinos joining. If you're a racial minority and a criminal (and in some cities whites are the minority), its pretty much common sense to form your own "white gang". Listening to hip hop or using "hip hop" slang isn't going to help you any if you're white. Just watch the movie "white boys".
I'm just confused as to why in some of the cases your really didn't point out what was "secretly racist." Take the Crash example, you said it had to characters that were walking, talking stereo types. That was INTENTIONAL. They were meant to come across the way they did. Not my favorite article.
squirrelpocher: my "fail" comment was to the article, not your comment. I guess thats fail on my part for not making that specific. Yes, what I have said was that "even racists weren't 100% racist". Meaning even racists would put their economic interests ahead of their beliefs beyond some point. eg: if you're a racist, you still go to the black barber if they cut your hair better than a white person.
This article was extremely poor, lacking in information and just not funny. Please don't write again.
Of course American history X is racist...but its blatant...its not unintentional. Hell in the extras they show Edward Norton reshaping his head after a black kid murdered his brother for saving another kid. Maybe the message is that there is no answer, and that racism is just an unhealthy reaction to pain..but that pain can't just be away by making a new friend and growing your hair out. Besides in a weird way this movie brings everyone together because its the only movie i have been told was the "greatest movie ever" by both a skin head and a very liberal gay black man. I am not making that up. They even discussed the movie and agreed on its meaning.
wow how sad it is that people are taking up for there racist movies lol american history X he went to jail for making a black guy eat concrete it was funny but still horrible i thought the article was pretty funny you just hit the passive agressive white racist kids below the belt
Not enough info on the movies. Maybe it's funny if you've seen them all but I am not sitting all the way through Driving Miss Daisy. That s**t's like four hours long.
lol @ white kids acting all defensive in the comments. Seriously, guys. This isn't a scholarly thesis on race or anything, this is silly Cracked article about how guilty white liberals end up unintentionally conveying racist messages despite their good intentions. Definitely not a "OMG LOL" article, but I got a few chuckles.
"Fatboy" Roberts' profile: "I write movie reviews for Cracked until the editor tells me to f**k off. I also bulls**t for a living at www.cortandfatboy.com." Fatoby, seeing that this is your first Cracked article, I would suggest you stick with the movie reviews and leave the irony and comedy to those who know how to research, think about, and find irony and comedy in something like movies about racism that are unintentionally racist. You tried.
I hell of appreciated what you said about Crash, because that was true to the gills. You f**ked up the one about American History X, because that is a f**king brilliant movie and, like everyone else in the comment section says, you kind of missed the point. Other than that, I don't really have any complaints.
told you last time roberts, no one likes you. i love reading the comments after your articles though. its good to feel like i belong.
I ahre this article and whoever wrote it. You're only speeding up the approach of black people officially being superior to white people. Seriously, be a non-moron (at least) and realize that black people are capable of being racist too. There are countless movies and TV shows that are obviously racist against white people, but all the white people are too stupid to speak up. If we want racial equality, we should start treating black people equal, and not like our superiors.
Man, I hated 'Crash'. It was well-meaning, I know, but it was just executed so poorly and I hated all the characters. Brokeback Mountain should have totally won that year.
i'd like to point out why this was a bad article but so many people have done that for me, i'll just say that i agree with 90% of the comments that have already been left
white guys shows us just how much he cares about black people
what the f**k, you totally f**ked up the intrinic moral message behind american histroy x, derek has only ever experienced the negative sides of black men and is brought into a crowd who he can relate to and excepts him, but once he goes to prison he experiences the true nature of equality, the black guy proves that people are people are people. if some black dude interrupts the film the way its written above, f**k the stupid n****r.
Regarding American History X: I don't think it was so much the funny black man that turned him around, as GETTING SHIVED AND ANALLY RAPED IN THE SHOWER BY HIS FELLOW SKINHEADS. That might have been a contributing factor.
Hey, Utiti... it's still racist. Yeah, if it was about a nazi family buying a Jew, it wouldn't be okay either. Also, the French really are smelly, cowardly bastards. They peaked around 1066 AD.
I'd just like to point out that this article totally glossed over the fact that Norton's character was raped in prison by skinheads. I'm all for making fun of things I like, but as long as you don't twist it into bulls**t. If I was f**ked up the ass by nazis and THEN black people were also funny? Shit, screw racism.
Alright... I'm usually pretty humble about the qaulity of Cracked articles. Once in a while there is an article that doesn't exactly make me laugh, but I can shrug it off. This article however was not only unfunny, but it didn't even attempt to be funny. I'm already taking a Globeral Intolerance class... I go there and have a white guy spoon feed me liberal guilt for three hours every Tuesday and Thursday about how movies like Shark Tale are racist, to be honest I really don't care to read that on Cracked too.
I'll admit American History X expects us to buy a lot, but saying that Norton's character only accepts Black people because they're funny is just... wrong. Sure it's unrealistic, but I like to think of it as a "modern day fairytale." A story made mostly to teach a lesson. As a whole... well, yeah. As others said, meh. Some decent points, but most of these paragraphs don't explain what's supposedly racist. Plus, the author seems to have mixed up "racist" and "saying that Black people aren't perfect either." And where's the humor?
DIDJA KNOW DEPARTMENT : "The Toy" is actually the remake of a French Film, "Le Jouet", in which the main character was not black. It was more a question of "rich vs poor" in the original, there was no racial themes involved. Check this out : http://www.theseriouscomedysite.com/showreview.php?r_id=1427 As a Frenchman who routinely gets tired of reading the same old jokes on how the French are a bunch of subhuman pussies just because some people I have nothing to do with sold Jews to the nazis 70 years ago, and since this is an article about racism, I somehow felt compelled to point that out. Sorry for boring you a few seconds, you can resume your reading of stuff that is actually funny now. For the record -- I don't see why everybody and their brother get all riled up about this article. It's pretty fine by my standards. Yes indeed, Hollywood often f**ks it up big time when they have to handle subtle subjects like that. If you feel offended because you have nostalgic feelings towards one of these movies (possibly because you saw it at age 12 and it's precisely the one movie that made you go "Hey, I never thought about it before, but racism does suck quite a bit!"), chill out. This is not Ghostbusters or the Thundercats, this is serious business this time.
Wow... I never critique articles here. There's always something that amuses me. But this guy didn't even try. Very poorly written. Very preachy. And very very b***hy. This isn't an article, it's some sort of b***hy blogpost. He's b***hing about praticaly nothing. What are the f**king points? Are there any points? Jesus f**king Christ, this sad excuse for an article really could have used even a little bit of objectivity, for crying out loud.
Plenty of people have said it. DiCaprio was playing an Afrikaner (however poorly) in Blood Diamond, and the word samurai in The Last Samurai is plural and refers to the samurai rebels that Tom Cruise's character eventually sides with. While I will agree that Crash was pretty ham-handed, it was about racism, and depicted racism on every side. Glory is probably my favorite civil war movie, and I find it hard to call it racist when it depicts every character, white or black, as a complex individual. You see Ferris Beuller moping, I see Robert Shaw battling the fear and uncertainty of leading a group of soldiers he respects into battle for a nation that considers them expendable. I'd go so far as to call it racist that you're unable to see complex emotional relationships between characters in film because of your assumption that the film makers are racist.
So what I've gathered from the Cracked commenters: If the focus of your film about race is on the white characters, while portraying the black as secondary and as caricatures of ideals as opposed to actual characters - it's all good. If you want a central black cast in your film, be prepared to make every white character into a shining monument to noble anti-racist causes or into an easily-digestible-by-white-folk racist ("ignorant" rednecks or "evil" business people). Otherwise, it's racist. I mean, look at American History X - I love how folks will defend "the point" of the movie when it really does have a main character who murders two black men in cold blood...but wait...it's okay...because he's laughing at how silly the black dude in prison is. Isn't it funny there's a magic black dude who protects Ed Norton's character from the other prison gangs even though he has no damned reason to? Maybe he'll sho' nuff shine Ed's shoes next, boss! But when the writer even mentions "Do the Right Thing," which doesn't exactly make anyone in that movie the good guy, so much as "the less bad guy," well more commenters just pop up and claim Spike Lee is racist. Maybe that or white basement dwellers just hear Spike Lee and are terrified of liking a movie made by a non-servile black dude. That's possible. Also - really, the article could've been longer. I liked where you were going, but you really just cut it off before you got funny. There's so much s**t to talk about Crash, and yet ya let it go. White cop fingerbangs a black woman against her will, but we're supposed to be cool with him because he feels bad about it when he pulls her out of a car? Oh no, here comes the conflict! Ham-fisted attempts at making important points, and yet you let the example slip. So...yea...meh.
Ironically this is the most racist article I've ever read in my life. You're statement on Glory was a load of bigot s**t. You said that Leo can't play an south african because he's white, and that Glory was racist just for having a few scenes with Matthew Broderick. So what's your idea a movie that isn't racist? Just one that doesn't have any white people. And Do the right thing is a good movie, but honestly it is more racist then all these movies combined. But wait that's just black people insulting white people, so that's okay. And Next time actually watch American history X, instead of just watching the trailer on YouTube and ranting about it. If there is ever an article about the 5 worst articles ever put on Cracked this should be #1
So what I've gathered from the Cracked commenters: If the focus of your film about race is on the white characters, while portraying the black as secondary and as caricatures of ideals as opposed to actual characters - it's all good. If you want a central black cast in your film, be prepared to make every white character into a shining monument to noble anti-racist causes or into an easily-digestible-by-white-folk racist ("ignorant" rednecks or "evil" business people). Otherwise, it's racist. I mean, look at American History X - I love how folks will defend "the point" of the movie when it really does have a main character who murders two black men in cold blood...but wait...it's okay...because he's laughing at how silly the black dude in prison is. Isn't it funny there's a magic black dude who protects Ed Norton's character from the other prison gangs even though he has no damned reason to? Maybe he'll sho' nuff shine Ed's shoes next, boss! But when the writer even mentions "Do the Right Thing," which doesn't exactly make anyone in that movie the good guy, so much as "the less bad guy," well more commenters just pop up and claim Spike Lee is racist. Maybe that or white basement dwellers just hear Spike Lee and are terrified of liking a movie made by a non-servile black dude. That's possible. Also - really, the article could've been longer. I liked where you were going, but you really just cut it off before you got funny. There's so much s**t to talk about Crash, and yet ya let it go. White cop fingerbangs a black woman against her will, but we're supposed to be cool with him because he feels bad about it when he pulls her out of a car? Oh no, here comes the conflict! Ham-fisted attempts at making important points, and yet you let the example slip. So...yea...meh.
Yeah, this article sucks. I'd go into detail, but it seems like the other 200 comments already did that for me.
I'm gonna go with the "meh" crowd.
Hmm, it seems that many people don't like this article. I thought it was pretty funny, I just had a few problems. Like how you didn't say exactly how Crash was accidentally racist, and how Blood Diamond was stupid for having Leo Dicaprio be african. Did you know that Dave Matthews is african? Seems a little racist of you to assume that all african people are black
Wow. Fatboy, I think you totally misunderstood American History X. I'm extremely flabbergasted at the huge misinterpretation of a genius movie. You're not supposed to forgive Edward Norton at the end of the movie, call him a hero, and forget what he's done. That's the point. You don't.
meh
This article: legendary fail.
Not the best article ever. I've only seen the first two movies mentioned, and I not only totally disagree with what you wrote, but it also just wasn't funny.
Hey, this isn't comedy..... Maybe because I'm Jamaican, I don't really experience racism (we're mostly black here, in case you didn't know) but this list seems kinda off point; especially with American History X. That movie was awesome.
I really hope you weren't paid to write this, Fatboy.
RE: American History X The "funny black guy" showed him that blacks are not the evil he thought they were. The white supremacists in prison selling out their beliefs almost casually and then gang raping him in the shower showed him that racists are stupid a*****es. Swing and a miss, subby. strike 1.
You know, this isn't particularly clever, not particularly funny, and is considerably more preachy than is appropriate. I don't need to be told "you're a racist, don't worry, you can't even help it, you're racist", especially by a comedy site.
this sucked!
Why aren't there any Spike Lee movies on here? Well, the simple answer is that every single Spike Lee movies is INTENTIONALLY racist. Spike Lee is an ignorant hate-mongering f**ktard. I've watched about 20 minutes of "Do The Right Thing" and "Bamboozled", and, believe me, that was enough experience to thoroughly support my convictions.
wasman said "The article totally missed the point of American History X. It was made as a prequel to Death To Smoochy. " and then i said bahahahahaha.
Niggers are the sc*m of humankind.
This article talks more about the racism of the writer than the movies mentioned.
You're f**king kidding me with the casting Leo as an African bit, attempting to make a jab at the director for being 'racist' or whatever, I don't f**king know nor do I care what you were trying to accomplish. Are you just plain daft that you don't know there are actually WHITE people in Africa? Save your soapboxing for LiveJournal, a*****e. This is Cracked, not some p***y, underpantsy racism seminar
sprayette: You missed my point in the same way that the article writer missed the point of American History X. My point was that if you insist on being a douche and seeing racism f**king everywhere, and furthermore accuse a movie of being racist, then you had better at least have a slight understanding of what the movie was about. Article writer, in fact, did not.
Um...gotta say, this article seemed really weak. I mean, The Toy and Miss Daisy parts were all right, probably because I haven't seen those movies (or American History X), but the others? Making a white guy the primary viewpoint character in Glory because his character is how we know about all this? That's perfectly sensible, even laudatory since they still managed to do the other characters right. Crash I don't want to defend since I hated that movie, but still, missed the point much? Oh, and...Leo was playing a white South African (they've been rather prominent in the past) and Ken Watanabe was the Last Samurai.
sprayette: You missed my point in the same way that the article writer missed the point of American History X. My point was that if you insist on being a douche and seeing racism f**king everywhere, and furthermore accuse a movie of being racist, then you had better at least have a slight understanding of what the movie was about. Article writer, in fact, did not.
Uh... Tom Cruise wasn't the Last Samurai. He was the main character, but that one Japanese guy was the last samurai. Just like how Daniel Day Lewis wasn't the last Mohican, it was that one Mohican guy.
"Do the Right Thing " Should have been #1. It's the most racist piece of entertainment sin "Amos and Andy". Every single character is a racist stereotype.
The article totally missed the point of American History X. It was made as a prequel to Death To Smoochy.
for the record, i don't think this article sucks because i think racism related articles can't be funny...this article sucks because it fails really, in any way, to point out how these movies are actually racist. instead, it states the basic plot of the films and oversimplifies (or in some cases gets it totally ass backwards). for example, glory. apparently the movie is "racist" because it chooses to focus on matthew broderick instead of on the black soldiers. however, the truth is (as anyone who has seen the movie can attest to) that the black soldiers are thoroughly fleshed out, dynamic characters. also, the movie is based on the best information available about this particular historical event, which are shaw's letters. nevermind the end of the movie, where (SPOILER!) shaw dies with his fellow (black) soldiers, and his lifeless body is laid right alongside theirs. articles about racism can be funny and even light hearted, but this particle article was just bland and not very well thought out.
You know what else was racist? The Dark Knight. It seems that no matter how much a black guy stops the evils of another (Especially from a guy who's face is albino white.) he's gonna get blamed for some kind of crime. Why did Batman have to take the heat for killing that Two Face sumb***h? They could've blamed that Joker cracker, but no, ol' darky has to take the heat.
Wow, I mean I know this article is designed to get a few yucks w/ the occasional off color quips (heh) & some of the embellishments you might expect to stretch a sentence into a semblance of a joke at the expense of accuracy, but damn…didn’t really hit the mark did you? Not gonna’ say you suck or anything, you’re trying and that’s cool/respect, but a little depth/insight does wonders for this sort of thing, especially hot button topics. To take the material and find the humor in it is one thing, clutching at straws to invent the joke is quite another. Take your time. Forgive me if I’m out of line, but perhaps another viewing of “Glory” is in order. Plenty of historians, NAACP, VFWs, black vets, etc gave it a thumbs up. It’s pretty f’ing heavy w/out any revisionist BS, political posturing, pandering, or the normal crap we put up w/ to validate some douchebag’s liberal guilt. Just a story, albeit, a tragically accurate one. End sums up message… “American History-X”, the other posters have summed that up better than I could. Roll w/ that. It’s about loyalties that matter, not those that don’t. “The Toy”, okay, yeah, it’s pretty racist, but Pryor doesn’t strike me as a complete sellout. His stand up about Africa, his humble roots, etc. all give him pretty damn good credibility in the black community. Conflicted here, maybe it was just he time it was shot. Not sure about this. “Riding Miss Daisy”, didn’t see it, don’t care. Freeman is gold/made man.
I dont know if you are saying fail to me because then you fail because i said it gives the impression that all skinheads are racists, i didn't say that was the point of the movie. and citing drug deals as a reason for not being racist is possibly the dumbest thing ever. just because you engage in economic activity with someone doesn't mean you cant have racist and prejudice notions about them. look at all the economic tradings that europeans had with Native Americans in colonial times. they traded with each other but Europeans still called them "savages" and though of them as a lesser race of people. this happens throughout history with just this being one example. mike_2: fail
Wow, I mean I know this article is designed to get a few yucks w/ the occasional off color quips (heh) & some of the embellishments you might expect to stretch a sentence into a semblance of a joke at the expense of accuracy, but damn…didn’t really hit the mark did you? Not gonna’ say you suck or anything, you’re trying and that’s cool/respect, but a little depth/insight does wonders for this sort of thing, especially hot button topics. To take the material and find the humor in it is one thing, clutching at straws to invent the joke is quite another. Take your time. Forgive me if I’m out of line, but perhaps another viewing of “Glory” is in order. Plenty of historians, NAACP, VFWs, black vets, etc gave it a thumbs up. It’s pretty f’ing heavy w/out any revisionist BS, political posturing, pandering, or the normal crap we put up w/ to validate some douchebag’s liberal guilt. Just a story, albeit, a tragically accurate one. End sums up message… “American History-X”, the other posters have summed that up better than I could. Roll w/ that. It’s about loyalties that matter, not those that don’t. “The Toy”, okay, yeah, it’s pretty racist, but Pryor doesn’t strike me as a complete sellout. His stand up about Africa, his humble roots, etc. all give him pretty damn good credibility in the black community. Conflicted here, maybe it was just he time it was shot. Not sure about this. “Riding Miss Daisy”, didn’t see it, don’t care. Freeman is gold/made man.
No Spike Lee movies? I know he's not a clueless white guy but come on dude :/
You know what is unintentionally racist, I had this South African friend, his father was forced to leave South Africa for opposing apartheid as you can imagine that would make people unpopular. Anyway we had to do standardized testing at the school and people would b***h at him for listing his ethnicity as African-American those people who would b***h at him were dumbasses, you sir are also a dumb ass. Many people from South Africa are white, to pretend otherwise is dumb. Also changing stories or people from history to be more focused on black characters is at best misguidedly stupid and at worst patronizingly racist. Lastly American History X was about disillusionment and an attempt at redemption, in that order, also the black principal, and skinhead rape had just as much to do with his disillusionment as anything else.
You're way off on American History X. The movie was about disillusionment with the skin head movement. Also, even racists aren't 100% racist (otherwise, the skin heads wouldn't be doing drug deals with Mexicans for profit).
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the thing about American History X is that it gives the impression all Skinheads are racist which is entirely not true. the movement started in Britain by antiracists and followers of Two-Tone Ska (inherently anti racist because it mixed black and white musicians). it branched off into working class and Oi! culture which were again not racist but trying to promote the struggle of working class. unfortunately neo nazi's and white supremacists latched on to a non racist movement and tried to make anyone who wasnt a white Christian the scapegoat. nowadays because of movies like american history X everyone thinks Skinheads are Racist Neo-Nazis when, in reality, they started as a group in opposition to everything Neo-Nazi's stand for. I'm an anti racist Skinhead and proud of it. i think thats really one of the biggest faults with Am. History X and its unfortunate.
Also, you're off on Crash as well. While it was a s**tty movie, I don't see where you get "unintentionally racist" from. Granted, it sucked, but not for the reasons you said it did.
Article sucks. Try harder.
the thing about American History X is that it gives the impression all Skinheads are racist which is entirely not true. the movement started in Britain by antiracists and followers of Two-Tone Ska (inherently anti racist because it mixed black and white musicians). it branched off into working class and Oi! culture which were again not racist but trying to promote the struggle of working class. unfortunately neo nazi's and white supremacists latched on to a non racist movement and tried to make anyone who wasnt a white Christian the scapegoat. nowadays because of movies like american history X everyone thinks Skinheads are Racist Neo-Nazis when, in reality, they started as a group in opposition to everything Neo-Nazi's stand for. I'm an anti racist Skinhead and proud of it. i think thats really one of the biggest faults with Am. History X and its unfortunate.
You dumb f**ks, this is a great article... You stupid c**ts obviously don't get the fact that it is FARCE, not actual f**king Racism he is talking about... the part about the rich white man purchasing a black man as a pet for his kid is AWESOME!! And, i like the fact that he's mostly mad that Driving Mrs. Daisy (which should have been called 'Riding That Bitch') won awards over a better movie... Do the right Thing was excellent, and it had Tit Shots in it! I mean, COME ON!!
Do the Cracked writers know what the word "racism" means?
Also, you're off on Crash as well. While it was a s**tty movie, I don't see where you get "unintentionally racist" from. Granted, it sucked, but not for the reasons you said it did.
They focused Glory on Robert Gould Shaw because he wrote the letters. Meaning through him we know what happened. If we focused on the other stories the movie would have been 90% fiction. I suggest the other read the collection of letters, and compare them, as they are quite similar. In fact the only racist thing the movie did, was not include more white soldiers. Since, you know, the only survivor of the attack at the end was white. Thats kinda how we know what happened.
You're way off on American History X. The movie was about disillusionment with the skin head movement. Also, even racists aren't 100% racist (otherwise, the skin heads wouldn't be doing drug deals with Mexicans for profit).
"Don't be so modest crackers?" This article is unintentionally racist. American History X is the s**t.
You dumb f**ks, this is a great article... You stupid c**ts obviously don't get the fact that it is FARCE, not actual f**king Racism he is talking about... the part about the rich white man purchasing a black man as a pet for his kid is AWESOME!! And, i like the fact that he's mostly mad that Driving Mrs. Daisy (which should have been called 'Riding That Bitch') won awards over a better movie... Do the right Thing was excellent, and it had Tit Shots in it! I mean, COME ON!!
Wow. Your vitriolic anger had grown so much by the last film that you forgot to tell us anything about that film. Pretty fundamental failure there. American History X was freaking amazing, and Edward Norton is a great actor. What makes a white guy qualified to judge racism anyway?
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Woops, double post. Not sure how that occured, maybe when I re-freshed the page,
Racists LOVE American History X. They love to watch the curb stomp scene over and over again.
As bad of an article as it might have been, its about time someone shat all over CRASH. Its a movie with no act structure or protagonist and all it does is reinforce racial stereotypes. Also, the horribly developed interconnecting plot line has no pay-off. There's no unifying moment that links the characters, its just a string of ridiculously random encounters.
STUPID article. Sorry. American History X was a great movie, and um, you know there is a such thing as white Africans right? Jeez...stop calling everything racist.
Woops, double post. Not sure how that occured, maybe when I re-freshed the page,
This is such bulls**te. I have only seen one movie out of this list "American history X" and the writer seems to miss the entire f**king point of the movie. The main character changes his mind not because of one funny black man, he learnes a lesson because he gets raped by a bunch of people who he thought were his kind, and the only person who does any good for him is a black guy. His entire set of (twisted) ideals gets f**ked up. That all he has been doing is sowing hatred and violence and all that leads to is more hatred and violence finally occurs to him. He doesnt turn around and love black people, he just wants to get out of the circle of hatred and violence and get his family out of it. I am honestly surprised that someone who has the intelligence to write an article with decent grammer could not get the point behind American history X.
@ andysweden : I lol'd
The only simplistic thing about American History X is the columnist's understanding of it.
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:( Sorry Fatboy
Piece of s**t article, piece of s**t writer. He didn't oversimplify American History X, he missed the whole f**king point. The main character doesn't stop being a racist because the black guy is funny, he does it because the black guy saves his ass even though he knows he is a skinhead. Also I'm certain he thinks "Do the right thing" is a great movie about racism because it was made by a black guy.
souper put it best
this is bulls**t that was conceived by someone who completely missed the f**king point... luckily for him i'm still too drunk from last night to really reply and thrash about violently with my keys here. jpj024 gag on a big black stereotypical c**k
This is such bulls**te. I have only seen one movie out of this list "American history X" and the writer seems to miss the entire f**king point of the movie. The main character changes his mind not because of one funny black man, he learnes a lesson because he gets raped by a bunch of people who he thought were his kind, and the only person who does any good for him is a black guy. His entire set of (twisted) ideals gets f**ked up. That all he has been doing is sowing hatred and violence and all that leads to is more hatred and violence finally occurs to him. He doesnt turn around and love black people, he just wants to get out of the circle of hatred and violence and get his family out of it. I am honestly surprised that someone who has the intelligence to write an article with decent grammer could not get the point behind American history X.
Sorry, jpj, but your argument holds no water. This isn't a comedy article, as insistent political correctness is the antithesis of humor.
Wait...Blacks are people too? WTF crazy article!
this article is bad.
I love how nothing pisses people off more than calling something racist. The article wasn't that bad, the writer probably over-simplified everything because it's not a serious article. Lighten up people.
Had to sign up just to say how s**t this was! Worst Cracked article ever!
That was a s**tty article. Wasn't there another cracked article that said something about accusing other people of being a racist was a defense mechanism for those were afraid of being called a racist themselves. It said something like that. Again, s**tty article.
How about a new article about "The last 100 articles on cracked and how we had a racial awareness brainstorm session in previous weeks" Try something new like making fun of blockbuster movies or people who drive while on cell phones (insert unrelated photo thats still funny) whoa, bet she won't do that again huh? (humorous pie chart) oh they are so right! Or maybe go for something like a humorous article on the subtle racial insensitivity of all the DC Comics Characters from the early years? IDK, i dont get paid to write the same 4 articles every week
How about a new article about "The last 100 articles on cracked and how we had a racial awareness brainstorm session in previous weeks" Try something new like making fun of blockbuster movies or people who drive while on cell phones (insert unrelated photo thats still funny) whoa, bet she won't do that again huh? (humorous pie chart) oh they are so right! Or maybe go for something like a humorous article on the subtle racial insensitivity of all the DC Comics Characters from the early years? IDK, i dont get paid to write the same 4 articles every week
Man, I hate to say it, but this article wasn't that great. Usually I find something to like about anything, but this just...it wasn't that funny. I mean, Racism isn't supposed to be funny, but still, I was expecting some kind of chuckle. I guess what gets me about it, is I see the same problem with Modern Racism that I see with Modern Homosexuality. You don't have to actually DO anything gay or racist, you just have to do something that could, in any contrived way, be construed as Racist or Homosexual. For example, you don't actually have to be a guy who has sex with other guys to be considered gay, you just have to say the wrong thing without adding a "No Homo!" at the end. Another example, you don't have to be someone who actually believes all the racist stereotypes and uses racial slurs to be racist, you just have to say "I disagree with SOME (but not all) of the policies of our current president who just happens to be black".
How about a new article about "The last 100 articles on cracked and how we had a racial awareness brainstorm session in previous weeks" Try something new like making fun of blockbuster movies or people who drive while on cell phones (insert unrelated photo thats still funny) whoa, bet she won't do that again huh? (humorous pie chart) oh they are so right! Or maybe go for something like a humorous article on the subtle racial insensitivity of all the DC Comics Characters from the early years? IDK, i dont get paid to write the same 4 articles every week
I have never felt compelled to comment on an article on any website, but this one was so terrible I had to say something. Cracked is a humor website and this article didn't get so much as a chuckle from me. The article also doesn't provide evidence for its thesis. The explanations for why each movie was racist were incomplete and did not support the conclusion. Terrible, terrible, terrible. Even Cody's articles make me laugh. This was just awful.
Worst article since "9 racist disney characters" Just STOP calling everything racist that somehow involves minority characters. Racism is the evil ideology that certain human "races" are superior to others. I doubt that "unintentionally racist" as an expression makes sense at all.
Worst article since "9 racist disney characters" Just STOP calling everything racist that somehow involves minority characters. Racism is the evil ideology that certain human "races" are superior to others. I doubt that "unintentionally racist" as an expression makes sense at all.
This was f**king retarded. Nothing could be easier than to write about how racially charged movies are racist. I think thats the whole idea. Granted CRASH WAS SHIT! But the rest were ok in their own right. the end of Glory validated the whole movie and the black/white struggle, Norton wasn't a HERO at the end of american History X he was ostricized and lost his brother, showing in contrast what is realy important and not living a life of hate. The toy was about a spoiled rich kid who learns an important lesson from a likely source and becomes closer with his father. What? This article was s**t, i normally wouldn't care but when some douchebag s**t talks but this is just pointless.
Meh.
What drek. More bulls**t from someone who seems to spend way too much time TRYING to see racism in every goddamn thing. Fails on both an informative and a comical level.
I don't comment much...but the "voice" of Cracked is an immature, older brother type of voice that is at it's best rambling about pop culture and poop culture. When we get articles like this, it just seems like or older brother is trying to prove he's mature and impress a girl. In other words - it rings false.
Man, that sucked balls. Typically, when you pass something off as comedy, it should be funny. But that sucked balls. You need to not put anything by this guy up again. I dont know what he was going for... but it sucks.
What?! Those are my favorite movies! I can’t possibly agree with your commentary on those movies because I already have preconceived notions on these films being the outstanding works of art!!! Nothing wrong with black servants or a black man winning over a white mans racist heart by entertaining him with laundry jokes and basket ball…Really…They b just good ol American movies 2 me… :/
What?! Those are my favorite movies! I can’t possibly agree with your commentary on those movies because I already have preconceived notions on these films being the outstanding works of art!!! Nothing wrong with black servants or a black man winning over a white mans racist heart by entertaining him with laundry jokes and basket ball…Really…They b just good ol American movies 2 me… :/
Worst article since "9 racist disney characters" Just STOP calling everything racist that somehow involves minority characters. Racism is the evil ideology that certain human "races" are superior to others. I doubt that "unintentionally racist" as an expression makes sense at all.
What?! Those are my favorite movies! I can’t possibly agree with your commentary on those movies because I already have preconceived notions on these films being the outstanding works of art!!! Nothing wrong with black servants or a black man winning over a white mans racist heart by entertaining him with laundry jokes and basket ball…Really…They b just good ol American movies 2 me… :/
Don't you guys see? According to Liberal Self-Righteousness 101, you ARE entitled to your own facts, especially when you're spleen-venting about political correctness. Doubt that? Then just ask Rush Limbaugh about all those horrible things that there's NO RECORD OF HIM EVER FUCKING SAYING. Check this s**t out, Fatboy: no matter what your friends told you, the only thing necessary to redeem "a lifetime of racism" is to stop being a racist. That's it. It's not the absolute worst thing that someone could ever do, and it's not unforgivable. You want to stick to your guns and insist it is? Fine, then please explain Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV) to me. Adolf Hitler isn't remembered as the most evil man of the 20th Century because the didn't like Jews and Slavs, it's because he ordered the systematic slaughter of over 6 million innocent people. Acting on racist sentiments is far, far worse than simply having them, and since people like you insist that every single white person in America is a closet racist (except yourselves, of course), it's safe to say most of them aren't acting on it. And hey, if *Richard Pryor* himself wasn't bothered by "The Toy," you shouldn't worry about it either. I guess my point after all this would be f**k you and the morally-superior horse you rode in on.
I have never felt compelled to comment on an article on any website, but this one was so terrible I had to say something. Cracked is a humor website and this article didn't get so much as a chuckle from me. The article also doesn't provide evidence for its thesis. The explanations for why each movie was racist were incomplete and did not support the conclusion. Terrible, terrible, terrible. Even Cody's articles make me laugh. This was just awful.
Demmagog go f**k yourself. you're a f**king moron. How is my comment about cracked having to delete this from their mySQL database unrelated. I basically said hey cracked get rid of this article. You f**king d*****t. Unrelated would have been if I said something about PC/LInux/Mac's ruling. You f**king d*****t. And what the f**k is Eat a Bag? Are you f**king 13? Stupid f**king Canadian.
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Bit of an oversimplification of the themes of these films. Thing is, you could probably find better reasons for why these films might be construed as 'unintentionally racist'. And Cracked has worst articles than this (ever read something by Cody? Point made). It's not the best, or even a particularly brilliant one, but come on, it's not THAT bad. I bet most of the critique is coming from people who are uncomfortable with the whole racism debate. Probably more content to sweep it under the rug.
wow Flowless a Fatboy fanboy, his c**k is in the mail, it will get to your mouth in 5-7 days. And there's no dissecting films too much, this jackass basically made up s**t so he could try to make a joke. Even my nephew (who was 12 when he watched AHX with me) knew what was going on, and realized there was more to Ed Norton's change of heart besides the jokes in the laundry room. Fuck you're a retard Flowless.
arguments for why 'driving miss daisy was racist: 'Nothing fosters understanding like decades long servitude to a pruny, rich b***h who talks so much s**t her teeth are literally brown.'-misses the point won best picture over 'do the right thing'- im not sure that has anything to do with this film being racist character named hoke- i'll give the writer credit for this one, this film is a modern day 'birth of a nation' furthermore, if anyone ever tells me they think a film is 'honest and evocative' i will laugh in their face 'american history x' is the most upsetting selection for this list, it is a much more dynamic movie than the writer gives it credit for crash's aim: 'To shed a light on everyday prejudices and how quietly destructive they can be when left to simmer for too long.' ---maybe the writer actually understood this movie and will make a good point about why it's racist... "he turned them into Heckle 'n' Jeckyl, and wrote everyone in the film to be shrill, stupid stereotypes hiding their prejudice under a thin veneer of sophistication." ---no, nevermind glory: i can see why the writer was confused when he watched this. as he says, the movie is centered upon "Ferris-f**king-Bueller (what the f**k!?)" the movie does star someone who once played a character known as Ferris-f**king-bueller (What the f**k!?), it is important to note however, that he is not playing the same character in this movie, they even gave him a whole new name to clear up that confusion. now, i am equally contemptuous when i learn that a movie casts a white person in the role of 'the actual white person who was in charge of that infantry'. in my opinion, it completely undermines the point of the movie, which focuses on how black and white people were able to overcome adversity during the civil war, settle their differences and enjoy a century-and-a-half long ice cream party that culminates in them enlisting michael jordan to help their basketball team beat the alien team, thereby rescuing bambi's mom from certain death now that i think about it actually, there could have been a reason that the movie was focused on ferris-f**king-bueller (what the f**k!?)'s character..
Congratulations Fatboy, everybody hates you, terrible article, please leave the internet
the same overblown racial sensitivity that would censor a word like 'S.P.I.C.E.'
liked the article. mostly because i des**ce al those big heavy-handed 'anti-rascist' movies that white guys use to say: "oh no, i'm not rascist, i watched 'driving miss daisy' '". if you're indifferent aout race you don't make big message-loaden anti-rascist movies, you just make movies with black and white people where neither black nor white is made into some caricature.
sprayette: This is comedy site, but at the same time try to be accurate about the movie you're trying to make a joke off of.
raistlin933 : This is a comedy website, not Wikipedia
This is bulls**t. This writer f**king sucks. Someone shoot him...
The Toy = Le Jouet. Same plot with a white guy being the toy. I think they got Richard Pryor not to be racist, but because RP was one of the top comedians of that time.
1) No humour in it. 2) Wasn't even racist. 3)Too shallow and short.
This one sucked. It didn't elaborate on half the things it was talking about, it didn't provide the usual summaries of the movies for the lazy bastards too lazy to stream them and most of the jokes were weak. Try harder.
i dont get why you'd call something like American History X "racist"... is it because it showed white on black violence? was it because they threw a few "n" words in there? a movie about racism is going to obviously involve racial slurs and hate/violence... does that necessarily make it racist? the movie itself isn't supporting racism, its condemning it. and its not like he changes overnight, in the beginning, he wants to carve the black guy's guts out. only after he realizes all the other skinheads are sellouts and after he gets assraped does he change. pretty suckass article in my opinion. ps: its artist... artiste is the feminine form.
Horrible, horrible, incorrect over-simplification of American History X. An absolutely juvenile grasp of the movie by the person who wrote this. P.S. I am truly tired of all of the politically correct tools trying to follow the pattern and write articles about racism. Must every third article be about it? Really? I guess they think they are 'doing their part to fight racism' or something, but they're not, they're just stirring the pot.
this s**t is wack
I don't know what everyone's problem with this article is. I laughed a lott, because I remember having these opinions of these films when I first sat through em. Maybe you people just dissected the films too much at this point, but whoever is defending Crash needs to munch on a sack of baby dicks. That movie had so much f**ked up stereotypes, that the only people who would ever defend the god damn movie are the idiots who proliferate those stereotypes on a daily basis. Check out Bobby's two other articles. I personally liked them better. He's got a very concise style. And yes, I had to make a f**king account to say this s**t, like the other two people.
This article sucked so bad that I'm now looking for the Mad Magazine website so I can find something FUNNY.
I'll give you the Toy. That entire movie was a terrible idea that should never have been made. The others; however, were very good movies. In American History X, Norton's character doesn't magically change to stop being racist. Instead HE GETS GANG RAPED BY OTHER WHITES! That kind of trauma generally has the result of changing one's attitude. Also, the black laundry guy helped Norton by offering him protection so he survived prison. You make a few decent points here and there (all the directors were white guys after all), but on the whole you miss a lot of details. Did you even rewatch the movies before you wrote this or just read the wikipedia articles?
Yes. American History X did have a funny black guy. Who also happened to be the only person who was a decent human being to Edward Norton in prison. If you don't remember, he got cornholed by some other neo-nazis, and then the black guy protected his ass because he was his friend!
Whoa. I think I might mark today on my calendar as the day that all the comments for an article agreed with one another. Too bad they couldn't be agreeing on how great said article was...
Calling Glory a racist movie is ridiculous. The real Colonel Shaw was a very youthful looking man, who volunteered to lead the regiment. Broderick did a great job portraying the character, but many of the most memorable scenes don't have him at the forefront. The tent scenes, the campfire scene before the charge, the training scenes, the whipping scene. It's almost like he's mad they cast a young white guy to play a young white guy in a movie about a black regiment lead by a young white guy. You are attacking them for being historically accurate. I'm surprised that you didn't think it was racist because all the black people get killed in the end. Most of the site is funny. But this article was just AWFUL.
What a ridiculous article. I think the main point of these movies was missed in quite a few of the author's examples. I didn't bother even finishing reading the damn thing.
Also, why doesn't Cracked just run older, classic articles on weekends rather than picking a clog out of the Cracked break room sink and saying Bobby "Fatboy" Roberts wrote it?
I demand an apolegy from the author for making me read this crap!
Honestly this is the worst Cracked article I"ve ever read. I've been very disappointed in Cracked lately.
FOUR SENTENCES! Just four sentences on Crash. Aside from completely missing the point, failing to get any laughs, and proving once and for all that he's absolutely witless, "Fatboy" gave us just FOUR SENTENCES on Crash. Did he write this entire article five minutes before posting it? Or did he slave over it for days, dictionary at hand, in order to become the thing that everyone hates most: The whiny, self-loathing white Liberal who screams "RACIST" louder than Farakhan (sp)? These guys should be bulldozed into the Beaufort.
Calling Glory a racist movie is ridiculous. The real Colonel Shaw was a very youthful looking man, who volunteered to lead the regiment. Broderick did a great job portraying the character, but many of the most memorable scenes don't have him at the forefront. The tent scenes, the campfire scene before the charge, the training scenes, the whipping scene. It's almost like he's mad they cast a young white guy to play a young white guy in a movie about a black regiment lead by a young white guy. You are attacking them for being historically accurate. I'm surprised that you didn't think it was racist because all the black people get killed in the end. Most of the site is funny. But this article was just AWFUL.
Maybe I'll s**t in a jar and send it to the Cracked editors to see if they post mine on the front page. Seriously Cracked, you really dropped the ball on this one. Quality control must have called in sick. What next, 'Fatboy,' do you think House is racist because they cast a British dude to play an American?
you are correct, crash was a pretentious piece of s**t. and bonus points for the wonder showzen gif.
Hey i never comment but i just came to say... THIS ARTICLE IS HILARIOUS. I'm not really surprised at the comments because some people still believe that pointing out the racism in the things they enjoy is the same as calling them racist. MORE ARTICLES LIKE THIS ONE PLEASE. I know we live in post-racial America, but sometimes I like to bask in the halcyon days of yore (i.e. 2008). KEEP IT UP! p.s. to the dude that says that they don't deal with racism in Jamaica. Are you kidding? your whole country's economic and political infrastructure is screwed up because of racism and British colonialism! Stop lying to yourself.
What the f**k? You FAIL at funny. And you didn't get the point of anything. "American History X's point is that black people can be funny". WHAT THE FUCK. I don't want to post an analysis of the movie here, I'll just say you fail. And it has nothing to do with me liking the movie or not, did you actually watch it all?? You sir, fail!
@www.cracked.com, please don't let Bobby "Fatboy" Roberts write for you ever again. Please...
This has got to be the worst article in the history of Cracked.
This may be the worst cracked article i have ever read. You know nothing about American History X. The point wasnt that the black guy was funny. You obviously didnt get the movie. Jail broke him, humbled him, he was raped by a gang of skinheads, and you forgot the most important part: THE BLACK GUY SAVED HIS LIFE I didnt even read number one, because the author obviously has no idea whats going on in movies.
Like Wing, I rarely feel compelled to write a comment. Also like Wing, I am doing so now because of just how bad and unfunny this article was. Your argument for Crash was basically Crash = silly, silly = racist + I hate Sandra Bullock. Fair enough as an opinion of the movie, but funny? No. Not even a little. What the heck happened? I visit this site daily but may stop doing so. The articles were hilarious even just a year ago. "Fatboy" isn't the only writer churning out crap, unfortunately.
i have never commented on any article on this site before, but i created an account for the sole purpose of commenting on this one. this is unfunny, uninformative, and unnecessary. it doesn't even explain how the movies are actually racist, it just basically summarizes the movies poorly, with less humor than your typical wikipedia article. good job, a-hole. you should have called it "5 summaries of movies about race relations" and then realized that was a stupid title for an article, and then decided not to write it at all, and then saved me and everyone else on this site the 5 minutes of our lives it took to skim this P.O.S.
This article shows once again that the Crack writers for all their cleverness have the depth, empathy, maturity and emotional understanding of a 4chan troll. Seriously, This crap makes me want to go read Mad magazine.
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who the f**k at Cracked decided to make this a feature article? this is a racist f**king article about racism. the irony had to have dawned on the dolt that wrote this s**t in the first place. this is far and away one of the worst Cracked articles to date and definately the worst feature article since I started reading Cracked. I mean Leonardo DiCaprio is cast as an African. Who gives a s**t? Has this idiot ever been to South Africa? White people there, tons of them, millions of them and all with accents. And he knocked Crash because it was a movie about stereotypes? That's literally f**king retarded. How can you say it was unintentionally racist if it was a movie about portraying people's "thinly veiled stereotypes?" That's thought provoking, not racist you idiot. And Richard Pryor got the role in the Toy: 1. because he auditioned, and 2. because he was Richard Fucking Pryor and he was a comic legend. Yes, I’m sure Richard Pryor hated black people so much and was so stupid that he would read a script that a moron like you would know is racist and then not only test the role but when offered it, accept it. Good call jackass. Did you really write that the point of American History X was “to show the world that skinheads are big meanies?” You’re literally a moron.
ALSO! In adeudum to my previous comment, Tom Cruise's character was not the last Samurai, that would be Ken Watanabe's character, Katsumoto. That was the point of the whole film.
There were some funny parts, but you didn't really seem to understand some of these movies. Try another subject imo
Like Wing, I rarely feel compelled to write a comment. Also like Wing, I am doing so now because of just how bad and unfunny this article was. Your argument for Crash was basically Crash = silly, silly = racist + I hate Sandra Bullock. Fair enough as an opinion of the movie, but funny? No. Not even a little. What the heck happened? I visit this site daily but may stop doing so. The articles were hilarious even just a year ago. "Fatboy" isn't the only writer churning out crap, unfortunately.
I'm supposed to be boycotting (71 & 3/4 hours to go), but I can't stop watching this comment board. The fact that everyone despises this article on every level has marginally restored my faith in humanity. You must use this, Cracked, as a teaching tool for your new writers. "Don't do what this guy did. We s**t-canned him." Yes! Please s**t-can the twat who wrote this. Then chastise the tool who okayed it. Flog him a bit, too.
I have never felt compelled to comment on an article on any website, but this one was so terrible I had to say something. Cracked is a humor website and this article didn't get so much as a chuckle from me. The article also doesn't provide evidence for its thesis. The explanations for why each movie was racist were incomplete and did not support the conclusion. Terrible, terrible, terrible. Even Cody's articles make me laugh. This was just awful.
Okay, for the last time: The word "Samurai" is both singular and plural. The movie isn't about Tom Cruise as the Last Samurai, it is a film about the story of the last Samurai, as in the last group of real Samurai in Japan. That being said, the movie is still kind of crap, but not for that one reason alone.
I'll give this article one thing, it is by far the worst written, most humourless piece of garbage cracked has put forth, and that's saying something
I have never felt compelled to comment on an article on any website, but this one was so terrible I had to say something. Cracked is a humor website and this article didn't get so much as a chuckle from me. The article also doesn't provide evidence for its thesis. The explanations for why each movie was racist were incomplete and did not support the conclusion. Terrible, terrible, terrible. Even Cody's articles make me laugh. This was just awful.
I registered on here to say that this article was complete s**t.
I have never felt compelled to comment on an article on any website, but this one was so terrible I had to say something. Cracked is a humor website and this article didn't get so much as a chuckle from me. The article also doesn't provide evidence for its thesis. The explanations for why each movie was racist were incomplete and did not support the conclusion. Terrible, terrible, terrible. Even Cody's articles make me laugh. This was just awful.
I agree about Crash, that movie is f**king horrible. It's like if I made a movie about women not being respected in America and then I film myself beating the s**t out of a woman in Mexico, sure it's has women, bit it's as far away as I can possibly get from the original concept.
Hey, this isn't comedy..... Maybe because I'm Jamaican, I don't really experience racism (we're mostly black here, in case you didn't know) but this list seems kinda off point; especially with American History X. That movie was awesome.
I have never felt compelled to comment on an article on any website, but this one was so terrible I had to say something. Cracked is a humor website and this article didn't get so much as a chuckle from me. The article also doesn't provide evidence for its thesis. The explanations for why each movie was racist were incomplete and did not support the conclusion. Terrible, terrible, terrible. Even Cody's articles make me laugh. This was just awful.
I have never felt compelled to comment on an article on any website, but this one was so terrible I had to say something. Cracked is a humor website and this article didn't get so much as a chuckle from me. The article also doesn't provide evidence for its thesis. The explanations for why each movie was racist were incomplete and did not support the conclusion. Terrible, terrible, terrible. Even Cody's articles make me laugh. This was just awful.
Yeah I usually don't comment, but I didn't really enjoy this article at all. ;\ I didn't agree with any of the points made about these movies; these movies were all very good commentaries about racism (in my opinion). I think the author did say a few funny things though, maybe he can do better with a different subject.
Oh, and the author probably things my username is racist.
Yeah... I agree 100% with every comment that has appeared since my last one (unless a truly kooky one gets posted in the next minute or so). Geez... this article actually made me angry. I can go to other sites to get angry. I think I will actually boycott this site for three days. Just three days. I'll be back. Of course I will. I just need to re-think my bookmarks.
Oh, and the author probably things my username is racist.
This wasn't very good. It seemed like it was 1. Pure opinion 2. Just calling "THATS RACIST!" on a bunch of movies with black people in them. Also, each item in the list was short as f**k.
Oh my god. Everybody hates this article. I've never seen this happen before.
This article is racist!!! 0_o
I have never felt compelled to comment on an article on any website, but this one was so terrible I had to say something. Cracked is a humor website and this article didn't get so much as a chuckle from me. The article also doesn't provide evidence for its thesis. The explanations for why each movie was racist were incomplete and did not support the conclusion. Terrible, terrible, terrible. Even Cody's articles make me laugh. This was just awful.
tom cruise wasnt the last samurai in last samurai, it was that bald dude who got killed at the end
I have never felt compelled to comment on an article on any website, but this one was so terrible I had to say something. Cracked is a humor website and this article didn't get so much as a chuckle from me. The article also doesn't provide evidence for its thesis. The explanations for why each movie was racist were incomplete and did not support the conclusion. Terrible, terrible, terrible. Even Cody's articles make me laugh. This was just awful.
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What a stupid article. It's like the guy who said that Left 4 Dead 2 is racist because "several [of the zombies] are African American." Glory is racist because the black soldiers have a white commander? Yes, maybe we should just ignore history entirely because it's not sensitive enough. Side note: Tom Cruise was not the "last Samurai," Tom Cruise merely starred in a movie of that name, the title character was quite clearly Ken Watanabe, unless you're the kind of person who goes looking for stupid arguments. You know, instead of arguing with every point, let me sum this up. Not only was this article poorly researched and a load of bulls**t, it was NOT FUNNY. Seriously, just awful
Hey, this isn't comedy..... Maybe because I'm Jamaican, I don't really experience racism (we're mostly black here, in case you didn't know) but this list seems kinda off point; especially with American History X. That movie was awesome.
Ed Norton's character didn't change because he thought Blacks wer funny. He changed because he was forced to face that whites were just as capable as evil, violence and cruelty as blacks, as seen when they engage in a relationship with the mexicans (which the real AB does by the way). The whole comedy scene was to show vinyard that he and the black guy had more in common then he thought, and that blacks were human. He was mocking the absurdity of the racism. Do all blacks in prison have to be wise old men. Why can't they be easy going. Also, did you sleep through the scene where Derek's in the hospital and his old teacher asks him "has anything you've done made your life better?" He realized it was pointless. Actually watch the movie dumbass.
I have never felt compelled to comment on an article on any website, but this one was so terrible I had to say something. Cracked is a humor website and this article didn't get so much as a chuckle from me. The article also doesn't provide evidence for its thesis. The explanations for why each movie was racist were incomplete and did not support the conclusion. Terrible, terrible, terrible. Even Cody's articles make me laugh. This was just awful.
Congratulations. This article was so bad I actually created an account just to tell you so. You have managed to do what literally no other s**tty collumnist here at Cracked has, and for that, I salute you. It sad too, because in the hands of one of Cracked's GOOD collumnists, this article actually coould have been funny, especially because they would have picked films with ACTUAL racist overtones, not just sniped at time honored classics with broad generalizations and a surplus of ignored detail. Glory and Driving Miss Daisy? Please, pull your head out of your ass and actually WATCH them before you write and article based out their Wikipedia summaries.
I have never felt compelled to comment on an article on any website, but this one was so terrible I had to say something. Cracked is a humor website and this article didn't get so much as a chuckle from me. The article also doesn't provide evidence for its thesis. The explanations for why each movie was racist were incomplete and did not support the conclusion. Terrible, terrible, terrible. Even Cody's articles make me laugh. This was just awful.
Just s**te. Poorly written, badly made points, especially on AHX. Swing and a miss, dude.
I think you kind of missed the point of American History X. From what I got out of it, it's supposed to show how much of a victory it is when just one person overcomes their own racism.
hey now, American History X is a great movie, screw you Cracked
I mean, Holy Cow... You guys REALLY dropped the ball on this one., especially with respect to Crash and American History X. It's almost as if the author of this piece resides in a tiny plastic sphere buried beneath Vermont. Crash was deliberately designed as a subtlety-free narrative (to make a point, y'know), and American History X was aimed directly at a middle-American segment of the population who may have been sitting on a fence. Tackle McLuhan a bit, here. Perhaps, "the content is the audience." Crash is explicitly black and white, while X is all about gray shades. This particular columnist completely missed the boat. That would have been excusable had he found something vaguely comedic to say in the meantime.
That's why I perfer Crash with James Spader.
Holy cow...
Wow, an all time low for Cracked. Youre either a black man or have the brain of one. The biggest racist in hollywood is that bug spike lee. Why dont you two make another movie together about how the white devil is holding you down. Sheeet, now that we have obama wese going to be gettin free chicken
Next they're going to write that The Color Purple was racist and sexist for suggesting that black women can't drive. Seriously, I've never commented on Cracked before, but this article was so far below expectations that it demanded a response. Please, if you're too drunk or stoned to write anything good, just call in sick. Don't stream of consciousness (AKA piss) on a keyboard and call it good. Hey, I've got it... Lord of War was unintentionally racist for showing that black Africans can't get weapons for their genocides without a white Nicolas Cage supplying them... Oh, wait...
Hahaha88 - That's a pretty f*cking stupid thing to say.
Only blacks in America call everything racist.
Despite its good intentions, American History X accidentally glorifies Neo-Nazis - at least for dumbasses. I know a few people who think it's a f*cking comedy. Thye rewatch the curb scene two or three times in a row, like "OOoooo! Hahahahaha!" I agree with other commenters' remarks that you missed the boat on the dynamics of Derek and Lamont's friendship. It wasn't because he was "a funny black guy", it was because he was an honestly compassionate human being in a concrete-and-barbed-wire slice of hell. I've always thought The Toy was racist as sh*t, all the way back to when I first saw it. The idea of a rich white kid owning a black guy for his own amusement (or for any reason at all) is about as bad as it gets. I've always wondered what exactly Richard Pryor was doing when he read the script. Wait. Scratch that.
Despite its good intentions, American History X accidentally glorifies Neo-Nazis - at least for dumbasses. I know a few people who think it's a f*cking comedy. Thye rewatch the curb scene two or three times in a row, like "OOoooo! Hahahahaha!" I agree with other commenters' remarks that you missed the boat on the dynamics of Derek and Lamont's friendship. It wasn't because he was "a funny black guy", it was because he was an honestly compassionate human being in a concrete-and-barbed-wire slice of hell. I've always thought The Toy was racist as sh*t, all the way back to when I first saw it. The idea of a rich white kid owning a black guy for his own amusement (or for any reason at all) is about as bad as it gets. I've always wondered what exactly Richard Pryor was doing when he read the script. Wait. Scratch that.
"deletes this row from their mySQL database" ? Seriously, dude? So you are both trying to be a dick and trying to sound knowledgeable about an unrelated topic at the same time? Eat a bag.
And Miss Daisy was accurate for the time it was set in. Black people dealt with a lot of s**t in those days, because it was either put up with it or be out of work. Now if the movie was set in 1990 then yeah that would be a little too much. Fuck sake man. Fuck. That's all I can say about you. Fuck.
I agree. Crash was a terrible movie, and nobody should ever see it. Can't say anything about the rest of them, I've never seen them.
You know what else is racist, "Star Wars", why is the bad side called "The Dark Side"? I hope Cracked realizes this article is rubbish and just goes ahead and deletes this row from their mySQL database.
I came into this article with high hopes. They have subsequently been dashed. So basically you hate every movie that has ever tried to be touching, because it's flawed somehow? I guess the only alternative is to watch porn all day long. Wait, I bet you already do.
Good job making an unintentionally racist list about unintentional racism in movies about racism. Haven't seen The Toy, so I can't argue on that, but #5,4,2 are AWFUL points. Shitty article. More people would laugh at my diarrhea I took this morning.
Ehh, kinda lame. Do a bit more research then you won't be so racist yourself.
Less rant, more comedy. I didn't laugh once reading this! I'm not on this website for your over-sensitive bleeding heart, I'm here to laugh. When I want really insight into significant issues, I'll go to the BBC.
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Jesus christ, did you even watch American History X? It wasn't because the black dude was funny. He turned his back on being a skinhead, when he seen that the skinheads in prison are selling drugs for the Mexicans. Basically he's watching the skinheads in prison do business with the very races he was taught he should exterminate. That and the fact that head of his racist organization didn't show him any support while he was in prison because "he couldn't be seen involved with that". And as far as the black guy, if you're white, sporting a swastika tattoo and you don't have the support of the skinheads; you won't last too long. He knew that since he became cool with the black guy, the black dude spoke on his behalf to keep the black dudes from going after him. I mean for f**k sake, don't leave out big key points of a movie just so you can include it as a joke. Fucking amateur.
Also if you're taught the ways of a samurai, and become a samurai, you can be a white samurai. What are you saying, only Asians are samurai? Hate monger!
I couldn't read past the author's incredibly stupid take on Glory. How can you ignore the fact that Shaw's "unthinkable" act of leading black men into battle -- and winning -- did more to change the perception of blacks than any amount of pain Freeman and Washington could have portrayed. Without men like Shaw, free black men would have been relegated to ditch digging and burial details throughout the Civil War, exactly as portrayed in the film. And you think it's "racist" to base a film on the story of Colonel Shaw, and a waste of time to show Shaw fighting for his men's rights?
What the hell cracked? Do some research. Making a deal about Leo being cast as an African. There are white africans. If I was born, raised and officially an African citizen, I would be African. Don't be confused by the whole African-American thing. That's the dumbest term ever, because if a black dude is the 5th generation born in America, there's no Africa about it, it's just a silly little PC term. Same goes for kids whose great-great-great grandfather was from Ireland, so they go and get 100% Irish shamrocks tattooed on their backs. There's a difference between a race and a nationality.
This article sucks. Before leaving prison, Derek realizes that without Lamont's help and influence, he would never have survived, as he would have been raped and beaten by the black inmates.
It's been said a few times already, but I too think your judgment of "American History X" was way off base. You failed to mention the role of "Sweeney" in that film, the black school teacher who is easily the wisest and most understanding role in the movie, a character which also greatly influenced Edward Norton's character. And if you'd watched the film you'd know that Sweeney is anything but a stand-up comedian.
It's been said a few times already, but I too think your judgment of "American History X" was way off base. You failed to mention the role of "Sweeney" in that film, the black school teacher who is easily the wisest and most understanding role in the movie, a character which also greatly influenced Edward Norton's character. And if you'd watched the film you'd know that Sweeney is anything but a stand-up comedian.
Honestly, this whole aricle just felt half-assed.
I notice that more and more of these pieces are mostly rants rather than comedy pieces. Its the thought that counts I guess.
Pretty dumb article.
How in the world did you guys forget "The Day without A Mexican?"
Like many American comedies, "The Toy" is a remake of a superior French movie. The original movie featured Pierre Richard, who is white, as the toy.
this was very good. "Michael Cera at a Civil War reenactment." lol. dont be mean to that poor boy, he's only 14 for chrissake. american history x has become a wonderful source of avatar .gifs on neo nazi message boards. if you dont believe me just visit stormfront or any of the sites they link to. it is kind of funny that the kid from the toy grew up to do porn.
The title should be changed to "Movies About Racism That I Don't Like".
Meh. This was incredibly lame.
Ok seriously this was just way off base and compleatly unfunny. There was no humor in this one at all. And anotherthing american history x was a damn good movie and this artical compleatly missed the whole point! The fact that you even looked for "unintentional" racism in movies that are already about racism is f**king clown shoes!!!! Its this kind of unfunny mother f**kery that helps make this world just a little sader every day. Cue American History X in your f**king netflix and actualy watch it a few times before you go write nonsense about it. Or better yet just stop writing comedy all together cause you sir are not funny, you semi retarded down syndrom f**k!!!!
This was stupid.
This article failed so badly I hope you cry yourself to sleep tonight.
Yeah, anothered retarded article by Fatboy. Woo freakin' hoo.
I agree with Damien, it's actually racist to suggest that Leo can't play a South African because he's white. In case you hadn't noticed, a lot of South Africans are white. Oh, and also - yeah, these other guys are right you've completely missed the point of American History X. Maybe you should try watching the movie before you slate it and brand it as "racist"?
you did massively oversimplify american history x, but i guess that's your MO here at cracked: open wikipedia, cut out everything that doesn't support your ridiculously glib black-and-white statement (16 star wars characters that are more awesome than you thought!!!!), and use the words 'retarded' and 'dochebag' in every paragraph thereafter. having said that, i did think the ending to american history x was PRETTY f**king racist. "oh you know that thing about black people being just like us? yeah just kidding, one of them just shot your brother."
The writer really did miss the whole point of american history X, he doesn't suddenly respect the other race because he finds one funny, he befriends one while he notices in jail that even the other nazi's don't give a f**k about thier own beliefs. And with his brother being shot at the end, it's not meant to be racist, it's meant to show that Norton ended up as being like his father, and pushed his beliefs on his brother, which got him killed. It shows that it's an endless cycle, one side wrongs the other constantly. Usually I find the cracked articles that arn't funny are atleast informative, this one is just fail in all regards.
@Blood Diamond comment: Um, Mr. Roberts, you *do* know that white people live in Africa, right?
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Ok who ever wrote this completely missed the point of American History X. He did not just realize that all of a sudden black people can be funny. The turning point is when Dr Sweeney (his ex head teacher) visits him and asks for all his racism and anger and political action, has any of it made his life better. He then realizes that instead of trying to blame all minorities for the actions of one black man, he should have been looking after his family as they no longer had a family. oh yeah then a black guy shot his brother.
Rob Roberts, you are a close-minded fool. I bid thee adieu.
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