Rascism in Manderlay
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activista — 11 years ago(July 07, 2014 07:58 PM)
RealDuality
I like how Lars didn't shy away from making the black characters racist. Normally, movies about slavery are racist in that only the white people care about race. This is by far the most realistic movie I have ever seen about race.
Why does it never occur to white people that some black people are racist because white folks or anybody else non-black was racist against them? Nobody ever said black people couldn't be racist, but the difference is, white people historically have always had the laws and the power to back their racism up in this countryTHAT'S the difference, and one people (especially white folks) never seem to get, or understand. Black person historically had very real reasons to hate white people simply because a whit person could do whatever the hell they wanted to a black person and get away with it, particularly in the South, up until about 50 years agoand that's because black people themselves fought for the right to get rid of all that racist bull**** and be treated fair like all American citizens. Also, even though I haven't seen the film, you seem to think black people being racist is some kind of pass for racist white folks to justify their racism, which is some bull**** right there. -
activista — 11 years ago(July 07, 2014 07:38 PM)
@missprincipessa
-affirmative action? (laws that further divide the whites and blacks of america. As a black person I don't find it fair that I should be selected over a white guy that has the exact same qualifications as me just because of the color of my skin, so how do you think someone white might feel about that)
FYI, affirmative action was created in the first place because before 1964, it didn't matter how educated or skilled in a particular trade a black person was, a white person would always get hired over them,no matter whateven if the white person in question wasn't even as qualified as the black person, simply because they were white. So many people have a misunderstanding of affirmative action and how it really works, it's pathetic. It's not about just hiring people because of the color of their skin over white peoplethat's some ignorant BS spread around by conservatives (as usual.) AA was made as a result of the civil rights movement, and to make sure that a certain number of black folks and other minorities were given a fair shot at opportunities in society that they didn't have before due to racial discrimination.
You also forget that before AA even legally existed, white folks had their own affirmative action for virtually the first three hundred years of this country's existencein other words, they made damn sure any opportunities and laws made in society (such as segregation and racial discrimination,to ksep black people and other folks of color from getting anything that would get them out from being just cheap underpaid labor for white people) were for them and to benefit THEM only,plain and simple. Another form of affirmative action for white folks is known as "legacy preferences", which is when a person gets a leg up into a certain college because their grandparents were alumni, or a relative is a big donator to the college. No one ever points that out,but God forbid ONE black person should get hired over a white person for anything (which I doubt even happens that often,anyway) and all hell is raised about it. It's never pointed out that maybe the white person just wasn't qualified for the job, and that the black person was probably the more qualified one. White people usually get hired not only because of merit, but because of who they know and what they know, which has always, until very recently, given them a leg up over most people of color in this country.
I've never seen this film, and anything Lars Van Trier does is to provoke controversy anyway.