Lets be clear, simply liking a film does not make you a racist. BUT, fawning over it and saying its the best movie you have seen, funny, witty etc and FAILING to notice the repetition of the same old tired stereotypes and themes DOES suggest that you are perhaps too “comfortable” (and thus not challenging enough) of those images and the status quo.

That unfortunately DOES make you complicit in maintaining the veneer of living in a “post racial” world despite the glaring inequalities (if you care to look) that still exist.

Its been done … nothing? new here. A movie purportedly about racism afflicting an oppressed community, but actually about the experience of the affluent white person defending that community. “To Kill a Mocking bird”, “Cry Freedom.” “Mississippi Burning.”, “The blind Side” the list goes on …

To see why white people tend to like these films see these links:

http://stuffwhitepeopledo.blogspot.com/2010/07/warmly-embrace-racist-novel-to-kill.html
http://stuffwhitepeopledo.blogspot.com/2010/07/force-non-white-students-to-read-great.html
http://stuffwhitepeopledo.blogspot.com/2010/05/rewrite-us-history-so-that-white-people.html

You will find a few eye openers there that may help take off the blinkers most of us on, when we choose to fail to see what is happening around us.

The film is fiction!

It stems from a writers imagination and experiences, and it was not intended to be a documentary on civil rights, or black domestics! It also was not marketed as such.

In fact, the majority of the talk about this film has roots in black folks talking, mostly from those who have not seen the film!

All this talk about the film has done more to market/promote the film than any publicity firm has done! LOL!

For those who want to see the film, go and see it!

For those who do not want to see the film do not see it!

What is the problem?