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Originally Posted by preciousjeni
Solange would rip you a new one for calling her Beyonce's sister in reference to one of her own roles. She apparently doesn't like that much!
Anyway, the way I see it making comments like these about a black person is adding insult to injury in a racial sense. Making comments like these about a white person is still pretty novel considering it has only been 30-40 years since a black person could do so without threat of death. Unfortunately, I think that such comments don't appeal to the humor of a lot of viewers and really only serve as an illustration that black people are classless. Movies like this one give whites an inaccurate view into the mindsets of black people and perpetuate the idea that there is "savageness" lurking just under the surface.
Overall, saying unkind things about anyone is always inappropriate, but it goes a lot further than that.
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I agree with all of this post.
Add, to the bolded, the fact that blacks are more likely to be the "token" in an all white environment than whites are in an all black environment. So people are a lot less interested and impacted by something that is a lot less common. Plus, many whites feel as though there is no lasting effect to "mean words" because once they leave that context, they are back to being white, the power and numerical majority. We've discussed before, whites will often say "I don't care if I'm called a h****," etc because hurt feelings mean nothing in the grand scheme of things. If people can't keep whites from opportunities (denying membership into a high school or college group doesn't count) outside of that setting, it is just a momentary inconvenience rather than a life altering event.