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Originally Posted by WinniBug
One thing that upset me was watching "Bring It On: All or Nothing" with Hayden Panettiere and Solange Knowles. (I know, I know...I was bored and there was nothing else on TV)
Hayden's character transferred to a mostly-black school and they constantly referred to her as "white girl", "barbie", "vanilla latte", "frosted flake" and made comments like "looks like we're finally gettin some snow on campus", "coffee is like crack for white people"....
I wonder how people would react if it was the same movie, only racial roles were reversed and Beyonce's sister was the one dealing with racist comments. Sometimes I think racism has done a complete 180 to where people are afraid to even mention a black person's skin color, but racist comments about white people are ok.
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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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