15 Responses to “The 50 Most Racist Movies You Didn’t Think Were Racist”

1. FmF Posted: Jan 27th, 2010 at 12:27 pm

   1 Some of these are a stretching.Though they all meant to stretch a bit.Black hawk down is base on a true story.So is the person complaining about there being black people in Africa?This one fell flat with me.Gremlins?!Come on cause of the movie every time i meet a stereotypical merchant’s in china town i buy what ever he saleing hoping it’ll be half as cool as those guys.FYI i have so much kimichi cause of it.(yes i know it Korean)

2. greg Posted: Jan 27th, 2010 at 12:31 pm

   2 just because stereotypes are employed doesn’t make it racism. and how is white dog (a movie about a racist) a racist movie that we didn’t know was racist?

3. david Posted: Jan 27th, 2010 at 12:37 pm

   3 LOL, I see Racist People. everything is racist if you actually look for racism in it, like in chess: why the hell do the white pieces move first? THAT’S DAMN RACIST.

4. Jamie Posted: Jan 27th, 2010 at 12:37 pm

   4 Cause it’s a White Dog with white um… dogs and things… with… um… you know, if I made the list, it would be full of really good ones that you didn’t know was racist. Like the Power Rangers movie!

5. Wayne Posted: Jan 27th, 2010 at 1:11 pm

   5 You know, I would love to read the list, but I AM NOT CLICKING 50 TIMES TO READ THE WHOLE DAMN THING.

6. Jamie Posted: Jan 27th, 2010 at 1:17 pm

   6 It took me a while to figure out how to get to the damn list. But the clicking does get tiresome.

7. Lurklen Posted: Jan 27th, 2010 at 4:39 pm

   7 “Bottle Rocket isn’t the most obviously loathsome racist flick around (although Inez the docile maid is straight outta Frat Boy Fantasy central casting), it’s just that the movie is so violently white that you know something fucked up is going on somewhere. ” I find it hilarious that when doing a list about racism the author makes a racist comment about white people. It’s a movie full of white guys so there has gotta be something racist going on. And bad characterization isn’t racism it’s just bad writing.

8. Tungsten Posted: Jan 27th, 2010 at 5:31 pm

   8 Okay, some of the movies in this list were pretty good choices… White Chicks? yeah, I’m glad it was on there. Some of them seemed to be stretching it a little bit… First: Is a movie racist because it contains one not-very-realistic portrayal of a person from a different country than the movie was made in and is about? Let me just put this out: no. If a movie magically became racist because the people who were portrayed in it were not very true to their supposed nationality… Well, almost every single movie would have to be considered incredibly racist. Second: Why are there no foreign movies on this list? Early Jackie Chan (his actually chinese movies), Jet Li… “Welcome to Dongmakgol” (Korean)… Lots and lots of movies from Bollywood… Every country has produced movies that are at least as borderline racist (or overtly racist) as the movies on that list, some of which have even managed to gain a bit of a following here in the US. Why are none of those on the list? Should it have been renamed “The 50 most racist AMERICAN movies you didn’t know were racist”? I can’t imagine they didn’t know about these movies, and heck, they say right on the list that even if it’s non-white people being racist against white people, that it’s still just as bad. Really, those are my only two problems with the list. I disagree with a great number of their choices, and am sad to see that a lot of movies didn’t make it on there at all (ninja turtles anyone)? I also agree with Kunoichis comment on a previous post that Dragon Ball: Evolution just doesn’t count, for similar reasons… Anyway, I’m done now.

9. Kunoichi Posted: Jan 27th, 2010 at 6:09 pm

   9 I’m not clicking through all that. I hate poorly written websites. So, on the Romeo Must Die case: oh come on! Jet Li never gets to kiss the girl in his movies anyway! He’s *married* in the The One and he doesn’t get a kiss scene! P.S. The shitty Dragonball movie still doesn’t count.

10. Jamie Posted: Jan 28th, 2010 at 9:38 am

    10 @Tungsten, I think it’d be really interesting to see a similar list for other countries. I’m not terribly familiar with a wide variety of foreign (non American) films, but I have seen quite a few Japanese flicks that are horribly racist against non-Japanese.

11. Jack T Robyn Posted: Jan 28th, 2010 at 11:46 am

    11 As I understand it, regarding Romeo Must Die, Jet Li mentioned in the commentary that he felt it would have been unappropriate to kiss a girl from a rival family after the recent death of a family member.

12. Mikey D Posted: Jan 29th, 2010 at 4:17 pm

    12 I’m skimming through the list and here’s the movies I disagree with the most: Gremlins “The Gremlins represent black youth”? Come on! Falling Down “Oh he beats up Koreans, and Latinos, oh and anyone else who gets in his way” I bolded that last part because that’s the point. He goes nuts and unleashes his rage. The author obviously/conveniently forgot the part where he kills the white homophobic Neo-nazi pawn shop owner! White Dog. I haven’t finished the list yet but this makes about as much sense as putting “American History X” on the list. Driving Miss Daisy Really? Really!? Come on now, it was a movie about the growing relationship between an old lady and her driver in 1948! If anything it was a story about how to overcome racism. Black Hawk Down So the Somalis that shot down the chopper weren’t supposed to be the villains? Get off the racist high horse please. True Lies So… when you make a movie about Islamic Terrorists make sure to not include things like “Jihad” and claiming the name “Sand Spider” is to close to “sand n*g”? That’s just looking for racism, and it’s a lazy argument at best. The Green Mile Yet again pointing the finger at a film that was set in a time of civil-rights crisis America and claiming it to be racist. This is a freaking stretch and a half. I bet if Michael Clark Duncan’s character was a white guy instead they would have said the movie was too “white washed”! Soul Man While I don’t argue that this movie was blatantly racist, I do find a fine sense of hypocrisy in unabashedly using the word “cracker” to describe C. Thomas Howell. Sorry for being 1. So late to the table on this one, and 2. the gigantic wall of text. But I’ve got to ask, is this really what people think? That white folk all sit around thinking up ways to be subtly racist and trick minorities into liking things that we want them to? I noticed a distinct anti-white sentiment in every single post this person made, and even when it came to listing “White Chicks” as a racist movie they were very tongue and cheek about it saying “yeah we laughed and yeah we thought it was funny but does that make it right? No”. Boo to you author. This article sets back race relations more than any of the movies listed above. Were some of the movies on this list overtly racist? Sure, but this list was mostly cherry picking.

13. Jamie Posted: Jan 29th, 2010 at 4:26 pm

    13 Yeah, I didn’t really get the Gremlins=black youth bit. The old Chinese dude who sold Gizmo maybe, but I wasn’t really offended by him. And how could anyone laugh at White Chicks?!

14. Psychedellic Madness Posted: Jan 29th, 2010 at 6:45 pm

    14 I really think they overreact or just go by first impressions on some of the movies, I’m really opposed to thinking “Pulp Fiction” is racist, the same with passion of the christ. Until we all stop worrying about what’s racist or not and start seeing eachother simply as people, we’ll all probably keep hating each other. it’s like the lines from mos def on “crash” “you know why they make bus windows so big, so white motherfuckers can laugh at negroes” … something in that line of thought.

15. Grand Master Posted: Jan 29th, 2010 at 7:59 pm

    15 ^ not mos def. ludacris. (racist) [just kidding] {am i?}