Comments on: The Great White Hope: A History of Subtly Racist Sports Movies

By: So true

So true — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:29:14 +0000

Watching the previews for this movie, every time they showed the scene where Bullock says, “You never had a room?” and Oher says, “No a bed,” I cringed. I knew that I didn’t want to see this movie. The last movie I saw like this was “Radio.” However, I had some family members come into town and they wanted to watch it. I got through about 30 minutes of the movie before I had to leave. I understand this is a true story, but it is obviously extremely exaggerated. First of all, he comes into the picture with a black man and another black boy that seemed to have helped him up to that point. He was like 17 or so when he started living with the white family, right? So I would like to know how he survived until then. He had to have somebody else helping him. I’m sure they were black, but there is no reference to them in the movie. Secondly, why did the movie have to portray him like he was mentally retarded? He didn’t know when to get up in class, even after every other person in the room had left, he had to ask, “Can I leave now?” He doesn’t know how to talk to five year old little girls without the help of this little white kid telling him how. When they bring him to their home to eat, he stares at everyone as they pray like he has never seen anyone pray before. He holds his fork in his fist like he has never had a civilized dinner. My goodness! This is absolutely ridiculous. I don’t understand how people can’t see this. They helped him out and I think it is great, but he learned how to survive on his own with the help of many other black people in his life. From the movie, you wouldn’t know that.

By: Colleen

Colleen — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:09:01 +0000

Did you not realize that there is also a pattern in some these movies? They are actors playing “real-life” people. That’s the way the story went. Seriously, black people do need to get over it. Still enjoying white privileges? Last time I checked white people don’t get to go to college for free just because we are white.

By: little dick

little dick — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 05:17:43 +0000

why are “you people” so insecure about your race? it is pathetic.

By: dO IT 2 it

dO IT 2 it — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:57:41 +0000

make love not war.

By: matthew jones

matthew jones — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:50:15 +0000

this is straight bullshit. youre just looking for a reason to complain. youre last example in particular didnt make any sense! plus the entire time you just make jokes about white people, and somehow YOU are the authority on race. fucking loser.

By: President 4 Life

President 4 Life — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 02:30:47 +0000

It’s comedy/social commentary people, lighten up!!!

And nylander77, essentially saying that minorities are helpless without White people is inherently a “White supremacist” message. Whether it’s on purpose or by accident.

The idea that Black people can’t raise their own kids and needs Mr. Drummond, Mam & George, or Sandra Bullock to raise their kids, is inherently a little silly.

I laugh at those types of movies, but I know they are a little racist, just because there are two types of Blacks in those movies, innocent helpless Blacks and like drug dealers/drug addicts degenerates.

By: nylander77

nylander77 — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:08:57 +0000

There is an obvious pattern here, but apparently its not as obvious I thought, because the author is way off base. “Honkeywood”? Are you serious? Just because those in power in Hollywood have fair skin, doesn’t at all connect them to the common white person in middle America. These are stories intended to make whites feel guilty, not empowered. The “feel good story of the year” does have a racial tone, and Mrs. Tuohy explains it all when she says that she came from an evil white family. To be racially aware is to be evil. White people forget your genes and heritage, your ancestors were evil bigot garbage. Whites should encourage their children to mix interracially. Let America absorb enough of these propaganda films and maybe in the coming centuries there will be no more blue or green eyes to weep for them.

By: jack hoff

jack hoff — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:07:08 +0000

I do see the pattern though. ha ha.

By: GTEK

GTEK — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:36:12 +0000

Everytime we bring up the discussion of racial barriers they want to act as if “colour” doesn’t matter.
As if we are just “thinking to hard” or “wont just let it be”. Mean while they still enjoy the many factors of white privliage.
Downplaying the convo everytime with this fantasy of a joyful peaceful united society.
How are we supposed to have that if we can’t discuss these issues?

By: Londoner

Londoner — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 14:25:47 +0000

Editor DOES have a point…

By: Marvin

Marvin — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:16:25 +0000

Good grief….calm down. You have way too much time on your hands if you have to write a story like this.

Bruthas too uptight!

By: shakes

shakes — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:32:27 +0000

i thought i was the only person that noticed this shit

By: You

You — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:23:00 +0000

uhhhh Sunset Park, Finding Forrester, Gridiron Gang (they showed the man the Rock was playing at the end of the movie, dudes white!!)…

By: Marcus "MdB" Browder

Marcus "MdB" Browder — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:39:58 +0000

Cool Runnings is my shit!! Haha, I could watch it for days.

By: IndiePower.com

IndiePower.com — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:23:26 +0000

Its a football movie. Lets just watch for entertainment and not think too hard.

By: johngone

johngone — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:42:15 +0000

^ gtfo. youre one of those pretentious dicks that spell color .. “colour” ..

” this notion is absurd” .. youre on complex.com.. not newsweek. calm the f down

By: Drake

Drake — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:19:27 +0000

Please. This notion is absurd!
Why does it have to be a colour issue?
Black or white. It doesnt matter.