Oscar is so bigoted that he hates himself for being gold.
This Sunday, at the 82nd Annual Academy Awards, one of 10 films is gonna win the Oscar for Best Motion Picture of the Year. What you may not know is that ALL OF THE NOMINATED MOVIES ARE CRAZY RACIST! We know this, in part, because we’re self-proclaimed experts; just check out our earth-shattering, life-altering exposé, The 50 Most Racist Movies (You Didn’t Think Were Racist). Doubt us? Keep reading and Complex will explain why all the nominees are hate-filled, so you can then cast your vote for the Best (Most Racist) Motion Picture of the Year…
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It’s been 20 years since Public Enemy told Hollywood to burn, and the movie industry is still on that racist bullshit. (Maybe studios thought Chuck D meant to burn more crosses.) It may not be anything as overt as slaves and mammies anymore, but your local theater is still projecting all kinds of insulting insensitivity. Nowadays, it’s just way sneakier and snakier! Just look at the subtly racist sports movie The Blind Side, which has Sandra Bullock winning awards for keeping alive the proud film tradition of benevolent white folks salvaging black kids from the ghetto.
With this in mind, and the Oscars around the corner, Complex looks back at the most racist films since the ’60s, when we could have reasonably expected the Civil Rights Movement to blow winds of change in our direction. Hollywood might have thought it could get some good ol’ fashioned fuckery past us, but our minds are like a steel trap for this shit. From caricatures to whitewashing, mildly to wildly offensive, get ready for some racism!
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In case you haven’t heard, conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh’s bid to buy an NFL team ended Wednesday night when he was dropped from a group of investors looking to purchase the St. Louis Rams. It seems that some of the Rush-ster’s past comments (including that the media hyped Donovan McNabb because it was “desirous in a black quarterback doing well,” and describing the NFL as “a game between the Bloods and Crips without any weapons”) didn’t sit well with a few folks, namely commissioner Roger Goodell, and the NFL Player’s Union’s 70% black membership.
The sad thing about Rush’s rejection? He could’ve fielded a team of guys just like him. No, not evil drug addicts, white dudes! Sure, they might not be the best 22 guys on the field, but at least Rush wouldn’t have to worry about them getting big heads because the media was desirous that they do well. Since Rush seems to view everything through the prism of race, we’d thought we’d help him out with the Coulda Woulda Shoulda All-White Limbaugh Team…
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In recent weeks, some of Obama’s opponents – in the legislature, media and the streets – have been escalating their criticism to the point of outright racism. There’s no question that we’re in some of the toughest economic times in memory; and history shows that fiscal distress often incites the ignorant populace to seek out scapegoats. Those leading the hate-mongering flock tend to do so out of career opportunism and a lust for power. While it’s tempting to ignore and brush-off these inflammatory critics as simple “haters”, it’s important to call them out, because rhetoric can lead to violence. I mean, they could tell the people they roll with whatever they want, but you and I know what’s going on. Here’s a rundown of some of the most outlandish fuckery hurled at Mr. 44…
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Autobot twins Skids and Mudflap strike a b-boy pose during their minstrel show.
According to a leaked memo, director Michael Bay is pissed off at Paramount Pictures for not putting enough hype behind his new sequel, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Having seen it, we can’t help but wonder if Paramount is keeping quiet because his flick about warring alien robots transforms into a vehicle for racism.
As if black people didn’t catch a bad enough one from the Jar Jar Binks character in Star Wars Episodes I-III, Bay’s Autobot twins, the “black”-voiced Skids and Mudflap, are the 2009 version of the Amos n’ Andy minstrel show. It’s hard to believe a big-money director would show his ass like this in what projects to be a much-watched blockbuster, but maybe he’s gotten too comfortable hanging out with his boy Black-Ty. Whatever the rationale, it’s clear that Bay is violating. How can we be so certain? Check out 7 reasons why Transformers 2 might be racist…
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