I think a list is needed of racist and/or repulsive films for people of African descent. It can even be a film that just had a single scene or element that was blatantly racist. I'll start...

1) King Kong: for its portrayal of Black natives, and its psychotic parallelism between Blacks and Whites with a huge black gorilla falling for the White woman, being civilized, and the rest of the racy garbage.

2) Troy: this film completely omits that Priam, King of Troy, was the uncle ofMemnon, King of Ethiopia, at the time. This begs thequestion whether KingPriam and Helen were actually White. Furthermore, Memnon sent at least 10,000 African soldiers to help defend Troy. Yet, when I looked at the trailer for the film, I didn't see a single face that could possibly be mistaken as Black.

3)Alexander:Unquestionably the most notable part ofAlexander the Great's life was his so-called conquest of Egypt. Yet, again looking at the movietrailer, you would thinkhis battles with the African natives would have beena significant part of the movie. It seems thatagain, our role in history has been omitted.

4) Dukes of Hazzard: I hated the TV show, and I was even further repulsed by a movie in 2005 glorifying some "good ol' boys" with a Confederate Flag on the top of their car.

All of these movies have my stamp of disapproval...



Your turn...

I would have to add Planet of the apes..I loved the TV series and the original film..however the recent remake was taking the absolute piss.....basically a white man's nightmare of what a black dominated planet would look like..with all the typical European, black characterisations thrown in.... Thinly veiled attacked on African Americans....

Also after the exploits of Charlton Heston....now i can't even watch any film with him in it, ulgy raase.....

Sorry add to the any dutty flim with either John (KKK) Wayne, Jimmy(right wing poster boy), Stewart and now Arnie ( up his own arse) Schwaztnegger....

Sorry the other prigg that put me off certain films was Lee (barefoot and pregnant) majors......

Any film made by Quentin Tarantino. If you got something to say just be a man and state it publicly....no need to hide behind movies.

It's obvious this man issubtly stating hispersonal viewsabout Africans by his heavy usage of the N word andthe negative comments on African peoplein his scripts. The sad thing is 99% of his audience don't believe he is a racist because he uses his favouriteStep N Fetchit man Samuel Jackson and supposedly likes 'black' music and blaxploitation films. I don't really have to explain this as the comments made in films like Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogspretty much sums it up. The "dead n****er storage" comment wasn't necessary in the LEAST, neither was Harvey Keitel's scene in RD when he said something along the lines of "why do n****rs treat their women like shit".

Admittedly, I did like Kill Bill at first simply because I'm a fan of anime and martial arts, however, looking into it more deeply, particularly the first scene that shows an African child witnessing the murder of her mother by a white woman, it made me switch off.

It's funny how the same people who accuse Spike Lee of being racist don't have jack to say about Quentin.

Some of these are obvious but still y'now ...

Gone with the Wind
Lethal Weapon 1-4
To kill a Mockingbird
The Matrix
The Man Who Would be King
Indiana Jones Trilogy
Stargate
Amistad
Mutiny on the Bounty (all versions)
Guess who's coming to Dinner (haven't seen the newer one, but I gonna assume that too)
Imitation of Life
The Jerk
Black like me
Bulworth
Dances with Wolves
48 Hours
The Defiant ones
The Green Mile

Hey I like some of these but they are what they are.

Sorry Name I can't agree with sopme of your choices....

Imitation of life..was a ground breaking film of its day...likewise to Kill a Mocking bird..a brutal reflection of American culture.. Guess who is coming to Dinner (no way)..yes it was a Hollywood version of Blackness... but it was again a tough Film of its day... The newer version (which I refuse to see) is a travesty and ought to be on the list..

Amistad...hmmmm no sure bout that one either...

@ Kunjufu

What's wrong with Arnie?

--Thoth B3

@ Prince Hakeem

The first QT movie I ever saw was Kill Bill. I didn't realize he had racist undertones in his films.

--Thoth B3

most American films pre-1970 were straight blatantly racist....



some say that the majority of blaxploitation era films are indirectly racist.....



the list would be too long