Comments on: AVATAR Racist?

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:01:12 +0000

also let’s not forget that hollywood never really show’s what indians really are only what sliver of culture that was stolen from us by whites for the sake of wild west romance just like wild bills indian show. we have to give up our traditional ways of life unless it’s for your intertainment.

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 02:57:15 +0000

You know i’m actually a mvskoke creek indian and here’s an idians take on the movie. Most racist shit i’ve ever hear, oh wait what about pathfinder what about dance’s with wolves. if you want to see all of the great things that the benevolent white’s did for us why don’t you visit oklahoma instead of the theater and see what’s really hood.

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 13:23:22 +0000

Avatar was boringly predictable and extremely racist. Almost all the bad people are white. The token Indian and Chinese characters are scientists, so they are not really bad. The Na’vi culture looks Native American, but their names, rituals and accents are heavily African.

The 3-D gimmick wore off about ten minutes into the movie and I never noticed it was 3-D after that. For the rest of the movie, it was a predictable, roll-the-eyes, preachfest with Hollywood using the latest high-tech magic to preach to us that a simple technology-free life is better than our modern existence.

By: Kurt Wolfgold

Kurt Wolfgold — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 07:18:49 +0000

Avatar is the best picture to portrait what the white people has been done to screwed other people in the world for century.

By: IKE

IKE — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 09:24:03 +0000

James Cameron’s AVATAR reminds us of the 18 million Native Americans from the Cherokee, Cheyenne, Choctaw, Comanche, Iroquois, and Muscogee tribes in America. They were in great miseries and poverty under the dictatorship of their colonial leaders. Remember how they were removed from their homelands to accommodate their colonial masters. Today,there are an estimated 2 million Native Americans, and they are the most impoverished of all ethnic groups. According to the latest Census.

AVATAR: IS THEIR LEGACY . . .SOMEHOW!
Well done
hail to thee, noble James!

By: Rudolf

Rudolf — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:21:08 +0000

Mitu Sengupta over at ryeberg.com weighs up the various racism charges and decides in the end that they stick. Your point is well taken, but the popularity of the film, and the fact it fits into a long established Hollywood tradition of White Messiah films make it subject to so much analysis of its politics. Check it out:

http://ryeberg.com/curated-videos/avatar-race-relations-light-years-from-earth/

By: Tony C

Tony C — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:07:38 +0000

It’s such a nice looking film, and was so much fun. I have a hard time wondering how someone can be so angry they call this film racist.

Frankly, I think there is a chance it was an agent provacateur from some corporation, that didn’t like the film’s anti-corporate message.

Instead of talking opening up a dialogue about the damages of strip mining and mountain top removal we discussed the race card. Instead of discussing huge corporate aggressions into Africa & the Middle East, we talked about race. Instead of discussing the Supreme Court decision to up cap corporations to spend as much as they want on campaign contributions, we discussed race. Wow!

Way to support liberty & justice for all, by playing that race card.

Sad thing is, now with all the campaign contributions from the big corps on the way, you can forget ever having a candidate who is by the people for the people. It will be, by the Unobtainium, for the Unobtainium.

THAT was the message of the film. Not some whacked idea about a white savior.

Start paying attention to the big picture there race card. Yes there are still some idiots who are racist, but look around! We are light years away from the bullshit that was heaped upon Americans because of color. Light years!

Racist idiots are the exception today, not the rule. Anyone who speaks ill of someone based on their race, I tell them not offend me by assuming I’m a bigot also. I haven’t had to say that to someone in over 20 years. People have evolved away from that crap.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:37:45 +0000

Why not call Avatar homophobic too? I didn’t see any gay leaders!

Ridiculous. The reason people think it’s such a big deal is because they’re making a big deal out of it.

By: OZ

OZ — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:22:01 +0000

For the love of GOD!!!!!!!! It’s a movie!! A great movie at that and once again some jackass has to play the race card!! This nonsense gets frickin old and gets old quick and also was OLD a long damn time ago!! I have Native American blood in me as well as African american blood in my family and I am so tired of the race card being play from every angle on damn near everything that HAPPENS or is an ISSUE with whoever feels like everything offends them. I don’t expect every Anglo-American to apologize for Slavery to every African-American they see and I sure as hell don’t expect James Cameron to apologize for Avatar. Anyone who thinks this is racist even in the most minuscule way obviously has the IQ of a grapefruit. We have more important things in life to worry about, how are we going to pull this country together if everything has to be ran over with a fine tooth comb so we don’t RACIALLY upset ANYONE? Get over it and let’s start fixing the here and now to try and save it from the “CHANGE” that is SO obviously NOT working!!! I know this will piss someone off and you know what? I don’t care!!! Bring on the whiny little haters!!!

By: Julian

Julian — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:43:22 +0000

Another point: anti-racist fanatics see racism everywhere. If a black had been the hero, then they would complain about why they used a black actor to represent a traitor to his race? why didnt they use a white to represent a traitor?