5150 Cruiser wrote:Capt.Failure wrote:I distinctly remember the theater having many African Americans present when I saw RotF the first time. These are were not teenage punks but adults with their kids. They found Skids and Mudflap hilarious.
There comes a point where you realize that political correctness causes more racism and hatred than it prevents.
As a black man (oops! I mean African american
) i couldn't agree more. My dad and i were laughing our butts off at the twins.
"This is what we call blend'in in like a ninja!"
"Undercover yo! You gots to blend in with your surroundings!"
After hearing about the race debate I searched YouTube to see what people of different backgrounds had to say about the film. Overwhelmingly, white British people in particular expressed the opinion that the twins were racist. On the other hand, while I did not find too many reviews by African Americans, or black people, or whatever the individuals wish to call themselves (especially if they are not Americans), the people I would have expected to be upset about the behavior and characterization of the twins loved them and could not stop laughing when referring to them. To me, that says PC people are full of it. But to PC people I think they "feel" the need to say something because they maybe look down on the people they "felt" were (unknowingly to themselves) being made fun of by the twins (I find PC people to be intellectually elitist, but that's just my own personal opinion as I'm a straight shooter and call it how I see it). FYI, I thought the culture the twins were satirizing was the white hip hop crowd, so that might make me a racist to some people who have no business calling anyone anything. But I digress...
