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<blockquote data-quote="Bullgrit" data-source="post: 5115602" data-attributes="member: 31216"><p>I've seen some complaints about how <em>The Bind Side</em> is racist because it shows a white mother/family taking in and helping a black kid. The complaints target on the idea that it takes benevolent whites to take care of a poor black.</p><p></p><p>"begs us to feel sorry for black people and feel grateful that there are white people in the world who can take [care] of them."</p><p></p><p>"peddles the most insidious kind of racism, one in which whiteys are virtuous saviors, coming to the rescue of blacks who become superfluous in narratives that are supposed to be about them..."</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-blankenship/should-we-want-movies-lik_b_293888.html" target="_blank">Mark Blankenship: Should We Want Movies Like Sandra Bullock's The Blind Side?</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.dallasobserver.com/2009-11-19/film/the-blind-side-what-would-black-people-do-without-nice-white-folks/" target="_blank">The Blind Side: What Would Black People Do Without Nice White Folks? - Page 1 - Movies - Dallas - Dallas Observer</a></p><p></p><p>Now, I find this kind of complaint strangly interesting. First off, the movie is based on a true story. Second, I wonder how differently people would take the movie if:</p><p></p><p>White mother/family takes in and helps a white kid.</p><p></p><p>Black mother/family takes in and helps a black kid.</p><p></p><p>Black mother/family takes in and helps a white kid.</p><p></p><p>This wondering made me try to think of movies with such stories. But my knowledge of movies is not that broad or deep. So I'm asking here:</p><p></p><p>What are some movies where a family (or family-like group) takes in a kid? What races were the family and kid? Would changing the races of the people have made the movie seem racist?</p><p></p><p>And for those of you who have seen <em>The Blind Side</em>, could the race of the family and kid have been changed without any change to the script? (Ignoring, for this, the fact that the story is based on real people.)</p><p></p><p>Bullgrit</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bullgrit, post: 5115602, member: 31216"] I've seen some complaints about how [i]The Bind Side[/i] is racist because it shows a white mother/family taking in and helping a black kid. The complaints target on the idea that it takes benevolent whites to take care of a poor black. "begs us to feel sorry for black people and feel grateful that there are white people in the world who can take [care] of them." "peddles the most insidious kind of racism, one in which whiteys are virtuous saviors, coming to the rescue of blacks who become superfluous in narratives that are supposed to be about them..." [url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-blankenship/should-we-want-movies-lik_b_293888.html]Mark Blankenship: Should We Want Movies Like Sandra Bullock's The Blind Side?[/url] [url=http://www.dallasobserver.com/2009-11-19/film/the-blind-side-what-would-black-people-do-without-nice-white-folks/]The Blind Side: What Would Black People Do Without Nice White Folks? - Page 1 - Movies - Dallas - Dallas Observer[/url] Now, I find this kind of complaint strangly interesting. First off, the movie is based on a true story. Second, I wonder how differently people would take the movie if: White mother/family takes in and helps a white kid. Black mother/family takes in and helps a black kid. Black mother/family takes in and helps a white kid. This wondering made me try to think of movies with such stories. But my knowledge of movies is not that broad or deep. So I'm asking here: What are some movies where a family (or family-like group) takes in a kid? What races were the family and kid? Would changing the races of the people have made the movie seem racist? And for those of you who have seen [i]The Blind Side[/i], could the race of the family and kid have been changed without any change to the script? (Ignoring, for this, the fact that the story is based on real people.) Bullgrit [/QUOTE]
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