1366: American Pimp

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Originally Posted by GossipTGirl

Not all black people live in 'the hood'. Not all black people who live in 'the hood' come from shitty, abusive or single-parent families. The issue doesn't come down to race. It's much more complex than that.

If anything, that movie should have made you classist. Or you should be discriminating against people who come from shitty, abusive families while living in 'the hood'. Or any minorities/black people (even white people) who the system has failed.

There are minorities and black people who beat the system.

I understand why it would make you racist but that doesn't make it forgivable.

Anyway, hopefully you're aware of all of that, but I still felt the need to say something.

Originally Posted by michelle3

I completely agree, saying it made her more racist was hard to read, the reaction of people to misfortune and stress and their original ways to try and live through hardship is not a matter of race but a humanity "thing"- life makes some people harder than others, perhaps scary and violent, even dangerous but it is not a matter of their color. If people came in Green and Blue they still would most probably act in those (or very similar) ways

i am not racist logically of consciously. i understand that people are people regardless of race and that some people grow up in shitty situations, etc. it's just a subconscious thing i have noticed in myself that i try to repress/remove but it gets reinforced every time a see a movie like that or walk pass a group of black kids talking in such bad/slang infused english that i can't even make out any meaning.

also i am a guy.