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How so? The jive-talking men are incomprehensible due to their subculture, not their race.

• raganwald 17y ago
  Right, so what I say in follow-up it that it IS offensive stereotyping, but it's stereotyping a subculture almost entirely confined to inner-city african-americans of the 1970s and not to any particular "race" in general (whatever that word means). My personal impression is that most people are quite blind to these subtleties. That's what prejudice is: Seeing something like this and assuming it applies to everyone with the same skin tones whether they are a wealthy, LSE-educated Ghanaian businessman or a crack dealer raised in the inner city. The people making the movie may or may not have such prejudices, but certainly stuff like this doesn't help. Then again, the movie probably wasn't trying to make fun of african-americans. My guess is that the movie was probably spoofing was the genre of Blaxploitation films that were popular at the time.