Hollywood has a long history of having a racist agenda that many may not be so prevalent today. There are hundreds of movies highlighting stereotypes, white actors in black-face, and down right racist story lines. The crazier thing is, some of these films have received critical acclaims. Despite having a liberal reputation some movies made today still have racist elements.
We’ve compiled our list of the top 15 worst racist disregards ever made in Hollywood. Check it out and give your opinion.
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You do realise that “Hindu people” are not a race, right? Hinduism is a religion. The villains in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom were not actually Hindu, but Thuggee – a completely different religion. The movie is racist towards Indian people, but you can’t actually be racist towards a religion.
EXCELLENT point. most people never heard of thugee. The word thug is derived from the cult of Thugee. Thug Behram was the creator of the cult that strangled upwards of 30,000 people as sacrifices to KALI, the hindu god of creation, preservation AND destruction. Thug Behram is thought to have strangled up to 931 people himself.
BUT the goddess they worshiped WAS a hindi god, they were born hindus – just interested in a little sacrifice towards their preferred HINDI goddess. Also made a living robbing their ‘sacrifices’. Hindus are still today frequently arrested for kidnap and sacrifice of children in rituals, so don’t get yourself too high and mighty about it.
The movie is NOT racist towards anybody anyway. Good point on the religion is not a race thing though.
yo rebecca obama/bush have kill mo peoples than behram.$ get off your racist high.hundu dont sacrifices living things.your coment there is pure hate!western media always show lies about asian peoples period,
Donte that was the most illiterate thing i have read in a while, are you trying to continue a stereotype with that kind of comment?
Most of your information on the Thuggee cult is based on testimony from the British Raj, who had a vested interest in lying about Hinduism, the Thuggees, and Indian people in general. Please stop representing their propaganda as actual facts.
Also, that movie is one of the most racist movies I’ve ever seen, and I say this as an actual Indian person. Unless you believe Indian people eat monkey brains and practice ritual sacrifice. Not to mention the godawful Asian stereotyping in the beginning with Chinese gangsters.
God save me from Indiana Jones fans who refuse to acknowledge the blatant racism of this movie.
I never heard of anyone being scared of brown people because of this film – and I saw it theaters. when I was young. This being on here is stupid.
If you must pull hairs than Xenophobic, fear of the “other”; fear of something or someone different be it a religion or a group of people is probably more accurate. Nontheless xenophobia exists in the same socially reprehensible realm as active and passive racial hate.
This idiot knows nothing. Making up stuff about 80 year old movies. What about all the racist Black movies? Huh huh?
Interesting! But don’t forget Jackie Brown, where the n word is used many, MANY times – the most I’ve heard of in one film. Coach Carter was correct: If you don’t want the white man to call you that, don’t call yourselves that. Also, Die Hard 3 should be on the list. The sight of John McClaine [Bruce Willis] walking around in Harlem with an insanely racist message on a sandwich board is a scream – until you are screaming as the brothers chase you.
Sorry, but you don’t get to dictate how an oppressed group refers to themselves. If you’re not black, you don’t get to use it, and you don’t get to tell them they can’t use it. That’s not your call to make, you are not the arbiter of language and how people use it.
Your right Maria, no one should dictate how a group refers to themselves. But on that note, the word will not go away if it is used over and over. And as you mention “you are not the arbiter of language and how people use it.” So don’t be surprised when racists use the term.
Nigga please lol you don’t have your own words you moron! You keep the stereotype alive with your stupidity! And I can say Nigga or Nigger anytime I choose and im a White Man. Your bitch ass ain’t telling me what I can say. Your word huh? Dumb-ass!!!
Don’t you just love Key Board tuff guys. Come to DC and say that with your chest!
“Anti-Semantic”?
That American classic you mention is Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Not Tiffanies.
And nothing from Spike Lee, one of the most racist, anti-white directors around? Just a list that tries to purport anti-black sentiment. Not saying you’re wrong, just that I think you maybe should have balanced it out a bit.
THANK you – Spike Lee, the self righteous prig who demands every white movie have black characters, regardless of what the movie is about or whether any white people would have been involved with whatever the movie is depicting. He makes me vomit. I despise him on every level. Well he did make some good movies, but, also his movies pretty much only use black people – so his double standard as when he attacked Clint Eastwood for his WW2 movie about the raising of the flag famous photo, stating he could have and should have used blacks, and black people were in WW2 blah blah – but that regiment didn’t have any blacks. Clint Eastwood said he thought Spike lee should shut his big fat mouth.
You should look up that story, it’s incredibly funny – they had a verbal sparring match back and forth via journalists.
You are clearly a racist troll and none of your arguments are worth refuting. Please go be white and stupid somewhere else.
Fuck off, you attention whore. There’s an Apu needing attention somewhere. Nobody, regardless of race and/or religion, likes whiny and ignorant attention whores. Go play that race card somewhere else, you ignorant, stupid bitch.
Spike Lee is talented but also bigoted and a racist prick. The man has a point there; if you lack the brains to argue, then go bang your head on a wall, sister. You obviously have an inferiority complex against white people and, above all, you’re dumb as Hell for taking movies seriously.
Don’t like ‘em? Do what I do: don’t watch them., you pathetic wretch.
Well put and simply said…
“but that regiment didn’t have any blacks.”
This is false. Even Clint Eastwood didn’t go that far. What he said was that there weren’t any blacks in the group that raised the flag (true). Then Lee pointed out all of the blacks that went up the hill with them (also true), and the numerous blacks who fought in the battle alongside them (also true), and then Clint Eastwood told him to shut his mouth.
Memo to Hollywood: all non-white persons must be depicted in a positive light. It’s done!
My list would be as follows: “Channon Christian” (about the brutal rape and murder of a young white woman by a gang of blacks and how the story was virtually ignored by the media.)
“The Duke Scandal” (depicting the phony accusations of rape by a black woman against white students and how the media inflamed the entire fabrication.)
These films and a thousand others I could name are racist because they’ve NEVER BEEN MADE due to Hollywood’s politically correct cowardly mandate to never offend blacks. So count your blessings, blacks of America, the distortions of Hollywood are now on your side.
…sure, the problem with Hollywood is it’s deeply ingrained determination to be fair black people. That’s what it does these days.
As long as they don’t want to be actors, obviously.
gt really is out there..dude,you honestly have a small mind and live in a small sheltered world. you saying what you said definitely points to your racist beliefs. thank god the world is changing so that those that think(and act) like yourself are diminishing and becoming almost obsolete..goodbye dino..you wont be missed
White Dog is NOT a racist movie! It’s a fascinating tale ABOUT racism. Do your homework!
Not only is White Dog an anti-racist story,; it’s also hard to say that Paramount was fine with the movie, as the article claims, given that they never released it once it was completed
I agree with you but, to be fair, a movie can have progressive intentions and still wind up being racist.
Plenty of stuff in the ’60′s can be pointed to to underline this, but ‘Walk Hard’ already made the point better than I would.
Anti-semantic rants? Really? You need to be edited more carefully.
Everyone and everything is racist these days … just as long as they are White. Drop the guilt trip and embrace the White Race. Join the Church of Creativity and fight for White Rights. CreativityAlliance.com
Church of Creativity? Seriously, what has creativity have to do with conforming to a religion? And fighting? All glory hypnotoad…
Your reply sounds as much like a hypnotoad as the comment you replied too. Hypnosheep.
The church of CREATIVITY doesn’t refer to being a creative person, it refers to ‘creation’ as in what god did. The church of creativity believes people should worship their own race, over any fake god creature.
I thought that sounded interesting, so I checked it out. If that’s the pinnacle of human evolution, we all might as well kill ourselves right now. I would definitely want to if I were one of these supposed “Women of Revolution.” Why anyone would worship any kind of humans is beyond me. “Worship”? Really? I worship no human because none has earned such a thing. I hope I’m wrong about any gender inequality, but a man wrote that bible and most of the website, and the women’s articles have only initials. What’s going on with the pictures of the cleavage and tape measure and of course the woman from the revolution painting with her shirt ripped half off? If it had been painted recently, it would likely be more bare than that.
“Show preferential treatment in business dealings with members of your own race. Phase out all dealings with Jews as soon as possible. Do not employ niggers or other coloreds. Have social contacts only with members of your own racial family.” By posting here or even going to this site, this Reverend is breaking his own rule. He isn’t a separatist or a revolutionary, he’s a typical human male and the direct cause of all the world’s problems. It’s also very alarming to imagine the amount of indoctrination this congregation is subjected to. It’s easy to claim supremacy when you can’t listen to any other opinions that might make more sense. Actually, if nature is truly the ultimate decider and combines the best qualities of a species in the evolutionary process, the separatist lifestyle makes no sense whatsoever. The idea that anyone outside the group has nothing to offer in the realms of intelligence, talent, and physical prowess is ludicrous unless he’s the smartest man alive. Transhumanists and their societies most likely trounce everyone, or will, as much as I hate to admit it.
I wish could discuss everything wrong with that website, but I’ve already spent to much time on it as it is.
And, whoever wrote this article, please be more accurate and grammatically correct! This contribution doesn’t promote equality, it gives racists an example of stupidity to show everyone who will look.
“Rebecca” is a Semitic name from the Abrahamic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, btw. Just so you know. Mine is, too, but I don’t care about all of that. And mine is about someone who rebuked the male leadership of the time for refusing to go to battle without her.
Now I have to continue my research on the Carlyle Group. If you want to hate someone, hate them instead. I promise not to bring any “coloreds” back to the US with the intention of de-whiting your people. Okay? Get in touch if you need to talk. I was in a group like that before. More than one, but the second was not by choice. The “pastor” was basically the opposite of all he claimed, and that’s all I’m going to say.
Your reverend, though… interesting person, there. That’s someone I would have a long conversation with. Not the smartest man in the world, yes, illogical, yes, racist because of fickle fortune, definitely, but stupid? No.
I think you need to drop the inferiority complex, dude. There are far more movies racist towards white dudes these days, but you won’t see us complaining, because wee’re happy being white.
Since the 1980s the most authoritative figure in any movie is now black.
Fact (of the racist variety).
Yeah, when will people realize that we get discriminated against too? I think that us white people should fight back because we’ve heard other races complain ad infinitum about discrimination. Are they saying white people don’t suffer discrimination? WTF as they say.
No, they’re saying white people don’t suffer nearly as much discrimination. Which we don’t. Even remotely pretending we do is offensive; by “fight back” you mean “avoid doing anything about massive injustice by whining about how sometimes it’s bad for you too”.
If there are “far more movies racist towards white dudes these days”, name them. Your generalizations show how ignorant you are.
“Since the 1980s the most authoritative figure in any movie is now black.” Again, examples? Otherwise you’re just rambling idiot thoughts and claiming them as fact.
And if your example in any way includes Morgan Freeman, you should really take a course in race relations and analysis in popular culture because your opinions are not only unsubstantiated, they lack any sort of evidence or insight. Look up the “Magical Negro” effect and you maybe your world will open up and you’ll discover how stupid you truly are.
Well, you are certainly not a ‘magic negro’ but just the common variety.
I don’t know about movies, but, it’s very common, as in say TV series about police and/or forensic technics for the Boss to be black and/or a black female, for the intellectual scientists to mostly be black, black forensic geniuses, blah blah blah. OKAY the exist, DEFINITELY in the lopsided world of government funded jobs where blacks are hired or promoted ‘just because’ but the television shows I watch, i get sick of the constant portrayals which outnumber population realities, just due to numbers.
Also, seeing as how you are american, count yourself as having at LEAST the average of 18% Europoid DNA, meaning – you aren’t really BLACK. Not like from days gone by and not like in Africa.
I see most of the comments are negative and for good reason, the guy who wrote this article is a complete idiot. Poorly conceived idea, pathetically poorly written and grossly uninformed. What an embarassment.
Totally agree with burkanuck. This feature has been written by an amateur who clearly knows little about film. Along with the annoying pop-under ads that you get for every new page, this is my first visit to this site, and my last.
I appreciate you saying White Chicks is racist. But what about White Man Can’t Jump? What about Legally Blonde? Is there something wrong with having blonde hair! Do I need a permit to say “yeah you can have blonde hair.” I think you deliberately missed these ones because there is this notion that you can somehow be racist towards white people and it’s ok because of “white guilt.”
Passion of the Christ is a story that’s been told for 2000 years and so how could it be racist? It’s “racist” because people don’t like the story more like it.
Legally Blonde isn’t racist nearly so much as it’s misogynist.
(And I love your thesis that a story 2000 years old can’t be racist. Because, you know, people were such equal-opportunity liberals in the Roman empire.)
Who proofread this thing? More grammatical errors than some essays I’ve seen by elementary school students.
Wow, this site blows, and the writer is a moron. I’m getting the feeling that he didn’t even watch half these movies, nor did he have an editor check his work. Last time I’m coming here.
No proofreaders on your staff, apparently.
If The Last Samurai was/is racist…then The Last Samurai in space…aka AVATAR is racist for the exact same reason…because its pretty much the exact same plot. But in space. And whats more racist than replacing Japanese actors with 10′ blue aliens!
RACIST!!!!
Sister Act is also racist too. White folks cant sing until a black woman shows up? RACIST!!!!
All of the Beverly Hills Cops movies are racist. All white cops are bumbling fools until the slick, streetwise Eddie Murphy shows up and teaches them how to be real police? RACIST!!!!!
Yes. Your point?
some needs to call Jesse Jackson and his protege Toure…hollywood is chalk full of racists!!! The original Planet of the Apes? Racist. the lighter skinned orangutans rule the place while the darker skin gorilllas are the muscle.
and tyler perry is a racist too. he does all those ‘angry black women’ movies. is that racist trying to suggest there are no calm, collected, rational black women out there??
what a racist.
someone call Al Sharpton.
and lets not forget True Lies with Arnold and Jamie Lee Curtis! totally racist! how dare they portray radical islamists as violent terrorists! If the violent radical islamists ever find out about THAT movie, well they just might storm a nearby embassy just to show how upset they are about being protrayed as violent.
on second thought…hold off…they are still up in arms over that last film…
Major League? Racist.
the two black guys are a speedy flashy street type hustler (who cons his way to tryouts) and the voodoo practicing large black guy who cant hit the curve.
RACIST!
“large black guy who cant hit the curve. ”
’cause we all know the black guys always wanna tap that curve.
Temple of Doom has nothing to do on this list. That particular Indian community was under the influence of a cult and were in no way meant to represent the Indians as a whole. Besides, it’s a big plot point that most of them are under mind control.
And the logic for the Last Samurai is also very weak. Just because the main character is white and is helpful to the the Japanese doesn’t mean it’s racist. The whole point of the film is him realizing that the Japanese culture is precious and must be preserved.
No, the whole point of the film is that the Japanese are somehow incapable of preserving their own culture until a visiting white guy helps them. That it thinks it’s making the opposite point doesn’t make it less guilty of that cliche.
No, actually that’s not even remotely the point of the film. And the fact that you seem to think it is makes me question whether or not you’ve even seen it.
I’m not a Tom Cruise fan, so I haven’t seen the entire movie either. On the other hand, I HAVE seen enough to know that it’s about a White Guy who uses the information he possesses to help Group B (the group being attacked) defend themselves and defeat a Group A who is numerically superior, far more skilled in the arts and stratagems of war, and generally Not Nice People.
Very condescending piece, which incites some of the most moronic, neanderthal comments I have ever seen. Almost as bad as reading the insanity spewed by USC professor Todd Boyd, who would find racism in a bowl of guacamole.
How is Blazing Saddles not on here????
If Mickey Rooney’s character in “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” is a “Japanese-American”, then I suppose Nelson Mandela is an “African-American”, Osama bin-Ladin was an “Arab-American”, and Queen Elizabeth is an “English-American”?
Mel Gibson is CATHOLIC. He portrayed Jews as Jesus’ killers. If he wanted to discredit Jesus because of anti-semitism, he would have not portrayed the crucifixion at all, since it’s the whole point of Jesus’ life.
Passion of the Christ is racist because they killed a jew in it? Is this whole list just troll bait? Wow, what is the site?
I’m amazed that you can have a list of Hollywood’s most racist films and not mention “My big fat Greek Wedding”.
Short Circuit should be on here as well… it features Fisher Stevens (a white actor) portraying an Indian character, stereotypical accent and all.
North, from 1994, when Elijah Wood was still a kid features a scene where Kathy Bates and Graham Greene portray an Induit/Eskimo family. Which sucks because it’s more or a less a children/family film. I completely forgot about that scene/characters until I just re-watched the movie and it was pretty disheartening.
Basically speaking, it’s racist in film and media for WHITE ACTORS to portray people of color and even more so when they use accents/dress/other things extremely stereotypical. If it’s a black actor portraying a black character (i.e. The Green Mile)… it may be stereotypical and rooted not without some form of preconceived prejudices, no doubt. But it’s much, much more racist for a white actor to portray a non-white character.
Also, regards to My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
The country of Greece is an ethnicity of Caucasian people.
Nia Vardalos, the writer/director of MBFGW, is of Greek heritage herself (well, Greek-Canadian to be specific. She is from Canada with Greek ancestry.). The cast was basically all white actors.
Stereotypical? Yes, but not even close to racist… because the woman is Greek, and Greek isn’t a race.
Funny how racism is perceived in the United States. It seems that only human beings with white pigmented skin CAN be racist, whereas those human beings with darker pigmented skin bear the right of being victims of bespoke racism……a historical “bonus” carried over for nearly a century since the segregation wars or beyond.
Movies aside, I don’t think that some white people have really tried to understand what its like to be discriminated against based on the colour of your skin. Look at the statistics and you will see the gross inequalities that exist in your society. Yes every race is portrayed using stereotypes in Hollywood but how many of those stereotypes are grounded in hurtful, harmful, vicious forms of racism. Racism is something that I experience every day, people think I am going to be vulgar, that I am going to fight them, they see me at work they think I am a office attendant, they see me in a store they think I work there, they are dismissive and condescending and when my supervisor tells them the same thing they are OK.
Lies Dainty!!! If you look for racism, you will find it! Get away from the color and the hate and look for love and peace and you will find it…
I don’t want to be all “but there’s a mistake, let’s talk about it,” but it looks like this piece could have been a lot smarter. Here’s the thing: I haven’t seen White Dog. Is the description misleading, or the author’s conclusion completely wrong? It sounds like it’s explicitly about racism, not an endorsement of it. The IMdB seems to back this up. I’d love to see a really thoughtful piece that goes deep on this and brings up some surprising choices, if anybody has anything to recommend. Or if anybody can explain how the dog killing the black trainer at the end is an insane person’s endorsement of killing the black trainer instead of a deliberately bleak ending, that would be helpful.
I thought this link sounded interesting, so I clicked and started flipping through the images and reading the tirade. Needless to say, I was not impressed.
Most people have never even heard of most of these movies. Several others were never intended to be taken seriously. I mean…Indiana Jones? I’m a huge fan of the movies, at least until the most recent one, but seriously? Anyone who takes Indiana Jones as anything other than pure pulp needs to go back to film school. There was never a moment, even when I was a child and watched them for the first time, that I took them seriously. They were pure action and fun. In case you missed it, in your hurry to find racism, they portrayed MOST of India in a very good light- friendly, loving, etc. It was only the rich and powerful who were portrayed in another way- and, in fact, it was the ones who’d had the most contact with the British that were portrayed in the negative light. Thus, your racism cry doesn’t quite work out.
White Girls? Seriously? The movie was just dumb. Racism? Maybe a (failed) comedic look at the effects of it, at most. The movie itself certainly wasn’t racist in the way the author seems to think.
The Passion Of The Christ? Check your history, or at least your Bible. It was faithful to what truly happened. And doesn’t paint Jews in a particularly bad light, unless you’re just looking for reasons to complain about a religious themed movie.
I could keep going, but I think I’ve made my point. The most this article has done is make me want to watch the movies for myself, something the author most obviously didn’t even try to do, to see what has everybody so upset about.
The heading of this article says it all… How can you call this journalism? “Might be,” really? Please post real articles, not your racist opinion pieces. It’s sad that most articles by this author are about racism or “black celebrities who make the most money” or “top black actors.” You have readers by all races, so maybe open up your narrowed stream. Thank you for hopefully my point of view.
Well i guess every movie is racist, for just put a protagonist white
“If you don’t think that two black brothers dressed up in white-face, commenting on social stereotypes of wealthy white people is racist, then you’re wrong.”
I’ve got news for you, Mr. Cohen. Black people cannot be “racist” or exert racism over white people because black people do not have the institutionalized power to implement racist policy. In other words, YOU are wrong because you clearly don’t know what the word racism means.
THANK YOU! and just to tag on that. You steal them from their land, you take their name from them and place on them the title “black” while calling your “pink” skin “white” to set up a hierarchy for yourselves. You manipulate them through your language and Bibles and take them completely out of their element where they can no longer honor their mother or father because they no longer know them and then get mad if they express any ill feelings they have towards this. How about admit your faults and build a dialogue about how can we amend for over 400 years of slavery. How can we amend for the images we put on television to brainwash our own people to hate, dislike, etc… you’re clueless. Step out of the age of Aquarius into the age of Leo. If you even get what I’m saying. If not study study study and don’t say shit til you can come back with an educated answer. Robots.
has no one mentioned The Last Samurai? This guy didnt even get any of the facts about the Japanese right in this, He claims that in 6 months they hadnt learned to use a modern rifle. First off they were a great fighting machine when Tom Cruise came back after those 6 months (hence why all the other samurais died at the end of the movie). Second they had never shot a modern weapon before the Americans got there, of course it would take some time to learn how to use a gun from that age, that’s why they hadnt learned enough to go into battle when Cruise’s character got captured, especially against an enemy who is one of the best fighting forces ever to walk the earth. Third Tom Cruises character was already a good soldier so it wouldnt be a surprise he could learn their fighting techniques. Fourth he was surrounded by people he at the time only spoke Japanese, of course he would’ve had to learn that language in those 6 months, most people if they are fully emersed in a language will learn how to speak that language. Do your homework Joe Cohen, did you even watch that movie? Also your grammar is horrible through this whole article, i seriously hope nobody pays you for this
Annoying to see people who are unwilling to educate themselves, research and come with an educated response. For one thing, several of you used the word anti-semitic. How about looking up the definition because I never heard any one say anything against Jews, which the word specifically applies to. Another thing, both blacks and whites keep perpetuating the problems. Whites who are unwilling to admit how they caused all of these issues with bigotry, hate, and jealousy ( understandable seeing that they’re the descendants of Cain). And Blacks, because of the brainwashing and manipulation continue to call themselves Blacks (which there is no such thing as). So if you want to end racism… stop referring to yourselves as titles that were given to you by people that came after you. and that word Nigger just keeps you from reaching your full potential as a species, culture and a people. You love to take pride in the scraps given to you. They fed you the left overs of the pig and now you LOVE chitlins They left to you the ghettos and you say “ghetto fabulous”. Wake up fools. All of you are just arguing because you’re emotional time bombs trying to find out who’s the blame and who’s at fault and not a single one of you seem to be looking within and saying “I’m part of the problem.” Be the change you want to see in the world or shut up and die.
How about realizing the true agenda behind them all. Which is what the book “The Art Of War” calls Divide and Conquer. As long as you keep arguing on the petty plain of consciousness you are on you’ll continue to carry out that evil plan that none of you will ultimately benefit from. The ones who even started this blog/post is definitely part of the problem and not part of the solution. How about attacking people who even bring up this topic. Or better yet – if there’s even a hint of racism in a movie and you’re aware of it (and none of you are dumb enough not to be obviously) then be moral and wise enough to take a firm stance against watching it. Unless you’re just that much in a zombie state you can’t resist.
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And the most racist of all? Trotting out the morality of movies made a hundred years ago as evidence of where we are as a people today, while we have a black American in his second term in the White House. It’s over. Get over yourself.
Why is Gone with the Wind on here? The novel took place during the civil war in the SOUTH. I was glorifying the south? Her life was better before the end of slavery? OBVIOUSLY. She was the daughter or a wealthy plantation owner who grew up with a superiority complex of course her life was better before. What did you expect? The South was horrendously vicious to slaves, but they were not the main focus. The South was so enamored with their superiority thats a fact. You know what would have been worse? To act as if the obvious racial discrimination didn’t exist.