I think its amusing that many people in movies, media, and the Internet claim that certain aspects of Star Wars are racist. Some of them are very good points, but I don't take them seriously. As a man of color myself, I think racism is often times hilarious. Here are some examples of racism in Star Wars.
We have Jar-Jar Binks, who speaks like a black slave. He follows the Jedi masters around and doing everything that they say. Jar-Jar is not that well educated and neither are his people.
Jar-Jar's people are the Gungan and the live benethe the rich white people of naboo. The people of Naboo are of much higher class, obviously repressing white people. They get to live in the sun while the Gungan have to live beneath them under water and In hiding.
In the Phantom Menace, we have the green skinned Neimoidians. They have Asian accents, with squinty eyes and flat faces. They are in charge of most of the technology In the Galaxy. Obviously they represent the Japanese, we just don't know which cooperation.
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I can see what your saying but I disagree. It is your own reading into it that makes you associate Jar-Jar Binks with having a "stereotypical black-slave" dialect. Jar-Jar isn't black, he's a Gungan. These so-called uneducated Gungans are vital to the story as they join the cause and help put down clone army. In my opinion, Star Wars just isn't racist and looking for it in these films is a strech.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Brian. People that feel films are racist for including mixed races, their languages, and social actions are looking for the racist undertones to be there. In fact, any film should be looked at as diverse by including other views. It should also be said that the same people who think such films are being racist, would say the film was again racist for not depicting other races and only having white, english speaking actors in it.
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