top 100 most racially awkward movie moments

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100) 'zero cool?? man i thought you was black!!' -hackers
99) disguise movie where dana carvey puts on brownface and talks like apu
98) forrest gumps child-like simplicity puts the black panthers in their place
97) lame marx brothers minstrel joke in a day at the races (especially offensive after the beautiful 'all gods children got rhythm' sequence before it)
96) will smith mocks jesse jackson in independence day- see white folks, the good blacks dont like him either!!
95) cuba and tom in that show me the money piece of shit, 'say you love the black man' 'i love the black man!! show me the money!!' ugh
94) motherfucking lost in translation!!

etc etc etc i could keep going but i got to go back to work so yall finish the rest

%%, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

btw its not a list of RACIST movie moments, its more like that part in first kid when sinbad goes 'thats right, its a black man wearing a suit!'- racially awkward

%%, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

93) Blazing Saddles.

Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

92) "Soul Man"? (Never saw it, just assuming so...)

91) That godzilla film "He's destroying everything ... Luckily he's in the black part of town"

mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

90) Tom Ewing arrives home from Bilbao, inserts newly-acquired Dr Bombay CD into stereo and presses play...

stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

it was a deleted scene...or i misread the thread, hang on

stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

89) Kate Smith in her one and only attempt at starring in a movie, 1933's Hello Everybody!, sings a song called "Pickaninnies Heaven" to 'a lot of little colored children who are listenin' in an orphanage in New York City'. Sample lyrics:

"Great big watermelons
Go round and get in your way....
Luscious pork chop bushes
Bloom right outside your door
In a pickaninnies' heaven!"

Jesus Christ. Never actually seen it and I definitely do NOT want to.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

90) the inter-racial love scene in Road Trip?

stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

88) long duk dong

%%, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

(I realize that this might not be racially awkward so much as racist, pace the second post on the thread, but I've been flabbergasted by it ever since I first read about it.)

Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:50 (twenty-one years ago)

What's wrong with inter-racial love scenes? (describe this one...)

mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

87) "But they're all the same!" - the last scene of Volcano, the most cringeworthy moment in recent movie history. We have just been shown footage of a black man, a white man and an Asian guy all covered in Ash. The line in question is uttered by a six-year old girl.

Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

86. Almost the entirety of "Live and Let Die"

TOMBOT, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

86) Selma Blair and Robert Wisdom in Storytelling (should be Top 10 really)

stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Ned: I dunno about racist/dubious, it's just the idea of singing cheerily about the place where dead children go if they're good...

mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

85) white rapper in scary movie 3 (also hilarious)

%%, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

84) dude holds pen up to shaft and shaft busts back (also awesome)

%%, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

83) any and all Chinese lodger scenes in Sixteen Candles [xpost someone already mentioned this didn't they]

82) not a movie, but any time Mark Lamarr has a black guest on Never Mind the Buzzcocks

Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

What's wrong with inter-racial love scenes? (describe this one...)
-- mark grout

watch the film (Road Trip), it's great! the love scene in question isn't racist at all but i think a lot of people still may have felt uneasy about it so it qualifies i think

stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:53 (twenty-one years ago)

stevem is correct road trip is the greatest film of all time (and ws filmed right here at uga)

%%, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

81) all of A TIME TO KILL!!!

%%, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I was just about to post that scene in Volcano. I remember wanting to puke whan I saw that.

Sengai, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

re 82 - Heck, Coolio was the best guest they ever had on. Martha Reeves too.

mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Chevy's plantation fantasy in Fletch Lives.

Will (will), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

80) The second-to-last scene of The Pelican Brief [repost] :

Julia and Denzel get out of the plane and they shake hands and then she walks away and turns around once more and trembles with passion and hugs him and gets in the car and drives away - and then Denzel's expression - I laughed so hard my stomach still hurts.

Frühlingsj4n (Wintermute), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

OH MY GOD NED THAT KATE BUSH THING SOUNDS STAGGERING!!!!!!

Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

The little number that Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra do in the 'classic' film "Holiday Inn" for president's day that involves an all-black waitstaff dressed in ludicrous George Washington costumes and a passel of rag-clad black women and children singing the praises of Lincoln for 'what he done for the darkies', along with plenty of obligatory tap dancing and eyeball popping. Amazing.

webcrack (music=crack), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

78) hopper taunts walken in true romance (i saw a dude giggling through this whole monologue to his gf once in the street and cringed then too)

%%, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

77) watching Steve Martin, Queen latifah and Eugene Levy sink to new lows in Bringing Down The House

stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

more 90s boring white ppl films plz!! yes yes movies were racist in the 30s but im talking abt stuff like the volcano thing!! (which is amazing btw thank you so much for telling me abt it)

%%, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

78) hopper taunts walken in true romance

otm, but what a scene

stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:00 (twenty-one years ago)

even though ive posted all kinds of examples already im really more interested stuff from movies that clearly have no business dealing w race, unlike something like blazing saddles which is intentionally hilarious

%%, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:01 (twenty-one years ago)

unintentionally unhilarious, too.

RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

77) bathrobed tarantino says nigger a bunch and makes sam jackson his whimpering subordinate

%%, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:02 (twenty-one years ago)

im really more interested stuff from movies that clearly have no business dealing w race

SPIKE LEE TO THREAD!

stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

76) oompah loompahs!!! (haha xpost fuck you stevem)

%%, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:04 (twenty-one years ago)

75 - WHITE MEN CAN'T JUMP!

Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

haha 'a black man would rather miss a shot than look bad'

%%, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

also for inspiring eight million 'white men cant xxxx' headlines

%%, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

74) Mr Yunioshi

Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

73 - Jesus Christ Superstar's black Judas

Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:07 (twenty-one years ago)

72 - Men in Black Men. That's gotta HURT.

Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

haha what abt the porno in dirty work 'men in black who have sex with each other'

%%, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

plz stop me from just turning this into a thread of dirty work quotes

%%, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

71) Strange Days

the whole Jericho-One thing

stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

70 - Ben Jahrvi's accent in Short Circuit

Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

69) not seen it but surely something from this

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000IQCY.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg


looks like a real hoot

stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Archel's so OTM re: Mr Yunioshi. Marrs an otherwise lovely film.

Anna (Anna), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

haha i remember REALLY wanting to see white mans burden!!

%%, Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

68.) Tim Robbins visits Martin Lawrence in his home and sees that Martin has had his application for financial assistance to college turned down. That is why the crazy ol' Martin tries to carjack people. (Nothing to Lose)

Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

we're getting into hardkore ilx clusterfuck territory here but i think theres some analogy in like the old sfj eminem/diplo minstrelsy thread - dudes who rode into the game on a lot of black cool (detroit freestyle battles, hollertronix dirty south ish, sam jackson & foxxy brown) on their road to fame and ditch it once they get to the top

― and what, Thursday, February 12, 2009 5:10 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is BS imo... the first thing he did when he got on top was make jackie brown

s1ocki, Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:16 (sixteen years ago)

STILL it's a huge build up and the "eggplant" is bathetic... it's like he's going to say something even worse than n---er!

"Eggplant" in Italian is something along the lines of (phonetically) "moo-lin-yan", which as I understand it is their version of the n-word.

kingkongvsgodzilla, Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:16 (sixteen years ago)

at arguably his most popular, can-do-whatever-the-fuck-he-wants point in his career

s1ocki, Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:16 (sixteen years ago)

jeez, 2 of the 3 triumphant heroes in death proof were black. the movie doesn't indict or humiliate either of them in any "racially awkward" way.

noticing the cloud come (contenderizer), Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:17 (sixteen years ago)

i mean, if vivica and daryll's roles had been reversed, would that have been better?

if things had been completely different, would they have been the same, or different???? itsamystery.jpg

given that kill bill was basically a genre western crossed with a genre samurai flick crossed with a genre chopsocky flick i'm kind of surprised there were any black characters at all

Tracer Hand, Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:17 (sixteen years ago)

guyz i didnt see death proof

and what, Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:17 (sixteen years ago)

but if you HAD you have to admit you would be wrong

s1ocki, Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:18 (sixteen years ago)

go see it its awesome

Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:18 (sixteen years ago)

this is BS imo... the first thing he did when he got on top was make jackie brown

― s1ocki, Thursday, February 12, 2009 12:16 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah but if he kept making movies that did as well as jackie brown where would he be?

and what, Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:18 (sixteen years ago)

did anyone mention mark wahlberg calling a dude a house nigger in four bros... it seems like he drops an n-bomb or two in all his movies

my heigl-lohan girl (who's also latina and half-jewish) (cankles), Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:18 (sixteen years ago)

did anyone mention mark wahlberg calling a dude a house nigger in four bros... it seems like he drops an n-bomb or two a funky bunch in all his movies

Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:20 (sixteen years ago)

im sure that was a real stretch for marky mark

and what, Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:21 (sixteen years ago)

this is BS imo... the first thing he did when he got on top was make jackie brown

― s1ocki, Thursday, February 12, 2009 12:16 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah but if he kept making movies that did as well as jackie brown where would he be?

― and what, Thursday, February 12, 2009 5:18 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

in my good graces

s1ocki, Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:21 (sixteen years ago)

At approximately 9:00 p.m. on April 8, 1988 Thanh Lam, a Vietnamese adult male who resides in Dorchester, traveled by car to 998 Dorchester Avenue, Dorchester, Massachusetts. At 998 Dorchester Avenue, Thanh Lam left his car carrying two cases of beer. As he crossed the sidewalk, Mark Wahlberg attacked Thanh Lam. Wahlberg was carrying a large wooden stick, approximately five feet long and two to three inches in diameter. Wahlberg approached Thanh Lam calling him a "Vietnam fucking shit," then hit him over the head with the stick. Thanh Lam was knocked to the ground unconscious. Th[e] stick broke in two and was later recovered from the scene. Thanh Lam was treated overnight at Boston City Hospital.

After police arrested Wahlberg later on the night of April 8, 1988, Wahlberg was informed of his rights and returned to the scene of 998 Dorchester Avenue. In the presence of two police officers, he stated: "You don't have to let him identify me, I'll tell you now that's the mother-fucker who's head I split open," or words to that effect.

As a police officer arrived at the scene of 998 Dorchester Avenue, Wahlberg and two other youths who were with him fled up Dorchester Avenue toward Pearl Street.

Shortly after 9:00 p.m. on April 8, 1988, Hoa Trinh, an adult Vietnamese male who resides in Dorchester, was standing several blocks away from 998 Dorchester Avenue, near the corner of Dorchester Avenue and Pearl Street. Hoa Trinh was not aware of the altercation outside of 998 Dorchester Avenue.

Wahlberg ran up to Hoa Trinh, put his arm around Hoa Trinh's shoulder, and said: "Police coming, police coming, let me hide." After a police cruiser passed, Wahlberg punched Trinh in the eye, causing him to fall to the ground.

Police arrived and Hoa Trinh identified Wahlberg as the person who punched him. Wahlberg was placed under arrest and read his rights. Thereafter he made numerous unsolicited racial statements about "gooks" and "slant-eyed gooks." After being returned to 998 Dorchester Avenue, Wahlberg identified Thanh Lam as the person he hit over the head with a stick.

and what, Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:21 (sixteen years ago)

ya i was gonna say

s1ocki, Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:21 (sixteen years ago)

also the funky bunch was originally a white nationalist organization

s1ocki, Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:22 (sixteen years ago)

it seems like stevemartin.jpg is racially awkward in almost every movie he's ever been in

Tracer Hand, Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:23 (sixteen years ago)

although the jerk probably wins

Tracer Hand, Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:23 (sixteen years ago)

the only funky bunch trivia i know is that "good vibrations" was the only number one hit for loletta holloway (as a "featured artist" for the funky sensation sample)

and what, Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:24 (sixteen years ago)

My cousin has a faun pug that was birthed by two black pugs, and when i met said pug, my cousin did the bit from the Jerk "I was born a poor black child."

Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:25 (sixteen years ago)

top 100 racially awkward whiney g weingarten moments

and what, Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:25 (sixteen years ago)

who else is trying to think of a racially-charged subway joke right now

max, Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:26 (sixteen years ago)

37. barks at subway counter girl to "hold the swiss", turns out she just immigrated to america from zurich

and what, Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:26 (sixteen years ago)

only you two can ruin a post about pugs.

Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:28 (sixteen years ago)

http://puppydogweb.com/gallery/pugs/pug_beckett1.jpg

Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:29 (sixteen years ago)

http://www.blackweb20.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/subway.jpg

•--• --- --- •--• (Pleasant Plains), Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:30 (sixteen years ago)

Damn, well played.

Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:30 (sixteen years ago)

ahahahaha no f'n way

and what, Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:30 (sixteen years ago)

O_O

s1ocki, Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:30 (sixteen years ago)

loooool

Ecstasy Mother Forster (special guest stars mark bronson), Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:31 (sixteen years ago)

no

no no no no no no

Tracer Hand, Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:31 (sixteen years ago)

giving abraham lincoln a dollar-sign bolo is the last straw - i am never eating fresh again

Tracer Hand, Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:32 (sixteen years ago)

FIVE $ HOLLA

TEXT A HOLLA

EMAIL A HOLLA

and what, Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:33 (sixteen years ago)

the sound off button implies some serious music accompaniment

s1ocki, Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:33 (sixteen years ago)

too bad its not archived, that ad's sound effects were fuckin nuts

cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:35 (sixteen years ago)

slocki you keep one upping me man

cool app (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:35 (sixteen years ago)

this is the worst, from boondock saints:

memo from norv turner (omar little), Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:36 (sixteen years ago)

and what, Thursday, 12 February 2009 17:38 (sixteen years ago)

two weeks pass...

racially awkward finance charticles?

http://www.mint.com/blog/finance-core/golden-parachutes-how-the-bankers-went-down/

(scroll down)

cindy (goole), Friday, 27 February 2009 22:46 (sixteen years ago)

haha, that's fantastic: they suddenly ran into the best conceptual test of whether pictographs are meant to be iconographic or depict specific people -- all because of the "unmarked category"

nabisco, Friday, 27 February 2009 22:59 (sixteen years ago)

one year passes...

werewolf native american tribe in Twilight

crüt, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 23:59 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

not a movie, but

http://www.askmen.com/dating/curtsmith_150/174_dating_advice.html

nice pic

goole, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 19:21 (fifteen years ago)

never read the articles never read the articles never read the articles ten deep breaths one

two

three

the soul of the avocado escapes as soon as you open it (Laurel), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 19:38 (fifteen years ago)

holy fuk. whoever wrote that should be beaten.

used to bull's-eye Zach Wamps in my T-16 back home (will), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 19:49 (fifteen years ago)

askmen is a well-known cesspool, but that photo...

goole, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 19:49 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCEHqCoHWUk

I had somehow forgotten all about this. Start at about 5:30.

SNEEZED GOING DOWN STEPS, PAIN WHEN PUTTING SOCKS ON (Deric W. Haircare), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 20:14 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

Brad Pitt speaking in patois in Meet Joe Black.

Humbert Humberto Suazo (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 17 July 2010 14:08 (fifteen years ago)

E'ryt'ing gon' be irie.

Humbert Humberto Suazo (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 17 July 2010 14:11 (fifteen years ago)

That Hardly Working one is def. RACIST not "awkward". Fuck you, Jerry Lewis.

underneath the moon and the stars (Whitey on the Moon), Sunday, 18 July 2010 01:22 (fifteen years ago)

one month passes...

- the man who shot liberty valance. at the end of the film, jimmy stewart shares a touching moment with woody strode, who plays john wayne's hired hand. then he hands him a wad of cash and says "pork chop money."

real s1ock (s1ocki), Monday, 6 September 2010 21:26 (fifteen years ago)


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