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361999, RE: was the character racist or the writer?
Posted by meccau, Fri Apr-04-08 11:37 AM
>and if you think that isn't what the italian mob did you are
>out of your mind.
>
>in fact, that scene shows that the drug problem in the black
>community doesn't have to do with the fact that black folk are
>somehow disposed to drug use (if you want to talk about
>stereotypes people possess there is one for you) but rather
>there was a strategic effort to actively push narcotics into
>the black community while keeping it out of others.
>
>


That's cool. I have an idea about that in society, that's what i like about the movie, it shows you the real movers and shakers and its factual. I'm not naive, i have a clear idea about it. But that statement does ring out another question and interesting observation. They settle to all work together to keep heron in the black community, even the corleone's, by spreading the percentage across the board.

until corleone murks them.

I guess the major thing about me is how people like the characters and really appeal to it but don't really look pass the style and really go into the substance of the character, story, and history (revisionist or otherwise)

So the character wasn't racist, the writer wasn't racist, they were all businessmen, but like krs-one said, why is that?