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Breakfast at Tiffany's
Year: 1961
In the history of inexplicable Hollywood racism, Breakfast at Tiffany’s takes the mother****in’ rice cake. Nobody would've noticed had director Blake Edwards removed the random, inconsequential character of Mr. Yunioshi, gold digging Holly Golightly’s bumbling, annoying Japanese neighbor, but there he is, sticking out like the two-inch buckteeth Mickey Rooney in yellowface sports to complete his look and ensure that the movie, like his portrayal, is ah-so disrespectfur.
2. Planet of the Apes
Year: 1968
"No, no," they say, "it's a deep allegory about race, politics, and power! It's not racist!" Right. We see light-skinned apes commanding thuggish dark-skinned apes as fearful whiteys cower in terror. Call us simpletons, but you really need to watch this one again—on weed.
3. Soul Man
Year: 1986
When '80s funnyman C. Thomas Howell (we're assuming the "C." stands for "Cracker") can't afford to pay for college, he puts on blackface and steals a scholarship designated for minorities. Spoiled white boys need Affirmative Action too! The most racist part about this movie isn't that he's in blackface (although that's pretty ****in' racist too)—it's the fact that we're supposed to believe that everyone else buys it without even questioning why he looks like an Aryan douche covered in shoe polish. Even his black girlfriend, played by miscegenation master Rae Dawn Chong, doesn't catch on after she sees him naked!
4. Passion of the Christ
Year: 2004
Who needed a drunken rant to know that Mel Gibson hates Jews? In his depiction of the Crucifixion of Christ—who, coincidentally, is portrayed by white actor Jim Caveziel even though everybody knows Black Jesus was black—the Chosen People are a vile, bloodthirsty horde that takes great pleasure in watching God's son suffer for the sins of man. Gibson gets a gold Star of David for this one—David Duke, that is.
5. Sixteen Candles
Year: 1984
John Hughes' icon of '80s teen cinema is also an icon of American racism, thanks to the infamous exchange student Long Duk Dong. Played by Japanese-American actor Gedde Watanabe, the comic relief role had an entire generation of asshole white kids rolling in the aisles thanks to his drunken school dance antics, emasculating romance, and absurd bastardizations of the English language. We feel sorry for all the Asian kids who got called "Donger" for a decade after this movie came out. *Gong*
6. White Chicks
Year: 2004
We would call this movie an example of reverse racism at its finest, but that would imply that we condone a certain type of racism, and frankly, it's all the same to us. So when the youngest Wayans brothers donned whiteface to crack some jokes at the expense of white people, we laughed. And laughed again when they sang some Vanessa Carlton. But that doesn't make it right. No, not in the least.
7. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Year: 2009
Transformers are an advanced race of alien robots who learn about human culture from TV and radio, so you might excuse twins Skids and Mudflap for their ill-behaved bickering, foul-mouthed jive-talking, gold-capped buckteeth, and illiteracy (maybe they watched Bébé's Kids or something). But director Michael Bay? Nah, that honky just loves black stereotypes.
8. Every Rob Schneider Movie
Year: 1963 (birth)-present
Adam Sandler's bit-part-playin' buddy is a modern minstrel who has played (and played out) Chinese (I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry), Hawaiians (50 First Dates), Arabs (You Don't Mess with the Zohan), and Native Americans (Bedtime Stories). He's argued that it's OK because he has a little Filipino in him (ayo!) and because he just happened to be the actor best suited to mock a people. We argue, "**** you, Rob."
9. Song of the South
Year: 1946
Everyone knows Disney has a long history of racist characters, but nothing is quite as uncomfortable to watch as this long-forgotten tale about post-Civil War plantation life. Despite the attempted message of racial unity (two little white kids make friends with a jolly black storyteller...Hooray!), this mix of live action and animation too easily glosses over the seriousness of the time, thanks to songs like "Zip-A-Dee-Do-Dah!" There's no way Uncle Remus was that happy.
10. Bulworth
Year: 1998
What happens when a middle-aged white politician picks up the mic and starts rapping? The most embarrassing and racially insensitive two hours ever committed to celluloid, that's what. We don't care if Warren Beatty did run through 12,000 chicks, he's still banned from the Complex Hall Of Fame.
11. Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace
Year: 1999
Toward the end of the first Star Wars trilogy, George Lucas developed a penchant for characters that were more like Muppets than fully-fleshed characters (i.e., Jabba, Salacious Crumb, the Ewoks). So when it was time to bring back the sci-fi universe, he did himself one better, and developed a penchant for jawdropping ethnic stereotypes. From the bumbling carefree Jamaican minstrel (Jar Jar Binks) to the hook-nosed shyster merchant (Watto), he outdid any of his Jedi ****ery by a long shot. May the force (of racism) be with you.
12. Krippendorf's Tribe
Year: 1998
Anthropologist James Krippendorf (Richard Dreyfuss) fools the scientific community into believing he's discovered a lost tribe in New Guinea with help from his kids, some makeup, a video camera, '90s video editing skills, and every indigenous stereotype you can think of. The more ridiculous the better. You know the savages don't make any sense!
13. The Party
Year: 1968
Yes, Peter Sellers was a comic genius. But did he have to rock both blackface brownface and the Apu accent for easy laughs? "It's not about race, it's about laughs!" Get. The. ****. Out. Of. Here.
14. Scarface
Year: 1983
What's worse than having an Italian-American play a cartoonish Cuban gangster with a ridiculously over-the-top accent? Having everyone, including Latinos, think it's the coolest movie since Birth of a Nation. Now that's embracism!
15. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Year: 1984
The Kali-worshipping Thuggees in Temple of Doom are the perfect "Other" bad guy: brown skin, exotic garb, freaky religious practices, and—most importantly—acts of inhuman savagery that are, quite literally, heartless. And you thought Al-Qaeda were scary.
16. The Gods Must Be Crazy
Year: 1980
We know this movie is supposed to be a comedy because that's what IMDB labels it as, but what starts out as a satirical look at the differences between "civilized" and "uncivilized" people quickly runs foul. In the first ten minutes of the movie, a bushman from Botswana—a country with six technical colleges—is completely dumbfounded when a Coke bottle thrown from a plane(!) lands in front of him. So the flying machine was OK, but the glass bottle blew his mind?
17. Dangerous Minds
Year: 1995
You may remember Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise," the hit song from this movie, but what about Michelle Pfeiffer playing an retired Marine who becomes a teacher and saves shiftless, ignorant, minority students from their self-destructive tendencies? Best Teach America recruitment video we've ever seen.
18. The Siege
Year: 1998
While it seems to sympathize with Arab-Americans, who the U.S. military rounds up and interns on Randall's Island after terrorist attacks shake NYC, leading to martial law, The Siege's real message is that the Middle Easterners who you least expect of wanting to kill you definitely have a belt of explosives in their wardrobe.
19. Heart Condition
Year: 1990
A racist white cop (Bob Hoskins) inherits the heart of the black "lawyer" (Denzel Washington) who's banging his ex-wife. Denzel's character isn't a pimp—no, because that'd be racist—but his chick is an escort, he runs from cops with crack, and he has $200K stashed in a pipe in the back of a bowling alley. Oh, and he's unaware that he's a dad. A Spike Lee Joint, it is not.
20. The Green Mile
Year: 1999
Spike Lee was so appalled with Michael Clarke Duncan's turn as death row inmate John Coffey that he had to coin a term for it: the Super-Duper Magical Negro. Some disagreed, seeing the role as positive. But if Hollywood is to be believed, all black people who lived before 1960 were docile, bumbling buffoons incapable of doing anything but easing the lives of (and raping, let's not forget raping) white people. Somehow, though, we doubt Michael Clarke Duncan cared about any of that as he went on to star as the head ape in Tim Burton's 2001 remake of that racially sensitive classic Planet of the Apes.
21. Marked for Death
Year: 1990
Steven Seagal plays a cop who confronts a voodoo priest, Screwface, and his Jamaican Posse, a cartoonish gang of dreadlocked drug dealers who have been shooting up the hood and stringing out school kids. After painting peace-loving Rastafarians as a snarling, dope-dealing menace—and putting out his horrific reggae album, Songs from the Crystal Cave—the ponytailed one can't ever show his face in Jamrock again.
22. True Lies
Year: 1994
In this Arnold Schwarzenegger action comedy, the "Crimson Jihad," an Islamic terrorist group led by Salim Abu Aziz (a.k.a. the Sand Spider, which sounds suspiciously close to "sand n*gger") are seen as both bloodthirsty genocidal maniacs and inept morons. They'll definitely blow themselves up. Whether they manage to take anyone else with them is another matter.
23. Adventures in Babysitting
Year: 1987
When a lily-white babysitter (Elizabeth Shue) journeys to the ghetto to rescue a runaway friend who's stuck in the heart of darkness, she and the kids she's caring for encounter the full spectrum of black people, from car thieves to gang members, and even the kind that sing and dance! And they say Hollywood doesn't grasp the diaspora!
24. Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Year: 1995
In this sequel, Jim Carrey's pet detective, Ace Ventura, goes to wild-ass Africa to track down a white bat so it can be given as a marriage gift and prevent two tribes from going to war (you know, 'cause the white man has always brought peace to the Dark Continent). While on the job, Ace regularly mocks the rituals and culture of the tribes. Now that's more like the white man we know!
25. Aladdin
Year: 1992
In typical Disney fashion, whitewashed Aladdin is about as Arabian as the cast of 90210 (the original, before Beverly Hills even had brown faces), but what really got Arab-Americans twisted like a turban was "Arabian Nights," the original opening musical sequence, which stated that Arabia is "where they cut off your ears, if they don't like your face." And if they don't like your racist movie?
26. The Last Samurai
Year: 2003
Like Dances with Wolves before it and now Avatar, The Last Samurai shows you can always count on the white savior to help preserve the native culture his people are destroying. Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise) is a washed-up ex-military American drunk in Japan with no apparent purpose in life until he's taken in by a clan and lays his life on the line to preserve the Samurai way of life. **** a bow of courtesy, we feel like head-butting someone.
27. Black Hawk Down
Year: 2001
Ridley Scott's account of the 1993 "Battle of Mogadishu" drew heavy fire for casting African-Americans, who neither look nor sound like Somalis, to portray them as an ignorant, extra dark and scary, bloodthirsty mob of villains with no legitimate cause to attack U.S. Army Rangers. Well, they've got their cause now.
28. Bringing Down the House
Year: 2003
White people can be so buttoned-down that they have a hard time enjoying life. Cue the arrival of a lovably sassy large black woman, who is at first an intrusive annoyance but becomes a MAGICAL SOULFUL LIFE COACH who helps white people overcome their ramrod-straight repressed lives and realize that happiness is breakdancing. Well, breakdancing or nestling in between some pendulous matronly black breasts.
29. Major League
Year: 1989
Before becoming America's first Black President on 24 back in 2001, Dennis Haysbert played Pedro Cerrano, a voodoo-lovin' Latino power hitter with a shrine to the spirit Jo-Bu in this subtly racist sports film. In the end, he abandons his belief because Jo-Bu can't hit a curve. Bet White Jesus could though, right?
30. 21 (Twenty-one)
Year: 2008
A group of MIT students take Las Vegas for millions of dollars using their genius math skills—what an amazing concept for a smash hit movie adventure! Ooh, except for the fact that the real-life students who inspired the story were primarily Asian-American (including the story's protagonist, Jeff Ma), which must have made studio executives at Columbia nervous. How can American audiences possibly watch a movie about a yellow man? Somebody get a D-grade British actor on the line!
31. Jungle 2 Jungle
Year: 1997
A direct adaptation of the 1994 french film Little Indian, Big City, Jungle 2 Jungle changed the title but kept everything just as racist. Tim Allen meets the son he never knew he had, a 13-year-old who grew up native with his ex-wife and a tribe in Venezuela, and takes him to New York City, where his backward customs simply don't fly! It just goes to show, video games don't turn good little white kids into savages—brown-skinned savages turn good little white kids into savages!
32. Dragonball Evolution
Year: 2009
Whites have been playing other races for over a century now, so when casting came up for last year's Dragon Ball Z release, Dragonball Evolution, of course execs cast white Canadian actor Justin Chatwin as the Asian protagonist, Goku. As if the white man didn't already have all the power in real life, now he gets to have powers in adaptations of Japanese manga series too!
33. National Lampoon's Vacation
Year: 1983
According to this classic Chevy Chase comedy, your vacation is doomed if you pass through the inner-city because black people will not only harass you, they'll also strip your car and swindle you out of money. Fortunately, there's always skiing in the Caucus Mountains.
34. Driving Miss Daisy
Year: 1989
Proving once and for all that there's nothing quite as awesome as benevolent whites, DMD shows black folk the benefits of being nice to curmudgeonly old cracker bitties: You get to drive them around a bunch, hip them to how your problems actually mirror theirs, let them teach you how to read, and, when it's all said and done, feed them pie in a rest home. Sweet!
35. Gung Ho
Year: 1986
Zany Japanese (including one played by Gedde Watanabe, a.k.a. Long Duk Dong) take over an American auto-manufacturing plant and bewilder blue-collar Yanks with their zany Japanese ways (funny accents! chopsticks! public bathing!). In the end, the Americans learn how to be über-efficient and the Japanese presumably learn how not to run a billion-dollar industry into the ground. [Squinty-eyed Asian laugh.]
36. Outrageous Fortune
Year: 1987
Big scary black man? Check. Inadvertently saying something offensive because you couldn't help yourself? Check. Assuming you'll get raped and murdered because you're white? Check. What DOESN'T this movie have? If you've enjoyed any John Hughes movie that featured white people irrationally fearing for their lives when around black folks, you've got this banger to thank!
37. Billy Madison
Year: 1995
Grown-ass grade schooler Billy Madison (Adam Sandler) is basically retarded in this movie, but that's not why it's offensive. His horny, obese black maid, who would service his every need, from lunch to, um, other stuff ("Ah thought AH was yo' snack pack, Billy!") still has Hattie McDaniel turning in her grave.
38. 3 Ninjas
Year: 1992
Let's get this straight: three white kids, born of a white mother and father, spend their summers with their stereotypically crotchety old Japanese grandfather who teaches them martial arts. But not before they expect us to believe that "Tum Tum" is a real ninja name. Right. And Doughboy and Mad Dog were ancient African warrior names.
39. Pulp Fiction
Year: 1994
OK, now this movie isn't racist, per se. That is, if you're watching it in a vacuum. As soon as you step back and realize that Quentin Tarantino is an insane fetishist who gets a sick hard-on for smooth talking black thugs and people of all walks launching N-bomb blitzkriegs like they can't ruin race relations fast enough, you notice how ****ed up it is. Right after that you realize that every character talks the same, like Quentin, who penned a special N-bomb assault for himself, and that's when you really wanna stab him in the face.
40. Me, Myself, and Irene
Year: 2000
Gasp! Jim Carey in a racist movie?! Sort of. We love this schizophrenic comedy except for the way the only black characters are portrayed. JC's three kids—Jamaal (of course), Lee Harvey, and Shonté Jr. (who knows?)—are supposed to be geniuses, except they act hood. Which is meant to be funny because, as we know, black people can either be hood or smart, but never both! Or as Harry Reid would say, they can either talk with a Negro dialect or without one.
41. Romeo Must Die
Year: 2000
Ah, Shakespere's timeless love story Romeo and Juliet, updated for the hip-hop generation. With their two families feuding, a black girl (Aaliyah) and a Chinese man (Jet Li) find an unexpected bond—except for the fact that the couple didn't even share a kiss on screen, making the "love story" a bit of an anti-climactic joke. In fact, the movie originally ended with a kiss, but producers supposedly cut the scene at the last minute because it didn't "test well" with audiences. Damn. Can't the yellow man get some?
42. White Dog
Year: 1982
A detestable hatemonger trains a white German Shepherd to attack any black person it sees—why wasn't this one a box office smash? Despite filmmaker Samuel Fuller's best intentions, sewing in a complex anti-racism message about teaching hate, the sensational plot (which no doubt gave white supremacists peckerwoodies) got the public so pissed off that the studio refused to release it.
43. Falling Down
Year: 1993
It's a revenge fantasy straight out of Glenn Beck's id: violent Caucasian rage against Korean deli owners, Latino gangbangers, and whoever else that dares to disenfranchise the white male. Oh, white male. Poor you.
44. Chasing Papi
Year: 2003
Sofia Vergara, Roselyn Sanchez, and some other spicy Latina chick are all after the same dude in this glorified Telemundo drama posing as a feature film. The "lascivious Latin" stereotype may be played out, but, like a Telemundo drama, we co-sign just for the eye candy. ¡Caliente!
45. You Only Live Twice
Year: 1967
In the fifth installment in the Bond series, doubre-oh-seven lives out the fantasy of every Spanish national basketball team member: he gets to marry an Asian girl in drag—and by drag, we of course mean having his eyes taped back so he can pass as an Asian man! We've got a couple Japanese homies who'd love to leave Bond shaken and stirred.
46. Gremlins
Year: 1984
The film's stars, which spawn from a mystical Asian creature called a mogwai, are loud, break-dancing little monsters who devour fried chicken at an unprecedented pace, destroy and devalue property, and even kill good white folks. But they're not meant to represent black youths, though. Definitely not. They're not nearly scary enough.
47. Big Trouble In Little China
Year: 1986
It's hardly an ancient Chinese secret that the most populous country in the world, with a cultural legacy thousands of years old, really only excels at doing laundry talking funny marshalling inscrutability and mysticism for untold evil. But you know what'll stop them? Knocking down their ****in' BUDDHA statues. Take two Jesuses and call Jack Burton (Kurt Russell) in the morning!
48. The Air Up There
Year: 1994
The white man is back up his old tricks as an assistant college basketball coach (Kevin Bacon) tries to pry a tall African prince with star potential from his tribe to help him win some games. Despite his inclination to rape the Dark Continent, coach saves the day, resolving the tribe's potentially bloody conflict with a neighboring tribe and an encroaching mining company—by organizing a high-stakes game of basketball. Flagrant foul!
49. Bottle Rocket
Year: 1996
So your buddy busts you out of the mental institution where you're taking a little vacay, the two of you rob your parents' house and a bookstore, and then go on the lam, shacking up in a roadside motel where you have an affair with a maid that doesn't speak English. BR isn't the most obviously loathsome racist flick around (although Inez the docile maid is straight outta Frat Boy Fantasy central casting), it's just that the movie is so violently white that you know something ****ed up is going on somewhere.
50. The Love Guru
Year: 2008
Straight up, we love Mike Myers for his earlier work, but this flick was more offensive to Indians and Indian-Americans than colonialism was. Essentially this half-baked brick was just an excuse for Myers to line up a litany of jokes about Indian people's silly accents and spirituality. Guru Tugginmypuda? If you catch Myers with a red dot on his forehead, safe bet it's a laser scope.
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Year: 1961
In the history of inexplicable Hollywood racism, Breakfast at Tiffany’s takes the mother****in’ rice cake. Nobody would've noticed had director Blake Edwards removed the random, inconsequential character of Mr. Yunioshi, gold digging Holly Golightly’s bumbling, annoying Japanese neighbor, but there he is, sticking out like the two-inch buckteeth Mickey Rooney in yellowface sports to complete his look and ensure that the movie, like his portrayal, is ah-so disrespectfur.
2. Planet of the Apes
Year: 1968
"No, no," they say, "it's a deep allegory about race, politics, and power! It's not racist!" Right. We see light-skinned apes commanding thuggish dark-skinned apes as fearful whiteys cower in terror. Call us simpletons, but you really need to watch this one again—on weed.
3. Soul Man
Year: 1986
When '80s funnyman C. Thomas Howell (we're assuming the "C." stands for "Cracker") can't afford to pay for college, he puts on blackface and steals a scholarship designated for minorities. Spoiled white boys need Affirmative Action too! The most racist part about this movie isn't that he's in blackface (although that's pretty ****in' racist too)—it's the fact that we're supposed to believe that everyone else buys it without even questioning why he looks like an Aryan douche covered in shoe polish. Even his black girlfriend, played by miscegenation master Rae Dawn Chong, doesn't catch on after she sees him naked!
4. Passion of the Christ
Year: 2004
Who needed a drunken rant to know that Mel Gibson hates Jews? In his depiction of the Crucifixion of Christ—who, coincidentally, is portrayed by white actor Jim Caveziel even though everybody knows Black Jesus was black—the Chosen People are a vile, bloodthirsty horde that takes great pleasure in watching God's son suffer for the sins of man. Gibson gets a gold Star of David for this one—David Duke, that is.
5. Sixteen Candles
Year: 1984
John Hughes' icon of '80s teen cinema is also an icon of American racism, thanks to the infamous exchange student Long Duk Dong. Played by Japanese-American actor Gedde Watanabe, the comic relief role had an entire generation of asshole white kids rolling in the aisles thanks to his drunken school dance antics, emasculating romance, and absurd bastardizations of the English language. We feel sorry for all the Asian kids who got called "Donger" for a decade after this movie came out. *Gong*
6. White Chicks
Year: 2004
We would call this movie an example of reverse racism at its finest, but that would imply that we condone a certain type of racism, and frankly, it's all the same to us. So when the youngest Wayans brothers donned whiteface to crack some jokes at the expense of white people, we laughed. And laughed again when they sang some Vanessa Carlton. But that doesn't make it right. No, not in the least.
7. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Year: 2009
Transformers are an advanced race of alien robots who learn about human culture from TV and radio, so you might excuse twins Skids and Mudflap for their ill-behaved bickering, foul-mouthed jive-talking, gold-capped buckteeth, and illiteracy (maybe they watched Bébé's Kids or something). But director Michael Bay? Nah, that honky just loves black stereotypes.
8. Every Rob Schneider Movie
Year: 1963 (birth)-present
Adam Sandler's bit-part-playin' buddy is a modern minstrel who has played (and played out) Chinese (I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry), Hawaiians (50 First Dates), Arabs (You Don't Mess with the Zohan), and Native Americans (Bedtime Stories). He's argued that it's OK because he has a little Filipino in him (ayo!) and because he just happened to be the actor best suited to mock a people. We argue, "**** you, Rob."
9. Song of the South
Year: 1946
Everyone knows Disney has a long history of racist characters, but nothing is quite as uncomfortable to watch as this long-forgotten tale about post-Civil War plantation life. Despite the attempted message of racial unity (two little white kids make friends with a jolly black storyteller...Hooray!), this mix of live action and animation too easily glosses over the seriousness of the time, thanks to songs like "Zip-A-Dee-Do-Dah!" There's no way Uncle Remus was that happy.
10. Bulworth
Year: 1998
What happens when a middle-aged white politician picks up the mic and starts rapping? The most embarrassing and racially insensitive two hours ever committed to celluloid, that's what. We don't care if Warren Beatty did run through 12,000 chicks, he's still banned from the Complex Hall Of Fame.
11. Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace
Year: 1999
Toward the end of the first Star Wars trilogy, George Lucas developed a penchant for characters that were more like Muppets than fully-fleshed characters (i.e., Jabba, Salacious Crumb, the Ewoks). So when it was time to bring back the sci-fi universe, he did himself one better, and developed a penchant for jawdropping ethnic stereotypes. From the bumbling carefree Jamaican minstrel (Jar Jar Binks) to the hook-nosed shyster merchant (Watto), he outdid any of his Jedi ****ery by a long shot. May the force (of racism) be with you.
12. Krippendorf's Tribe
Year: 1998
Anthropologist James Krippendorf (Richard Dreyfuss) fools the scientific community into believing he's discovered a lost tribe in New Guinea with help from his kids, some makeup, a video camera, '90s video editing skills, and every indigenous stereotype you can think of. The more ridiculous the better. You know the savages don't make any sense!
13. The Party
Year: 1968
Yes, Peter Sellers was a comic genius. But did he have to rock both blackface brownface and the Apu accent for easy laughs? "It's not about race, it's about laughs!" Get. The. ****. Out. Of. Here.
14. Scarface
Year: 1983
What's worse than having an Italian-American play a cartoonish Cuban gangster with a ridiculously over-the-top accent? Having everyone, including Latinos, think it's the coolest movie since Birth of a Nation. Now that's embracism!
15. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Year: 1984
The Kali-worshipping Thuggees in Temple of Doom are the perfect "Other" bad guy: brown skin, exotic garb, freaky religious practices, and—most importantly—acts of inhuman savagery that are, quite literally, heartless. And you thought Al-Qaeda were scary.
16. The Gods Must Be Crazy
Year: 1980
We know this movie is supposed to be a comedy because that's what IMDB labels it as, but what starts out as a satirical look at the differences between "civilized" and "uncivilized" people quickly runs foul. In the first ten minutes of the movie, a bushman from Botswana—a country with six technical colleges—is completely dumbfounded when a Coke bottle thrown from a plane(!) lands in front of him. So the flying machine was OK, but the glass bottle blew his mind?
17. Dangerous Minds
Year: 1995
You may remember Coolio's "Gangsta's Paradise," the hit song from this movie, but what about Michelle Pfeiffer playing an retired Marine who becomes a teacher and saves shiftless, ignorant, minority students from their self-destructive tendencies? Best Teach America recruitment video we've ever seen.
18. The Siege
Year: 1998
While it seems to sympathize with Arab-Americans, who the U.S. military rounds up and interns on Randall's Island after terrorist attacks shake NYC, leading to martial law, The Siege's real message is that the Middle Easterners who you least expect of wanting to kill you definitely have a belt of explosives in their wardrobe.
19. Heart Condition
Year: 1990
A racist white cop (Bob Hoskins) inherits the heart of the black "lawyer" (Denzel Washington) who's banging his ex-wife. Denzel's character isn't a pimp—no, because that'd be racist—but his chick is an escort, he runs from cops with crack, and he has $200K stashed in a pipe in the back of a bowling alley. Oh, and he's unaware that he's a dad. A Spike Lee Joint, it is not.
20. The Green Mile
Year: 1999
Spike Lee was so appalled with Michael Clarke Duncan's turn as death row inmate John Coffey that he had to coin a term for it: the Super-Duper Magical Negro. Some disagreed, seeing the role as positive. But if Hollywood is to be believed, all black people who lived before 1960 were docile, bumbling buffoons incapable of doing anything but easing the lives of (and raping, let's not forget raping) white people. Somehow, though, we doubt Michael Clarke Duncan cared about any of that as he went on to star as the head ape in Tim Burton's 2001 remake of that racially sensitive classic Planet of the Apes.
21. Marked for Death
Year: 1990
Steven Seagal plays a cop who confronts a voodoo priest, Screwface, and his Jamaican Posse, a cartoonish gang of dreadlocked drug dealers who have been shooting up the hood and stringing out school kids. After painting peace-loving Rastafarians as a snarling, dope-dealing menace—and putting out his horrific reggae album, Songs from the Crystal Cave—the ponytailed one can't ever show his face in Jamrock again.
22. True Lies
Year: 1994
In this Arnold Schwarzenegger action comedy, the "Crimson Jihad," an Islamic terrorist group led by Salim Abu Aziz (a.k.a. the Sand Spider, which sounds suspiciously close to "sand n*gger") are seen as both bloodthirsty genocidal maniacs and inept morons. They'll definitely blow themselves up. Whether they manage to take anyone else with them is another matter.
23. Adventures in Babysitting
Year: 1987
When a lily-white babysitter (Elizabeth Shue) journeys to the ghetto to rescue a runaway friend who's stuck in the heart of darkness, she and the kids she's caring for encounter the full spectrum of black people, from car thieves to gang members, and even the kind that sing and dance! And they say Hollywood doesn't grasp the diaspora!
24. Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Year: 1995
In this sequel, Jim Carrey's pet detective, Ace Ventura, goes to wild-ass Africa to track down a white bat so it can be given as a marriage gift and prevent two tribes from going to war (you know, 'cause the white man has always brought peace to the Dark Continent). While on the job, Ace regularly mocks the rituals and culture of the tribes. Now that's more like the white man we know!
25. Aladdin
Year: 1992
In typical Disney fashion, whitewashed Aladdin is about as Arabian as the cast of 90210 (the original, before Beverly Hills even had brown faces), but what really got Arab-Americans twisted like a turban was "Arabian Nights," the original opening musical sequence, which stated that Arabia is "where they cut off your ears, if they don't like your face." And if they don't like your racist movie?
26. The Last Samurai
Year: 2003
Like Dances with Wolves before it and now Avatar, The Last Samurai shows you can always count on the white savior to help preserve the native culture his people are destroying. Nathan Algren (Tom Cruise) is a washed-up ex-military American drunk in Japan with no apparent purpose in life until he's taken in by a clan and lays his life on the line to preserve the Samurai way of life. **** a bow of courtesy, we feel like head-butting someone.
27. Black Hawk Down
Year: 2001
Ridley Scott's account of the 1993 "Battle of Mogadishu" drew heavy fire for casting African-Americans, who neither look nor sound like Somalis, to portray them as an ignorant, extra dark and scary, bloodthirsty mob of villains with no legitimate cause to attack U.S. Army Rangers. Well, they've got their cause now.
28. Bringing Down the House
Year: 2003
White people can be so buttoned-down that they have a hard time enjoying life. Cue the arrival of a lovably sassy large black woman, who is at first an intrusive annoyance but becomes a MAGICAL SOULFUL LIFE COACH who helps white people overcome their ramrod-straight repressed lives and realize that happiness is breakdancing. Well, breakdancing or nestling in between some pendulous matronly black breasts.
29. Major League
Year: 1989
Before becoming America's first Black President on 24 back in 2001, Dennis Haysbert played Pedro Cerrano, a voodoo-lovin' Latino power hitter with a shrine to the spirit Jo-Bu in this subtly racist sports film. In the end, he abandons his belief because Jo-Bu can't hit a curve. Bet White Jesus could though, right?
30. 21 (Twenty-one)
Year: 2008
A group of MIT students take Las Vegas for millions of dollars using their genius math skills—what an amazing concept for a smash hit movie adventure! Ooh, except for the fact that the real-life students who inspired the story were primarily Asian-American (including the story's protagonist, Jeff Ma), which must have made studio executives at Columbia nervous. How can American audiences possibly watch a movie about a yellow man? Somebody get a D-grade British actor on the line!
31. Jungle 2 Jungle
Year: 1997
A direct adaptation of the 1994 french film Little Indian, Big City, Jungle 2 Jungle changed the title but kept everything just as racist. Tim Allen meets the son he never knew he had, a 13-year-old who grew up native with his ex-wife and a tribe in Venezuela, and takes him to New York City, where his backward customs simply don't fly! It just goes to show, video games don't turn good little white kids into savages—brown-skinned savages turn good little white kids into savages!
32. Dragonball Evolution
Year: 2009
Whites have been playing other races for over a century now, so when casting came up for last year's Dragon Ball Z release, Dragonball Evolution, of course execs cast white Canadian actor Justin Chatwin as the Asian protagonist, Goku. As if the white man didn't already have all the power in real life, now he gets to have powers in adaptations of Japanese manga series too!
33. National Lampoon's Vacation
Year: 1983
According to this classic Chevy Chase comedy, your vacation is doomed if you pass through the inner-city because black people will not only harass you, they'll also strip your car and swindle you out of money. Fortunately, there's always skiing in the Caucus Mountains.
34. Driving Miss Daisy
Year: 1989
Proving once and for all that there's nothing quite as awesome as benevolent whites, DMD shows black folk the benefits of being nice to curmudgeonly old cracker bitties: You get to drive them around a bunch, hip them to how your problems actually mirror theirs, let them teach you how to read, and, when it's all said and done, feed them pie in a rest home. Sweet!
35. Gung Ho
Year: 1986
Zany Japanese (including one played by Gedde Watanabe, a.k.a. Long Duk Dong) take over an American auto-manufacturing plant and bewilder blue-collar Yanks with their zany Japanese ways (funny accents! chopsticks! public bathing!). In the end, the Americans learn how to be über-efficient and the Japanese presumably learn how not to run a billion-dollar industry into the ground. [Squinty-eyed Asian laugh.]
36. Outrageous Fortune
Year: 1987
Big scary black man? Check. Inadvertently saying something offensive because you couldn't help yourself? Check. Assuming you'll get raped and murdered because you're white? Check. What DOESN'T this movie have? If you've enjoyed any John Hughes movie that featured white people irrationally fearing for their lives when around black folks, you've got this banger to thank!
37. Billy Madison
Year: 1995
Grown-ass grade schooler Billy Madison (Adam Sandler) is basically retarded in this movie, but that's not why it's offensive. His horny, obese black maid, who would service his every need, from lunch to, um, other stuff ("Ah thought AH was yo' snack pack, Billy!") still has Hattie McDaniel turning in her grave.
38. 3 Ninjas
Year: 1992
Let's get this straight: three white kids, born of a white mother and father, spend their summers with their stereotypically crotchety old Japanese grandfather who teaches them martial arts. But not before they expect us to believe that "Tum Tum" is a real ninja name. Right. And Doughboy and Mad Dog were ancient African warrior names.
39. Pulp Fiction
Year: 1994
OK, now this movie isn't racist, per se. That is, if you're watching it in a vacuum. As soon as you step back and realize that Quentin Tarantino is an insane fetishist who gets a sick hard-on for smooth talking black thugs and people of all walks launching N-bomb blitzkriegs like they can't ruin race relations fast enough, you notice how ****ed up it is. Right after that you realize that every character talks the same, like Quentin, who penned a special N-bomb assault for himself, and that's when you really wanna stab him in the face.
40. Me, Myself, and Irene
Year: 2000
Gasp! Jim Carey in a racist movie?! Sort of. We love this schizophrenic comedy except for the way the only black characters are portrayed. JC's three kids—Jamaal (of course), Lee Harvey, and Shonté Jr. (who knows?)—are supposed to be geniuses, except they act hood. Which is meant to be funny because, as we know, black people can either be hood or smart, but never both! Or as Harry Reid would say, they can either talk with a Negro dialect or without one.
41. Romeo Must Die
Year: 2000
Ah, Shakespere's timeless love story Romeo and Juliet, updated for the hip-hop generation. With their two families feuding, a black girl (Aaliyah) and a Chinese man (Jet Li) find an unexpected bond—except for the fact that the couple didn't even share a kiss on screen, making the "love story" a bit of an anti-climactic joke. In fact, the movie originally ended with a kiss, but producers supposedly cut the scene at the last minute because it didn't "test well" with audiences. Damn. Can't the yellow man get some?
42. White Dog
Year: 1982
A detestable hatemonger trains a white German Shepherd to attack any black person it sees—why wasn't this one a box office smash? Despite filmmaker Samuel Fuller's best intentions, sewing in a complex anti-racism message about teaching hate, the sensational plot (which no doubt gave white supremacists peckerwoodies) got the public so pissed off that the studio refused to release it.
43. Falling Down
Year: 1993
It's a revenge fantasy straight out of Glenn Beck's id: violent Caucasian rage against Korean deli owners, Latino gangbangers, and whoever else that dares to disenfranchise the white male. Oh, white male. Poor you.
44. Chasing Papi
Year: 2003
Sofia Vergara, Roselyn Sanchez, and some other spicy Latina chick are all after the same dude in this glorified Telemundo drama posing as a feature film. The "lascivious Latin" stereotype may be played out, but, like a Telemundo drama, we co-sign just for the eye candy. ¡Caliente!
45. You Only Live Twice
Year: 1967
In the fifth installment in the Bond series, doubre-oh-seven lives out the fantasy of every Spanish national basketball team member: he gets to marry an Asian girl in drag—and by drag, we of course mean having his eyes taped back so he can pass as an Asian man! We've got a couple Japanese homies who'd love to leave Bond shaken and stirred.
46. Gremlins
Year: 1984
The film's stars, which spawn from a mystical Asian creature called a mogwai, are loud, break-dancing little monsters who devour fried chicken at an unprecedented pace, destroy and devalue property, and even kill good white folks. But they're not meant to represent black youths, though. Definitely not. They're not nearly scary enough.
47. Big Trouble In Little China
Year: 1986
It's hardly an ancient Chinese secret that the most populous country in the world, with a cultural legacy thousands of years old, really only excels at doing laundry talking funny marshalling inscrutability and mysticism for untold evil. But you know what'll stop them? Knocking down their ****in' BUDDHA statues. Take two Jesuses and call Jack Burton (Kurt Russell) in the morning!
48. The Air Up There
Year: 1994
The white man is back up his old tricks as an assistant college basketball coach (Kevin Bacon) tries to pry a tall African prince with star potential from his tribe to help him win some games. Despite his inclination to rape the Dark Continent, coach saves the day, resolving the tribe's potentially bloody conflict with a neighboring tribe and an encroaching mining company—by organizing a high-stakes game of basketball. Flagrant foul!
49. Bottle Rocket
Year: 1996
So your buddy busts you out of the mental institution where you're taking a little vacay, the two of you rob your parents' house and a bookstore, and then go on the lam, shacking up in a roadside motel where you have an affair with a maid that doesn't speak English. BR isn't the most obviously loathsome racist flick around (although Inez the docile maid is straight outta Frat Boy Fantasy central casting), it's just that the movie is so violently white that you know something ****ed up is going on somewhere.
50. The Love Guru
Year: 2008
Straight up, we love Mike Myers for his earlier work, but this flick was more offensive to Indians and Indian-Americans than colonialism was. Essentially this half-baked brick was just an excuse for Myers to line up a litany of jokes about Indian people's silly accents and spirituality. Guru Tugginmypuda? If you catch Myers with a red dot on his forehead, safe bet it's a laser scope.
