Have they not hung up men with heads downward, drowned them in sacks, crucified them on planks, buried them alive, crushed them in mortars? Have they not forced them to eat excretement? And, having flayed them with the lash, have they not cast them alive to be devoured by worms, or onto anthills, or lashed them to stakes in the swamp to be devoured by mosquitoes? Have they not thrown them into boiling cauldrons of cane syrup? Have they not put men and women inside barrels studded with spikes and rolled them down mountainsides into the abyss?

So Ken… Slavery as it was, is not practiced today in the same way as it was by the Europeans. They were barbaric. Servants will always exist (in Arabia or wherever) and some will be treated unfairly and oppressed.

With Slavery it is not just the cruelty which one has to think about.. thats finished, but the stripping of wealth from the African countries to build the wonderful infrastructure we have here in Europe today… Africa is not a poor country by any act of nature, it is by acts of Greed, Cruelty and Racism.

You need to understand that all races have done many, many, bad and horrible things, not just white people. However, Hollywood knows how to hit that “Bad White People” button and light up people like you. You need to learn more about the world, for example–did you know that slavery(for example) is practiced TODAY on a much, much larger scale by Arabs and Africans against Africans on the African continent?, than was ever the case in the U.S?
Start there. Learn more. Question revisionist history as taught by “academics.” If you’re white, don’t give in to the liberal media’s unrelenting mission to make you hate yourself.

Writer James Cameron shows old school racist colors as well as extreme hypocrisy way in this admittedly visually spectacular film.

1. White dude saves primitive species–PLEASE, James, not this pat Hollywood formula AGAIN. I know it makes money but give me a break–I think I threw up a little in my mouth when I saw this coming one more time. (p.s.–I’m white).

2. White dude flips seamlessly between his white world and the more compelling primitive world (Cameron living vicariously through the Na’vi, as he no doubt wishes that he, like many white libs, were black). OK man, got it, but the expiration date on that one was about 1989 and now it’s really starting to stink up the place.

3. I loved the makeup of the military defectors–a Latino dude, a handicapped white dude, two white academics, and a probable Lesbian. Man, I love that Democratic party! James, do you have any other paint by color books you can share?

4. Closing scenes show almost every single bad human to be white men. Certainly no women, and few if any Latinos, Asians or Blacks. Hmmm.

5. Worst of all, the real story of the film is not the taking of the precious metal from the Na’vi, or about the taking of oil from Iraq, or about the stripping of the the rain forest. It’s about the James Cameron mining our uncertainties about race in order to make an insane amount of money. This kind of maneuver will blow up your emotional Hometree whether you realize it or not, and most people will never how completely they have been manipulated by this film.

I prefer to live in a post-racial world where I don’t really give a damn about anyone’s race. I don’t care if you are white, brown, green, black, purple or see-through, if you’re a good person I’m going to like you, and if not then I’ll be seeing you later.

That’s my take. Happy Holidays and God Bless.

So many people are so wrapped up in critisicm that they can not see things with an open mind. Every film has an opinion before it is viewed. Go to this film with no inhibitions and a clear state of mind.

James Cameron as always has surpassed my expectations. This film left me speechless. One only has to really let the mind fall into the fantasy, to feel and see the meaning of this film. For me it depicted how greed can destory everything that is beautiful and innocent in it’s essence. Every human being should be able to connect with the world around them (a main point in this film). The people of AVATAR are no different then we once were. This film shows how money and greed has led our race to connect with only machinery that we control; conveniences of our time. Maybe many won’t see the spirtiutal aspect of this film but it spoke to me in an extrodinary way! I am privledged to watch a movie with such spectacualr artistry along with a message that is true to the heart and brings back to reality human existence at it’s best!

All I can say is thank your for the mastepiece and the heart enveloping message!