Hollywood is being accused of racism and stereotyping again. This time the movie sequel to the film "Transformers" is being called racist, regarding a set of twin robots named
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This should come as a surprise to no one. Hollywood consistently releases projects that degrade, insult, mock and stereotypes minorities, immigrants and foreigners, who are the standard Tinseltown punch line.
Transformers' Skids and Mudflap Raise Race Issues
Twin robots in the new Transformers film has sent tongues wagging with "Skids" and "Mudflap" playing two illiterate, gold-toothed inarticulate jive-talking bots.
For starters, the twin bots disguised as compact Chevys, constantly argue and and spew rap derived street slang. In one scene, one of the ghetto bots is forced to admit that he doesn't know how to read.
While Skids and Mudflap were supposed to be the comedic relief in the film, it did quite the opposite and perpetuated negative African American stereotypes.
Manohla Dargis, film critic for The New York Times, takes it a step further, writing that the "Transformers" characters were given "conspicuously cartoonish, so-called black voices that indicate that minstrelsy remains as much in fashion in Hollywood as when, well, Jar Jar Binks was set loose by George Lucas."
Director Michael Bay firmly denies the 'bots where inspired by "ghetto" culture...
