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Jive-talking twin Transformers raise race issues

By SANDY COHEN
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AP
posted: 136 DAYS 3 HOURS AGO
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LOS ANGELES -Harmless comic characters or racist robots? The buzz over the summer blockbuster "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" only grew Wednesday as some said two jive-talking Chevy characters were racial caricatures. Skids and Mudflap, twin robots disguised as compact hatchbacks, constantly brawl and bicker in rap-inspired street slang. They're forced to acknowledge that they can't read. One has a gold tooth.
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2009-06-25 06:47:52

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TigersGotWoodie

01:21 PMJun 25 2009

NAMING THEM SAMBO AND BUCKWHEAT IS A LITTLE RACIST .. HE HE

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ANHG13

12:54 PMJun 25 2009

Oh..Boo Fricken Hoo....That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard! It's a Transformers movie for crying out loud! Not a documentary!

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Csheilae

11:47 AMJun 25 2009

People PLEASE!!!!!! it is call entertainment Enjoy it - don't analyze it !!

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GIRLCHILD30

09:43 AMJun 25 2009

people , people when are we going to grow up .so what .who cares they are movie they are not real so shove it. i'm black and don't find them racist. don't we have enough to worry about without this bullshit

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WWARD4911

09:59 PMJun 25 2009

HERE WE GO IT'S ALL RIGHT FOR THE BLACK RAP ARTISTS TO PORTRAY THIS KIND OF BEHAVIOR AND WORSE INCLUDING THE N.... WORD BECAUSE THEY ARE BLACK...... HMMMM WHAT ABOUT THE MOVIE "NEXT FRIDAY"..... OH AND THE WAYAN BROTHERS PUTTING ON "WHITEFACE" TO ACT LIKE 2 STUPID WHITE GIRLS...... WHERE WERE THE CRYS OF RACISM THEN...... BUT THEN A WHITE DIRECTOR ADDS SOME COMIC RELIEF AND SUDDENLY IT IS RACIST....... MAYBE NOT ACTUALLY THEY DID NOT SHOOT EACH OTHER..... SUMPTHIN I HAVE SEEN IN MUSIC VIDEOS AND OTHER "BLACK" MOVIES THAT WERE NOT CALLED RACIST....... ASK YOUR GRAMPA'S AND GRANDMA'S WHAT REAL RACISM IS; LISTEN TO THE SONG "STRANGE FRUIT"........

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DIA KAHINA

08:02 PMJun 25 2009

Sounds like Todd Boyd is trying to capitalize off of Transformers popularity by playing the race card. Caricatures are fine for an action/adventure movie. If I want realism, I'll watch something realistic.

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Spiritheart745

06:46 PMJun 24 2009

GO,LEMMINGS,GO!!!

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Spiritheart745

06:44 PMJun 24 2009

VynlAngel-it's not difficult,just remember if you have any original thought of your own,rather than parroting whatever everyone with an anti-America agenda tells you is right,you'll probably be considered racist,at least politically incorrect.

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AJM33771ON

06:18 PMJun 24 2009

Sooo, if someone says that Prez-DehNt Butt-Rack "walks as if he is riding a water bed and is funny" that would be considered racist? LOL Lemmings Nuttin' but Lemmings

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VynlAngel

05:57 PMJun 24 2009

Intersting...so a character uses certain words and mannerisms and behaves in a certain fashion. The crtitic stands and says the words, mannerisms, and behaviors seem "black" and the movie is racist. The critic is the one who made the association. Shouldn't the critic be the racist? Racism has become confusing.

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Harmless comic characters or racist robots? The buzz over the summer blockbuster Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen only grew Wednesday as some said two jive-talking Chevy characters were racial caricatures. Skids and Mudflap, twin robots disguised as compact hatchbacks, constantly brawl and bicker in rap-inspired street slang. They\'re forced to acknowledge that they can\'t read. One has a gold tooth.