General commentage on 'Down to Earth' et al. (Score 1)

Odd to see the respnse to the racial content of 'Down to Earth'. You mean to say that noone notices this kind of content on television daily anyway? By the way LordToppingham, American Apartheid ended legally in the 1960's, not the 1930's, and socially, there is still a great rift. However they are all still american, for what that is worth, and work together in many ways, quite peacefully. Social acceptance ofminorities within the majority has yet to seep throughout the nation, and vice versa, social acceptance of the majority has yet to spread throughout minorities ( black and otherwise). We struggle with terms like 'Caucasian' 'African-American' 'Latin-American' 'Native-American' and 'insertyour-American'. One of these days people will start concentrating on the last word in these terms,. instead of the first. There are still battles to be fought. Makes life interesting. On another note, these movies are from hollywood, which still can't grasp or accept the real world, and seeks only to make broad generalisations anyway. The news media and the movie industry sensationalise most everything, at least where I live (Philadelphia, PA, USA). They are about what sells. Chris Rock, being a part of that, doesn't care if you agree with him, heck, he may not even totally agree with his own role (although it makes you wonder why he'd want to so negatively portray both his own culture, and others). In the end, he looks at his paycheck. If you don't like his 'comedy' reduce his next paycheck by not watching his movie. Then again,. it is comedy,.. and are we all too stiff to take a laugh at ourselves once in a while. I eally don't think it was supposed to be a serious portrayal of real life situations, only to poke fun at popular perceptions. So change the popular perceptions in your own way, in your own part of the world. Many of the above posts disliked the stereotypes. Don't share them, encourage them, or otherwise, instead speak out against them if you dislike them so. Evil persists when good people do nothing.