Heck, if it's gone this far, I'll have to try to find some numbers on the subject, to see if the movie was indeed realistic or not.
Oh, and I didn't say they should compromise the movie for mass appeal...just said that it would have hurt mass appeal.
"They"? Well, yeah..."they" refers to anyone other than me. This includes black people, as well as people in slavery. If I changed the "they" to "we," my sentence would look like this...
And yeah, it does work both ways...but a large majority of blacks are African-Americans. In fact, I'm having trouble thinking of what other areas we come from...
...that doesn't really make any sense, as you can plainly see.
I think you're reading into things a little. And yeah, I use "they" for people of my own race. I use it for my own dang family. If I consider myself to be part of a certain group in question, I will use "we," but if I'm not part of that group, I don't. What way would you prefer, Steve? I can't use "we" when talking about blacks, because I'm not black! Examples.
"Where's you family?"
"They went to the store."
...another example...
"What do you think of this Scottish family?"
"I think they drink too much." (
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I'm not so much complaining as I am pointing something out. And no, it's not the same principle...I think you may be misunderstanding me. I don't really care if someone refers to me was "white," because it's a good description of my appearance...it's readily evident, and broad, without being too vague. I don't take offense if someone is referred to was hispanic, white, black, asian, or anything else like that. It's no big deal.
However, I do find it interesting that I'm referred to as white, and THEN referred to as a majority. Yes, if you break the people in this country in four groups (Asian, blacks, whites, and Hispanics...and yes, I know that doesn't cover everyone), then yeah, I'm in the majority. However, if you break us up by actual bloodline, then I doubt my race would be in the majority.
In short: when you tell me I'm in the majority, you're grouping me by the color of my skin, and my appearance, rather than my actual nationality. I think that's very much worth noting.