Sick of White People
A white savior speaks for blacks.
Politically correct Huffington Post columnist, Olivia Cole, recently went to the cinema to watch Lucy.
The film is about a drug mule who develops super powers after a synthetic drug is released into her system. As is standard for Hollywood, beyond the action-packed scenes, Lucypushes a message of universal humanism, complete with moralistic speeches from a wise, black professor. It has an unusually diverse cast: Morgan Freeman (as the wise professor), Amr Waked, and Choi Min-sik have three of the four leading roles. Much of the movie was shot in Taipei, so whites are rare even in the background.
One would think that, for a Huffington Post columnist, little could go wrong here. However, Miss Cole belongs to a superior breed, and is not so easily pleased: In fact, she was so incensed by the movie’s “racism” that she rushed home to hammer out a knuckleduster-and-chain condemnation of the film and American cinema generally. The reason for her fury? Blonde, blue-eyed Scarlett Johansson has the lead role.
Miss Cole, who is white, “can’t get right with that.”
In her mind, the white supremacist subtext of the film is that the most evolved human is a Nordic Aryan (Miss Johansson is actually Jewish). And Miss Cole is sick of seeing white people on the big screen.
Such was the vehemence of her prose that I decided to investigate. ...
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