Cristian DiMarco

English 2 H

Nikki Morrell

9/12/12

                                                Avatar Race Discussion

            From the moment I watched James Cameron’s movie I was captivated by the premise that he came up with. The fact that a paralyzed man was able to live out his fantasy of being able to walk and run in the Avatar world on Pandora. The storyline grabbed me and made me ask for more. Never once during the movie did I ever think of racism.

             It wasn’t until I read the article written by Mr. Milloy that I thought about racism. It was at that point where I realized that it wasn’t the racism that the world has come to know. From my point of view it is a shame that an African American man can take a fictional movie and turn it around and make it seem racist. A prime example of this is when Mr. Milloy says “In addition to Native Americans, I saw some cat people as black people in disguise. This racial effect is cleverly accomplished by using certain speech patterns and body language.”  I disagree with this statement about Mr. Milloy’s observation of black people in disguise and I am disappointed that racism is still talked about in the twenty first century.

            From my perspective I never thought about racism in this movie the fact that the natives were blue had no correlation with African American people. I feel that James Cameron is a very well accomplished director and feel that his intentions were not even close to what Mr. Milloy is saying. I feel that Mr. Milloy is trying to make Mr. Cameron out to be the bad guy. I think Mr. Cameron’s intentions were to entertain the world with his impeccable graphics and creativity. It is a shame that such a great movie has to be even questioned about being raciest.