Unfortunate representation of African Americans!

Interesting point for sure, but one could also say that the corporate representation of Biff Tannen in alternate 1985 represents the (at the time) 'Donald Trump's' of the world, where the crazy rich old white guy is running the town and is all the praise of the corporate criminal elite and cohorts. There's a bit of a balance here, and then there is that same common denominator, 'alternate' 1985--which does not represent actual 1985.

this movie is not racist you fucking moron snowflake sjw libtard!!! it is just that the future is bad and that the neighborhood that was once white and clean is now a poor ghetto with tons of crime. that is why blacks live there. it is not racism. do not call this movie racist because not everything is racist nowadays like the news tells you.

I always felt THE black family being in the dystopian version of Marty's 1985 house/neighborhood was always a bit cringey but it could have been a lot worse. Honestly I think your "gorilla on a rampage" description of the scene was more offensive than the scene itself. It was an understandable (if slightly over the top for comedic effect) reaction of father finding a random dude in his screaming daughter's bedroom in the middle of the night. To me, the humor of the scene always outweighed the offensiveness of the set up. "You damn right you made a mistake!" still cracks me up every time.

I've probably seen this movie 20 times in my life, and never once did I think any of the following:

A) That the fact that the family living in the house was black was a sign that the neighborhood was now dystopian; only that it was an indicator that something had changed.
B) That the fact they were black meant that they were a "representation" of black people in general.
C) That there was anything wrong or uncalled for about the fathers reaction to finding a strange man in his screaming daughters bed in the middle of the night.

You, on the other hand, watched the scene and apparently thought "Oh, they're black so the neighborhood is clearly a hellhole now, this is a representation of what black people are like, and the father looks like an irrational, violent gorilla on a rampage."

Is it at ALL possible that perhaps the problem is YOU?

The reason you see racism everywhere is because you are a racist.

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I agree, it is unfortunate and racist.
But mostly the idea is: this is NOT the McFly residence. You get right away the idea because everybody is not white, rather than think Marty entered his sister's room if they were white instead.
So race is used to grasp the plot quickly.

I never saw that as being racist.

There was just another family there that he didn't recognise, and the man flipped out when he found a teenage boy in his daughter's bedroom. I don't think that we were meant to read anything into the fact that they were black.