South Africans and Racism

south africa has yet to get over its racist history.. it took until 1990 to get mandela out of prison, until 1994 to give blacks the vote.. scream about hollywood all you want.. real life was worse..

"With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility"
Stan Lee, 1962

Look what kinda place has South-Africa become since. President accused of rape in a country whats capitol city is also known as "rape capitol of world".

And lets not forget that it was last year when South-African goverment finally announced that AIDS is real disease.

South Africans are racist *beep* get over it

I'm a South African born after Apartheid and I have no right to be racist. And seeing how this film portrayed South Africa at that time was quite necessary in my opinion. Because like any person on Earth who did not experience Apartheid - but to know of it and what it leaves behind, is something that isn't polite at all.

Honestly, to see Mel Gibson, Danny Glover and Joe Pesci actually LAUGH at the South African Immigrations Officer when he stated that he was black showed just how pathetic racism is. But the use of the word "Kaffir" repeatedly is quite offensive but the movie turned this around by showing that the word was ineffective in another country.

I remember seeing a picture saying "help end Apartheid" or something on Roger's fridge in the first Lethal Weapon.

I think it was really good that they raised awareness of Apartheid in South Africa and of the way they portrayed South Africans in this film. I get kinda excited to see South African Mercenaries and bad guys or when famous Hollywood actors portray South Africans lol like in Blood Diamond (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Invictus (Matt Damon and Morgan Freeman)

You don't watch Nolan movies, they watch you!

The deliberate comparison of South Africa with Nazi Germany is particularly ridiculous and offensive. The South African government was not racist, and Apartheid was not based on White supremacy. It was originally based on the idea that races had to be allowed to have their own nations - to avoid any one (e.g. Whites) being overwhelmed. Separate but equal, if you like. The reality may not have been equality, but it was not based on the notion of White supremacy. Only the most extreme and fringe groups in South African ever espoused White Supremacy - such groups were more popular in the USA. The reality is also that by the 1980's apartheid had ended. The process of creating an inclusive body politic dragged on for years because the ANC preferred violence to negotiations, and Mandela in particular refused to be released from prison to engage in talks.

South Africa deserved the negative publicity in this film because of what was happening at the time. Funny how when the boot is on the other foot - so many people feel upset about negative portrayals.

You can't have a country with laws like South Africa had with Apartheid and expect not to be condemned for it. Yes - almost every colony from European imperialists had a system like that - the problem with South Africa was that they clung to they oppressive regime long, long, long after it was considered to be an outrage - and other places had outlawed such practice. Blame the Nationalist Party of South Africa for this publicity.

BTW - of course not every white South African approved of the system - the problem is that enough of them voted the party back in to power time after time in consecutive elections. It's funny to hear other groups complain that the actions of a few people does not represent their whole group yet they are so quick to condemn the whole minority races over the actions of a few. How very hypocritical! Not saying that YOU are necessarily one of those, but I am saying that it happens too damn often.

Puerto Ricans are racially white most of the time, or predominantly so. Hispanic is not a race. I have several close friends that are Boriqua and they are very white to light brown but all caucasian....