There’s a serious disconnect in the movie between the image of power that those GM brands are meant to convey and the bankrupt car industry they now signify. That disconnect only deepens with the introduction of two new Autobot characters, the illiterate, bickering twins Skids (Tom Kenny) and Mudflap (Reno Wilson), both of which take the shape of Chevrolet concept cars. The characters have been given conspicuously cartoonish, so-called black voices that indicate that minstrelsy remains as much in fashion in Hollywood as when, well, Jar Jar Binks was set loose by George Lucas.
Neither transformers nor Star wars are racist. Bays and Lucas' portrayal of black people is simply not racist. The 2 robots in transformers along with Jar Jar in the star wars movie accurately depict plenty of black people today and if they were the only portrayal of black people in those movies I would most definitely agree they were racist. However, in the Transformers movie, Tyerese plays an articulate, competent, literate, intelligent black person who attained the highest enlisted rank (E-9 Chief Master Sargent) in the USAF, and in star wars Samuel L Jackson played a wise JEDI MASTER. If you're going to accuse the movies as being racist based upon the negative portrayals of blacks in the movie, then are they at the same time not racist based upon the positive portrayals of blacks in the movie? the truth is there are black people that act like that and blacks that are not, just like they're ignorant whites, asians and mexicans, plain and simple, but those movies cannot reasonably accused of engaging in minstrelsy or racism since they are neither saying nor insinuating that all blacks act like mudflap and jar jar binks. One is engaging in a huge logical error by hurling accusations of racism based upon the movies negative portrayals of black people while at the same time ignoring positive portrayals of black people in the very same movies.
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