10 Potentially Racist Undertones In Family Films You Never Noticed

No one's labelling anyone a racist, but there's no denying that these films contain potentially offensive themes...

Children's books are reportedly the ones that require the most drafts; whilst you can insinuate anything and get away with it in Fifty Shades of Grey, you have to be an awful lot more cautious when approaching subjects in Postman Pat: it's obvious that you have to be on your best behaviour when writing for children, so why don't more film directors realise this? "With great power comes great responsibility," seems a fitting and suitably epic quotation; if you're targeting a movie at the masses, it has to appeal to both kids and adults equally, and not alienate either. So how can shockingly racist subtext make it into family films? It's one thing to imply sex, or drop a joke for the parents in the audience, but potentially racist depictions can ruin Hollywood's biggest successes. How does that kind of imagery even sneak its way into the film without the director realising that his movie could possibly offend a whole section of his audience? Here are ten examples of movies with racist undertones; no one's labelling anyone a racist, but there's no denying that these films contain potentially offensive themes...
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