Yes, this movie shouldn't even be rated R, but NC-17 for "bizarre behavior" alone. The nature of 3 of the killings in this movie, as well as a few threats to commit them are outright bizarre altogether. I won't give them out for you to see. But it's outright weirdly uncomfortable. I can imagine that our main character, Fresh (for whom this movie is named), was traumatized by all this.

Disregard this opinion. It was meant to be in the yes section, which I did.

Yes, racism is bad. And I agree there is racism, but he has looked for stuff in place there is none, and he breaks the law, and starts trouble with people. He has a history of making racist comments about whites, Greeks and yet he called for Imus's resignation. He's a hypocrite. And he's a dangerous person to anyone who values true freedom in this country.

I recommend you see "Fresh," even if you're not a fan of hood movies. It's bizarre to say the least. It's a movie about this boy who lives in a dangerous part of Brooklyn -- Bedford-Stuyvesant, and it was released in 1994, at the end of the crack epidemic. The natures of the killings though are so bizarre, they are bound to traumatize. I think this movie was threatened with an NC-17 for bizarre behavior (officially it's rated R, but for me it's too NC-17 to be rated R, you might not wanna expose your kids to this movie).

The main thing is about a boy who wants out. He's born into the drug dealing life (cause he has no positive influences to stear him). It's the plan he devises to get out that makes it a clever watch. There's no hood movie like this. Most hood movies are cliche. This one is different.

Plus I lived up North, so I saw this on a regular basis, if not everyday.

I said it was just a movie, but movies do reflect reality to a degree. I've seen this kinda systematic racism, at least in the Big Apple, which is where this movie is set.

I wish they had an inbetween. On a lot of the points you make there's areas of agreement and disagreement.

Something worthy of note. I know this is just a movie, but movies do reflect reality.

In one scene from the movie "Fresh" (a movie set in Brooklyn about drug dealers) there is a racist detective named Abe Sharpe (played by a Jewish actor named Martin Shakur) belittling blacks and Hispanics in one scene, openly. And he never gets in trouble. In all fairness, it's the only time we see him in the movie, but given that he's probably said this multiple times, and never got fired for it. I think it's pretty common, at least in the Northeast.

I don't it's common in the South.

It's not the examples, it's the response.

In the South at least the cases are indicted, as was the recent case with a couple of girls in Georgia running over a black guy.

In the North, sometimes there is no indictment at all. It took at least a few years to indict the perpetrators of the Howard Beach lynching. And the ambulance drivers of the Yosef Lisch (the Crown Heights Riots) was never arrested. It was criminal negligence.

Do you have any evidence of that? I'm well aware that the South isn't more racist than the North, but I've yet to see any evidence that shows the North is more racist than the South.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/man-chased-to-his-death-in-howard-beach- hate-crime

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/crown-heights-erupts-days-race-riots-1991-article-1.2750050

Mind you, the accident wasn't racist, but rather the Jewish ambulance's refusal to help the kids was.

Then we have the cops sodimizing the Haitian immigrant in 1997

The last time something like this took place in the South was in 1981.

Mind you yes, racial attacks happen all over America, but in the North, the Howards Beach incident was not indicted. Neither were the ambulance drivers.

Having lived in the North (all over, west of the Appalachians at least) all my life, I've yet to see any of that form of racism. The kind of racism I always see is the clutch your wallet when a black guy walks by, or don't go down that street because the people "look sketchy", etc.

That can be arrogance. But I have seen open racism in the North. It's more common than you think. Maybe the neighborhood you live in is not like that, but that don't mean it's uncommon in the North.

As a "bro"-saying Rivera who's Puerto Rican, in ethnicity, I can honestly say there's more open, "Friends"-watching "bro"-hating (hence anti-Hispanic) open racism up North. I've dealt with a lot of it, from being in school to be discriminated against. People say it's subtle. That's stupid. It's pretty outright open. Some people have openly avoided me as well. That has never happened to me down South. People here are pretty welcoming of other races for the most part, and tomboys and autistic people. LOL

But that's white supremacy. In terms of all other races being racist, I would say the North as well. Al Sharpton allows many to get away with their acts.