Comments on: 9 Reasons To See District 9 http://www.mikestopforth.com/2009/08/30/9-reasons-to-see-district-9/ Entrepreneur | Writer | Speaker Tue, 07 Feb 2012 03:58:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Shelton Nguyen http://www.mikestopforth.com/2009/08/30/9-reasons-to-see-district-9/comment-page-1/#comment-116515 Shelton Nguyen Mon, 31 May 2010 18:50:00 +0000 http://www.mikestopforth.com/2009/08/30/9-reasons-to-see-district-9/#comment-116515 Hehe I'm really the only comment to your great post. Hehe I’m really the only comment to your great post.

]]> By: Darryl Cruz http://www.mikestopforth.com/2009/08/30/9-reasons-to-see-district-9/comment-page-1/#comment-116424 Darryl Cruz Sun, 30 May 2010 08:14:47 +0000 http://www.mikestopforth.com/2009/08/30/9-reasons-to-see-district-9/#comment-116424 If I had a dollar for each time I came here... Incredible read. If I had a dollar for each time I came here… Incredible read.

]]> By: Carlton Garza http://www.mikestopforth.com/2009/08/30/9-reasons-to-see-district-9/comment-page-1/#comment-116302 Carlton Garza Fri, 28 May 2010 13:34:35 +0000 http://www.mikestopforth.com/2009/08/30/9-reasons-to-see-district-9/#comment-116302 If only more people would hear about this. If only more people would hear about this.

]]> By: GEX http://www.mikestopforth.com/2009/08/30/9-reasons-to-see-district-9/comment-page-1/#comment-115337 GEX Tue, 11 May 2010 07:13:39 +0000 http://www.mikestopforth.com/2009/08/30/9-reasons-to-see-district-9/#comment-115337 I DidnT LIKe THat .. :P .. I DidnT LIKe THat .. :P ..

]]> By: Sabstance http://www.mikestopforth.com/2009/08/30/9-reasons-to-see-district-9/comment-page-1/#comment-107177 Sabstance Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:26:02 +0000 http://www.mikestopforth.com/2009/08/30/9-reasons-to-see-district-9/#comment-107177 @Melode My best friend is Indian, my head boy and deputy head girl in my school are black (which I voted for)....Does voting for a 'black head girl end racism in people's heart' ...ha ha ha you just found a solution to the world most evil ill! IF GENERALISATIONS ABOUT WHITE PEOPLE ARE UNFAIR WHY ARE THEY FAIR ABOUT NIGERIANS and AFRICANS????????? Problem is everyone of you comes with an argument to redeem and explain their white guild and put it as a base for argument. I am making a simple point here...YOU DON"T SEE THE RACISM AND PREJUDICE IN THE MOVIE BECAUSE IT IS PART OF YOUR WORLD VIEW and if THIS IS A GENERALISATION think there fore ABOUT THE GENERALISATION District 9 makes against Nigeria and Afrika in general. And if you fail to understand this agin its because you've been looked inside your surbubia house for too long to know whats rignt and whats wrong. Melodie you asking me to 'smell the fynbos, hike table mountan or have a braai' don't you see here that again you are projecting/suggesting your culture to me as a superior culture cos, yet again if I educate you u will say am pulling a race card, something you don't seem to understand as much as you don't understand racism as concept. I am really not interested in the death of your people in the supposed camp because you seem to suggest that lets accept evil because it was also done against white people..a stupid argument really, but hey you are 17 maybe you stay at Reizt for all i care. @Melode

My best friend is Indian, my head boy and deputy head girl in my school are black (which I voted for)….Does voting for a ‘black head girl end racism in people’s heart’ …ha ha ha you just found a solution to the world most evil ill!

IF GENERALISATIONS ABOUT WHITE PEOPLE ARE UNFAIR WHY ARE THEY FAIR ABOUT NIGERIANS and AFRICANS?????????

Problem is everyone of you comes with an argument to redeem and explain their white guild and put it as a base for argument. I am making a simple point here…YOU DON”T SEE THE RACISM AND PREJUDICE IN THE MOVIE BECAUSE IT IS PART OF YOUR WORLD VIEW and if THIS IS A GENERALISATION think there fore ABOUT THE GENERALISATION District 9 makes against Nigeria and Afrika in general.

And if you fail to understand this agin its because you’ve been looked inside your surbubia house for too long to know whats rignt and whats wrong.

Melodie you asking me to ‘smell the fynbos, hike table mountan or have a braai’ don’t you see here that again you are projecting/suggesting your culture to me as a superior culture cos, yet again if I educate you u will say am pulling a race card, something you don’t seem to understand as much as you don’t understand racism as concept.

I am really not interested in the death of your people in the supposed camp because you seem to suggest that lets accept evil because it was also done against white people..a stupid argument really, but hey you are 17 maybe you stay at Reizt for all i care.

]]> By: Melodé http://www.mikestopforth.com/2009/08/30/9-reasons-to-see-district-9/comment-page-1/#comment-107174 Melodé Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:57:51 +0000 http://www.mikestopforth.com/2009/08/30/9-reasons-to-see-district-9/#comment-107174 @ Sabstance I actually stopped reading the whole comment feed after your quotes from some chat. I am a 17 year old white female.... I was 2 when SA had its first democratic elections! My best friend is Indian, my head boy and deputy head girl in my school are black (which I voted for). It is because of people like you that ALWAYS pull the racism card that I am losing faith in this wonderful country. We are a wonderful nation with the most beautiful land in perhaps the whole world! SA is credited with so many wonderful things that get over looked because people like you always claim racism at every oppertunity! (Please note that I am not refering to a specific race group but to all people who are guilty of it.) You have no right to insult me by refering to me as scheming "a white south african". I am as African as you are brother. I was born and raised here, Africa flows through my veins. Perhaps your culture has been on the continent longer but MY culture was started here to! You have no right to refer to white people as you have. I will not deny that there are some very racist white people but there are some very racist black/coloured/indian/chinese/and every other culture people to! I am *excuse me* gatvol of having to hear "the black people said blah blah" "the white people said blah blah" "the coloured people said blah blah" ect. I played no part in Apartheid I should be exposed to "the people said" because that is all that we are!! Just people!! So pretty please, for the sake of YOUR and MY children (one day) stop pulling the race at out at every chance you get. How will SA ever get to be up there where it belongs if people do? and by the way while you are at it please research the anglo-boer war. This will show you that "the white (Afrikaans) people" have also fought, been suppressed -and died, for this country. If you think the holocast in Germany was bad! You should hear some of the HORROR stories of how the British tortured, abused and killed innocent woman and children JUST because they were of a certain "Race"... Apartheid was by no means right, but it was not (and still isnt) the only racial unfairness in SA!!!! Please do yourself a favour and get out there and smell the fynbos, hike table mountain or have a braai coz Goodness we are lucky to be Saffas!!!! Dont get caught up in things that will make you forget to be grateful for what we have now... @ Sabstance

I actually stopped reading the whole comment feed after your quotes from some chat.

I am a 17 year old white female…. I was 2 when SA had its first democratic elections! My best friend is Indian, my head boy and deputy head girl in my school are black (which I voted for). It is because of people like you that ALWAYS pull the racism card that I am losing faith in this wonderful country. We are a wonderful nation with the most beautiful land in perhaps the whole world! SA is credited with so many wonderful things that get over looked because people like you always claim racism at every oppertunity! (Please note that I am not refering to a specific race group but to all people who are guilty of it.)

You have no right to insult me by refering to me as scheming “a white south african”. I am as African as you are brother. I was born and raised here, Africa flows through my veins. Perhaps your culture has been on the continent longer but MY culture was started here to! You have no right to refer to white people as you have. I will not deny that there are some very racist white people but there are some very racist black/coloured/indian/chinese/and every other culture people to!

I am *excuse me* gatvol of having to hear “the black people said blah blah” “the white people said blah blah” “the coloured people said blah blah” ect. I played no part in Apartheid I should be exposed to “the people said” because that is all that we are!! Just people!! So pretty please, for the sake of YOUR and MY children (one day) stop pulling the race at out at every chance you get. How will SA ever get to be up there where it belongs if people do?

and by the way while you are at it please research the anglo-boer war. This will show you that “the white (Afrikaans) people” have also fought, been suppressed -and died, for this country. If you think the holocast in Germany was bad! You should hear some of the HORROR stories of how the British tortured, abused and killed innocent woman and children JUST because they were of a certain “Race”… Apartheid was by no means right, but it was not (and still isnt) the only racial unfairness in SA!!!!

Please do yourself a favour and get out there and smell the fynbos, hike table mountain or have a braai coz Goodness we are lucky to be Saffas!!!! Dont get caught up in things that will make you forget to be grateful for what we have now…

]]> By: Sabstance http://www.mikestopforth.com/2009/08/30/9-reasons-to-see-district-9/comment-page-1/#comment-106408 Sabstance Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:48:46 +0000 http://www.mikestopforth.com/2009/08/30/9-reasons-to-see-district-9/#comment-106408 Sools I don't want to be in the map for insulting people or claims that the insults are in order to put me on the map what nonsense r u on about! I strongly believe that white South Africa will have to unlearn their prejudices fast and black South Africa will have to deal with their relating and prejudice towards Africa very fast. Sools I don’t want to be in the map for insulting people or claims that the insults are in order to put me on the map what nonsense r u on about!
I strongly believe that white South Africa will have to unlearn their prejudices fast and black South Africa will have to deal with their relating and prejudice towards Africa very fast.

]]> By: Fly on the wall http://www.mikestopforth.com/2009/08/30/9-reasons-to-see-district-9/comment-page-1/#comment-106396 Fly on the wall Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:54:12 +0000 http://www.mikestopforth.com/2009/08/30/9-reasons-to-see-district-9/#comment-106396 @sabstance I agree 100% Just watched the movie and as an African it makes me cringe. The movie is stereotype from the word go and yes while I hate using the "racist" in a lose way, this film unfortunately has to be one. Check the cast out: White=heads of the multinational arms industry; powerful, business like, not blemish free but generally portrayed as living in a rarified world of board meetings and cooperate intrigue; whites= all the expert commentators, University professors, savvy journalists technical experts on human biology etc whites= the no nonsense action hero but oppressive neverthless military types. Now look at blacks: the now famous Nigerian gangsters which I must say was the worst stereotypical portrayal I have seen in years; black:=the hoards of "burn them on the stake" xenophobes: blacks= the "follow me and see what I do" trainees and "yes baas" askaris; blacks=the cow's head relishing street vendors; blacks= the simpletons on the street whose wives and sneakers are stolen by the aliens. It started off very nicely and the idea was realy great. But it quickly degenrated into a uncreative and lazy play with stereotypes ... no subtlity; no hard research but instead anyhting that your average tabloid in South Africa would spew. @sabstance I agree 100%
Just watched the movie and as an African it makes me cringe. The movie is stereotype from the word go and yes while I hate using the “racist” in a lose way, this film unfortunately has to be one. Check the cast out: White=heads of the multinational arms industry; powerful, business like, not blemish free but generally portrayed as living in a rarified world of board meetings and cooperate intrigue; whites= all the expert commentators, University professors, savvy journalists technical experts on human biology etc whites= the no nonsense action hero but oppressive neverthless military types. Now look at blacks: the now famous Nigerian gangsters which I must say was the worst stereotypical portrayal I have seen in years; black:=the hoards of “burn them on the stake” xenophobes: blacks= the “follow me and see what I do” trainees and “yes baas” askaris; blacks=the cow’s head relishing street vendors; blacks= the simpletons on the street whose wives and sneakers are stolen by the aliens. It started off very nicely and the idea was realy great. But it quickly degenrated into a uncreative and lazy play with stereotypes … no subtlity; no hard research but instead anyhting that your average tabloid in South Africa would spew.

]]> By: Soois http://www.mikestopforth.com/2009/08/30/9-reasons-to-see-district-9/comment-page-1/#comment-106023 Soois Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:55:31 +0000 http://www.mikestopforth.com/2009/08/30/9-reasons-to-see-district-9/#comment-106023 For all the racist racing, I have but one thing to say - GET A LIFE !No matter what color skin you have, there is a lot of people who screw up or succeed and they come in all colors,shapes and sizes.Don't critisize guys.Point is that there was a movie made in South Africa and it placed us on the map. For all the racist racing, I have but one thing to say – GET A LIFE !No matter what color skin you have, there is a lot of people who screw up or succeed and they come in all colors,shapes and sizes.Don’t critisize guys.Point is that there was a movie made in South Africa and it placed us on the map.

]]> By: Sabstance http://www.mikestopforth.com/2009/08/30/9-reasons-to-see-district-9/comment-page-1/#comment-105922 Sabstance Sat, 19 Sep 2009 07:42:33 +0000 http://www.mikestopforth.com/2009/08/30/9-reasons-to-see-district-9/#comment-105922 Prejudice against any people is evil and dangerous, before the holocaust, Europe created prejudices against the Jewish people, before Genocide the Hutus created (ok the Belgians did that!) stereotypes that ended in Tutsis being called 'cockroaches'(prawns) the list is endless Dave!! NOW HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN A FILMMAKER ENDORSING A VIEW THAT NIGERIANS ARE THE CRIMINALS IN SOUTH AFRICA WHEN HE WITNESSED THE XENOPHOBIC ATTACKS TO FOREIGNERS, will the conclusion is simple, 'AFRICAN WILL ALWYS KILL EACH OTHER' said a US senator when asked to push for UN SECURITY counsel to send forces to Rwanda. Anyone who tells me that we should not learn from our past is asking for history to repeat itself. And no with the way things happen in South Africa, the African foreigners may not be the next victims when people in poverty revolt next time, 'White' people might be the victims! Which is why DaveG YOU NEED TO STOP ANY PREJUDICING STATEMENT BEING MADE AGAINST ANY PEOPLE. Because no people are ever immune from being painted by the shit brush. i know this because I am a Zulu who had the most terrible experiences when working in Johannesburg. We need to understand that media, film, radio, newspapers, carry with them many possibilities and one is the ability to change perception, WHY DO WE ALL THINK NIGERIANS ARE GANGSTERS WHEN NONE OF CAN GIVE ME AN ADDRESS TO ONE SUCH GANGSTER, THE MEDIA TOLD YOU SO! Prejudice against any people is evil and dangerous, before the holocaust, Europe created prejudices against the Jewish people, before Genocide the Hutus created (ok the Belgians did that!) stereotypes that ended in Tutsis being called ‘cockroaches’(prawns) the list is endless Dave!!
NOW HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN A FILMMAKER ENDORSING A VIEW THAT NIGERIANS ARE THE CRIMINALS IN SOUTH AFRICA WHEN HE WITNESSED THE XENOPHOBIC ATTACKS TO FOREIGNERS, will the conclusion is simple, ‘AFRICAN WILL ALWYS KILL EACH OTHER’ said a US senator when asked to push for UN SECURITY counsel to send forces to Rwanda.

Anyone who tells me that we should not learn from our past is asking for history to repeat itself. And no with the way things happen in South Africa, the African foreigners may not be the next victims when people in poverty revolt next time, ‘White’ people might be the victims! Which is why DaveG YOU NEED TO STOP ANY PREJUDICING STATEMENT BEING MADE AGAINST ANY PEOPLE. Because no people are ever immune from being painted by the shit brush. i know this because I am a Zulu who had the most terrible experiences when working in Johannesburg.
We need to understand that media, film, radio, newspapers, carry with them many possibilities and one is the ability to change perception, WHY DO WE ALL THINK NIGERIANS ARE GANGSTERS WHEN NONE OF CAN GIVE ME AN ADDRESS TO ONE SUCH GANGSTER, THE MEDIA TOLD YOU SO!

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