John 4:44

Why are people upset with a Hispanic Sandra Bullock playing the role of "The nice white lady who saves a Black kid" in Blind Side?

John 4:44 (KJV) - "For Jesus himself testified, that a prophet has no honor in his own land."

Maybe an outsider is needed.

Movies have been dealing with race and one's place at the table when attempting to rectify problems bought on by racist actions for decades.

To Kill a Mockingbird was more about the learning process of whites in how to treat and judge people by their deeds and not by their race.

Sandra Bullock teamed with Matthew McConaughey to attempt another telling of roughly the same story.

It took a white person to rescue a Black man from a racist situation.

Michelle Pfeiffer would also play the role of a White Savior and sit in a chair as Coolio would rap his lyrics to Gangster's Paradise for Dangerous Minds.

Of course it took the nice white lady Hillary Swank to inspire ghetto children to perform at levels unknown to themselves in Freedom Writers. (Didn't Meryl Steep play a music teacher in the hood in Music From the Heart.?)

The counter position of Sidney Portiere in To Sir With Love would be Jim Belushi (Long before he was sexing-up the out of his league Courtney Thorne in According to Jim. *See; "Brohammas' Heffernan Theory".) in The Principal.

While some of these stories are based on fact - So is Stand and Deliver with Edward James Olmos.

And in Lean On Me, the eternally old Morgan Freeman plays a reform minded Joe Clark.

Is it bad that outsiders are often called upon to solve problems within a community?

Nope, it's bad that those within these communities aren't generally doing better for themselves.

It's bad that the problems have become so bad that people will accept anyone who has "The Answer" to problems that they could have solved all along.

Why are these movies dangerous?

Because they are only used as a tool so white people can say, "See, we're not all bad.". (Which is true.)

Because these movies reinforce the belief (even held by many Blacks) that only a white person can solve any problems minorities have gotten themselves into.
Because these movies fail to enforce the dictum; nosce te ipsum - in that they fail to teach that the oppressed group always had the power for change on their own.

Because the minority is always subjugated and the white person is always dominant.