Just watch this sick Hollywood production, if you dare. Warning: it might make you feel vaguely, even completely ill. See how they fill American Whites full of really otherwise inexplicable loathing. The hate, already so deeply ingrained, is amplified, exacerbated.
Consider that the non-white people portrayed are the sort that couldn't possibly hurt Americans in "The Homeland."
This episode dates from about 1985, height of the Cold War. So they were big on casting Russkies as the villain. Back then, a Russian would do in a pinch. SOMEBODY hs to play the "_____," the Untermensch. Even a white guy sometimes. The overarching desire was/is to fill the insatiable yearning for a villain, a Bad Guy. For plastic people whose identity is so awfully weak, there is a hankering for some kind of excitement, some vicarious thrill. People whose capacity for love has been horribly stymied might just find something to fill the terrible vacuum. That's why shows like this are produced:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO_Bfdbc_pE
I'm not making excuses for White People who are clearly so f*cked up. White Europeans created an unprecedented wave of violence directed at most of the planet ever since colonialism was the new rage. Present day racism and discrimination are an American, thus a World horror. But the kind of televised conditioning that makes a bad situation worse should be challenged.
P.S: If anyone has better luck finding Coretta Scott King's anguished words upon the assassination of her husband Martin Luther King Jr., please let me know. A truly passionate and heart-wrenching statement I haven't come across since I heard it somewhere on TV.
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