Kae-Kazim: ‘District 9’ xenophobic
Gabisile Ndebele
Hit movie accused of depicting Nigerians as cruel savages
X-MEN: Wolverine actor Hakeem Kae-Kazim has blasted South African-made blockbuster District9 for being xenophobic.
Kae-Kazim, British but of Nigerian origin, said on his profile on social networking website Facebook that he was “appalled at the depiction of Nigerians in the hit movie District 9”.
The Hotel Rwanda and Pirates of the Caribbean actor saw the film last week in Los Angeles.
“The continuing demonstration of our brothers and sisters [who only appeared as prostitutes for the aliens] will make them feel it justifies their [prostitution] actions.
“The demonstration of Nigerians truly made me and others question what is truly going on with the true liberation of the African.”
Directed by Neil Blomkamp and produced by the Lord of the Rings trilogy’s Peter Jackson, the film is about a bureaucrat assigned to evict and move alien s stranded on E arth from one government refugee camp to another in Johannesburg.
The Racialicious blog owner Carmen van Kerckhove, president and co-founder of US diversity education company New Demographic, said: “The Nigerians have a wailing ‘witch doctor’ who instructs them to eat the aliens. And they do it. Bloody, wriggling, and raw, of course. We’re told that the black prostitutes ‘service’ the aliens sexually,” she wrote.
“… Yup, that’s Hollywood’s Africa, isn’t it? Black Africans shown as degenerate savages who’ll have sex with non-humans and eat people. Disgusting.”
Kae-Kazim dramatically added: “Oh, South Africa! What would Steven Biko say?”
this article first appeared on the times
September 7th, 2009 at 3:46 am
burn hollywood burn..