In retrospect, The Sopranos was kind of racist

[⠀X ⠀]

You have a point, but they depicted everyone that way. You think they depicted Italians in a good light?

 

[Mowgli]

Damn cats even want hugs from the mafia.

 

[RickyDiBiase]

pretty much all mafia movies do this, Tarantino movies too. But black people love that shyt for some reason.

Cause we’re not children

 

[King Poetic]

Thats how the criminal life is since the beginning of time

At least they showed reality and how they are..

 

[boskey]

It was just bad writing. The black characters were all one dimensional and poorly written except for Lord Jamar when Tony was in the hospital

 

[The BasedFather]

Wait until you see the episodes where Meadow dates the mixed guy

 

[NobodyReally]

Are people actually reading what the OP wrote? He’s not complaining about the Soprano family being racist, he’s complaining about the way Black characters were portrayed and written.

 

[hex]

I feel like most of you aren't reading the OP.

He's not saying he just now realized the characters are racist....he's saying he thinks the depiction of black folks on the show was racist.

Fred.

 

[Black Hans]

Bokeem Woodbine's character wasn't trying to extort Hess, he told Hess in so many words, he was going to repay that black talent he exploited back in the day.

But I thought that was one of the major points, to show the Tony and them as racist. Uncle Junior staged a hit on Tony by trying to make it seem that brothers were trying to hijack Tony for his SUV, Tony and Carmela being about the mulatto dude Meadow was dating, the carjacking scheme being ran by Tony, killing Jackie Jr. in the projects, etc.

If you think the Sopranos was meant to show the characters as racist, then you'd be correct. If you think the show is racist, you couldn't be more far off. David Chase was trying to show how things blamed on black people was usually a white person behind it. Even had the episode, Two Black Males or something like that to hammer this point.

 

[DaddyFresh]

Of course. It would not be realistic if they were not.

They were deplorable humans. Murderers. Cheaters. Scammers. Liars. Rapists. Felons. Drug Dealers.

We really think they would be all of that but not be racists

This. Italians are notoriously racist. If you can’t separate art from your personal feelings you just a huge snowflake lol

 

[MajesticLion]

 

[Mike Nasty]

Are people actually reading what the OP wrote? He’s not complaining about the Soprano family being racist, he’s complaining about the way Black characters were portrayed and written.

I feel like most of you aren't reading the OP.

He's not saying he just now realized the characters are racist....he's saying he thinks the depiction of black folks on the show was racist.

Fred.

Fair point, but that's American Cinema.

 

[Pazzy]

Never cared or had an interest in the sopranos or any of those mob films. Them shyts are boring to me.

 

[Rell]

There's so much shyt that I shake my head and immediately laugh its so ridiculous.

Jamal Ginsberg

 

[Mike the Executioner]

That cop was one of the few people that applied pressure to Tony and Tony couldn't get to him in any way. He tried charming him, using his connections to get out of the ticket, tried bribing him. The cop didn't sway and remained with his principles intact. The episode makes the point that Tony felt bad about getting the cop in trouble at his job, but the cop didn't care about Tony's guilt or his attempts to fix things. He still had to work and carry on with his life, and he'll always be a better man than Tony will.

Then there was that coffee shop manager who told Patsy and Burt that their extortion attempt was stupid. If they break a window, corporate won't care because they can just replace it. The manager himself is aware that he can be replaced at any time and everything goes through corporate, so he has no reason to feel threatened by the mob when he has other things to worry about.

Looking at the show as a whole, 95% of the characters are idiots, psychos, hypocrites, liars, cheaters, etc. I could understand if the black characters were portrayed significantly worse than everyone else, but even Tony himself has almost every negative trait you could put into a human being. The genius of The Sopranos is that we still see these people as human beings and enjoy watching them in spite of how awful they are.