Oops! How racist does that make me?

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jgroub — 15 years ago(January 30, 2011 05:12 PM)

Oops! How racist does that make me?
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guy_in_west_houston — 15 years ago(February 23, 2011 04:18 AM)

I'm not a racist and I thought he was calling Cullen "colored" too. I think it was Curtis's pathetic attempt of a Southern accent.

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gribfritz2 — 14 years ago(April 06, 2011 02:05 AM)

Same here. Hell, he called him "boy" and the n-word several times, so why not? I think their names are mentioned briefly near the beginning, so it makes sense that a viewer might not remember Cullen's last name. When Curtis tells the woman his name is "Johnny," I was like, "oh, is it?"

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grrrdevin — 14 years ago(January 09, 2012 09:39 PM)

When the film ended, it occurred to me that the phonetic similarity was probably intentional.
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J_Howlett1886 — 14 years ago(January 21, 2012 05:43 PM)

I thought he was saying colored too.

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johnnyb10 — 12 years ago(June 17, 2013 09:36 AM)

I just found out now that he wasn't yelling "colored".

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Howlin Wolf — 11 years ago(October 21, 2014 05:16 AM)

I thought that at first, too
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eholzapfel26 — 11 years ago(January 25, 2015 10:27 AM)

I didn't know that Poitier's character was named "Cullen" until I came here & looked it up. So I also thought Joker was calling him "Colored" the whole time, especially since Cullen made it clear early in the film that he wasn't going to stand for Joker calling him the N-word, so it just seemed that Joker started calling him (the slightly more acceptable, at that time) "Colored".

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!!!deleted!!! (49761343) — 10 years ago(December 02, 2015 02:07 PM)

Until I read this post, I did not know he was saying, "Cullen." I thought he was saying "Colored" the entire time!
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bossat2822 — 10 years ago(January 14, 2016 11:15 PM)

Wow!! I'm shocked at the people thinking tony said anything else except " cullen" it doesn't make anyone racist, as the OP states. But colored has never been a singular noun to describe anybody. Boy? The n- word? Yeah, people would use that singular to describe a black male back then. Colored was used as an adjective, or in a group. Never would you see an old racist sheriff going up to a black man saying "hey colored, what are YOU doing on this side of town?"