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msvillager — 9 years ago(December 24, 2016 06:46 AM)

Did anyone else notice that the flower delivery guy, that rang the door to Gumb's home (the mistaken one), and the TACT (mistakenly referred to in the movie as SWAT) team member, that opened the elevator hatch door, were both African-American? "Let's send in the black guy"
WTH!

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A black person delivering flowers? Who looks positively ANGELIC compared to WHO HE IS DELIVERING THEM TO? Ok, I guess that is pretty racist!

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The SWAT team member who uses the mirror to identify "Hannibal" on the lift and then fully exposes himself to shout to Hannibal to move away from the handgun is white. The black swat team member is called to make the shot.
If anything the black guy is called in as a specialist sharpshooter to make the shot the other guys can't make.
But i digress the film isn't about race.

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