Cobb

if you think about it ... its just a part of the plot .. and not that of the Wachaski bros. to put forth some sort of controversy. Genetics play a HUGE part in people not becoming assimilated into the matrix .. since the blacks have a history of being slaves and fighting for liberation the genes remember and have a hard time accepting the program.

well that makes a little sense to me.

The Architect's explanation of the destruction and rebuilding of Zion makes a simple reason for there being a lot of black people in Zion.

Everytime the "One" returns to the source to allow the cycle to restart, he/she gets to choos 14 women and 7 men from the matrix to repopulate Zion for another incarnation. Obviously, the previous "One" slected mostly black people to be the 21 new Zionists.

Why is it when there are more than 3 black people doing anything positive or any black person is in a position of power or achievment, there has to be some "special" explanation for it occurring? At the end of the day we are just people, but that view appears to never be acceptable. Rarely does that "special" explanation ever give us credit or any level of respect.

maybe all the blacks survived b/c they're so hard to run off

craig, why would there be a "one" that would choose blacks to repopulate? the "one" is supposed to be top-of-the-line...not a bumbling idiot.

come to think of it there were alot of blacks every where

[quote]if you think about it ... its just a part of the plot[end quote]

Now there's a thought....one I happen to agree with.

I think the superior numerical presence of POC [people pf colour] over whites in The Matrix's 'Zion' is related to the degree to which each group benefits or suffers within today's political and commericial paradigm that is the 'Global Pillage' in real life...and all the way back to colonial times....500 or so years ago, even though in the Matrix, you live an ideal life, regardless of your particular ethnic origin.

You need to look deeper than the surface, apropos of which blacks/people of colour outnumber whites in the movie, as the true bumbling idiots are wont to do.

In any case, in terms of proportions, that is the true phenotypical make up of humanity.

I know it scares the crap out of some whites to consider this truth which goes part of the way in explaining why whites, as a people, are so aggressive towards others.

Superimpose the Matrix over the European imperialist hegemony [the aforementioned Global Pillage - the system] evident today [with its attempts to illegally force all else into submission] and you'll understand what the film is trying to say.

Hence Morpheus' speech before the dance scene.

"We are still here!"

I say 'European hegemony' because of the G8 countries, headed by the US, and its use of the World Bank and IMF to weaken developing countries with astronomical debt and proven to fail time and again SAP's [structural adjustment programs].

I won't even get into the evidence strongly suggesting that AIDS is man made with a higher affinity for Africans and it's true origins are with nazi scientists taken into the American fold so that they could continuing their deranged work under the watchful eye of the U.S., for the United States' use.

Perhaps you might want to do some research on these things, then again perhaps not.

Then there's bogus accusations of countries manufacturing weapons of mass destruction as a pretext to go steal other people's oil.

You get the contemporary picture.

"We are still here!"

Neither are they claiming [as I read one short sighted fool say] that blacks/people of colour are more intelligent/capable than whites, the movie contained intelligent white characters on a par with everyone else.

What they are saying in my opinion is that historically speaking, people of colour [for instance, but not limited to, people of African descent and Native Americans] have been made to suffer culturally, spiritually, politically and with regards to economics in the interests of European predatorial greed, financial profit and hatred both tangible and manifest.

So it makes perfect sense that people of colour would be the ones most likely to be searching for a way of escaping 'the system'.

Or, at the very least, POC would be more open to the concept in general while whites, who as a people, have benefitted immensely from the sufferings of non whites, psychologically as well as financially etc, would be less willing to accept that anything was wrong.

So it can be argued that Zion's POC-white ratio is an allegory for the political realities in force today.

POC are looking for that way out and thus, more sensitive to it.

Remember the first movie?

You have to make the CHOICE to leave the matrix...why leave where you are relatively comfortable, it would be a hard thing to do.

You only have to witness whites [not just politicians but everyday, ordinary members of the public]in their refusal to acknowledge the evils of the past in that they continue in the same vain today around the world [the military machine, WE WANT YOU!]and their refusal in toto, to support reparations to descendants of the Trans Atlantic Slave trade for instance, to see that they have trouble seeing that what they did was wrong nevermind that something is wrong with reality itself.

I know some whites suffer too in real life and find themselves in the bottom socio-economic rungs, hence the presence of whites in Zion, fighting 'the system' in the film...just as there are whites fighting the system in real life.

There you go.

Anyway, what are you complaining about? [this is to any white that has a problem with the Matrix reloaded due to the colour balance].

People of colour have been marginalised and dehumanized within cinema and television since its inception.

One big budget mainstream movie comes along where blacks are the majority and portrayed as capable, intelligent leaders and human beings and you whites start whinging, well some of you do.

Pathetic.

And as far as all the evil sentinels being white goes, POC have been portrayed in cinema as good for nothing but crime and little else for nigh on 80 odds years....with little regard for the need to balance this, so quit whinging and DEAL WITH IT!

If you don't like it, go see 'Lord of the Rings' which was regarded by one scholar as racist,who was then referred to as a POMPOUS ASS or the like for daring to find fault with the film, book and author.

Go see that and watch white people save the day against the Dark Lord Sauron and his equally dark skinned wild men cronies with their 'foul beasts from the south'.

That'll be right up your alley.

[quote]You have to make the CHOICE to leave the matrix...why leave where you are relatively comfortable, it would be a hard thing to do.[end quote]

Amendment: Disregard the above statement as I neglected to delete it before I posted.

And further, as regards the phenotypical uniformity of the sentinels [ie, they are all white], having superimposed the Matrix on our own reality and realised the movie's numercial asymmetries reflect differing degrees of ethnic malcontent in our world, one can begin to realise that the sentinels are meant to represent those who both stood and stand to gain MOST [in accordance with Machiavellian political theory] from a preservation of 'the system' in our own reality, in terms of political, psychological, economic and military power,