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Date: October 19, 2019 08:23PM
Skip the gymnastics, here is a black African view:
https://www.southerneye.co.zw/2015/03/27/the-gods-must-be-crazy-is-racist/"The filmmaker, Jamie Uys, was himself a cog in the propaganda machinery of the apartheid State, producing, alongside the likes of Heyns film production house, films that sought to justify apartheid in the eyes of the world...
"It is not an understatement to say that the film depicts black people as hopelessly unsophisticated ignoramuses. Since The Gods Must be Crazy was made in the 1980s, many texts, academic and non-academic, have been produced that are united in their condemnation of its racism...
"The logical conclusion in this structure is that the colonising West as a site of knowledge production and practices, is supreme and therefore, has legitimacy over its “other” – the San or formerly colonised Africa. Accordingly, the San can only be explained through tropes of idiocy and backwardness. This constitutes the film’s epistemic violence as its discourses does harm to Africans..."
Dr Litheko Modisane of the Centre for Film and Media Studies – University of Cape Town in "Sunday World"