Why are some Hollywoodians down with hang over of racism

It is not  a coincidence that in the year when DW Griffith film 'The  Birth of a Nation' celebrated 100 years of its first exhibition, White House agreed to allow the screening of Selma an Oscar contender 2015 based on a theme of struggling and sufferings of the black men. The gap between both the films is one hundred years long but the struggle for existence of black people in a white society is the same like it was yesterday.

DW Griffith’s land mark movie in the world history of cinema was one of the influential as well as a sophisticated cinematic techniques drenched in racism. It is undeniably a technically astounding achievement, critics have long praised its editing techniques, shot composition and epic sense of scale, while its pioneering aesthetic qualities are taught in schools and universities worldwide. The Birth of a Nation also happens to be an purely racist piece of work. It is the key film that helped classifying a set of enduring negative stereotypes characters of black people on screen.

The problems of color differences and racism are bigger than any Oscar, as numerous people have pointed out that this type of unethical unbalanced representation was problematic and systematic even those days of 100 years old American society when the birth of the nation was being shot and when Griffith was trying to examine the origins of the system of power which seemed to him to threaten the nation’s welfare. But he failed to see that oppression of the Negro is the foundation on which the system  was built solidly  and will echo in coming next many centuries

Such deep rooted sense of racism in some of the American intellectuals have so many stories to be wriiten. Recently  released Martian in India  by famous director Ridly Scott sparked off racism controversy because  the film has come under fire for “whitewashing” Asian-American roles.  Some  Asian characters of Andy Weir’s original novel like Nasa’s Director of Mars missions, Dr Venkat Kapoor, is described by Weir as “a Hindu” Asian-Indian, but is played by British black actor Chiwetel Ejiofor in the movie. The character’s name has also been changed to Vincent Kapoor.

Earlier Scott has been criticised for racial erasure before when he casted white actor Christian Bale as Moses in ExodusGod and kings and Middle Eastern actors as servants and villains.  Financers generally don’t look for any racism in their films. It is the director who is captain of the ship . The  members of The Media Action Network for Asian-Americans believe the wrong actors were cast to play them.  The president of the Network said in a statement, 'This feel-good movie, which has attracted Oscar buzz, shouldn’t get any awards for casting.'
 
Was Ridley Scott not comfortable having two sets of Asian-Americans talking to each other?