... or so certain people or a certain skin color are saying....

"A new Associated Press article lays out the arguments for and against the notion that 'Avatar' is racist. (Warning: Spoilers follow.) The Na'vi may be tall, blue aliens, but they seem to resemble the noble savages in older Hollywood movies -- they're played by actors of color (from Dominican/Puerto Rican Zoë Saldana to Cherokee Wes Studi), they live a primitive (by Western industrial standards) lifestyle in harmony with nature, they sport tattoos and dreadlocks and exotic jewelry, they have a closed and tight-knit society that's suspicious of outsiders, they have an animist religion that worships gods and spirits residing in trees and animals, and they have courage and athleticism but not necessarily rationality or ambition. "

Theres a stupid youtube video from a critic near the middle of the page where he says that the tall blue aliens represent black people like NBA players. Seriously? Come on now. Its a fucking movie.