So just to be clear....
This is racist..
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but this is not....
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First of all, this movie was released ten years ago. It would not be considered acceptable today. It's not really relevant.
Not that it was really considered acceptable back then, either:
"This film received poor reactions from critics. Rotten Tomatoes gives it an aggregate rating of only 15% based on 121 reviews. Film critic Richard Roeper put the film at #1 on his list of the worst films of 2004 amongst claims of (...) racism."
Second, I do not understand why you would say "this was acceptable in the 40's/50's/60's, why isn't it acceptable now?"
Think about what else was acceptable in the 40's, 50's and 60's.
We no longer base what's acceptable on what was acceptable in race relations the 40's, 50's and 60's.
For pretty good reason
Unless you're still really into Jim Crow
and sundown towns
and filling the Mississippi with corpses