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Transformers From 'Da Hood' Spark Racism Charges
New characters compared to Jar Jar Binks
By Evann Gastaldo
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Posted Jun 25, 09 11:51 AM CDT
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Critics are comparing Transformers to Star Wars, and not in a good way, E! reports. Twin autobots Skids and Mudflap are causing an uproar over ethnic stereotypes. The new characters are from “da hood,” can’t read, and inspired one critic to describe them as—horrors!—“Jar Jar Binks in car form.” And like Jar Jar, they're annoying. In the words of another critic, they are “a collection of every bad stereotype imaginable.”