Avatar in Relation to Richard Wright 'Native Son'

I recently read this article about how the new movie Avatar and other movies from Hollywood show racist themes. The main theme being a white hero saving a non-white race.In Avatar the white main character saved the Na'vi people, [Na'vi being a wayyy too close a resemblance to Native American for me, but I digress] and basically became the hero. Seeing as it was created by white people, people are saying the movie plays out the age-old assumption that white people are the messiah's to non-white civilizations [whites thought they were 'saving' Africans from savagery, European crusaders thought they were 'saving' other non-Catholic civilizations]. This is an assumption made by white people about white people. Basically from a white person's point of view they are doing a good thing, but in all other non-white people's eyes its not as good.


Ahh the link.

While reading 'Native Son' by Richard Wright, there was a similar link in how white people perceive themselves. The main white characters tried befriending a young black boy [the main black character] in Chicago during segregation. They thought they were being so noble and inviting but what they were really doing was scaring the boy, and driving him crazy wondering at their intentions [so crazy in fact that he killed the main white girl].

See the connection yet?

Its not necessarily racism, just white people misunderstanding their role in they eyes of non-white people. Its really a conceited way that these whites think of themselves and its portrayed in the movies Hollywood. Whites doing such seemingly great things for people who either don't want it [Indians, Africans, non-Catholics] or are portrayed as being not able to do for themselves.