It always makes me really uncomfortable to see George Lucas called racist because of Jar Jar Binks. I get WHY people don't like Jar Jar. I really do. But I feel like Lucas tried to reach out to black actors and that his mistakes were probably borne of his love of old serials more than out of any desire to mock black people.
So I honestly prefer it when people say, "I hate Jar Jar Binks because he's so annoying and he reminds me of racist caricatures" rather than "George Lucas is racist for how he wrote Jar Jar Binks."
Re: OP above
To expand on this a bit:
It always makes me really uncomfortable to see George Lucas called racist because of Jar Jar Binks. I get WHY people don't like Jar Jar. I really do. But I feel like Lucas tried to reach out to black actors and that his mistakes were probably borne of his love of old serials more than out of any desire to mock black people.
So I honestly prefer it when people say, "I hate Jar Jar Binks because he's so annoying and he reminds me of racist caricatures" rather than "George Lucas is racist for how he wrote Jar Jar Binks."
Do you get what I mean?