In a message dated 7/31/99 10:23:17 AM Eastern Daylight Time, jrovira@juno.com writes: << My question is...how is it that the depiction of these stock characters are somehow inherently racist? I mean, I KNOW people that talk soemthing like JaJa Binx. Jim >> jar jar was a really dumb character in the movie.. and he also had the jamaican accent... so it seemed like lucas was being racist by making it out that jamaicans are slow and stupid...