In fact, viewed in this context, the dad's rant against the real estate companies seems more meant to shorthand the fact that this family consists of "the good ones," victims of circumstance and white oppressor Biff Tannen.
Lyon Estate isn’t just bad, it’s like Precinct 13 there, complete with crashed police cars and double homicides. But Back to the Future II has no time to really explore that, and instead it hastily sketches a connection between black families - even ones that seem to be as intact and loving as the family living in the McFly house - with apocalyptic neighborhoods. I want it to be about blockbusting and the way unscrupulous real estate moguls destroy neighborhoods to make a profit. I want to give this segment the benefit of the doubt. So in the Back to the Future universe black people are either musicians or they’re poor and live in the projects.Īs film critic Devin Faraci points out, there's a microscopic chance that this scene is really an indictment of predatory housing practices, but not really:
#BACK TO THE FUTURE PART III PUTLOCKERS SERIES#
Come to think of it the only other black people in the series is the band that plays at the dance. I guess the whole town was turned into a ghetto but to make sure the audience understands they chose to introduce that fact to us with a black family. Also when the father comes running in to investigate he says, “freeze sucka!” and the kids have a Thriller poster on the wall.
The neighborhood is all trashed with burnt out cars and houses that have been foreclosed ‘n shit and, of course, this is where a black family lives. That whole scene is kinda racist in my opinion. In my own white obliviousness, it never occurred to me that since this was only the third instance of black people in a Back to the Future movie, maybe it was saying something to black people: But there were a few other things about Back to the Future that I've missed all these years, like the scene from Back to the Future II in which Marty returns to a nightmare Hill Valley to find a black family living in his house.
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