Hi there. I've been a longtime member of the soundtrack community that frequents this site. The comments sections of these reviews draw lots of eyeballs, and I want to clarify some things for first time visitors to this site who are seeing a wall of accusations against the Filmtracks webmaster.

As far as I can tell, this started over a couple of lines in the Tom and Jerry review that question why the composer chose to use what he considered "Black music" (specifically funk and hip-hop) in a movie where the main characters weren't Black. A couple of people, myself included, found this characterization a little odd, which led to a nuanced discussion on the website's forum and in a private fb group of people who frequent this site. You can read the webmaster's response elaborating on his opinions here: https://www.filmtracks.com/scoreboard/forum.cgi?read=95510

What appears to have ensued since then is that people on facebook have seen the review, or maybe the discussion of it over there, and have coordinated an attack on the site, spamming the comment section, the forum, and the webmaster's email accusing him of racism. Concurrently someone is spamming the viewer ratings for Tom and Jerry with 5 star votes, perhaps to push it to the top of the rankings and draw more attention to it, perhaps to brand the people who frequent the site as reactionary racists, I don't know.

What I do know is that the webmaster's reviews don't express any racism. Yes, I think some of the opinions in this review are a little weird. But that's part of a more complicated discussion of when it's appropriate to use music associated with certain cultures in various films. That's not the basis for "Is Filmtracks racist?" Because it's not. It's webmaster is not. What you're seeing here is a coordinated spam attack from someone who has a bone to pick with the site, not genuine outrage from people offended by the content of his reviews.

In an attempt to salvage something constructive from this whole debacle, if you want to do something useful to fight racism that doesn't involve trying to cancel a random film music critic, go donate to the ACLU and help them protect voting rights: https://www.aclu.org/