All the "good" people out to save humanity are mixed race or of color (Keanu is mixed race). The only exception is the "good" white girlfriend of Neo who betrays her own racial group which is the “evil” white group. [The idea of the "race traitor" is attributed to the Harvard Professor Neol Ignatiev [Harvard, where Cornel West used to teach]. You can read all about his philosophy of "abolishing the white race" by reading his Harvard Publication Race Traitor ]
All the "evil" people are white. They are represented as fascist, Nazi-like automatons who seek to hunt down and destroy decent or in this case, people of color.
That is the message of The Matrix.
The casting choices [Cornel West] of the Reload [which I haven’t seen] appears to continue on the anti-white subtext.
I confess that when I saw the original Matrix, the whole black/white thing went right past me. I didn't notice anything. HOWEVER ... in Matrix Reloaded, you cannot possibly escape the message that you mention. The last human city (Zion) is about 95% black. Very Black. Funky, sweaty, dreadlocked black. They are the good guys (which is fine, as far as it goes). The bad guys are about 95% white. Very White. Button-down suit, emotionless, robots. The dichotomy is overwelming.
I'll also point out that there are some helpful computer programs in the movie who appear within the Matrix as humans. Let's see, the top three helpful computer programs are:
Key maker -- Asian gentlman.
Oracle -- Black woman.
Oracle's body guard -- Asian gentleman.
You could not POSSIBLY make a movie which so blatantly painted People of Color as an evil scourge and threat to humanity, with White people as the only hope of saving human civilization. NO WAY.
All the "good" people out to save humanity are mixed race or of color (Keanu is mixed race). The only exception is the "good" white girlfriend of Neo who betrays her own racial group which is the “evil” white group.
Interesting that you mentioned that ... the one thing that I wondered about in the second movie when they showed scenes of Zion .....
Where are the white people at ?? .... a few scenes later I find out that both of them (old man and old woman) are busy running the joint via a council.
Talk about unintentional irony.