While you’re watching with open eyes, bill, look for another oft-used plot:
“The primitive non-white needs the help of the white man to find moral clarity and carry out even basic functions like self-defense.”
Seriously...all the main villains and the infiltrator Sully are white folks and all the aliens are wearing cornrows and voiced by non-whites. The aliens are getting their buts kicked until the white savior comes along. Additionally, some people have pointed out that it’s racist in another direction, i.e., the white is evil until he becomes non-white, and then he becomes a shining star of morality.
It’s sort of like Tarzan, if Tarzan had been written by contributors to Daily Kos so that it ended with the gorillas fighting Halliburton.
It makes perfect sense to me.
The Na’Vi don’t understand human technology and need someone like Jake Sully to lead them into battle.