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404UsernameNotFound@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Yes, there are too many Black actors in Hollywood movies. You can barely find any roles for white actors these days. I fondly recall roles where white actors could do their jobs, like Mickey Rooney in Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

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But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
It’s funny how Latino, Arab, Asian, Greek, actors are suddenly “white” when convenient.

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- Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Ok where is all this black washing of Asian, arab, latino, etc figures? If anything they get white washed as much as black figures do or are reduced to stereotypes with zero depth.
  
  Only thing that comes to mind is Jada Pinkett’s shitty Netflix series that no one watched
  
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  - But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Sounds like you’re being emotional and treating racism like a competition. Can’t really have a reasonable conversation with you if that’s the case
    
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    Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
    Or you could just give me examples of famous figures of the ethnicities you mentioned being represented as black. I’ve yet to see Miyamoto Musashi, Santa Ana, Buddha, Alexander the Great, or Saladin played by Morgan Freeman or Idris Elba
    
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- 404UsernameNotFound@lemmy.wtf ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Right, Samuel L. Jackson as Simón Bolívar was really a bad pick.
  
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