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rabgor - watch doctor who where they insert black characters into victorian parliaments where - in real life - there were actually, shockingly, no black people
this is not making things better, this is whitewashing history.
also - isn't it fair, in a free and equal society, for people to produce fiction featuring WHATEVER characters they want?
the reason walter white and jesse pinkman are white, and all the friends were white, is not because the writers dont like black people.
the people that write breaking bad happen to be white. their lives were probably filled with people who emotionally resonated the strongest with them, and also happened to be white. this is not racism.
pretending that in ever situation everywhere you can just insert a woman, a gay, a black, a hispanic, a latino, an asian etc. is just stupid.
you can tell whatever story you want, and you shouldnt have to have an obligation to make it conform to a particular racial narrative.
if you said - hey sound man, i dont want your black hands on the equipment cos you'll mess it up - well then you're just crazy. crazy and racist. you should still have a right to express yourself through fiction, but maybe not to hire and fire. if ZERO black actors were ever on american tv, then that's wrong. but its not like that.
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