Raising a black child yet stars in a movie that erases blacks from 1968

I have to agree - Hollywood is so quick to call the South racist in movies but there is no place that is as racist, sexist, or ageist as Hollywood. Unless you're Will Smith or Morgan Freeman, as a black actor, you'd be lucky to get an extra or a one line part as a bobby. Myrna Loy, about 65 years ago, asked producers why a Negro (the term that was considered polite then) couldn't be seen in a suit walking down building steps carrying a briefcase (to show that he was something besides the janitor). She never got a satisfactory response and it's the same today. Most movies could have actors of color in the leads without it specifically being written for "color" but the casting calls are all for young white males, 20-30, or young white females, 18-25.



This positively infantile preoccupation with bosoms!Terry-Thomas about US 1963.Hasnt changed much!

She said she did the movie for her son.

Did you also count the number of Asians or Latinos represented in the movie and do you ever hear them complaining about it?

"She said she did the movie for her son."

I'd like to see that. I'm sure she was unable to see the composition of the villain convention because voice acting comes before animation but she had to notice the composition of the voice actors.

Since I come from an area with 90% black citizenry, it is my responsibility to speak for my neighbors. I'm not sure if Asians or non-white Hispanics are complaining, but in 1968 the Asian community was quite small and Hispanics weren't getting their heads bashed in during protests after Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated in 1968.

What was happening in 1968 makes the erasure of black citizens from this movie all the more unethical.

Also, @Aquamarine2015, you are the one posting about Jessie being a Nazi sympathizer so I would think you'd have a serious problem with her starring in movies that erase non-whites.


How to create an atheist: read the bible twice cover to cover.

Good Lord... Go outside, or do a puzzle or something and stop inventing things to whine about.

Putz.

From the person who is sitting here responding to posts on IMDB... Guess you are on your smart phone under the mid day sun not noticing the fall leaves...

Nope, my opinion is not invented and very valid. She did it for the money and that would be for her son's benefit, but it didn't help further civil rights of other African diaspora members.


How to create an atheist: read the bible twice cover to cover.

Go watch "The Blind Side".