Should Hollywood stop blackwashing characters?

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VAMatt said:
As far as I'm concerned, creators should do whatever they want, within the confines of any contracts they may have with creators of source material. Hire white chicks to play black, male superheros. Cast anyone for anything. I really DGAF about any of that. I just like to see good movies and shows. To that end, I want the people making those movies and show to have the freedom to make good stuff. They're a lot better at it than I am, so I ain't gonna tell them what to do. I certainly don't think this calls for a "consistent set of rules".

The thing is though even if it would make sense for a certain group of people in a comedy scenario to be all of one ethnicity that is seen as a scenario being white washed even though the reality of it is that not every group of black friends has a white and Asian mate and the same way every group of white people do not have token ethnicity's scattered in to tick boxes Sitcoms from the 90s for example had a group of 6 friends... the entire cast was.... yup monochromatic with one slight dash of Italian in there

6 people, 1.5 ethnicity's

201x sitcom cast shot

6 people, 4 ethnicity's

Just a random example but hopefully you get what I mean, I would think a casting director would now be weighing in an addition pro/con as they go through auditions simply on a basis of "we already have one of your colour / gender" it's a shame really when positive discrimination is used to make racism sound like anything other than what it is, discrimination, it's never positive, Ever.

 

 

Edit - The Good Place (The picture which isn't Friends) is probably one of the best dark comedies I've seen in years, if you've not seen it, I can't recommend it enough but do not read up about it just check out the first episode or two on netflix, all 3 seasons are on there and yeah.... fantastic! but don't google it, spoilers galore since it's going into Season 4!