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Originally Posted by Ithinkiloveyoutoo
You must have missed all the people calling Quvenzhane a little n8gger. And all the people threatening to boycott Star Wars because there would be a black character forgetting the creator of this is married to a black person.
No, i saw all of that too. I also saw people kick off at Ben Afflick when he was given the role as the next Batman and they too threatened to boycot the movie because he was chosen. I also recently watched the movie the hatefull 8 and as the opening credits rolled the first name on screen was a black actors name,he was also the leading actor in this movie. Samuel L Jackson played the lead role in the hatefull 8 and he was brilliant in this movie which goes directly against those suggesting only white actors get the lead roles. I'm sure i will get the but thats just one movie quote thrown back at me for pointing out something positive as people only want to talk about the negative stuff in here.
Diversity is not a two way street in this instance. White people have got to stop acting like the balance is 50/50. This is just white people regressing to excuse pushing out the few blacks that make it more and more.
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This is where we disagree. I believe that diversity is a two way street. EVERYONE should be given equal opportunity and that includes ALL the different people of race for ALL movie roles.
I agree with you on the balance of things right now not being 50/50 but to generalize and say white folk need to stop pushing out blacks is a cheap shot. I do not believe that ALL white people are like that. I also disagree with you that only black actors are being treated this way. Many races are treated this way and NOT just one race in the movie industry.