https://contemporaryracism.org/122873/monochromatic-colorblind-casting/ An academic blog about whiteness, implicit bias, and systemic racism Mon, 07 Dec 2020 02:43:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://contemporaryracism.org/122873/monochromatic-colorblind-casting/comment-page-1/#comment-1057 Mon, 07 Dec 2020 02:43:51 +0000 http://contemporaryracism.org/?p=122873#comment-1057 I think it’s important to have Black characters who get to exist outside of their Blackness. By that I mean, there should be Black teens in tv shows whose identity isn’t just them being afraid of police officers, they should get to have identities outside of that. We don’t only have white characters who talk about being afraid to be called racist, rather they get to be multi-dimensional. They get ~layers~. However, in response to your final question, I do think there’s something wrong with a white person taking the role of a Black character, not because the character is supposed to be Black but because there are so few Black roles in the media. And, if we are to let white people play Black characters then there’s no reason to not let Black people play traditionally white roles.

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