>The post-racial debate isn't about Red Tails or Tyler Perry,
>it's about Girls and whether you even want white people trying
>to write non-white characters. It's about whether they should
>have to. If they should even consider it. It's about whether
>those characters should be defined by their race at all or if
>any race could have played the characters. It's the idea of
>whether tokenism was really ever progress and if it should
>stop. It's about the silent prejudice of why Girls will get a
>push from Judd Apatow but a black show wouldn't get the same
>love. It's how people now don't exclude, they just don't worry
>about inclusion.

yet when i linked up Ta-Neishi Coate's essay from The Atlantic, but he made it specifically about the hollywood power structure that even refuses to ackowledge these questions, you said he wasn't saying much, lol


>Saying people now need two black friends isn't fresh. The idea
>of The Black Friend is out of date. White kids don't even
>think they need black friends anymore. Obama's everyone's
>black friend now!

WTF

We live in a time on nonchalant hipster
>racism and this film is about blatantly evil white frat guys
>that was a tired trope even in the 90's.

yet, just last month @ Colombia and Chicago U Black women were verbally and physically assualted by White frat boys, but because they've been discussed/depicted in 90s films, we should just you know, not talk about it anymore

I mean, if you're
>making a comedy about changing times, at least make it about
>black people wondering if they need a white friend or
>something.)

ohh so just create the reactionary inversion film and that's cool?

>Or if you want to get deeper, have it about someone wondering
>why they should even be "black" in the post-racial,
>cablanasian era?
O_o