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“for Angelina Jolie to don brownface in order to play a person of colour is to fit into a history of racial makeup used by White actors to not only caricature the real-life “inspirations” but to deny actors of colour jobs in Hollywood…”
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“I argue that a lot of the subtle racism is coming not just from the tribemates, but also from the editors who are, consciously and unconsciously, inserting more racial stereotypes into the story than that really need to be there…”
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Thanks Ji in! “They end up treating the whole of Africa as a helpless baby to be adopted by Western parents. Madonna’s child charity is called “Raising Malawi”, as if the country were a toddler to carry on her back…”
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