When Did Bigotry Get So Needy? | Racialicious – the intersection of race and pop culture
so good.
an appendix to pearlofcivilization.net
Oh, word, that is just fucking criminal that there arent more roles for White actors on BET shows. Producers, I urge you to do the right thing: next time youre casting your BET shows and theres a role for a murderer, a gang member, or a janitor who exists solely to give advice to your main character, to the exclusion of any personal motivation, please, wont you consider hiring a White actor?
‘Doing terrible things in an organized and systematic way rests on “normalization.” This is the process whereby ugly, degrading, murderous, and unspeakable acts become routine and are accepted as “the way things are done.” There is usually a division of labor in doing and rationalizing the unthinkable, with the direct brutalizing and killing done by one set of individuals’