And this is important. This is about representation. For some reason, white people in America are perfectly comfortable with the idea of people of color just contorting their imaginations such that we can imagine ourselves as white heroes, but white people generally aren’t OK with imagining themselves as Black heroes. Every time there’s talk of a new actor taking on the role of James Bond and Idris Elba’s name comes up, white people freak out: “HOW CAN A BLACK MAN BE JAMES BOND???” Meanwhile Hollywood regularly takes characters of color and turns them white whenever it wants. In the movie
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