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| For decades the American film industry has shunned African Americans, giving black actors a minor role here and there and leaving all the big business to the whites. | |
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| We were given stereotypical roles in mainstream pictures. Every black woman was a maid. Every black man was a criminal. | |
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| The only way for an African American actor to make a living was to entertain the white audience with racist films like Blacula and Foxy Brown, using our racial identity to humiliate ourselves. | |
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| Then Rachel Getting Married came along and featured an equal split of black and white characters. Rachel Getting Married made it a point to say Look: black people are no different to white people. | |
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| We didn't want to be in that one. | |
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