@1 - The pressure ramped up in November to the point that there was mainstream coverage of it. The hiring just now happened after some ridiculous pretending-it's-no-problem and secret auditions for black ladies.
Congrats to her and hopefully she's funny but let's not kid ourselves that this is some great win for race relations. When in the past 40 years has hiring black people to fill a quota or from social pressure ever helped with race relations? Now this poor cast member has to become the black woman at work whether she wants to or not.
Don't worry, it'll take approximately two episodes worth of shows for people to cry "RACISM!" after she's not involved in at least every other sketch. Then we get to do this all over again. It's a really fun game.
I'm an old, white, gay man, and I'm trying not be be creepy, but she's so beautiful! Tell me I'm horrible, I don't care. Her smile! In the words of Nancy Mitford, " one could just gaze and gaze"
Representation in influential parts of culture and society is extremely important.
If you're a white dude you have never ever felt unrepresented in places of power. Your dismissiveness of it is dismissing the voices of people who are not white men, which basically makes you a bad human being.
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The world is not just Canada, USA, Australia and Europe. I'd say Caucasians are extremely underrepresented in places of power in Asia, Africa, India, China, the Middle East and South America.
Out of curiosity, has a non- Caucasian plurality democracy ever elected a Caucasian president/prime minister/premier? Today how many Caucasians are in leadership positions in China? Or India? (I think significant portions of the global population call those places home). Or anywhere in Africa or South East Asia?
Are they like unicorns?
Representation in influential parts of culture and society is extremely important.
If you're a white dude you have never ever felt unrepresented in places of power. Your dismissiveness of it is dismissing the voices of people who are not white men, which basically makes you a bad human being.
The world is not just Canada, USA, Australia and Europe. I'd say Caucasians are extremely underrepresented in places of power in Asia, Africa, India, China, the Middle East and South America.
Out of curiosity, has a non- Caucasian plurality democracy ever elected a Caucasian president/prime minister/premier? Today how many Caucasians are in leadership positions in China? Or India? (I think significant portions of the global population call those places home). Or anywhere in Africa or South East Asia?