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except, you know, that happened in November of last year.
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I saw her perform at UCB Chelsea in November this year. She is really, really funny. Great pick for SNL.
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@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.
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SNL need to worry less about color and gender and more about funny.
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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.
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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.
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Are sure they exist? None on Seattle City Council ...

Are they like unicorns?
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Well, except for that whole Maya Rudolph thing more than a decade ago...
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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"
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Ugh white dudes.

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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@9, she is astoundingly beautiful. Not sure how your statement could be creepy, coming from your gay self.
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This us great, although I'll miss kenan's woopie impersonation.
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This *is great...stupid fat fingers
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Aren't there 974 comics on the cast of SNL nowadays? Maybe there was just no way to know that they didn't already employ a black woman.
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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?

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