Thread: The Race Card
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Old 01-13-2006, 03:04 PM
Dionysus Dionysus is offline
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Originally posted by F8ful_n_durance
I believe that there is a clear difference because people will say things like can you be more urban (to an female actress, which means neck rolling gum poppin' etc). Perfect example recently on Oprah the actress who played Terrance Howard's wife in the movie Crash said that she went to a reading; the part was for a highly (I cannot remember if it was a black woman or woman in general) intelligent woman with a degree, etc, etc. Someone raised the question as to if that was realistic to have a "black woman" in the role
I'm not really talking about more blatant instances, such as the one above. I'm talking about instances when you know that you're being treated differently, but don't have much concrete evidence that points to why.
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