“And bottom line, if you feel so disenfranchised by one role out of TONS of roles being changed up ethnically, if you are saying you can’t possibly relate to a character who is another race from you, well, I think that’s more a problem of your own than anything else. But don’t worry, the stastics say you’ll have lots of other entertainment for your point of view to choose from. Around 75%, actually. Hooray, I guess?” Felicia Day writes about the difference between making Peter Pan’s Tiger Lily white instead of African-American and making Marvel’s the Human Torch African-American instead of white. (Thanks, Wendy!)
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