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LOL! You took the words out of my mouth!

Yes, Michelle is clueless. Basically she's saying people of color are stilling white character roles and trying to revise them as black, latino, Asian, whatever. I don't have a problem with multi-racial, multi-ethnic recasting. It needs to be done well.

If we follow Michelle's logic, would she be acting in the F&F franchise? She's a bisexual. Isn't the role of 'Letty' a 'straight' role. Is Michelle taking a role from a straight actress who could play Letty? She Michelle 'come up with her own mythology' of bisexual street racers who wanna save the world and battle with Gina Carano? Inquiring minds wanna know!

Her argument is that characters who were originally white are being recast with black actors. That IS wrong. Source material needs to be translated as accurately as possible. She certainly could have worded her thoughts better, but in this day and age it seems only blacks can make statements about race. If a white person tries to, they get jumped on by white people suffering from white guilt and black people crying about the myth of white privilege.

What needs to change is that blacks need to create their own stories and characters -- then they can cast those roles with whomever they want. They don't need to get all upset when whites don't do it for them. People tend to create characters based on themselves or certain aspects of themselves, so naturally the appearance of the character is going to come from somewhere familiar to the creator.