Meet Jesse Washington July 19, 2008
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He was the AP’s entertainment editor. Now he’s the race and ethnicity editor for the wire service. With the way the AP treats race, they needed someone with previous experience in fiction and trivial amusements.
All the Diversity France Can Handle July 19, 2008
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AFP:
France’s ‘white’ film industry resists change
Where are the French Denzel Washingtons, Forest Whitakers, Wesley Snipes or Halle Berrys? France’s silver screen is still overwhelmingly and despairingly white, say advocates of diversity in French film who are at a loss to explain the industry’s resistance to offer star roles to black actors.
“American blockbusters with stars like Will Smith are a smash success in France,” said Amirouche Laidi, president of Averroes, an association that seeks to raise the profile of minorities in the media.
“The public has no problem with blacks on screen so why are French productions so white?”
Duh, because they get all the black faces they can handle from American movies. By the way, what’s up with the bigotry of equating “white” with “despair?”
