Another day, another massive Twitter timeline of articles begrudging a beloved POC character (or real life person) being played by a white actor in the movie adaptation of their life/book/story. I wish this was infinitely less common instead of a typical Tuesday, but it’s become a pervasive, problematic, awful part of our culture that needs to be changed ASAP. The people that the story is about should get to be the people who tell the story, hands down, bar none, end of discussion. Unfortunately, the problem with the big movie studios and their prejudice against hiring these POC actors to play an appropriate role is systemwide and can’t easily be solved by them simply doing the right thing. gurl on instagram and pinterest