It is difficult to imagine benevolent geniuses as black, it seems, - TopicsExpress



          

It is difficult to imagine benevolent geniuses as black, it seems, but quite easy to imagine villains as black. This is telling, isnt it? Telling that the white imagination, when provided in a book with descriptions of a good guy -- intelligent, valuable, kind, even gentle -- imagines that character as white (like themselves) but when provided with descriptions of a villain, a killer, a dangerous maniac... imagines that character as a black man. Morgan Freeman. Who has overwhelmingly portrayed good characters in his career as an actor. He even played God once, if memory serves. What is it, then, that causes the white imagination to provide his face as a stand-in for what they imagine as a ruthless child killer in a fictional world?
Posted on: Wed, 27 Nov 2013 12:48:14 +0000

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