whitewashing black contributions
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Two Florida Officials Fired for Whitewashing the Faces of Black Firefighters on a Public Mural
The level of headassery that’s endemic to Florida is truly astounding. Even in a situation designed to be a layup, they find a way to turn it into an airball. Take, for instance, a recently unveiled mural that whitewashed the faces of two black firefighters. NBC News reports that two city officials in Boynton Beach,…
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Ready Player One and the Unbearable Whiteness of ’80s Nostalgia
Steven Spielberg is the stunt king of Hollywood; he might be the only American director who could create Ready Player One, a film that is literally an homage to Spielberg’s own work in the 1980s. Ready Player One is all about the adventure of a working-class Midwestern white teen boy who saves the world, the…