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Despite the superiority that is often associated with entertainers in Hollywood, there is much racism and stereotyping aimed towards the small sector that people of color occupy within the industry. More often than not, minorities are typecast as what Americans perceive to be the standard face of their respective ethnicities, whether that be Asian, Arab,
Seven year old Thomas Waller just wanted to enjoy a Wednesday production of Aladdin at the Cadillac Palace Theater in Chicago with his family. Instead, Thomas, who has autism, got kicked out for being “disruptive to the cast”. His mother, Kathy, brought him into a hall as the rest of the family proceeded to watch the show.
Hollywood, over the past decade, has become more and more diverse by creating movies which are fixated on a majority ethnic minority cast, including but not limited to “Moonlight” and “Hidden Figures“. Hollywood and many other mainstream Television networks are more often casting Hispanic, Black and Latinx actors to play lead roles in their projects, which is,
A few weeks ago, Disney announced that they’re working on a live action version of the movie Aladdin. Disney executives sent out a casting call, looking for actors and singers to fill the roles of Jasmine and Aladdin. It’s extremely important that Disney casts actual Middle Eastern people for the movie. Although the movie isn’t
