Thank you for taking the time to reply! I hope my question wasn't too ignorant, but I'm a white woman, and a pretty sheltered one at that. I'm trying not to blunder in on a sensitive topic in a way that's too insulting.
I think it's a mistake to assume that actors of color are always aware of the messages being received by the audience, especially if the treatment of a single character isn't blatantly racially negative, but it's the shows global treatment of CoCs that is at issue.
I'd wondered about that, too. I was curious as to whether it was harder to see racism from within a role; or if it were easier for a minority actor to recognize problems because racism is something they are more likely to have been exposed to than the (white, male) writer/director/etc. (in much the same way fandom sees absolutely nothing wrong with a scene until a POC steps up and says: "hey, that's not cool.")
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I think it's a mistake to assume that actors of color are always aware of the messages being received by the audience, especially if the treatment of a single character isn't blatantly racially negative, but it's the shows global treatment of CoCs that is at issue.
I'd wondered about that, too. I was curious as to whether it was harder to see racism from within a role; or if it were easier for a minority actor to recognize problems because racism is something they are more likely to have been exposed to than the (white, male) writer/director/etc. (in much the same way fandom sees absolutely nothing wrong with a scene until a POC steps up and says: "hey, that's not cool.")