New research finds racial bias against movies with black leading actors and white supporting roles is rife amongst mainstream newspaper critics – resulting in an average revenue loss for these films of up to $2.57 million, per movie
— Read on www.psychologytoday.com/blog/slightly-blighty/201509/psychology-uncovers-racism-the-movies
This article is from 2015. Just putting this out here, because I always believed that my suspicions and theories, about racial bias among film reviewers, was entirely justified.
Basically movies in which black actors and actresses portray slaves or characters subservient to whites (The Help) are most-likely to receive favorable reviews. In other words, movies I don’t want to watch.
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Essentially. I’ve all but written off watching any movies that capitalize on black pain or degradation of any kind. I don’t wanna see ‘em.
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