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.
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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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