Racism, Part 2

I'm fighting a small headcold today, so I'm not gonna make this long. I did want to get this out and contribute to the cause in some small way.

I watch anime and have seen "Avatar: The Last Airbender" a couple times and enjoyed it. It seemed to be well written and fun, so it's easy for me to want to raise awareness of a common idiotic tendency in Hollywood using it as an example. There is a movie being made of the "Avatar" series and the main characters, Asian characters, are being voiced by whites. Minorities in general are marginalized or ignored by Hollywood as a matter of course. I can't stand to look at David Carridine after I heard how "Kung Fu" got stolen from Bruce Lee. Ian and I almost got thrown out of "Prince of Egypt" for loudly heckling the anglo facial features and English accents of some of the characters. I appreciate Hattie McDaniel's portrayal of Mammy in "Gone With the Wind" and that she won an Oscar for it, but it is still hard to watch at times. A lot has changed over the years, it is true, but Black people will often be found complaining loudly at real or perceived slights to our identity. I have not heard Asian Americans making the same ruckus. If you'd like to read more about this and/or get involved, please click here. The post is long, but very good. I'm not a visual artist, but I'm going to send a letter, too. Couldn't hurt, might help.