racist crackhead in hollywood gets hit haki

The stories that are likely to be told and promulgated begin with the people who dream up the stories, the plays, the scripts.Īsk yourself: If you don’t have a diverse group of writers, which life stories are most likely to be told? The same question applies to all the other professions responsible for bringing stories to life-the publishers, the directors, the producers. The truth is that people make movies, act in movies, and pay to see movies that are of interest to them, and which connect in some meaningful way to their life experiences. In a similar way, the types of movies and actors that end up on the big screen, and are eligible for an Oscar, don’t reflect bias as much as they mirror a particular set of life experiences and perspectives. This is why I encourage both majority and minority students in my classes to go into research psychology, because they are the agents of change. Over the past 20 years, the demographics of the scientists have slowly changed, and with this structural change, the types of questions being asked have come to reflect a wider swath of human experience.

The Kids Are All White: The Academy Awards were criticized this year for a lack of diversity among nominees. Historically, psychologists in my area of study have asked, How do we reduce and combat racism? This is a laudable goal, of course, but the focus on understanding the problem from the perspective of those who stereotype, rather than those who are targets of stereotypes, reflects the historical realities of who was asking the question.

To explain what I mean, consider this analogy from my own field, the psychology of prejudice.

Rather than change who is eligible for awards for the sake of cosmetics, we need to reform the process that leads to the awards so that the best performances are both diverse and stellar. What I do think needs to change, however, is the false-choice mentality about diversity versus quality. And I don’t think the nominees should change only for the sake of avoiding the “whitewashed” label. I’m not a movie buff, but I’d be willing to bet that this year’s Oscar nominees were, in fact, the best performances of 2010.

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Racist crackhead in hollywood gets hit haki