[sphinx]

Blacks are still only 13 percent of the population. Hollywood can't just write off most of its audience. The left is pushing for racial quotas everywhere. That yields a theoretical black ceiling under 15 percent. As far as actors are concerned, most roles shouldn't be highly racialized to begin with.

I've not seen a breakdown of the racial numbers across the various technical fields that are necessary behind the cameras. I am willing to guess that writers rooms will be a particularly tough nut to crack. The reason has nothing to do with race per se. Writing involves dialect and idiom, and that is very tricky. Can a New Yorker write Georgian or Texan? Can a Klingon write Romulan? The worst mismatches I can think of are the fiascos that sometimes occur when tv shows try to write for people of faith. The utter lack of ability to write convincing conservatives also shows up.

[Red Badger]

What’s worse is actors trying to act outside of their ethnic background.

Like Harvey Keitel, in the movie Shadrach, cast as a Depression Era Virginia backwoods white trash bootlegger. His co-star was Andie McDowell, who is from South Carolina, so her ‘Southern Accent’ was perfect and smooth. Harvey sounded like a New Yawker, which he is, trying to sound Southern, which he was......................