Three white women play ‘brilliant’ scientists; the black actor is a sassy transport worker. travel figureWhen Twitter began to buzz that the first Ghostbusters reboot trailer had been released,I was anxious to see if it would soothe my uneasiness over the casting of three white female leads and one black woman as the sole representation of “diversity” among the eponymous heroes.
Unsurprisingly, the trailer eviscerated my oh-so-low expectations by sinking to the racist low of the 1984 original. Leslie Jones’s character, and Patty Tolan,is presented in the film’s first trailer next to three “brilliant” white female scientists as the seemingly intellectually inferior token black woman with street sense and a Cadillac.
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Source: theguardian.com