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The original was posted on /r/movies by /u/ilovepuppies89 on 2023-08-02 03:12:39+00:00.

For those not familiar with USA news; affirmative action was struck down recently. Affirmative action is intended to alleviate under-representation and to promote the opportunities of defined minority groups within a society to give them equal access to that of the majority population.

To understand how that works; According to research from Princeton University, students who identify as Asian must score 140 points higher on the SAT than whites and 450 points higher than Blacks to have the same chance of admission to private colleges.

And honestly I feel like affirmative action needs to be extended to Hollywood. At the Oscars this year, no African-american directors were nominated…and last year…and the year before that. You see my point. When young african-americans see this; they may become discouraged.

And specifically I want to mention the release of ‘Haunted Mansion’. The director; who is a person of color; said about the movie, “I wanted to make [the movie] as Black as I can because that’s New Orleans,”

How beautiful a statement is that!

Unfortunately the mostly white reviewers gave the movie a 41% on RT. And sadly the majority of the reviewers are caucasian.

All this to say maybe directors of color should be judged less harshly. If the reviews aren’t as bad, it may be able to get more viewers into the theater and inspire a new generation. Maybe if the oscar voters view the african-american directors more favorably not based on their work, but their skin color then it would allow more oscar nominations that can inspire a new generation.