Seems to me to O Brother Where Art Thou had several black characters in it - as well as a hysterical Klan scene. But then, it was set in the Depression-era South, so blacks and Klan members were rather plentiful.

A Serious Man is about a Jewish family. Does Jewishness no longer count as diverse? Somebody should tell them.

Don’t be simple, she says in a manner that is the very definition of simple. Condescension is not a substitute for a legitimate argument, nor does it magically make you “right”.

That was damn rude. VonQueso is a thoughtful commenter who has been here for a long time. She asked an honest question in order to educate herself, and you replied with both, ‘Don’t be simple’, and then further insulted her with a reproduction of a dictionary entry. The question wasn’t even directed at a column YOU…

All of the people you mentioned except Dandridge and Poitier were musical performers who occasionally had a film role, not Hollywood regulars. Dandridge struggled to remain relevant as a black actress and Poitier was specifically known for helping to break the Hollywood color barrier (at the very end of the Golden Age…

There’s also a difference between making a movie set in a certain period of time and wanting to adhere to the realities of said time, even if it’s a fictional movie, and choosing to do something like a hip-hop telling of a historical figure. Apples and oranges.

I don’t think posting the definition of fiction is making the argument you think it’s making.

Yeah, it’s almost like it was a deliberate stylistic choice in that case or something...

Are you forgetting the star of “no country for old men” he won an Oscar for that role.

Okay, but if the movie featured people talking on their cell phones despite taking place in the 40s, would you make the same excuse or would you think that was a weird choice to make?

They could have, but a lot of people would see a movie taking place in a location and era where very few black people were employed with a bunch of black people in it as a strange choice.

That the Coens released a movie that stars exclusively white people should surprise no one, as they’ve been doing it for literally decades,

That’s a perfectly reasonable question to me.

Wait, so you’re complaining about a film not featuring black people in an era when Hollywood was so segregated that they had to create a special Oscar category for James Baskett because black men didn’t win Best Actor awards?

Can I ask a question that might get me in trouble?

AHS has never once been subtle.

The UK’s major immigration happened in the 1950’s. There were PoC in the UK but far far less than in the US in the 1910’s.

These are women protesting against violence against women at the premiere of a movie that focuses on the women’s rights movement.

I don’t get it. There have been thousands and thousands of years of slavery, and not just black slaves, but slaves across alll spectrums. They were viewed once upon a time as war prizes. And, as an American POC I wasn’t offended. But I tend to view history in a broader spectrum than just an American one. Eh.

It’s almost as if people respected their protest since they have a good point.