I think you hit the nail on the head. If you’re white, just don’t ever film anything in Africa ever because it will be called racist no matter what you do. I hope Taylor Swift and every other white artist take the lesson to heart.

Yeah the real lesson here is, if you’re white just don’t film anything in Africa ever.

That will still be racist because she will be using him as a “prop” then. Can’t wait for the Jezebel think piece on it!

So, I guess we should just never reference movies in the 30s, (which was very much an influential/iconic time in Cinema) because there also happened to be a lot of colonialist racist bullshit going on back then?

1.) The whole “theme” of the video is that it’s a what 30s/40s movie shoot. Unfortunately, that means black directors or film crew workers would have been non-existant anyway.