I heard Rachel Bloom and Aileen Brosch McKenna (the creators, writers, and in Bloom’s case the star of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) on some podcast or radio show discussing diversity in television. They basically said that if you don’t specify that a character is supposed to be non-white, casting agents will just…

Especially for a movie whose premise is literally “children from around the world who are peculiar are gathered onto an island for their own protection”. I read the book and as far as I remember all the characters were described as white and European, but there’s zero reason that had to be the case.

Look, his imagination can only go so far. It can contain a pumpkin king, a headless horseman with a pumpkin head, some other pumpkin things, but that’s where he draws the line. Gourds and squash, yes. People of color, that’s a little too oddball.

It’s easy Tim, you just take a role, ANY OLD ROLE, and assign it to a person of color; bc people of color should not exist in media as droll stereotypes for middle america to laugh at while patting themselves on the back for making the bare minimum attempt to be inclusive.

Oh, FUCK NO. You can’t even cast a diverse group of people in AN IMAGINARY WORLD?!!

This just has to stop. Everyday, there is a new shooting. This has become become our new normal. What has to happen for this to stop?

Because we’re a puritanical country and the puritans were/are generally sadistic.

You know, I used to be a fucking moron and believe that prison inmates deserved what they got. I was, like, 12 at the time.

If the goal of prison is simply to punish people as harshly as possible than we are doing a bang-up job.

That well known human Marijuana...

How much better could our society be if we treated prisoners not only like human beings but actually like citizens? We expect them to serve their time and then rejoin society, but we completely dehumanize them the entire time they’re in prison. What purpose does that serve?

Forget videos of officers playing a game of basketball with “city youths” or pretending to pull black people over but handing them ice cream, this is how you build community trust and put skin in the game.

How fucked up does a prison have to be in Alabama that the guards give a shit about the inmates?

Clover, we’re half sisters. My parents are Viola Davis and Samuel L. Jackson. From her i get my chocolatey complexion. From him, my alcoholic tendencies and my propensity to cuss a motherfucker out.

Holy shit. Viola, get ready you gonna get an Oscar.

“sometimes you gotta take the crooked with the straights”

“Likin’ your black ass wasn’t part of the bargain!”

Fun fact: the original production was the last major show on Broadway without microphones. I suspect this because James Earl Jones sounds like God Almighty.

I think you mean porn stash. Although it would be equally disturbing if your brother had a porn stache: