Exactly! And I don’t necessarily think anyone suspected Feig was sitting there going, “Mwuahaha, I’m gonna make the black lady an uneducated, street-wise type.” The point of the criticism is that it WAS an oversight - the kind of oversight that white people make all the time. It’s sort of like a racial laziness that…

I honestly and seriously can’t tell if she’s merely a female corollary of a Chris Tucker or Tracy Morgan, in terms of style and presentation of personality and blackness as an individual representation of slapstick and silliness.

playing an MTA worker amid three brainy white scientists