Between Iron Fist, Ghost in the Shell and that first Death Note trailer, it's been a banner month for racially insensitive casting.
But while the problem may be getting extra attention right now, it's not new — and it doesn't seem to be going away anytime soon, either. In fact, with each passing controversy, the excuses have just started to sound more and more familiar.
Hollywood's racial bias comes in many forms. Sometimes it's "whitewashing" — casting a white actor to play a character who was originally conceived of as non-white, like the Major in Ghost in the Shell or Light in Death Note. (John Oliver has an excellent primer on the industry's long history of whitewashing here.) Read more...
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