Lakitha Tolbert
1 min readJul 11, 2022

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And what do they hope to accomplish with this shtty behavior? So far they’ve accomplished nothing at all! These films and series are still getting made. Actors are still acting and getting paid, and the audience is still buying it, just like we told these corporations we would. What do they think they’re gonna scare actors of color away from getting paid by being mean to them on social media? When has white people being mad at us ever stopped us from trying to live our best life?

For the past ten to twelve years we’ve been telling the studios that if they made it we would give them our time, attention, and money, so they took that gamble, and little by little, it started paying off for them. They’re not gonna stop because this form of “pandering” is becoming very lucrative for them. More lucrative than appealing to aging white fanboys who are not a large enough population to invest everything in. Young fans are Browner than ever before, and they’ve always been “woke”, and they’ve let these businesses know what they want to be entertained by.

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Lakitha Tolbert
Lakitha Tolbert

Written by Lakitha Tolbert

(She/Her) Busybody librarian from Ohio.

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