Ive been saying this for a while. White people for the last hundred years of film and TV have crafted entire fictional universes with pasts, presents, and futures that were entirely centered around themselves, with not a single face of color anywhere to be seen.

I noticed that when I was a little girl. I was sitting in our kitchen watching some futuristic movie and turned to ask my mom why there were no Black people in the future. Real quick she said, "Maybe we left." like she had noticed it too, and had that answer ready for years.

White people who are makng these arguments, and saying things like "blackwashing" need to shut the whole hell up because not a one of them seem to have an ounce of knowledge about not just what they're talking about, but the entire of whitewashing in visula media.

The industry was so incredibly whitewashed that when it eventually turned into color, colors were attuned according to white skin tones. Black people's existence wasn't even considered. Movies and TV were so white that Black and Brown people didn't have hair and makeup people of their own until a scant few years ago.

Candace Pattton from the TV series The Flash talked about how they didnt have anyone to do her hair, and some Black actresses talked about how they had to do their own makeup because white makeup professionals never bothered to learn how to do Black skin or hair. They still dont need to know any of that in order to have successful careers!

There was such a complete dearth of Black female stuntwomen that white women had to wear blackface on the rare occasions that Black actresses needed stuntwork done! Which was pretty rare indeed because up until less than twenty years ago we never even got to be in Action movies to need stunt doubles!

The people crying htel oudest about her being Black are the most deply ingorant ones when it comes to the histroy of Hollywood, TV, and how incredibly white everything and everyone was.