StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days ago'Power Rangers' writer says casting Black and Asian actors as Black and Yellow Rangers was 'a mistake'ew.comexternal-linkmessage-square68fedilinkarrow-up1547arrow-down113
arrow-up1534arrow-down1external-link'Power Rangers' writer says casting Black and Asian actors as Black and Yellow Rangers was 'a mistake'ew.comStarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agomessage-square68fedilink
minus-squareTodd_cross@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up73·6 days agoWhat’s funny is right before they changed costumes with ZEO, they gave Tommy a Native American ancestor and then he became the red ZEO ranger.
minus-squarekryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up39·6 days agoTommy is white… White ranger. Tommy discovers he is like 1/32 Native American… suddenly becomes Red ranger. Honestly, that is pretty par for the course. Go get that ethnic minority scholarship you slightly-less-than-totally-white guy.
What’s funny is right before they changed costumes with ZEO, they gave Tommy a Native American ancestor and then he became the red ZEO ranger.
Tommy is white… White ranger. Tommy discovers he is like 1/32 Native American… suddenly becomes Red ranger.
Honestly, that is pretty par for the course. Go get that ethnic minority scholarship you slightly-less-than-totally-white guy.