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   Keith F. Lynch to Evelyn C. Leeper   
   Re: MT VOID, 04/11/25 -- Vol. 43, No. 41   
   14 Apr 25 21:35:15   
   
   From: kfl@KeithLynch.net   
      
   Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:   
   > The problem with color-blind casting is that the viewer doesn't   
   > know whether the *character* is, e.g., African-American or not.   
      
   I agree.  I wonder how many viewers of _Bridgerton_ have been left   
   with the mistaken impression that George III's wife Charlotte was black.   
      
   It would hardly be any more inaccurate to cast a black actor as George   
   Washington and white actors as his slaves.   
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