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Originally posted by Sazare
I'm struggling to conceive of a scenario in which "too many black actors" would incur claims of appropriation.
Almost all of that post completely ignores the alleged issue (the total erasure of black people in Africa) and instead tries to deflect by going on about the untold wondrous things she's doing for African economies, something that I'm sure not a single person involved in the shooting of that video once actually thought or cared about.
Sure, there are no mandatory racial quotas, but just because there's nothing prohibiting you from making your music video whites only with only brief, faraway glimpses of people with skin pigment doesn't mean that that's okay or that it should be permissible, especially when you're flying all the way to Africa to film it.
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For one, why are you even commenting on this if you haven't watched the video?
The point is, they kept it historically accurate. In the 1950's, Hollywood film stars and crew, on location in Africa, would not have had black people in it. This isn't a video about African life, this is a video about Hollywood life in the 1950's, on location in the African desert. The only characters present are the stars and the film crew.