The worst part of this is that it writes racism out of history, and leaves young people with bizarre, unrealistic impressions of the past. It leaves them withou

The worst part of this is that it writes racism out of history, and leaves young people with bizarre, unrealistic impressions of the past. It leaves them without the tools to understand their racist experience and environment in the present, which can be nothing but a comfort to racists. If you're doing an artistic thing, fine. But I'm really getting sick of virulently racist eras being portrayed by a multiracial cast becoming standard. 20 years from now, young people may not even understand what the problem was, never having seen a depiction of racism, and watching black Scottish kings, while the descendants of slaves will still be living in the gutter with about the same wealth that we were released from the plantations with: zero.