Nailed it!! Old school A-list black actors weren't presented on a silver platter to audiences as "the new A-List beautiful perfect Black actor" like they are these days...they were just great actors hired for their talents who happened to be black, then slowly over many roles became famous (like every other race of actor). I'll never understand how our culture has become so immature and backward.
I won't say they weren't hired because they were black, even in those days. But they still had to actually work before they were treated as worth anything.
Nailed it!! Old school A-list black actors weren't presented on a silver platter to audiences as "the new A-List beautiful perfect Black actor" like they are these days...they were just great actors hired for their talents who happened to be black, then slowly over many roles became famous (like every other race of actor). I'll never understand how our culture has become so immature and backward.
I won't say they weren't hired because they were black, even in those days. But they still had to actually work before they were treated as worth anything.