Thursday, March 17, 2016

25 Times White Actors Played People Of Color And No One Really Gave A S**t

From: Huffington Post
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Fisher Stevens 
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Ben Jabituya

Films
"Short Circuit" (1986) is a sci-fi franchise about an experimental robot that is struck by lighting and gains human-like intelligence.

Character's Background
One of the robot's inventors is Ben Jabituya, a scientist of Indian descent. 

Actor's Background
Fisher Stevens is not of Indian ancestry and essentially donned brownface for the role. For comparison, pictured above is real-life Nobel Prize-winning Indian scientist Har Gobind Khorana

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