out-there-on-the-maroon:

bellaxiao:

what a shocker

This is important to document and note though. A common reason posed by producers and execs to justify their whitewashing is “oh well we need white audiences, so we can’t have a black lead/a black love interest/too many black actors on the cast, white audiences won’t watch it.” 

With this data, we know that’s a lie. A documented, quantified, on the record, lie. And it can be refuted and pushed back and called out, with hard numbers.