Lorne Michaels in an interview in the latest New York Magazine acknowledges his program has a diversity problem.
But he’s still delusional as he made this statement saying show business is “in the lead on diversity — way before sports, way before business, way before educational institutions, way before newspapers, way before almost anything else.”
Really, so what was that thing the other night on Saturday Night Live where in Melissa McCarthy’s opening monologue they mock Asians with a Kung-Fu send-up. Not totally racist there, at least not until they bang a gong and play funny Chinese violin sounds to introduce a guttural-sounding narrator who is not Asian but White.
NBC can’t hire an Asian actor to play an obvious Asian bit? Is Michaels that cheap or does he think having a White guy play an Asian is just funnier, like it’s some form of affirmative action for Whites?
Sorry, it just sounds like old-fashioned racism to me, the kind that diversity policies can fix.
I mean really, they put a White person in an obvious Black role, but why would you do that?
Would you really cast Vanilla Ice to play a role for a Black male?
