I felt like posting this clip up because it speaks to the recent report the NAACP just did on the state of whiteness in television (which I can't seem to get off my mind apparently), albeit in a broader sense.
If you're not familiar with this film it's from John Leguizamo's Freak directed by Spike Lee, and in this scene he's stumbled into an audition by accident.
Still relevant.
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