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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What percentage of rural Kansas was Black in 1984?[/quote]

But does it matter?

Movies are made for a national and ultimately global audience.

America was 12% black in 1984.

And they opted to only have white kids in the big dance scene. Probably 100 kids, and all are white. They feature dancers, including a blue eyed blonde hair guy doing MJ-esque breakdancing moves, and it didn’t occur to anyone on the set to add any diversity? [/quote]

I agree with the general observation that minorities were ignored in movies but the movie chosen by OP is the really the wrong choice. It was supposed a rural and conservative Kansas community, the racial depiction was probably spot on. My DH from a non rural,  non small industrial town in upper Midwest had a grand total of one Black kid in MS and 2in HS. Rural areas around his town had farms and zero Black (basically still have zero Blacks). It’s like complaining that a movie about Queen Elizabeth 1 has mostly white actors. Duh[/quote]

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