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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What percentage of rural Kansas was Black in 1984?[/quote] 6% 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] No, the current population of all of Kansas is 6% black, the vast majority of which is in the urban areas. It’s pretty safe to assume that the population of the average rural Kansas town in the 1980s was well well below 1% so the casting was certainly realistic/accurate for the setting, and was kind of the point of the movie. [/quote]
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