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Also talked to my kids (10 &12) about tokenism and/or all-white casts in movies. They saw the general point immediately and wanted to know why, got a bit angry at the evil world in general etc so turned out the way I had hoped. We were watching "back to the future" 1 & 2 , haven't seen them since I was their age myself. The only black people to appear in the two movies are the family living in Michael J Fox's house when he takes a wrong turn in time/space and his parent's house is suddenly in a run-down neighbourhood rather than a fancy one, so of course the inhabitants must be black. Interesting how I never thought/was made to think about any of this as a kid, no one discussed these things at all.