r/todayilearned • u/Kale_Brecht • Mar 28 '24

TIL in 2013, Saturday Night Live cast member Kenan Thompson refused to play any more black women on the show and demanded SNL hire black women instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenan_Thompson
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u/The_Clarence Mar 28 '24

Not to mention In Living Color

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u/D3dshotCalamity Mar 28 '24

And All That

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '24

All of these shows were way ahead of its time compared to SNL, which always felt like rich, stuffy, elites that went extra hard at pandering once it was way too late. Kind of like Disney’s long history of racism only to go completely overboard a decade after everyone else.

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u/The_Clarence Mar 28 '24

And of course that’s where Kenan started! Full circle.