MSNBC Alex Witt Reports January 9, 2022 19:45:00
In the sentence that what he tried to do through his films in hollywood was to try to project the ideals that the mainstream civil rights movement of the late 1950s and 1960s sought to do as well, to reach out to the broader public, to foster integrationist ideals, to show blacks and whites as human beings together and through patterns of sacrifice. he was a character who often was there to support the white actor in their character, often sex was written out of roles for him where romances were written into roles for white actors who were stars at the same time. it was done with a degree of c...