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that children and young people face every day. >> reporter: her co-star jennifer sears agrees. >> i'd never expected to see the type of uproar that we received just by having a black president. but it's just -- the black people are saying be black enough and the white people are saying i'm not comfortable having a black president. i thought by 2010 we'd be so much further along. but we're growing. >> reporter: race also hampered finding actors. >> i had some actresses and some white actresses, and they actually chose not to do the project because in some scenes they would have to kiss a black actor. and here it is 2010, we're working on a film that's socially relevant where people actually learn from it and still i have actors who refuse to work with other actors because of race. >> reporter: no such problem for this cast. in fact, they're hoping "stepsisters" where art imitates

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