Ground-breaking depiction of race in America

Indeed - civil rights activists, or even those in the entertainment industry who donated to the cause, were often accused of being commies. And for some bizarre - and scary - reason, it's still relatively common for right wingers to use the same cudgel, or variations.
Who needs to debate the issue, when the person on the other side is OBVIOUSLY anti-American in the extreme?

It used to work, and for many on the right it still does - or at least, it should.

I'll do you one better. Just take a look at this list every time you watch a tv show or film:

How to tell if a character is a stereotype

Here are the common signs in American film and television that a character is a racial, non-white ethnic stereotype. Any one of these might be innocent - although it's highly unlikely - but each is a red flag. These stereotypes in are in reference to those who are not so-called "mainstream" white American/British characters.

1.Fits a known stereotype – East Asian martial arts expert, Arab/West Asian terrorist, Native American brave, African American drug dealer, etc. But these are the easy cases because you already know the stereotype. For cases where you do not, read on:

2."Ethnic" sidekick – the character lives only for the white hero, has no life of his own. Tonto, John Coffee, every single Mammy character - especially from that racist film made by and for racist white women, "The Help."

3.Token – he is the only one of his race or ethnic group and he is NOT the hero.

4.Helpless Darkies – everyone is ethnic except for the white hero and the white bad guys. You are watching a white saviour film where the purpose of "ethnic others" is to prove how just how "good" whites can be.

5.Lacks moral complexity – compared to whites: either too good (God, judge, guru) or too evil (stock bad guy), not in between. Never a mix of good and evil, never torn about moral decisions. At one end you have Morgan Freeman playing God (Magical Negro stereotype), at the other end you have "Evil Ethnics" who kill for no reason.😒

6.Lacks an inner life – no thoughts or feelings of his own. On a television drama the dead giveaway is the lack of a love life or family life. But you have to compare this to the white characters with roughly the same number of lines – they might be just as bad. Freema Agyeman on “Law & Order: UK”, for example, seems to play a Noble But Boring Middle Class Black person – she has no life outside of work – but then neither do the white characters! In “Doctor Who” she does have a love life, even if it is unrequited. Regina Taylor’s character in “I’ll Fly Away” does not have much of a love life, but her journal and family life makes her inner life plain.

7.Fails the Bechdel Test for Race – the character only talks to whites OR only talks about whites.

8."Ethnic" girls are easy – always a stereotype.

9.Speaks otherized English – speaks broken English (That right, Kemo Sabe!), non-Standard English or with a Recognized Ethnic Accent (Yah man!). Because only whites can speak “perfect” English!

10.Conspicuous "Ethnic" Characteristics – clothing, hairstyles, accent, slang, etc. Like Jamaicans wearing locs - even though in the REAL world where everybody else lives, most people with half a brain know that most Jamaicans do NOT wear locs in their hair. Sheltered, willfully ignorant white viewers see these stereotypes as just being "true-to-life", because they ACTUALLY think the faulty, shallow, one-dimensional stereotypes they got off the idiot box are true. Why? Because they see them over and over again in white controlled films and tv shows that are written by willfully ignorant whites for willfully ignorant whites. But a real-life non-white person is far more ordinary yet interesting than that – like the Black characters on “The Cosby Show." Or, you know, like white main characters in general.