WHITE PRIVILEGE AHOY

[jmtorres]

My lecture on movie musicals says they started with stories about African-Americans and Irish Americans and German Americans etc, leftover from Vaudeville. Then the lecture produces this:

Eventually, Hollywood and movie musicals in general would move away from this kind of ethnic-based narrative, as the heroes of most movie musicals are usually generic "American" types without any ethnic markers.

CAN ANYONE SPOT WHAT IS WRONG WITH THIS SENTENCE?

Comments

[dorothy1901]

What would someone without any ethnic markers look like? Lime jello, maybe? No, wait; lime jello looks kind of Irish. How about grape jello?

[jmtorres]

A blank slate? Wait, no, those are frequently black.

[dorothy1901]

How about something that predates modern ethnicity, like Australopithecus? Can we say that a movie musical hero who looks like Australopithecus lacks ethnicity?