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Actress Hilarie Burton says she walked away from Hallmark job after 'diverse casting' requests were ignored
The Hill ^ | 12 17 2019 | Morgan Gstalter

Posted on 12/17/2019 11:03:34 AM PST by yesthatjallen

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To: Ted Grant

So what if they haven’t.

So what?


61 posted on 12/17/2019 11:55:33 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Wow! Virtue signaling at its best!


62 posted on 12/17/2019 12:00:12 PM PST by Raymond Pamintuan
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To: yesthatjallen

Time to tune all of this garbage out including these lunatics who want to pervert the culture.


63 posted on 12/17/2019 12:00:42 PM PST by tflabo (Prince of Peace, Lion of Righteousness)
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To: yarddog

I graduated in 1980.
Race relations were far better than outside of the great lakes states and the coasts.
There were more interracial marriages than there are now, because people of my generation didn’t focus on race.

Now there are probably less people who actually get married instead of just sleeping around than the portion of marriages which were interracial when I was in my twenties.

Me though?
I don’t have a television. All this Hallmark stuff doesn’t affect me because I was through with television after the rural purge...when Green Acres and Petticoat Junction were replaced with All In The Family, The Jeffersons, and endless political round tables.


64 posted on 12/17/2019 12:03:27 PM PST by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: cloudmountain

I hope they have some Walking Dead who are LBgtwhatever, because they will be next to join the clown show.


65 posted on 12/17/2019 12:06:58 PM PST by Maris Crane
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To: yesthatjallen
First she says: she was “let go” from a job back in January.

Then she says: I was told ‘take it or leave it,’” Burton wrote. “I left it. And the paycheck.”

The 2 statements are in direct contradiction to each other.

66 posted on 12/17/2019 12:07:14 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: yesthatjallen

I’m frankly sick of the whole inter racial couple thing. Every commercial has a black man with a whit woman or a white man with a black woman. It’s like black people don’t like each other and white people dont like each other. One or two is fine, but almost every single commercial has mixed race couples.

They over do everything.


67 posted on 12/17/2019 12:10:55 PM PST by McGavin999 (“Look into it” does not mean dig up dirt, it means find the truth)
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To: yesthatjallen

What a fake virtue-signaling nobody. Hallmark has not (yet) been inclusive with gay characters (couples, anuway), but they have a smattering of every race just like all the other networks do. The minister in a Christmas movie is usually black, as is the head of a department at a university. I’ve seen guys in their movies who seemed gay, but I can never tell if they are playing a character that way or of they just can’t sublimate their own gayness long enough to play a character in a sappy movie.


68 posted on 12/17/2019 12:19:05 PM PST by Sans-Culotte (With every passing day, I am a little bit gladder that Romney lost in 2012.)
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To: dfwgator

Agreed. And by design. The goal is not to coexist and create. The goal is to attack, destroy, and divide.


69 posted on 12/17/2019 12:26:07 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: yesthatjallen
executives ignored her requests for an "LGBTQ character, an interracial couple

Spoken like a true racist Democrat. Notice how, in her mind, those two things are equivalent.

70 posted on 12/17/2019 12:27:29 PM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: mewzilla

They have one already. It’s LOGO.


71 posted on 12/17/2019 12:29:15 PM PST by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: yesthatjallen

I want to remake the color purple with the blacks cast as whites and the whites cast blacks. That ought to make a few heads explode.


72 posted on 12/17/2019 12:29:24 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: yarddog

What’s ridiculous about it?


73 posted on 12/17/2019 12:30:55 PM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: McGavin999

I could care less about inter-racial marriage. It is their choice and they are grownn adults and are free to be happy.

I am tired of every damn commercial making the white male look stupid. How about making an Asian, black or homosexual look bad? If you can do it to a white male, then do it for everyone else.

I’m frankly sick of the whole inter racial couple thing. Every commercial has a black man with a whit woman or a white man with a black woman. It’s like black people don’t like each other and white people dont like each other. One or two is fine, but almost every single commercial has mixed race couples.

They over do everything.


74 posted on 12/17/2019 12:33:07 PM PST by Dacula (Epstein did not kill himself.)
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To: yesthatjallen

She “insisted”? An almost unknown actress makes demands, and is then surprised when nobody cares what she thinks?
There must be 50 more young women who would love to make a Hallmark movie about a white, straight couple. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
Hallmark actresses are very replaceable. Ask Lori Loughlin.


75 posted on 12/17/2019 12:33:13 PM PST by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: Sans-Culotte

Perhaps you have seen or heard of the movie Breakthrough.
It’s the true story of a boy who fell through the ice and was submerged for over 15 minutes, given up for dead, but miraculously recovered as the result of prayer.

I know someone who actually knows this boy and his family.
In the movie both the firefighter who pulls him out of the water and the doctor who treats him are black. In real life they were white. The producers changed their colors to avoid.....this.


76 posted on 12/17/2019 12:33:35 PM PST by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Jim W N

Sorry but they have caved to the gay, lesbian, bi racial commercials. So it is just a matter of time.


77 posted on 12/17/2019 12:34:32 PM PST by dirtymac (Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.(DT4POTUS))
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To: cloudmountain

‘THAT is God’s law and she can take it up with HIM when she finally passes on.’

if it offends Him so much why doesn’t He take it up with her right now...? she could live another fifty years...


78 posted on 12/17/2019 12:37:10 PM PST by IrishBrigade
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To: yesthatjallen
the network was embroiled in a scandal this month

IWO, a few morons whined on Twitter.

79 posted on 12/17/2019 12:45:40 PM PST by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: central_va

We rent Roots once a year and play it backwards so it has a happy ending


80 posted on 12/17/2019 12:53:41 PM PST by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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