I first watched Mantan Moreland when I was a teenager. My father (born in 1941) grew up on the Charlie Chan series in which Moreland played a Black, nervous, jumpy, and bulging eye assistant to the fortune-cookie accented “Asian” detective. I didn’t know why at the time, but Moreland’s performance for some reason hurt me—and I couldn’t understand how my father could be watching these tasteless low-budget films.
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- 4/20/2020
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