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Music is aural. film is visual. Music is colorless. Black audiences didn't know Bobby Caldwell was a white man (the record label hid his face in the ads and cover) and they felt his music deeply.
White kids didn't know Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers were black, until they saw him live on TV.
film is a visual medium, and if you look at movies by black filmmakers, they include white characters, latino characters, etc. because they try to reflect reality. Many white directors create whitewashed landscapes where PoC are either non-existent, or they are in positions of servitude. Lynch is one of these.
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