Just got this in from Catherine Bugayong through FaceBook:
Firstly, welcome to our new members and a great big thank you to them and all our continuing supporters! We can’t do this without you!
As you may know, the first look at Aang and Zuko has appeared in USA Today:
http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2009-05-21-airbender-first-look_N.htm
We are urging everybody to please write a short letter to the editor (they prefer 250 words or less) alerting them to the discriminatory casting practices:
“Send comments to letters@usatoday.com. Include name, phone number, city and state for verification.”
Jumping off ideas:
-The wording of using the “look of Aang”
-Good guy/bad guy coding in the article
-No mention of racefail casting practices
-The production’s missteps, including culturally ignorant statements made by the cast and crew
Don’t forget to direct them to racebending.com!
Please, if you have the time, send something in. They can ignore one or two letters, but if two hundred people write them then they may feel like they need to print something.
Please don’t assume that other people will write in!
