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American Gods

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If you search American Gods and Nancy. Something should come up. 


Haven't seen it yet but from the little research I've done on it already, I don't like it.
Just more racist stereotypes hidden (and not so hidden) in well planned acting and directing.

You got a Black man called Mr. Nancy (short for Anansi but still a woman's name) in a clown suit gritting his teeth and looking crazy.
He's known as a "trickster"

And another Black man named Shadow Moon who is an ex-convict.

I don't give a damn how well you dress it up or how good the acting is......
It's just more stereotypes of Black people acting stupid, crazy, and criminal while the White characters are running the show.

Poison will still harm you regardles of how great the food it's slipped in tastes.

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The writer Neil Gaiman also wants to do the Anansi stories as a stand-alone. And has made it clear that the lead has to be Black. Hollywood suggested a white lead. 

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Yetide Badaki as Bilquis, a goddess of love, identified with the Queen of Sheba.[6]

 

Orlando Jones as Mr. Nancy (recurring season 1; main season 2), the Ghanaian trickster god Anansi. He works as a tailor.[8]

Mousa Kraish as the Jinn

 

Demore Barnes as Mr. Ibis (recurring season 1; main season 2), the keeper of stories past and present, the Egyptian god Thoth.[8]

Also Orlando Jones is a Consulting Producer. 

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