Tokenism — wherein a person of color is put into a show in some small role, just to answer the charge of the show being racist — can be laughable and offensive. It’s certainly not better than giving big, meaty parts to African-Americans. But is it worse than giving them no parts at all? (The complicated answers to these questions has a little something to do with the ongoing, cacophonous conversation about HBO’s “Girls.”)
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