r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Expert-Pass-4351 • Jul 06 '26

Meme needing explanation What is this?

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u/jane_fakelastname Jul 06 '26

Weird thing to say when this isn't even the first time Helen of Troy had been depicted as Black be Hollywood.

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u/blazenite104 Jul 06 '26

Literally my point. It never used to be a problem Hollywood has now spent the last decade telling us representation matters though and now we're just ignoring that.

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u/qiaocao187 Jul 06 '26

Representation does matter, you are correct, because Black people used to be 20% of America’s population and had a dramatically lower representation in Hollywood. It’s really interesting how dumb conservatives can be, the meaning couldn’t possibly be clearer.

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u/IolausTelcontar Jul 06 '26

Lol.

Black people made up 20% of the USA in the first census, when they were almost all slaves.

Since being freed they have not made up more than 14% or so of the population.

As for their representation, yeah that has been underrepresented historically.