Why did his White Great Uncle have a dark skinned black relative?
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Brocardi — 10 years ago(June 10, 2015 05:32 AM)
Did they explain that part? Lonette KcKee who played Ms Drake had a white mother and see she's quiet light skinned. Maybe they though it doesn't matter, but even old man Uncle didn't seem to care his inheritance was going to a black guy and the Uncle said he was a jerk himself
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LostInNecropolis2 — 10 years ago(November 02, 2015 04:29 AM)
His great uncle was the half brother of his grandmother, his uncle was pure white, his great grandfather then had his grandmother with a black woman and I assume she had children with a black man and so on.
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Robert_222 — 9 years ago(July 11, 2016 09:23 AM)
He takes about a full minute of time in the prerecorded video to explain why this is so. It almost seemed ridiculous.
I'm guessing that the book was written with the the main character being white. But since Pryor was cast, they had some explaining to do. I could be wrong, that's just a guess.