‘Beulah Land’
Sir,—l was interested to read your reviewer’s opinion of “Beulah Land.” I think the biggest drawback of the programme, and a totally unavoidable one, is that it was made by people living in the 1980 s. Today’s black American actors and actresses greatly dislike slave roles, in which they are required to be ordered about, abused and physically mistreated by whites. They feel such portrayals to be demeaning for all blacks. In order to cater for these modern sensibilities, the slaves on a television plantation like "Beulah Land” are allowed considerably more freedom of speech and action than any real slave ever enjoyed in the Old South. I believe the producers of “Roots” experienced the same difficulty in persuading black actors to “tell it like it was.”— Yours, etc., lAN HOOD. December 3, 1981.
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