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Is Rooney Mara Too White For Tiger Lily? Peter Pan’s History of Racism

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Warner Brothers’ Peter Pan origin story, Pan, has cast Rooney Mara to play Tiger Lily, a Native American. This isn’t the first time Neverland’s been a bit racist.

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Because Hollywood truly is a mystical Neverland, where studio executives Neverlearn and Neverevolve, Warner Brothers’ upcoming Peter Pan origin story, Pan, has cast the gorgeous, talented, and whiter than a bleached ghost Rooney Mara to play the part of Tiger Lily, a Native American.

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Suffice it to say that, in response,...

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