# Fact-check, please: is Denzel Washington a racist?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fact-check-please-is-denzel-washington-a-racist/820036>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 22, 2018, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fact-check-please-is-denzel-washington-a-racist/820036 "2018-08-22T10:33:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fact-check-please-is-denzel-washington-a-racist/820036/41 "2018-08-22T20:24:22Z")

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> [@MrDibble](#):
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> Which part of “is Denzel Washington a racist?” wasn’t a question \*you \*were asking?

Exactly as asked in my OP.

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> Your particular question at the end of your OP was already answered in the negative in post #2.

No, it wasn’t. Washington’s romantic partner in that film was not white.

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**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fact-check-please-is-denzel-washington-a-racist/820036/42 "2018-08-22T20:25:17Z")

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The “Cracked” article on porn was worth reading for this paragraph alone: “Even Misty Stone, an extremely successful African-American porn star, sometimes described as the “Halle Berry of the porn industry,” is often paid significantly less than her white coworkers, despite never having done anything half as degrading as Catwoman.”

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**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fact-check-please-is-denzel-washington-a-racist/820036/43 "2018-08-22T20:25:37Z")

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> [@pulykamell](#):
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> I have a feeling **Quartz** is angling at something else here

Sorry to disappoint you, but I’m not.

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**Author:** ![Reindeer\_Flotilla](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reindeer_flotilla/32/3024_2.png) [@Reindeer\_Flotilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reindeer_Flotilla)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fact-check-please-is-denzel-washington-a-racist/820036/44 "2018-08-22T20:53:00Z")

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I can’t decide if it’s a step forward or a step backward in the battle against racism that some are upset a white woman lost out to a black woman to portray a sexual partner to a black man.

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2018, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fact-check-please-is-denzel-washington-a-racist/820036/45 "2018-08-22T20:58:02Z")

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[Moderating]

I can’t see this thread going anywhere positive.

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