Here's a better question: "Why is Snow White never played by an albino?"

[seriousfic]

I saw an article on io9 asking why Snow White is, in two movies, being played by white people. Aside from the name, of course. Now, to be fair, Hollywood did try to make a movie about an Asian Snow White, but for some reason, investors didn't find Yellow Snow palatable.

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[milleniumrex.livejournal.com]

Yay racewank.

Almost as good as the time Hunger Games fans started yelling at the writer that she got the race of her lead character wrong.

[jlbarnett.livejournal.com]

I remember when HBO ran a series of multi-racial fairy tales. Snow White became Native American White Snow