It doesn't matter what the context, you can damn sure count on black male filmmakers to always cast bi-racial women as black women. In this film, Asa Phillip Randolph's wife, Lucille, is bi-racial. Leon Frey's wife is bi-racial and so is the young waitress who is Rocky Carroll obsesses over. Townsend pulled the same BS in Five Heartbeats by casting Carla Brooks as a black woman.
Review of 10,000 Black Men Named George
