History Quotes / TokenMinority

->''"Is that my official designation? "Asian cast member"?"''
-->-- '''Creator/BowenYang''', ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'': "Maya Rudolph/Jack Harlow"

-->-- '''Wiki/RationalWiki''' on U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas

->''"Sure, why not? [[BlackBestFriend I am the token black guy. I'm just supposed to smile and stay out of the conversation and say things like: 'Damn,' 'Shit,' and 'That is wack.']]"''

-->-- '''[[Creator/TeamFourStar Antfish]]''', '''[[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/35939-baby-geniuses-2 NC Superbabies:Baby Geniuses 2]]'''

-->-- '''''Wiki/RationalWiki''''' on U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas

-->-- '''''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''''' on ''VideoGame/BattlefieldHardline''

-->-- '''''[[http://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A6756294 h2g2]]''''' on ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise''

->On February 22, 2006, [[SuddenlyVoiced he spoke from the bench]]. He didn't say a word from there to any lawyer until 2013, when he responded to Justice Scalia's comment about a lawyer attending Yale Law school, he said, ''"[[NoTrueScotsman Well, he did not.]]"'' Although some say he purposely said that, others think he was really making a side joke to Antonin Scalia. Whatever it is, Clarence has not asked a question from the bench in court. For over twenty years he has done nothing but stare at the ceiling. It is a nice ceiling. So, in fifty years, when your grandchildren ask you, ''"Did Clarence Thomas do a good job at his job?"'' you answer ''"[[IronicEcho Well, he did not.]]"''

-->-- '''[[TeamFourStar Antfish]]''', '''[[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/nostalgia-critic/35939-baby-geniuses-2 NC Superbabies:Baby Geniuses 2]]'''

-->-- '''Malik''', ''NotAnotherTeenMovie''

->When I was thrown out of college I got a job on Madison Avenue in New York. A real dyed-in-the-wool advertising agency on Madison Avenue, wanted a man to come in, and they'd pay him ninety-five dollars a week to sit in their office and look Jewish. They wanted to prove to the outside world that they would hire minority groups, y'know. So I was the one they hired. I was the show Jew at the agency. I tried to look Jewish desperately. Used to read my memos from right to left all the time. They fired me finally, 'cause I took off too many Jewish holidays.

->When I was thrown out of college I got a job on Madison Avenue in New York, a real dyed-in-the-wool advertising agency on Madison Avenue, wanted a man to come in, and they pay him ninetyfive dollars a week, to sit in their office, and to look Jewish. They wanted to prove to the outside world, that they would hire minority groups, y'know. So I was the one they hired, y'know. I was the show Jew at the agency. I tried to look Jewish desperately, y'know. I used to read my memos from right to left all the time. They fired me finally, 'cause I took off too many Jewish holidays.

->I was thrown out of college, and when I was thrown out of college I got a job on Madison Avenue in New York, a real dyed-in-the-wool advertising agency on Madison Avenue, wanted a man to come in, and they pay him ninetyfive dollars a week, to sit in their office, and to look Jewish. They wanted to prove to the outside world, that they would hire minority groups, y'know. So I was the one they hired, y'know. I was the show Jew at the agency. I tried to look Jewish desperately, y'know. I used to read my memos from right to left all the time. They fired me finally, 'cause I took off too many Jewish holidays.

-->--'''''Wiki/RationalWiki''''' on U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas

-->--'''''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation''''' on ''VideoGame/BattlefieldHardline''

-->--'''Creator/WoodyAllen'''

-->--'''[[WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment Miles Antwiler]]'''' [[http://moviemoses.wordpress.com/2010/06/03/chill-factor-1999-hugh-johnson/ on]] ''Chill Factor'' (1999)

-->--'''[[http://them0vieblog.com/2014/09/17/star-trek-voyager-caretaker-review/ Darren Mooney]]''' on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "Caretaker"

-->--'''''[[http://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A6756294 h2g2]]''''' on ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise''

->''"On the surface of it, ''Voyager'' has a very diverse cast. The captain is a woman; the first officer is a Native American; the operations officer is Asian. Even the aliens are diverse. Tuvok is a Vulcan played by an African American; Torres is half-Klingon, but her human half is latina. It feels like it continues the trend set by ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'' of featuring a diverse ensemble, with a particular emphasis on the female captain. So, by rights, Caretaker should feel like a celebration of diversity, right? Unfortunately, not. Despite the fact that the show has a wonderful diverse central cast, Caretaker is very clearly built around the one white male American character in the group...His middle name is even 'Eugene', in a nod to ''Star Trek'' creator Gene Roddenberry. It’s worth noting that Tom Paris would be one of the handful of ''Voyager'' characters to actually get a character arc spanning the series, and whose character development by Endgame involves a bit more than the sentence '… [[TheGenericGuy is now seven years older.]]'"''
-->--'''[[http://them0vieblog.com/2014/09/17/star-trek-voyager-caretaker-review/ Darren Mooney]]''' on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "Caretaker"

->''"''Chill Factor ''is another example of'' [Cuba] ''Gooding being cast in the role of token black sidekick. You know, the gratingly annoying kind of sidekick complete with stock phrases like 'Aw hell nah!' and almost racially offensive overtones. I don’t want to dig too deep into motivations, but it is a little sad that a movie capitalizing on Cuba’s success sees him not as the hero of the movie, but the [[UncleTomFoolery wisecracking]] shrill comic relief]].''

->Chill Factor ''is another example of'' [Cuba] ''Gooding being cast in the role of token black sidekick. You know, the gratingly annoying kind of sidekick complete with stock phrases like “Aw hell nah!” and almost racially offensive overtones. I don’t want to dig too deep into motivations, but it is a little sad that a movie capitalizing on Cuba’s success sees him not as the hero of the movie, but [[TypeCasting the wisecracking shrill comic relief]].''
-->--'''[[TheSpoonyExperiment Miles Antwiler]]'''' [[http://moviemoses.wordpress.com/2010/06/03/chill-factor-1999-hugh-johnson/ on]] ''Chill Factor'' (1999)

->Chill Factor ''is another example of [Cuba] Gooding being cast in the role of token black sidekick. You know, the gratingly annoying kind of sidekick complete with stock phrases like “Aw hell nah!” and almost racially offensive overtones. I don’t want to dig too deep into motivations, but it is a little sad that a movie capitalizing on Cuba’s success sees him not as the hero of the movie, but [[TypeCasting the wisecracking shrill comic relief]].''

-->-- '''BlackPanther'''[[note]]reimagined as South African Caucasian[[/note]], ''Wha...Huh?''

-->-- '''BlackPanther'''[[hottip:*:reimagined as South African Caucasian]], ''Wha...Huh?''

-->-- '''BlackPanther'''[[*:reimagined as South African Caucasian]], ''Wha...Huh?''