“Power Rangers” head writer Tony Oliver admits "it was such a mistake" to cast a Black actor to play the Black Ranger and an Asian actor to play the Yellow Ranger.
Oliver says “none of us [were] thinking stereotypes” when these casting decisions were originally made. The series kicked off in August 1993 with Walter Emanuel Jones as Zack Taylor (the first Black Ranger) and Thuy Trang as Trini Kwan (the first Yellow Ranger). It wasn’t until “my assistant pointed it out in a meeting one day” that Oliver realized these castings were upholding stereotypes. During the show's casting, Oliver said the Black ranger "seemed to have the swagger of the group" and the Yellow Ranger was "the peaceful one, who tends to be the conscience of the group." They were looking for actors who had these qualities.
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