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'Power Rangers' Writer Says Racially-Coded Casting Was A 'Mistake'

'Power Rangers' Writer Says Racially-Coded Casting Was A 'Mistake'

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Tuesday, April 8, 2025 9:06 PM GMT

The show's head writer said he didn't clock the iffy optics of the Black and Yellow Rangers until someone said something.

One “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers” creative insists no one was “thinking stereotypes” when the show made two questionable casting choices back in the ’90s.

Decades after the beloved kids’ superhero series debuted in 1993, former head writer Tony Oliver said it was a bad decision for the show to cast a Black actor as the Black Ranger and an Asian actor as the Yellow Ranger.

“It was such a mistake,” he said in the “Dark Side of the Power Rangers” episode of Investigation Discovery’s “Hollywood Demons” series, as recapped by Entertainment Weekly.

Oliver said he didn’t clock the racially loaded optics until his assistant “pointed it out in a meeting one day.”

It wasn’t immediately clear who was responsible for casting Walter Emanuel Jones as the Black Ranger and Thuy Trang as the Yellow Ranger, but Oliver said “none of us [were] thinking stereotypes” during the making of the show.

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