“Power Rangers” Casting Controversy Resurfaces: Writer Admits Stereotype Mistake ⚡️ Nearly three decades after the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers first lit up TV screens, a longtime fan question is finally being addressed—and it’s turning heads across the internet. Tony Oliver, head writer of the original 1993 Power Rangers series, has admitted it was “a mistake” to cast a Black actor as the Black Ranger and an Asian actor as the Yellow Ranger. In the new Hollywood Demons docuseries by Investigation Discovery, Oliver opens up about the casting choices that, in hindsight, reinforced racial stereotypes—even if unintentionally. According to Oliver, the connections between character color and ethnicity weren’t even on the creators’ radar at the time. “None of us were thinking stereotypes,” he explains. “It was such a mistake.” The casting decisions were apparently made based on character traits: Walter Emanuel Jones, who played Zack the Black Ranger, had a “swagger” that fit t...
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