It’s not remembered much today, but one of Denzel Washington’s fine early films was Mississippi Masala, a variation of the classic trope of star-crossed interracial love. In this case, between an Indian girl and a black man. The b-story of the film is the backstory of the girl’s family: part of the Indian diaspora booted out of Uganda in 1972 by African dictator, Idi Amin. In their turn, somewhat understandably, the Indian girl’s parents who were treated so badly by black men are a little chary of their daughter dating a black man.
