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PREACH, the argument that she HAS to be a red headed curly white girl is WEAK.
and the characters in Exodus were real people. Depending on your religious beliefs you may or may not think the story is true but historians agree that the people in that story really did exist
Annie is 100% fictitious. It also tells the story of an Irish-American orphan during the great depression, a time when Irish-Americans were heavily discriminated against and Annie would have had little chance of getting adopted due to her ethnicity. The new movie is a modernized version of Annie and casting a black Annie is keeping true to the spirit of the original story: a girl who had little chance of getting adopted finding a loving home with someone who could give her everything she ever dreamed of
