Harriet Tubman's relative says blacks would've boycotted movie if Julia Roberts played the abolitionist.
claims a Hollywood exec listened to his movie pitch for a Tubman project more than 25 years ago and told the room. Howard says someone pointed out the fact Tubman was black and Roberts was white, and the exec said it was so long ago no one would know the difference.
Harriet's relative says it's insulting the exec would think black people would be so ignorant as to not know their own history.
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