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To: Jamestown1630
More White men have played Othello than Black; but through most of that history, nobody cared.

True! And I have no problem with that. They call it "acting" after all. But others have made a BIG deal out of straight actors playing gay characters, White actors playing non White characters, etc etc. Yet I hear nothing when a Black character appears in a story that takes place in medieval England or Black Vikings or a Black actor playing Achilles in a version of the Iliad I saw. One set of rules for everybody. That's only fair.

78 posted on 04/08/2024 11:10:46 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: FLT-bird

‘Fair’ isn’t part of the narrative.


79 posted on 04/08/2024 11:13:47 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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