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Has Anyone Noticed That Romeo Is Black?
Henry Louis Gates webzine, The Root ^
| 30 July
| Jason Page
Posted on 08/14/2009 5:59:02 AM PDT by flowerplough
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To: Sloth
To: cripplecreek
I don't know: I always though he was a pretty decent coach.
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posted on
08/14/2009 6:20:42 AM PDT
by
andy58-in-nh
(America does not need to be organized: it needs to be liberated.)
To: brwnsuga
Wow. Sad story, indeed. :(
To: brwnsuga
If you look at intERracial rape statistics you’ll find that its heavily skewed toward black men raping white women. This came to the fore in 2006 in Durham, NC when a black woman, Crystal Mangum, falsely accused three white Duke students of gang raping her. A white on black gang rape is a crime that has not been reported in at least the last ten years. Not to say it couldn't happen. Plenty of the reverse however. That being said, the vast majority of rapes are intrAracial and often between people who already know each other.
To: flowerplough
Next thing you know Ralph Kramden from the Honeymooners is going to be black.
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posted on
08/14/2009 6:21:57 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: flowerplough
Has Anyone Noticed That Romeo Is Black? Does anyone really care?
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posted on
08/14/2009 6:23:24 AM PDT
by
Roccus
(My anger is manufactured.......................................in the WHITE HOUSE and CONGRESS!!)
To: brwnsuga
well, then there’s that! :)
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posted on
08/14/2009 6:26:14 AM PDT
by
RexBeach
To: dfwgator
Those bigoted Americans will really lose it if they ever make Captain James West black.
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posted on
08/14/2009 6:29:39 AM PDT
by
Sloth
(Irony: Freepers who call Ron Paul a "nut" but swallow all the birth certificate conspiracy crap.)
To: 1rudeboy; flowerplough
Somebody should tell Mr Page “been there, done that.”
My girl's high school drama class had a black Romeo about three years ago and the cast and audience was at least 80% white.
The only thing everybody said was stuff like “Darn good play.”
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posted on
08/14/2009 6:33:29 AM PDT
by
PeteB570
(NRA - Life member and Black Rifle owner)
To: flowerplough
Well, I am not worked up about a black man kissing a white woman on stage. My real fear would be if they went back to the way it was in Shakespeare’s time ... all male actors. Bleagh!
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posted on
08/14/2009 6:33:35 AM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(There is no salvation in politics.)
To: flowerplough
And we can all look forward to watching Romeo and Julio next week!
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posted on
08/14/2009 6:36:41 AM PDT
by
cartan
To: Roccus
Um, actually, I noticed that it's a black guy who noticed and cared.
Somebody tell me, who are the ones who are all wrapped up in race?
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posted on
08/14/2009 6:48:30 AM PDT
by
Axeslinger
(Where has my country gone?)
To: Locomotive Breath
Wow, I wasn’t talking about RAPE. I was talking about people consenting to be together. There are alot of white women who pursue black men, because that is their preference. I live in a military town where there are oogobs of interracial marriages, the majority of which are white women married to black men.
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posted on
08/14/2009 6:57:12 AM PDT
by
brwnsuga
(Proud, BLACK, Beautiful, Conservative!!!)
To: silverleaf
Othello was never Negroid.
he was a Moor...a north African Caucasoid
Romeo was a Montague Italian in the late 1500s per Bill Shakespeare (another cracker btw) and to make Romeo black is just stupid and is of course political and historically inaccurate.
If this writer thinks Britain doesn’t have race issues then he’s one ill informed play attendee.
The need to make white characters black in historical context is because of the actual dearth of actual black historical figures in much written context period.
That is what happens when a group is cut off from the developing world for however many 10,000s of years since the Sahara went too dry. I mean my bad. I’m sorry. You guys got stuck and lagged as a group and now we are all supposed to feel bad about it and let you roll all over us and whine like little babies and we felt so bad we have now elected the Demon-In Chief to make up for it all.
How come Indigenous peoples in the Americas don’t get so much indulgence and pandered to?
They have been on basically the same fair ride.
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posted on
08/14/2009 6:59:36 AM PDT
by
wardaddy
(Aint it hard when you discover that He really wasnt where its at ....Bro.)
To: flowerplough
I rather liked Denzel Washington as an Italian Prince in Kenneth Branagh's "
Much Ado About Nothing."
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
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posted on
08/14/2009 7:02:28 AM PDT
by
LonePalm
(Commander and Chef)
To: wardaddy
Othello was a “moor”? I thought he was a “moop”!
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posted on
08/14/2009 7:04:26 AM PDT
by
silverleaf
(If we are astroturf, why are the democrats trying to mow us?)
To: Sloth
Or if Ford Prefect from Hitchhiker’s Guide was black.
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posted on
08/14/2009 7:12:44 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: silverleaf
Is Patrick Stewart white enough for ya?
To: Locomotive Breath; silverleaf
Next, a white Othello... I was thinking about a reversed Othello the other day, Othello as a white mercenary to a black African dictator.
I think it would be interesting, but try to find a set of black actors who would be willing to take part in it.
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posted on
08/14/2009 7:26:12 AM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(Public healthcare looks like it will work as well as public housing did.)
To: flowerplough
Romeo is black. And no one cares. While this might be big news in America, ...Doubt it. Get over yourself, Jason. You're just another dork who couldn't get a real job irrelevant of skin color.
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posted on
08/14/2009 7:29:06 AM PDT
by
TigersEye
(0bama: "I can see Mecca from the WH portico." --- Google - Cloward-Piven Strategy)
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