Posted on 04/28/2023 1:58:52 PM PDT by knighthawk
They already did “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.”
You’re absolutely right. I’m going to cast Robert Downey, Jr. as Idi Amin Dada in my new Docudrama. And this time, he won’t be going full retard!
Well, maybe she was not black. But I’ll bet she was trans!
“You don’t believe in casting by merit, not skin color?”
So, if the merit was there, you think the female lead could have been played by a man?
Obviously the Left agrees with ‘cultural appropriation’ when it suits them.
Maine repealed it's Anti-miscegenation laws in 1821, so you would see it happen.
Anne Boleyne was NOT black!
Our FFs were NOT black!
And though Carousel was originally written by and about Hungarians, the musical was all American and NO...not a one of them were black!
Do you want to see PORGY AND BESS with an all white cast? How about RAISIN IN THE SUN, with an all white caste? Shaka Zulu starring Charlton Heston as Shaka?
Mmerit? Really? No white actors or actresses have the "merit"/ability to portray white people?
Uh Oh.
Egypt done bitch-slapped the wokers.
Al Pacino did a movie where he played Shylock, is that wrong?
We can't have a White Othello or a black MacBeth?
Should we not watch The Godfather because Marlon Brando and James Caan aren't Italian?
I read this book a couple of years ago - Not Out of Africa:
“In this short book, Wellesley College Professor Mary Lefkowitz explodes the Afrocentric myths perpetrated in her field. Interestingly, Lefkowitz accepts the assertion that ancient Egyptians were black without question. The validity of this assertion, however, is questionable at best. A substantial body of surviving ancient Egyptian artwork appears to depict Egyptians with negroid features. At the same time, modern Egyptians are caucasian, with the swarthy features typical of the semitic peoples of the Eastern Mediterranean. Egypt’s ruling class was deposed several times over its long history by invaders from abroad. However, I know of no record of any event that could have resulted in the wholesale displacement of the country’s entire population, and it is unlikely that such a dramatic event could have taken place without during historical times without leaving a record.
Lefkowitz proceeds to demolish the claim of the Afrocentrists that every achievement known to history as Greek actually originated with the Egyptians. There is just enough actual historical evidence of a link between Greek scholars and Egypt to enable these claims to avoid being dismissed with nothing more than a smirk. The Classical Greeks admired the great antiquity and undeniable achievements of Egyptian culture, and sometimes sought to connect themselves to it. Later, after the rise of the Helenistic Age when Greek learning dominated the Mediterranean world, Egyptians sometimes claimed that famous Greek scholars such as Plato and Aristotle had studied in Egypt, and Greek historians dutifully recorded these claims. Twentieth Century Afrocentrists then took the ball and ran with it, making all sorts of outlandish arguments for the primacy of Africa in the process. By comparing the actual content of Egyptian and Greek writings and examining the known chronology of relevant events - in other words, by doing what responsible historians do - Lefkowitz shows that the myth of a “stolen legacy” is nothing more than that - a myth.
On one hand, nothing Lefkowitz says is surprising. The facts she cites are well established and in most cases have been known for centuries. On the other, the dominant culture in universities today favors the claims of Afrocentrists and others like them, no matter how outlandish those claims may be. Leftkowitz deserves credit for standing up for the truth on a controversial subject and seeking to maintain standards in her field of study.”
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/48292
There was a casting call for a “differently abled” Tarzan!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njK6zQp2Fdk
Some figures in Ancient Egyptian art look "Negro" but others look white or in-between. Ammianus Marcellinus in the 4th century AD makes a comment to the effect that Egyptians are swarthy. A New Kingdom tomb shows various ethnic groups as well as Egyptians and the black Africans are shown as much darker than the Egyptians.
In short, there seems to have been a range of skin colors in ancient Egypt and they would have been puzzled by modern Americans' obsession with race.
There are several paintings in Tutankhamun’s tomb of him slaughtering Nubians. They have the sloped forehead, big lips, elongated bodies and are very VERY BLACK.
Obviously the artist was a “dirty rat dog racist”.
Yet no matter how they try to recolor her, Cleopatra was not black but of Greek. Any ancient history has her genealogy in it.
WHY?
Because from the ancient Roman times, most actresses also earned money/expensive things, by being prostitutes!
Even in England, players of much earlier eras were looked down upon ( and they were mostly doing "PASSION PLAYS" or in plain English, Biblical stories ) were seen as thieves, scoundrels, and/or whores.
So to combat this, laws were passed, in England, forbidding female performers.
It helps to know a facts, on any topic you care to discuss; otherwise you just look the fool; an uneducated one at that!
Netflix is producing disinformation.
The stupid thing is, there were black Pharoahs they could have made a documentary about. They were Nubians, not exactly sub-Saharan Africans, but still, they were “black” as far as the Egyptians were concerned, and always depicted that way. But I guess the story wouldn’t have been as romantic as Cleopatra’s maybe.
I’m not sure what your problem with what I said is. I, accurately, pointed out that female roles were not played by women in Elizabethan times. Yes, it was a law until the Restoration. But I think you were underrating cultural considerations. Even acting for males was not considered a noble profession. Women were allow to perform in other contexts. And women still had jobs in the theatre, like tayloring and selling food.
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