Ithaca is the City of Evil...
Posted on 02/08/2018 8:24:25 AM PST by NKP_Vet
high school in New York has pulled its musical The Hunchback of Notre Dame after social justice student activists complained about a leading role being handed to a white student.
“Protests of the production began when an African-American student quit Ithaca High School’s musical production due to the role of Esmeralda being given to a white classmate,” Fox News reported. “Student activists then banded together under the umbrella of Students United Ithaca …”
Caving to social justice activists
Shortly after the Board of Education of the Ithaca City School District (ICSD) pulled the musical, it was replaced with a new project, but signs of a possible problem over the casting not reflecting “diversity” or “inclusiveness” were evident before the roles were even announced.
“When Ithaca High School announced last fall that the spring musical would be The Hunchback of Notre Dame, high school senior Annabella Mead-VanCort’s mother, Eliza VanCort, wrote a letter to school administrators,” the Ithaca Journal reported. “Mother and daughter were thrilled that a musical with a leading role of a female of color would be performed on the school’s stage.”
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For a long time the common thing was any time there was a show with a girl and guy hosting, The girl would be White and the guy Black. It was so common that a person had to notice.
Probably about the same time, probably 80% of professionals such as doctors, lawyers, judges and any profession of authority and respect would be portrayed as Black.
Now the “in” thing is inter-racial couples. You see it more than you don’t.
Oh and it is not OK for us to notice. It is just OK for them to do it.
Ithaca is the City of Evil...
I ran into gypsies in Paris and Rome. They looked Eastern European.
Romani/Gypsies ARE Caucasoid
In fact the entire group of peoples north of the Sahara and west of the Tarim Basin/Tibet were Caucasian - skin colour has nothing to do with it.
There are black skinned Tamils who have the CAucasian bone structure and genetics as do Semites, Georgians etc
And 60% of Indians north of the states of Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh are Aryans -- yes, the real "Aryans" meaning Indic or Iranic, the Germans or Slavs are/were not Aryans as the very term "Arya" was used by the indo-Iranian branch of Indo-Europeans, not by others
Gypsies set off from northern india around the 11th century and moved west, first to iran where they were called Dom and then to the Middle East and then to Europe - where people thought they were Egyptian, hence the term "Gypsies"
the Gypsies were low-castes if not close to untouchable caste as they worked with metal and ate meat and were singers and dancers (not priests (highest caste) or warriors/rulers (second highest) or farmers/traders (third highest)) - they probably moved due to Islamic invasions.
In Western Europe they intermarried more and have lighter skin tones and local features, while in France and Italy they can be indistinguishable, but not always
however, they definitely do not look Negroid (not that there'a anything wrong with looking one way or the other) - so a black lady making fuss about this is insane
Even Indians from Indian don't completely look like a Romani person from France. If you want to be particular then you must have only a French Romani playing Esmeralda.
??? South Asians (with the exception of those from north-east india) ARE Caucasians - whether ARyans (northern 60% ) or Dravidians (southern 35%)
Europeans in general are Caucasians but there are Finns, Estonians and Hungarians who have a lot of Mongoloid origin (25% to 35%) and Balkan peoples who have 2% to 3% Turcic blood
So "Started as Caucasians and then mixed with Europeans" doesn't make any sense - Europeans are caucasians as are the bulk of South Asians.
Caucasian is based on bone structure and genetics, not skin colour.
And how do they feel about “Hamilton!”?
If people with African ancestry are to always be given the plum roles regardless of accuracy, how is that any different from the original anti-black racism we all despise?
And he's been played by Scots, Irish, Welsh (Dalton).
i think a black James Bond would be perfectly fine - if it was someone of the calibre of Idris Alba playing the role.
A woman wouldn't make sense to play the philandering Bond. Perhaps a parallel series with Ms. Moneypenny would be better.
Later in the middle ages more Germanics along with Middle Easterners and Greeks (escaping Islamic persecution)
And, since the 1700s there is a lot of Polish, Jewish, Russian etc. blood added to France's gene pool
Then due to French colonization (remember that France declared all its colonies to be basically France, not "colonies") you have Berber, Arab, Senegalese, Vietnamese etc. blood added in. These are all French now - its a cultural thing.
James Bond, a Scotsman, will be played by a black man
Yes he will be a member of the Black Watch.
Pushkin too was part black (though he was Russian of course)
If MLK had lived, perhaps things would be a lot better. We could have had a REAL African-American President (Condi Rice or Mr Carson)
Romani or Roma or Dom or Gypsies or Cygan are an ethnic group that originated from north-western india and have Irani, some Semitic, little Turkic and Eastern European blood
Romanians are mainly Dacian with Latin and Slavic blood added and a little Gypsy admixture.
even in india there are gypsies and they are also despised there. For the gypsies who fully embrace their identity it doesn't matter what "outsiders" think. But if they want to integrate they discard everything about their identity
your statement would make sense if the Bond movies were still about the cold War. But ever since Brosnan, that has changed. The latest Craig movies are not set in the same universe as the Connery flicks. Hence a black actor would do just as well. Remember that Bond’s character has changed from Connery to Moore to Dalton to Brosnan and now Craig. So a change of skin tone is fine — what is sacrosant is that he is supposed to be quintessentially English — and Idris Alba, ignoring the skin tone IS as English as Brosnan if not more.
Hopefully these ‘warriors’ will suffer economically for the first 10 years into their adulthood.
Not to mention that Esmeralda was a french girl who was kidnapped by gypsies as a baby.
“If you want to be particular then you must have only a French Romani playing Esmeralda.”
Actually, not even a French Romani, you should have a Rheims French person playing Esmerelda (a white, in other words), because she was not a Romani by birth in the original book, she had been kidnapped and raised as her own. I blame the Disney version of Hunchback of Notre Dame stupidly changing Esmerelda’s ethnicity to being an actual Gypsy for the current view that she was in fact that rather than an ethnically French person who was merely raised as one. On that note, they really screwed up regarding that and how they handled Frollo. Actually, if they made Esmerelda Frollo’s birth daughter, that would have made his hatred against gypsies a LOT more sympathetic or at least understandable because they had cradle-robbed his daughter.
Actually, if anything, it would have been a lot MORE historically accurate and true to the book if they let the white girl play Esmerelda.
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