royal-confessions:“I’d be offended as hell if a white or black woman was cast as Empress Genshō. Bla
royal-confessions:“I’d be offended as hell if a white or black woman was cast as Empress Genshō. Black people would be furious if a white or Asian woman was cast as Empress Zewditu. The Hollow Crown cast a black lady as Margaret of Anjou, who we know was white. Anyone who complains is called racist. Something’s wrong there.” - Submitted by AnonymousI suppose this is about the Anne Boleyn casting… I will agree because those “progressive” people act like Black and White are interchangeable. At the same time they are saying “I don’t see color” is a bad mindset. So which one is it? “People got annoyed because we changed the race PFFF” well…YEAH? Isn’t the super progressive side that also tells us race is a super important part of you? Something that is deeply defining? Either you believe race on a historical personality can be changed like underwear, or not. If you support this casting, I am sorry, but you see race just as an aesthetic choice, not as something defining for the character. Not to mention that there is a ton of REAL Black people in history - royals, warriors, revolutionists, saints etc - which Channel 5 refuses to make a movie about. It prefers to slap a black paint on a White historical figure and call it representation… I am sorry but this is just mockery of the people who strive to see more Black personalities on screen. Black people can play a ton of historical and new characters but for now you are pleased to see them filling roles for historical white people or cultural figures. If we were talking about the metamodern, experimental piece, which dealt with the question “what if Anne Boleyn was a Black Tudor?” then fine. However, the show tries to be as historically accurate as possible (they’re consulting historians). Well they got the whole race of the real Queen wrong so idk about that “But White people had been chosen so many times in the past to play non-White characters!” you will say. Look, I am with you here. However the industry is trying to fix it by doing the proper casting. What is not going to fix this past casting malpractice is doing EXACTLY the same but in reverse. It’s such an immature reaction but they pass it as a “gotcha” argument. I had this revenge logic when I was 15….“You don’t want to see Black people on screen, that’s why you are saying that” some people will speculate. Well, WRONG. I mentioned above that I would love to see more Black characters on screen. Understand I am FOR the casting of people from the respective cultures (and if that isn’t possible, at least the same appearance) and that includes historical personalities from all cultures. -- source link
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