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stopmakingliberalslookbad:colorsofsocialjustice:cottoncandypolitics:noblepeasant:sugarplumpauperess:It’s more about the hypocrisy that is maddening. And for a “historical drama” having the wrong ethnicity and race for a historical person isn’t really historical anymore, is it?A Chinese MLK jnr, or how about an Ethiopian Hitler? Edit: Also according to Lottie’s reasoning, then should “I hate English” be interpretted from her analysis or would she said that is being a “Killjoy”?To this day, I think the best portrayal of a black character in a historical setting that was predominantly white is Azeem from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Azeem was a Moor, and his Moorish heritage is discussed in the film. We even get a different perspective of things from him because he’s a Moor and from a different culture to the rest of the characters. The movie doesn’t try to pretend he’s English. They don’t just give Morgan Freeman a tunic and tell him to fake a cockney accent.If you want to put a talented black actor in your historical film, it really isn’t hard to come up with a good reason for it. Like… The thing that gets me in this particular example is like.For the folks that are super caught up on racial politics, I can’t imagine a queen of England being anything but a complete villain.I mean??? No one can deny England’s colonial history, it’s a prominent fixture associated with the crown.So like… Why would these types *want* a queen of England to be portrayed as black?I could imagine someone saying that this is racist because it makes it look like colonialism wasn’t exclusively a white person thing (which… It’s not… But that’s a common perspective nowadays and one I could see cropping up here). You know, I think the new Netflix series Bridgerton proved that if racial diversity is just “there” and not acknowledged, it can work just like with British theatre, and that shouldn’t be different with historical dramatisations either. I think I can answer the question though of why some people actively want a fictional Queen or King of England to be black or just non-white: because it is intended to show that media is moving beyond British colonialism, whether by taking theatre’s blind casting or intentionally doing it. That said, the hypocrisy show in the OP is a problem because there are some roles that it would be bigoted to have anyone of another race portray that person. And given the example of a black Queen, Anne Boylen was a white woman and should only be portrayed by a white woman, hopefully British. Just like Anne Frank should be portrayed by a Jewish girl. Or MLK Jr by a black man. Because they were real, living people and deserve the respect of being portrayed as such.However, fictionalised versions of real people like in many Shakespearan plays would fall under theatre rules, seeing as not all biographical media are intended to be fictionalised, especially those that admit to taking liberties with the facts, including who the people essentially were. I just want to point out that almost none of the people on Twitter who are “yasss kweening” this casting choice are black. In fact, black people on Twitter seem to be overwhelmingly against this and would understandably rather see black stories being told instead. Yeeessss! Noblequeen is exactly what I say all the time! -- source link