HELP ME understand why Race-Swapping is Better than Creating Original Characters?
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- With the release of the much-maligned “Velma” show, HBO Max reopened a long debated can of worms of whether to race-swap legacy characters.
Race-swapping or racebending is the changing of an established character’s race or ethnicity. Although the discourse around race-swapping has picked up over recent years with calls for increased diversity in Hollywood, race-swapping has been a practice for all of history. Since the release of shows and movies like the aforementioned “Velma,” the live-action remake of “The Little Mermaid” and “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” among others, it’s a good chance to revisit the debate around race-swapping.
In my opinion, if the race, ethnicity or nationality of a character doesn’t affect their identities or storylines then race-swapping is fine. For example, in a show like “The Fairly Odd Parents,” the race of the characters doesn’t have a bearing on the story compared to a show like “The Proud Family,” which had a multitude of storylines revolving around traditional Black family dynamics, segregation and discrimination.
This doesn’t mean that every piece of media should be forced to address heavy themes of racism, bigotry or intolerance. Personally, I love both of these shows equally, but when a show includes minorities as a part of the main cast and chooses not to address these topics, those characters shouldn’t be criticized for “pandering” or being “forced diversity” or being “political statements.” Minorities in real life aren’t “forced diversity” or “political statements” but rather people who deserve to see themselves represented on the big and small screens alike.
This is an even more ridiculous statement when applied to live-action. There was much contention made around the choice of having Halle Bailey star as Ariel in the live-action remake of “The Little Mermaid.” The controversy was stupid as most of it boiled down to Bailey not looking like the “traditional” Ariel, ignoring the fact that she is a decorated actor and singer who may have been the best option to depict the character. The criticism leveled at Bailey was avoided by other actors portraying classic Disney princesses like Lily James’ Cinderella and Emma Watson’s Belle. So where does “Velma” stand in all this?
Mindy Kaling’s “Velma,” which is an adaptation of the famous Scooby-Doo property, is a shit show. I mean, it’s grim how bad the show is. The jokes aren’t funny, the meta humor doesn’t make the show seem clever, it’s annoying how the show falls into the tropes they’re attempting to lampoon and the show is just plain mean.
It’s understandable why so many Scooby-Doo fans were so turned off to these shows because the characters are nothing like their former adaptations. The titular character, Velma, is a bisexual South Asian American, Norville, formerly Shaggy, is Black, and Daphne is East Asian American. Although I just listed the races and ethnicities of three of the main characters, they don’t matter as long as the writers can capture the essence of the original characters.
“Velma” isn’t bad because the character’s races are swapped, it’s bad because those characters are written as the most annoying, most insufferable, most spiteful versions of the show. Nor is “Velma” bad because it’s “woke,” as many of the jokes that revolve around race and politics aren’t funny and are borderline offensive.
Earlier in this article, I said that race-swapping has been a historic practice, so to end this article, let’s take a look at some of the more famous examples of race swapping that drew less criticism than some of our previous examples.
In Suzanne Collins’ “The Hunger Games” series, Katniss Everdeen was described as having “black hair and olive skin,” as were many characters in District 12. Many fans of the series speculated that the themes were meant to imply racial segregation. And although Jennifer Lawrence was iconic in the role, I wouldn’t really describe her as having “olive skin.”
From one “olive-skinned” savior to another, in Revelations 1:14-15 Jesus was described as having hairs, “white as snow. His eyes were like a flame of fire, his feet were like burnished bronze, refined as in a furnace.” Joan E. Taylor used archaeological evidence, historic text, and ancient Egyptian art when writing her book “What Did Jesus Look Like?” Taylor concluded that Jesus likely had brown eyes, dark brown to black hair and olive-brown skin like most Judea and Egyptian people at the time.
Now I want you to think about the depictions of Jesus you normally see - could they really be described as having “olive-brown skin?”
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If it's about the character, then why does changing their race matter so much? If it's the same character, why should I care what the color of their skin is?
@@Moxilock How often does your skin colour change?
@Michael Bancroft how often am I a mermaid? How often am I sent by destiny upon fantastical adventures? I'm very clearly not a fictional character. It's also not like Ariel woke up one day after the events of The Little Mermaid with a different skin color in some groundhog day situation, where she has to learn the same lesson and live the same events with slight differences
Each time i get sun, im like a panda can be White or light skins black
Not buying your tat, grifter.
“Now this is just lazy writing” -Deadpool
@Red Formen hollywood funds itself bro, its not government funded
Deadpool’s next enemy, the writers trying to make him black
@@capadociaash8003 Deadpool already has beef with one writer so what’s another
Deadpool vs Blackpool seems like a great idea
@@USA_UNITED1776 he's saying we should stop watching. When people say defund (x corporation) they generally mean, stop using it, not that it's government funded.
Race swapping is like offering crumbs instead of a promised feast.
Race swapping todays is like bringing a black paint to a white actor.
Not really, it’s more like gaining chicken when you asked for fish
@@evalyne1105 Or like getting a fake painting instead of the original you asked and paid for but not knowing the difference. (Being cheated but not realizing it)
facts
That's exactly what it is. Panem et circenses. So while the "poor plebs" are arguing on twitter about if a fictional character should be of one wannabe taxonomic category or the other one, politicians can do a poor job as per usual, with lesser chance of people noticing it.
As an Asian dude I am glad we didn’t get this type of crap and patronising from Hollywood.
The idea that we need to put your skin colour in our remake movies as some kind of apology is just insulting.
It is there, but less. Velma is an example.
As a brown person whose race gets nothing but negative attention online and in Hollywood, i agree💥💥‼⁉️🥵🥵☝🏽☝🏽
Don't worry man we'll soon have disney shang chi with will poulter as a shang chi 😂😂.
Remember L from that death note live action?
But in the other hand I don't care about any of this idc if the person is black or white and it's batman Casper. Good movies will always find it's way people complain too much
Imagine unironically casting Chris Pratt as Muhammed Ali, or Leonardo DiCaprio as Haile Selassie today.
These are real life people, characters are not the same.
@moniakthar1963 tell me why then they made a show with Anne Boylen a real life person being black when in reality she was white.
Also the race swapping of making cleopatra another Greek white real person black?
So it's okay do it to European and Greek and Roman/Egyptian historical figures. But not black people
Henry caville as steve urkle
Once I saw a video with a bunch of non-official posters for fake documentaries and they had Chris Pratt as Rosa Parks. Luckily this was all satirical.
@@username172 Ngl, that would be funny. Big ass Superman himself playing one of the original dorks.
As a black man, I am extremely unhappy that shameless race swapping is even a thing. Seriously there are numerous other characters in other franchises that have black characters in them that these companies don't give a damn about and that's even more of an insult.
you didn’t care when it was ghost in the shell or death note
@@imoyabrax450 1. Every one shat on live action Death Note.
2. Everyone knows that it's in the very canon that the main character is a Japanese woman with the cybernetic body of a white woman, which she uses to her advantage.
“As a black” ?
The entire lord of the rings films were whiter than a snowflake. Literally there is reasonable belief the orcs are basically black face... Does Aragorn being white matter to the plot? Then who cares.
@@AeridisArt Lol.She is not white though. She is Asian. Next you be telling me Goku is white.
As a white man, when I was a kid, my favourite superhero movie of all time was Blade with Wesley Snipes. It was my whole world. That man made me an action movie buff and made me fall in love with over the top superhero action.
The idea that white people don't want black people movies or black people in them is absolute nonsense, and there are literally countless amazing black characters in movies, series, fiction, comics, games etc
That serie is/was fokin amazing. Blade is such a chad!
At the time I never even gave it a thought that the lead character was black , he was just a actor who played the part very well , same with a lot of other shows , the race grifters and subversives changed all that of course .
I based an original character on Blades design and I got bitched at for "appropriating culture"... meanwhile blatant race swapping is okay apparently
Right? My boyfriend loves lawrence fishburne, morpheus from matrix
This was essentially me! Just add spawn into the mix!
The thing with this trend is that it doesn't extend to fictional characters only. We have literally real life historic figures who are being race swapped.
You saw it coming too. This whole race swapping in media is a testing ground to see if they can get away with race swapping IRL historical figures. Thankfully as we can see, people are not being fooled.
That's exactly right. There are so many real life black people's stories that have been turned into white characters it's not even funny. The problem is most whyte people don't even know it was race swapped. But us black folks know. We just don't have the power to do anything about it which is the definition of racism.
Literally michael jackson, my man lost himself the nword pass and put himself in medicak danger, and for what?
The BBC mini series the Cleopatras was more accurate than this. Did people also ignore the fact the Ptolemaic dynasty was heavy into practicing inbreeding?
It is not as there is a shortage of black characters (even more if you include other non European) characters which they could make movies about.
They got Cleopatra's ethnicity completely wrong with this race swapping infection. She was greek
That one was even worse because it was labelled as a documentary.
@@Nikephorus oh dear🤦🏿♂️
Cleopatra, Anne Boleyn, Julius Caesar, George Washington, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Joan of Arc, Oenomaus, all of these people were raceswaped in shows.
Black Julius Caesar and Joan of Arc, I can't stop laughing or crying by this level of casting stupidity 😂🤦♂️
@@Nikephorus I wouldn't have been that bothered had they just said that they got that black lady to play Cleopatra because they thought she was a good actress or something. The problem to me was that they went "Don't believe your teacher or the historians who had spent their lives documenting findings about the Ptolemaic dynasty. Cleopatra was actually black."
I am so sick of constantly being told I am racist by people who are far more racist than I am. This gabage has to stop and decent people need to stop being polite and putting up with it.
Amen
If you're being called a racist constantly by several different people...there might be a reason. If you are genuinely looking for a change, it really starts with looking in the mirror. All the best.
Spoken like a true racist
Maybe you are racist.
@@ziamarashi5962 That’s the most polite way you could have worded that. I respect that so much.
I've noticed this also as a black person. It always upsets me whenever I see them casting black actors to play white characters. This doesn't help us. It shows lack of creativity. We need to create our own characters
You’re confusing me you say when you see “them” cast black people as white characters, then switch it to “we” need to make our own characters. The problem is Black artist and writers do create their own characters black and non-black alike. The problem with using we is that you’re implying it’s Black people responsible for the race swapping a when it’s in fact white people who are in charge of these projects.
In the case of the Little Mermaid, the race swap is ultimately irrelevant it’s a f**king Mermaid all type of cultures have myths about them. In the case of Aragorn it’s fucking retarded bc his physical appearance is relevant to the story in that it’s an English Mythology.
You all always do the "we need to do our own" why not stop allowing the media and hollywood devide us all !! Look up this historical tactic the elites have been doing since Jamestown! Look up the Bacon REBELLION, look up the Boston Masscre , look up the stamp act , look up all the times in history when all us lower class ppl came together they did what they could to devide and conquer us , if we had been successful during the bacon REBELLION slavery may not have happened , but they trick us they started treating the black slaves way way better than the white irish ones the white irish was treated worthless is a blk slaves was drowning and a white irish was drowning they would save the black one !! You have to understand the motives behind everything!!! Its not about" we " as in blk for blk its needs to be a new mindset even Farrakhan spoke of this on the breakfast club , We as working class ppl must stop allowing them to devide us , We the people need to look at them and hold them accountable 😊
Amen brother
Well said.
Well said brotha
As an African-American, I concur with this. It’s getting out of hand.
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Aa a "black" American, I totally agree! Im not one to casually throw around claims of "racism," but race-swapping is inherently "racist!" As all the major movie producers are doing it, perhaps this is what is meant by "systematic racism??!!"
@@CaptainUncle1836 That’s what we are and how we identified ourselves for decades. You know Africans who came into America for transatlantic slavery? I laugh when people say “black” Americans. 😂😂
@@jirenthegray i mean, most black americans aren't descended from slaves. and a huge portion of them, aren't from africa either.
so, nice generalization of black people, i guess?
also, classifying yourself as "african-american", means "not entirely american".
if your born in america, and haven't moved to, and gotten citizenship in an african country, your not african american, your just american mate.
If I were a black woman I would be insulted that the film industry could not be bothered to give black actors original characters but instead decided to tick a few boxes by popping a black person in an existing white character role. Not that an actor who is black is not capable of playing those characters and doing a good job of it but it is almost like saying to them here you are, do this role, we are being inclusive so you cannot complain, rather than say here is a role for you to create an original character of your own, drawing from your own experiences and creativity. They are giving them crumbs to keep them quiet and they deserve better.
Very good, and true, points, but this is the first time we’re even getting those crumbs, and certain people are even complaining about them. I’m recalling the racist-ass outcry when it came out that The Little Mermaid wasn’t going to be yt.
We do deserve better, but you know who’s not giving us better white people. The people that are thinking of these race swaps are not people of color and they’re generally not Black people. It is white people pandering to a black audience and so I don’t know why everyone’s complaining to us to Black people like it’s something that we need to fix and look at the problem that we’ve created it just seems like you’re blaming us for something that you don’t like Which isn’t really our fault. And also in some cases, I’m not even upset like I don’t care that the little mermaid is black I cared more about the fact that white people were so pressed about the fact that she was black. They threw racist vitriol at Halle for months and continue to do it when the movie came out and even complained that one of the actresses in the movie who can’t even sing would’ve been better to play Ariel. So most of these re-swapping situation to make me feel upset, but not because I am offended by the fact that I’m not getting original characters but because I’m actively seeing all of the race schism of white people and how much they literally hate me just for being black. That’s what race swapping has shown me.
@@Remelia-co2ej i don’t care what colour the little mermaid is either, there are no such things as mermaids so it is ridiculous! It is awful that Halle had to take abuse like that simply for doing her job and being black. I have considered announcing things such as “the first black woman to play little mermaid” or the “first black man to….” might not be helpful. Surely to feel you have to announce a person’s colour is in itself racist, you shouldn’t need to be called a black actor or a black politician or a black singer surely you should just simply be an actor, a politician, a singer with emphasis on what colour or race you are. Being inclusive should mean you do not need to announce it, it should just be. What do you feel about that, am I getting it wrong? I am so sorry you feel there is hate for you because of your colour, I am not sure where you are from but I am from the UK and I know there are ignorant, vile people who hold such views here but I have to tell you that I do not and I don’t know anybody who does, I simply cannot understand why people feel like that and where it comes from. I do not like seeing people being patronised and manipulated, I can only compare that from my experience as a woman in the workplace during the early 80s where there was rampant sexism. I know that is not a fair comparison because sexism and racism are quite different things but it is the only experience I can draw from and it made me feel angry, upset and belittled because I knew I could do those jobs as well as a man. Thankfully we have moved on somewhat and though there is still improvements that can be made, women are, for the most part, given the same opportunities based on their ability, I hope the same can happen for people who are experiencing racism. I have a feeling that this clumsy attempt to plonk black people in the middle of films in characters that are not believable simply to tick some quota box is at least a starting point and will open the door to better opportunities for the future but it is too slow and not fair and I for one know that it is not the black person’s fault, I blame the producers and casting directors, who, as you say, are predominantly white.
@@ymrabc hello I’m from the US so here you know racism is like a part of every day life. I also want to say that like the reason why people say the first black this or the first black that is because we weren’t allowed to do those things for a very long time. For example, Black people weren’t allowed to go to school here for a very long time in the first black woman to go to a white school is still alive today she’s like in her 70s or some thing so the reason why we say the first black this is the first black that is just because it showing progress for us and our people and how we are able to overcome despite the impression that we face. I hope maybe that gives you a better perspective on why people do that kind of thing because we want to celebrate the wins that we get because we have to deal with racism so often here in America.
@@Remelia-co2ej thanks for explaining that, it now makes a lot of sense to me. I always thought it might be slightly divisive but now I totally get why you do that, you certainly have to take the wins in life and celebrate them. There is certainly racism in the UK without a doubt but I cannot speak of it with personal experience because I am not black but I think most people here just generally try get along. We are a multi cultural society in the UK especially in the big cities and often cultural and racial clashes can occur, even between non white people. We have our problems but these seemed to have got worse in the last few years or maybe we just know more about it because of media coverage. The world generally just seems very unsettled and combative, I am probably just getting old! It seems the more we talk things the more divided we become which is so sad. There are ignorant, stupid people the world over sadly and there probably always will be.
Making iconic white characters black is like only wearing the old clothes from your older siblings.
you obviously don't know they are trying to bait white people against black people. is racist elites trying to keep a hold on black and white people and mainly black people.
Oo
Very specific
its histroic figure T T
Oh uh.
Idk if I can relate to this...
I love original black characters…all time favourite is Blade
They are awesome because they are played by great actors.
Blade and Queen of the Damned 👌
I'm from Poland, never talked to any black person face to face, and Blade is one of my favorite superheroes as well. The movies were just so friggin' cool! Shame that Wesley Snipes was apparently a huge asshole when filming though.
@@med2904 😂 yeah . I was in Poland about 10 years ago and i could tell y'all had never encountered someone like me lol. But you're so much nicer than the Germans i met in Frankfurt!! ❤😅
I’m a white dude and I built my entire personality as a sergeant in the army around Apone from Aliens. Write a good character and people will love them regardless what color they are.
It actually has more to do with the fact that the people in Hollywood are too cowardly to take a risk and do anything new or original. They would rather do remakes of the same old stories that they know audiences are familiar with and will come to see regardless. And then in order to get the diversity and virtue signaling in, they just race swap one of the lead characters.
No its an attenpt to kill European culture. The one they say does not exist.
Exactly. The merchandisable extant stories make more money, but they want to cast black actors too (which is good, but new stories is how it should happen). Basically, they want to have their cake and eat it.
Nope. By design. Nothing so benign as simple cowardice.
Correct, but these monstrous analysis is what you get if you analyze reality without any class consciousness. You start to believe that Disney and co want to "push an agenda" different from "we want the most money possible and we don't give a damn about anything else"
@@user-ys6wv1bq9lit's not cowardice, it's capitalist cowardice
I am a dark skinned black woman AND I HAVE BEEN SAYING THIS FOR YEARS. This is exactly why I never saw black Annie. I dont want reused characters! I want our own characters!
Well well well. A dark skinned black woman, eh? Is there a white skinned black woman, per chance? You're just black, girl, that's it
Absolutely. It's very degrading when companies throw a race swapped character out there like there's no way to make an original character of that demographic interesting. No one should support it because in the end, this is all about money. If it costs them enough to do it, they'll just stop eventually.
Growing up Will Smith was the biggest movie star in the world, this racist modern narrative is so insulting and dishonest about the past.
@@casualcausalityy what? This has nothing to do with Will Smith being a big movie star. I don't think you get it.
@@pratkier My point was they say they're race swapping to add representation that was lacking before. Growing up in the 90s that wasn't my experience at all
Anne Boleyn is not a character. She was a living, breathing EUROPEAN woman. This was an EXTREME case of cultural appropriate. Where is the outcry?
it just an actor playing a role.
@@sophiawilson8696 actress
@@sophiawilson8696She’s playing somebody who actually existed. It’s one thing to race swap a fictional character but Anne Boleyn was a real person. And she wasn’t black.
@@ues929 First of all, White is synonymous with European. Its always been used as a broad term for peoples who are indigenous to Europe and the European diaspora. And second, “swarthy” is not the same thing as being black. Anne Boleyn was described as having dark hair, dark eyes, and a light olive complexion. She was not a Sub-Saharan African.
True but also lot of plays were done about her and guess who play her on stage? Males because didn't allow women to act on stage. We all KNOW that Anne Boleyn was white people need to take A CHILL PILL!.
It's just patronising as hell. This is the new racism.
Yeah it’s patronizing, is black are always getting “represented”, in someone else’s story when we never asked to.
And then when it come to cast and make a big new movie we get supporting characters.
@@natenae8635Yeah Is a shame because I don't know of any apart from shaka and I'm sure there's a lot of black people and stories throughout history that would be great for cinema/tv simply because they don't get talked about much.
Omg it’s not racism at all. Black people are just being celebrated! Fucking hell, if we give u a good role (based on a white character) it’s to show that YOU are celebrated, you would say it’s racism. If we didn’t give u the role but gave it to a white person, it would be racism! Omg stop looking for excuses to bring racism up. No one is being racist. For someone who obviously doesn’t like racism, u certainly like looking for it, even when it’s no there. And racism works both ways, I live in the uk in a neighbourhood that’s like 80% black. I get called a white bitch wen I’m walking my son to school, my son is half caste too. so I suffer racism as well. The thing that pisses me off the most though, is that their not even black British, their immigrants lol.
@@The_Last_Normanwhat would make u happy then? Having a black person take a good role in a film regardless of race? Or not have black ppl in the film at all? It’s like it’s racist to have them play certain roles, but then if we didn’t give them the roles, it would be racist cos a black persons not in the film. I feel like there’s no winning sometimes. Ppl like u are guna look for racism in everything. Just chill out
@@jessrosefawkes2721 I'm talking specifically historical films. I don't think people of other races should portray white historical characters and vice versa. But that's my only peeve, If its anything else I don't really care.
Wildest thing is that many people who have criticised whitewashing in past now call anyone a racist for daring to criticise blackwashing.
Seriously. On Pinterest I found a post on how to prevent whitewashing, and anyone who said blackwashing was bad too was either ignored or downplayed. One comment straight up said it was necessary to remove white supremacy or some BS.
Absolute FACTS. I'm black and this is really pissing me off 👏🏾😡
It should. Black entertainers practically led popular culture for the entire country at one point. "In Living Color", "Fresh Prince", "The Cosby Show", and Eddie Murphy were perfect examples of this. Now everything is divided and people are resentful and crap like this fuels the division.
They say they want to represent us more in media, but they constantly take the easy way to do so. They lazily give Black people race swapped versions of popular characters instead of putting in the effort of creating original characters that can reach the same heights of established characters.
The leftists, the corporations, SJws, whatever you want to call the people that are race swapping these characters for whatever social political reason; dont care about Black people they just want our money, and they are barely willing to half ass the job to get it.
As it should! There's plenty of amazing characters who are black (aka were specifically written to be black), even in history there's a lot of black people who influenced millions... this race swap is ridiculous and if it was the opposite the US would be burning.
@@notcrazy6288 they trynna start a race war
@Not Crazy exactly lol, im a white Australian for fuck sakes, i grew up listening to gamgsta rap, idolised Wesley snipes as blade. absolutely loved that movie. Loved 50 cents movie. Loved gunit. Loved Dave chappelle. I don't get how in 2023 race is this massive issue.
"Evil cannot create, it can only corrupt."
- JRR Tolkien
Logged this 1 in the book brother
Oh damn. No wonder. Thanks for this.
Tolkien was a master. All they can do now is sully his work. But they failed, because the books will never change.
But if it does so with style and panache, who will complain? Unfortunately, said corruption is done without either quality, which makes the corruptor a sad hack.
M:TG also race swapped the people's of haradd
to be white lol I honestly want wizards of the coast to burn as a company they don't deserve what they have atm
The problem isn't representation, the problem is that Hollywood (and other industries) only want to focus on giant mega brands that they can turn into billion dollar franchises instead of creating original content.
this makes sense. how many new ways to retell the exact same story.
Yeah like he's acting like black panther and jumanji don't exist.
Which is weird, because at some point those stories all were new, original content...
@@gentrydean3789 and funny enough i think a few became hits specifically because they were original at the time of their initial conception. hollywood has been rehashing things for a long time and so many were just adaptations of novels and short stories
Silly didnt complain when whites were playing everything😂😂
It's not about representation for minorities. It's about erasing white characters.
I noticed a really interesting tendency. 10 years ago I wouldn’t even pay attention to character’s race, I simply didn’t care, none of my friends did but now with these quarrels and race swapping you just can’t avoid it and always see, when that was done on purpose… “what a time to be alive”
I don't care about a character's race, if they're a new and original character. Taking a character that has already existed for a long time and is very popular and suddenly changing their race is a whole other matter.
I am the exact same way, as a kid I didn't care. Used to watch Xaolin Showdown and didn't care at all what race each character was, they were just people.
Nowadays though, I have to wonder if a character is a certain race/gender/sexuality because it was important to the story or because the writers want to virtue signal for good boy points. I want to go back to not caring or noticing.
Maybe that is the exact intention.
Did you not pay attention to the race because it was the default in the U.S. which is white? Now that they’re swapped you notice it because it’s not what you’re accustomed to seeing. Hollywood has been doing this for decades. They would make characters white or worse, have white actors play the minority character and portray some dumbass stereotype. It’s just a yes or no question. Take a moment to reflect before you answer.
@Nedyx As Morgan Freeman once said on a 60 Minutes interview: "The fastest way to get rid of racism is to stop talking about it." I don't like to see established characters race swapped. I do like to see interesting characters in well written stories. I think the race swapping is a type of guilt driven over compensating.
If white-washing is not okay, then black-washing shouldn't be either.
Most purported examples of “black washing” are just hiring a black actor to play a character for whom race is not a character trait and therefore is immaterial to the story, like Ariel in The Little Mermaid.
@@BH-te5fs when does race become a character trait? Ariel was described white multiple times in the original version. Doing this to a character described black would never be acceptable
@@yesplatinum7956 Race becomes a character trait when it manifests in the story. You guys are twisting yourself into knots so much over this shit that you’ve lost the ability to understand what a character trait is.
@@BH-te5fs examples of when it manifests? is it ok to race swap Tiana?
@@BH-te5fs this is the logic people have been using as excuse for whitewashing
I am now 60. In my youth we watched movies with those people in them. We became fans of them. Not because they were black. Because they are great actors. When Morgan played a God like character nobody was up in arms. He had the gravitas to play that part. When he also played the president, long before anyone knew about Obama, he had the gravitas to play that role. In fact I wish he had been president. When Denzil played Robert McCall, nobody said oh but I thought he was a white character, because he is fictional and Denzil was every bit as convincing as Edward. In fact, respects to Mr Woodward, I think Denzil deepened the character. My generation did not think about race, we just got on with life.
morgan freeman taking the role he was born for? God?
i seriously need that movie
@@Will_Rules Bruce Almighty!
Too damn busy to focus on bullshit like that. Also, the demographics were so skewed to white population. It would have been financial suicide to do what they’re doing now. As the population of America darkens, so to will it’s entertainers. They should be hired on talent and not color.
exactly you enjoy watching a movie with a specific actor in it cause they are a good actor not because of their skin colour and you like the character for their values and you see yourself in them for how they relate to you as a person and not by if they match your skin colour😬
And also your sixties you know that Hollywood has always whitewash ethnic groups every single character in movie
I’m African American and I think the Black-Washing is no different than White-Washing. We got to grow up before folks start wanting a white BLADE🧛🏿🧛🏿
Blacks playing white historical figures should offend blacks more than whites because it hides black history and pretends equality as always existed when often it doesn't even exist today.
Blade wasn't black. His skin tone was irrelevant. Often we forget, race is not always important or even obvious.
@@davidvarley1812 How interesting
@@davidvarley1812Until you replace a white character with a black one, the race is noticed. Stop fucking lying already 😂
@@KevinSamuelsKid even when it was Vice versa it was called out but you seem to not remember it or didn’t care.
A black person I met in Australia kept insisting that blacks are still being treated as second class but then she herself was racist towards Asians… double standards. Worst of all she had the audacity to lump all Asians as China and even said that during a networking event … goodness… teach your kids geography and world history
You can be racilly discriminated against and still be racist. Sometimes black people do it to each other
Okay I had a friend I met in the US military that is Chinese with parents that were born and raised in China and settled later in San Francisco. He legit told me that if his mom knew he and I were friends (I’m black) she’d be angry with him. Everyone can be prejudiced.
"lump all Asians as China"
Me as an European who loves Japanese Empire: *batotai starts playing*
Did she also call Russians Chinese as well? 😂
@@mykaylajacques9816 maybe that's just life and everyone should just suck up their tears, hike up their pants, and move the fuck on like an adult.
Very well put. I've talked to some of my black coworkers about this and to a man, they all agree. They don't want white hand-me-downs. They want original black characters.
I couldn’t put my finger on it but this is it, yes! There are loads of cool black characters already. Let’s create more!
preach
Lol you didnt talk to anyone kevin. Youre the whte guy that coworkers avoid
@@elknothin3403 ooooh somebody got bent out of shape. Truth hurt? Maybe I should have included a trigger warning.
@@sparc77 what truth? You're literally the dude thats like "I can't be racist I have 1 black friend"
Race-swapping historical figures should be an offence. They're literally distorting history with this move. I don't care what they do with fictional characters, but don't mess with the identity of real people that lived centuries ago
I fully agree. It's disrespectful to their legacy to represent them as something they weren't.
Even fictional characters can be extremely offensive. if the fictional character is clearly described as a certain race its still not ok to race swap.
Its history erasure, it's intentional removal of white history and culture.
@@jamesedwards6985 ever heard of blackface?
@@bri2120 ever hear of Blackwashing?
I remember a black character in a movie who got pissed because the waitress poured his beer first while he sat in the middle, he called her a reverse racist. This is what that feels like.
Yes. Trying too hard is actually telling something. Just be neutral
Blacks taking their victim hood pills even when their life gets easier now a days
The movie is “The Animal” with Rob Schneider.
if white washing is racist. black washing is also racist. there are no exceptions.
The only problem is that white people would do it in a very disrespectful stereotypical manner.
Try saying that to these freaks, you're gonna get eaten alive.
But they aren’t racist? I’m confused. A character does not have be held on the color of their skin. This is the same viewpoint of the 1960s. Films are there to make stories, and unless explicitly telling a novel on civil rights, the race or ethnicity of characters should not matter. Additionally, actors are 90% of the time chosen because of their talent. Limiting a person’s potential because they are not to the media’s liking due to race or ethnicity is very hypocritical, don’t you think?
What have I done
@@MooMoooMeadowsexcept you would be wrong since most actors are being chosen based on skin color
@@medicc2854 enadjgh ugj aisdj but fhuahidj ioae ok
Can we start having original characters to begin with?
Hahaha I LOL'd FR IRL.
Working on an original series called Augur episode 1 is on my channel it's definitely original lol
That would require effort tho
That wouldn't be new
They should make a movie about Henry Johnson. Henry Johnson was a Harlem hellfighter who served in ww1. His platoon was ambushed and his friend was severely wounded and he took on over 20-40 troops while protecting his friend, only using his rifle and a knife which resulted in all of the German soldiers retreating. After that, he was known as the black death and just recently received the medal of honor.
Dear Amazon,
Aragorn is white, please get over it.
What’s an Aragon?
Gotta love the true fans, angry about Amazon race-swapping Aragorn...
when he isn't even in the Rings of Power, this is about people being upset at the new M:TG art.
@@kalebnbrown Aragón it's an old kingdom of Spain, and a community of the same country today, and it's white too. 😂 so it wouldn't be incorrect neither.
If you want to mad about aragorn, point your anger at wizards of the coast. Not amazon.
Aragorn isnt white, he is a pale skinned Numenorean.
It's simple: they don't trust black people getting popular on their own. So, they use the safe route and taking already popular characters and turn them black. That bypasses the hard work of writing and gives the illusion of diversity.
Yeah and its a lose lose situation because people get rightfully offended by raceswapipng popular characters, which makes the movie as a whole less successful.
Black people didn't ask for this.
Hollywood is shoving this down everybody's throat.
Actually Blacks supports this.
@@jasonpalacios1363 Nah only the woke community cares.
@@duprez2 Yes and that includes Blacks too.
@@jasonpalacios1363 yea because all black people are in agreement with what’s going on. Majority of people arent obsessed over race, the freaking media is shoving it down our throats 24/7. I don’t wake up everyday and think black vs. white and all my black friends don’t either. We don’t give a crap!
@@jasonpalacios1363 No it doesn't.
It's not that people don't want to see people of colour in leading roles, people want to see people of colour be the heroes of their own independent stories not just have a director swap out an existing character for a person of colour just to appease the world. It seems more insulting that they don't want to put the same effort into making original stories for minorities so they'll just rehash a story throw in a few "racism bad" moments and call themselves inclusive
There is a very good reason why Black Panther is so popular- other than the fact that the first movie was well made with thought and care put into it. I never saw the second movie but it was apparently lackluster
Except then you'll avoid everything that centers black and other non white people and just claim you just didn't like it.
We're not fooled.
Yeah, Hollywood just became Bollywood & they use to make fun of Bollywood so much how they just made photo copy versions of every successful American film but remove add an Indian actor in for Tom Hanks in Forest Gump & keep everything identical besides the Vietnam War they made it a war a British colonial era war.
Instead of giving us original black characters they decided to go towards the laziest route, Race Swap...it's clear that to the woke mob, us black viewers who want original characters, our voice doesn't matter and it never will...
But all these people in my comments swear blind that they need these race swaps because black people have never seen themselves on screen before! 🤷♂️
@@Michael_Bancroft I really don't need a character to be black for me to relate to them...
I mean if they create new characters people still hate on it
@@greenarrow. I genuinely don’t see that happening. The closest I can think of are ‘replacement characters’, like miles Morales or Riri Williams, but if they’re actually decently written like in the case of Morales, they’re accepted well enough.
@@greenarrow. Of course there will always be a contingent of people who will hate no matter what, I’m just speaking in general terms.
People need to understand that Hollywood doesn't care about anything other than money.
Nah, if that were true they wouldn’t be doing all this. It’s generally unpopular.
@@Darkstar-se6wc they're getting money to do it
@@Darkstar-se6wc they thought being woke is the majority of human population stance right now and the ones who protested it are the minority and the lesftover racist from another millenium.
they are basically out of touch with reality because they spend their lives inside a 30 billion dollars mansion.
Except they aren’t making it for profit so this is worse because this isn’t about money it’s about an agenda.
@@ulilleper you’re talking about ESG they also really don’t care for that either because that only helps bankrupt Americans that’s why they use it.
I'm with Morgan Freeman on this issue. We should just stop talking about race and racism. Stop calling eachother 'black' or 'white'. We're all humans, and should respect one another just as is. Nothing more to it.
He's such a plant lmao
Not talking about something happening won't make it go away.
They stopped making cool black characters. I miss the 90s era of films where they were too worried about whether the character was cool to remember what race they were.
I remember movies like Recess that had all sorts of diversity. It didn’t feel forced-It was completely natural.
I miss fully fleshed out characters.
Neo from matrix was originall supposed to be Will Smith. Then went to K.Reeves a white man after the black man passed.
@@ethanwright752 OoOoOh cOnSpIrAcY!
@@jaideepshekhar4621 its literally public knowledge something you can watch right here on youtube. wtf is your deal?
@@ethanwright752 Well then prove it was a conspiracy lol. Clown.
It's not about creating anything. It's about destroying.
Because they're simply too lazy to creating new character
It's about Hollywood being too afraid to create something new, there is ungodly amounts of evidence for this from people who work there. I agree that it's bad and I'm with you that it needs to stop, I'll support you in defending the white characters however I can but please don't make up conspiracy theories with no evidence.
Not enough people realize this. Its about breaking down identty and culture. You cant fully understand until you realize who is behind it. Who are the studio heads and producers making these decisions and what is their agenda?
That's why I love Into the Spiderverse. Miles is his own person, not "black Peter".
Each and every spiderman for that matter pavirt, hobie, miguel and gwen they are all interesting characters that go beyond just being hindi,british,mexican and a woman respectively
If I well remember , at some point , there was a debate about calling Miles Spiderman because his powers were so different than Peter's ( electric choc, invisibility etc etc ) ). That why I love miles , he is a Spiderman but he has his own power that make him totally different
Yeah I love coal spiderman
He’s a black Peter lol you’re lying to yourself, still woke bs
He could still have been Peter Parker considering there are different Peter Parkers in different timeliness or universes, whatever they're called. If you saw Spider-Man: No Way Home, it explains this. To be honest, I think it makes it weirder that there's another Spider-Man that doesn't have the same name.
You can't imagine how disappointed in Rick Riordan I was when I saw new cast for Percy Jackson series. Taking an Athena's daughter whose whole character was meant to mock the stereotype of "dumb white blonde girl" and making her black was the worst race swapping I've ever seen. She literally represented this "Legally Blonde" type of character for young girls like me and they destroyed it. And that's without saying the books SPECIFICALLY say that all Athena's kids look the same because they were born in her image
If you feel that Aragorn
needed to be black, you need to be asking yourself some hard questions.
yea and the question is why is he black??
Telling a story about white people in mind should be played by whites because of the cultural background/ synergy of the movie.
Likewise playing a black person should be played by someone who understand the culture and can act accordingly.
If I want to watch a movie about medieval England or Europe, am expecting to see white people play it.
Seeing a black person ruins the experience for me.
I don't think any of these MOFOs accepting race swap will be happy with swapping popular black figures to white.....I can't even imagine it😆
I mean.....it's their money to make these movies...don't watch them if you don't like them.
Maybe I don't like what your wearing....should I make youtube videos crying about it?
@@norml.hugh-mann if you feel like crying about it, go ahead...no one will stop you.
If someone feels that Aragorn needs to be black, EVERY question to them is a hard question. 🤤
@@norml.hugh-mann lmao. But these aren’t their ideas or works to shit on. Was bad enough all the key info that was left out of the original trilogy. Now we got dark elves, who by the very writings of Tolkien would make them goblins that Morgoth made from elves he corrupted 😂. It’s not about “their movie to make”, it’s about fucking up great literature for bs wokeness
As a white man. I speak for myself. I never cared what color an actor was. It played no part in my choosing what movie I would pay to see. Until I was told I had to like it see it or I was a racist. That’s when I checked out. If someone’s demanding something unreasonable I will not do it.
Well, no one is lol. If you are, you’re only paying attention to the loonies
Knock it all Hollywood has been race swapping for 100 years but you had no problem when it was whitewashing though
Same. I never used to be racist. I tried not to see race. I didn't judge a book by its cover. I was adamant about that.
But now? After nearly 20 years of continuous anti-white racial sentiment and rhetoric? After being forced to see my own race and others for theirs? After watching blatant cultural genoc1de and ethnic replac3ment against the West?
Now I see race.
Ironic. The last two decades has achieved what the alt-right couldn't in 100 years. It has awoken white racial consciousness...
Yessssss. As a “European” white person I was raised where I didn’t notice a persons colour. Until the stupid BLM crowd which the leaders are now being investigated for fraud. I still look at many actors and don’t see their colour until that “inner voice” pops in to remind me of what colour they are. Damn shame.
@@ripvanwinkle6557 that’s ridiculous
I’m black and I understand why white people would get mad! It’s the double standards for me and all that pandering
This forced, insincere diversity in movies and shows must be especially annoying for you. It feels like 90% of media just uses race-swapping as a means of appeasing radical minorities and to earn more cash, nothing else. The Rings of Power is especially terrible in that regard. There are black people in Tolkiens world. We even briefly see them in the third LotR movie, yet Amazon decided to race-swap characters that can't technically be black, because they're too lazy to create something new or because they though that these white characters are more interesting, which would make the producers themselves sort of racist.
Yeah they would get angry because they are racist.
You are wrong, I really love any actors of any nationality and skin color does not matter, it talks about distortion of facts.
@@julli9818 yeah like how they are distorting history by insisting things that aren't true like historical figures being dark brown when in reality they weren't.
@@julli9818 Anne bolyne, cleopatra and Joan D'Arc ans many others were definitely not black, imagine making Luther king, obama or oprah white...
Some people say that white people only get triggered if white character gets swapped for a black one.
Emm no. Black Panther should be black, Mulan should be asian. There are just certain changes you can't make to the character. Like making Sonic green. Just make new original character, don't change existing ones for this diversity points agenda.
Scourge????
And yeah
I mean white wolf exists lol. I'm sure they could shoe horn a white person into black panther if they really wanted to.
White wolf is basically just Black Panther but white instead.
I can understand the disappointment from white audiences. As a black person, if the Hollyweird decided to cast Brad Pitt as Chaka Zulu or Meryl Streep as Harriet Tubman I would completely lose my sh*t 😂
There is no equivalent.
@@lisah8438 Please explain? Because I was floored when Joseph Fiennes played Michael Jackson and when Zoe Saldana, a Afro Latina that doesn’t even acknowledge her blackness, played Nina Simone.
I would laugh until I’m no longer considered alive by medical experts. That would be great actually.
You‘re comparing actual historical figures with a fictional creature that isn‘t even human
@Oliver O. They blackwash real people all the fucking time
It's disgusting that they pretend that the charisma of actors of Eddie Murphy and Samuel Jackson didnt create some of the most iconic characters of all time, it's white guilt and lack of talent and originality in modern writers and show runners that are unable or afraid of attempting to create new characters
Literally no one except you guys whining about race changes are saying that.
Not a single leftist I have heard has discounted existing powerful black figures and characters.
It's about having more of them. More representation. Not less.
Quit being disingenuous and weird.
@arkainin4638 what a load of bs, don't tell me you didn't see the corporate race to be "the first" in poc lead characters, especially in the superhero genre when marvel complete tried to erase Wesley snipes blade as the first marvel black superhero and then the endless supply of bloggers making article after article about it
@@Dobbinator817 You're talking about one specific hyper-technical reason not even having to do with race or trying to erase the character.
For PR reasons Marvel wanted did not want people to think R-Rated Vampire Killer man was their first super hero.
Again, not a single LEFTIST, I know has tried to erase black characters. If your argument is that corporations don't care about diversity but money and PR - then yeah . . . . is that a surprise?
Has nothing to do with my response, in no way refutes it, and you're still a weirdo being a weirdo making a big deal out of something no one but you guys are making a big deal out of.
@@arkainin4638 race changes arent the only thing people complain about, almost every peice of entertainment sucks lately. The race changes are unessesary, there's no lack of representation until they go back to the past and point out that hey these specific charaters arent black. They pretend like the past writers did a horrible job because of mysogyny or other forms of bigotry, but it's not that deep. Some people think race swappig is racist, I don't think they are but these race swapped characters only make the topic of diversity more divided, they make fiction more divided. It would be better for everyone if disney were capable of making anything remotely original and remotely good, they dont need to overwrite anything to prove how morally better they are, it just stirs up controversy.
No they are literally trying to ruin things.
There is a reason they change what you liked instead of creating new.
I feel like he should’ve also mentioned Lawrence Fishburn. That man is super talented, and tremendously underrated.
I love Lawrence Fishburn; if I saw him in a trailer, I would go see the film.
Except for Whoopi Goldberg, he missed all the brilliant black actresses too.
Love him in CSI
And Richard Roundtree - SHAFT D@mn Right
Martin Lawrence too, all his movies are hilarious
Lando Calrissian is one of my favorites from Star Wars. Shame good characters like him aren’t made these days…
THANK YOU.
I have been saying this forever. If you want good black characters or stories, you have to create custom-made ones.
Slapping blackness on someone like Aragorn or Cleopatra doesn't change their person or their worldview or their experience or anything and so they are not even genuine representation of black struggles or history or culture or worldview
It's a disgrace on all accounts, it changes one people's heroes to condescendingly pretend it is another people's hero WHEN THEY HAVE THEIR OWN.
Insulting to everyone involved I find.
Cleopatra's skin tone is ambigious. Nothing wrong with casting her that way. It's also not really important. For historical accuracy though, the rest of her family should probably not be that way. Personally, a mid-tone would be a safe choice. Again, not important.
Aragorn is even less important, in-fact, it really doesn't matter. He's a fictional character. Historical accuracy means nothing . Here, I would say, let it go.
Yes, advocating for new works by black characters or stories is absolutely something that should be done. But those works first must exist, they first must be of quality (You'll have people complain that they are being published just because over whites, even if they aren't quality otherwise.) and they have to be a good decision. It's hard. Unfairly so.
So diversifying some, especially when historical accuracy is not in play, is perfectly fine.
@@Vulpesune First of all, ALL evidence about Cleopatra tells us she is a Macedonian Greek and it has nothing to do with her skin "tone" it has to do with understanding what the Ptolemaic dynasty even was, why Egypt was ruled by a large variety of cultures including black Pharaoh's aka enough diversity in their history that they didn't have to make one up. Many people from the actual country of Egypt are rghtly outraged by this change of *their history* to push what they perceive to be an afro-centric agenda that has been a prevailing issue in North-African -Sub-Saharan relations for DECADES.
The revision of history to fit modern political ideas and call it a documentary is a disgrace
Secondly, it does matter that Aragorn is a white dude because the entire point of the LOTR trilogy is an attempt by Tolkien to preserve and honor northern European mythology. It is our cultural legacy and all Africans and afro-descendants have their own mythologies that are worth telling and worth hearing. There could have been a million documentaries made about actually influent and powerful ancient Africans, and there could have been countless stories and movies set in an African setting, but few attempt it, most just try to represent by showing a color, instead of all the actual history, culture, struggles and mindsets that exist behind it.
Furthermore, Middle earth already has black and brown people, and it doesn't even make sense within its own story that Aragorn would be from one of those peoples.
You may not care about storytelling but most people do.
Lastly, you are completely wrong in your last point, you're saying "first those stories have to exist" and good ones as if there wasn't a bunch of custom made black characters AS POINTED OUT in the video you apparently didn't bother to watch.
It's only recently they started replacing instead of creating
@@antoinelachapelle3405 Correct, on her father's side it does say that. It is unknown what it says on her mother's side. So you could play around with race. The Macedonian Greek is also not 100% certain, given some wiggle room. Now, being upset about the historical inaccuracy of the rest of the known family is probably very fair.
Still, it's a historical docu-drama that takes creative liberties. It still is correctly labeled a documentary. Mis-representing a race does not change that.
On your second point, it clashes with your other point that there are already represented races, then saying it clashes with northern European mythology. Those don't go together. There's again, nothing wrong with representing him darker in a card with creative liberty. Literally nothing. You don't have to buy it! The accurate medium in your eyes already exists.
Further, this has *nothing* to do with storytelling. You can tell the same storytelling and have Aragorn be of a different skin. It might raise your eyebrow if that tone was purple, but the storytelling would largely remain the same. In the creative writing workshops I did when I was finishing my creative writing major, we would *never* say "Oh, you changed the skin tone in this classic story you are adapting, or changed the sex, you can't do that!". In fact, writers would probably celebrate the creative changes as it gives it a breath of fresh air.
Finally, it's a nice balance with executive decisions, who tend to play things safe to pocket and go for easy over risky money. Doing material already done is safe. Doing new material from unknown members is risky. In reality we should want more risky things, but we also must understand that there is an understandable aversion. To balance, we should both try to promote african american authors/script-writers where we can, but also be okay with race-swapping where appropriate. (I.E, race-swapping Mulan to Australian would have been crazy, unless you adapted the entire story to fit the Australian world.)
@@Vulpesune idk bout you but I don’t know many black people who are into lord of the rings. I do know tons of other peoples of a variety of ethnicities. I wanna know why even bother casting the character another race if the audience wasn’t the target goal?
@@Vulpesune Eh, the Ptolemaic royal line was pretty obsessed with "purity" and routinely practiced incest to maintain that, so were all pretty inbred. And Cleopatra was the first in her line that even bothered learning the local language instead of just speaking Greek. Chances are her mother was another member of the royal court, which was mostly of Macedonian descent. Either that or she was brought in from another part of the Greek-speaking world.
This video needs to be played everywhere till we get an answer
Imo the answer is, malicious compliance
Rather than do what's being asked, which is, equal opportunity for non-white actors (who are often rejected for roles of their race, such as Egyptian actors not being cast for Egyptian characters) they're just doing the reverse out of spite.
"Oh so you hate when a character is played by the wrong race hmmm? How about we do that MORE?"
And they act like they're supporting diversity.
Where the hell is Static Shock when you need him...
Don’t underestimate mental gymnastics you’d get
The answer is very simple.
Hollywood has been reusing the same stories for as long as it has existed. Now, they are reusing those same stories again, but this time with a new twist (black character instead of white). And eventually there will be another new twist (like if cyberpunk suddenly takes off and we start to see cyberpunk versions of the lord of the rings, or cyberpunk Cinderella, etc.)
Now obviously Hollywood can’t say that, because that’s admitting the product is low quality, and that would hinder sales. So instead they push a narrative that not only is this rehashing original (it is not) but in fact if you find it to be anything less than original and amazing, you’re the problem.
And enough people fall for it that it works and they make a profit. So they’ll keep doing it until it doesn’t work anymore.
😂 ikr 👍
@@mr.doctorcaptain1124 Fucking hell, what were they thinking?
As a black man I wholeheartedly agree with this. If they make John McClane black, I'm burning Hollywood to the ground myself.
I think he signed away his digital id and they are creating a deepfake of him where he can “act” endlessly, long after he is dead. We might get McClane movies til the end of time. Lol
What's the harm?
@@adamdavis1648 Why not create an entirely different character instead of a palette swap?
@Frank Whyte Jr. From what I've heard, sequels, remakes and other movies and TV shows that re-use pre-existing characters tend to make more money more reliably than new ideas.
@@adamdavis1648 Sounds lazy to me.
This is why I always create original black characters not race swap everybody.
I wanted their to be a superhero action comedy or family film with an all black cast and crew.
The worst part is exactly how many stories with existing black or racially unidentified characters exist that this race swapping is actually cutting out better stories that could be told. African mythology, First Nation Mythology, novels, comic book characters (I want my damn Static Shock movie!), Folktales, ect.
Not right now, they made him a BLM activist in the comics. I would love to him or Blacklighting with his family. Not comic book reader but saw shorts with him and his family, it was awesome.
Clearly youre not getting that "original" black stories arent making money.
Claudette Covin I’m willing to bet 87% of Americans don’t even know she came before Rosa parks. She was a pregnant 15 year old who stood her ground without being told to do so. Where is her movie at??? No offense to Rosa parks
@@fabiogarcia912 A movie about Claudette Colvin likely wouldn't get made because she would either be portrayed by an ambiguous black actor, which would enrage the black community, or it wouldn't get the funding at all because non-black people don't pay to watch movies about black protagonists based on box office numbers.
@@fabiogarcia912 The Civil rights leaders quietly paid her fines and talked Rosa Parks into duplicating the event. They thought trying to rally behind a teenage unwed mother would reflect badly on the movement. Keep in mind most of the civil rights leaders despite being considered 'radicals' on the issue of race were mostly conservative Christians on a lot of others. As for why her story isn't more well known, the people who supposedly care so much for these issues only really care about appearing to care. That's why we're starting to get the nonsense of people of various ethnic backgrounds who are the same ethnicity as the characters they are playing not being hard enough stereotypes of those ethnicities for the woke mobs.
“Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made.” JRR Tolkien and now look what they're doing to his work
Probably where they got the idea.
@@Overlord0011 dang 😂
It’s a fantasy novel get over it
@leo alcaraz it doesn't work that way.
@@leoalcaraz6153a fantasy that was deeply rooted in European folklore and its purpose was to make a mythology for England, in Tolkien's own words. If i make a mythological story based in China, would it feel as authentic to have a bunch of white and hispanic people in it? If i make a mythological story based in Africa and i make it full of Koreans and native Americans, would that feel authentic? If you're being honest, you'll understand my point. The 'its just a fantasy setting' is a bad argument. People just want adaptations to stay true to Tolkien's vision. If they wanted in-world representation they could cover the Easterlings or Haradrim, but no, a small quaint shire has to look as diverse as any street in modern Las Angeles otherwise its racist.
Ironically, the fount of all this corruption is... *BlackRock*
indeed
van guard as well
ESG scores being the thing they are using to manipulate / control certain corporations / businesses (sadly, all of this trickles down and effects regular people in various ways).
Black rock?
@@superpilotdude It's a multi-national investment company. Between them and Vanguard, they own the vast majority of major corporations.
isn't blackrock a PMC or guns company? Why would they want to wace-srap ? Unless they want a civil war which would be bad for biz
Race swapping is unacceptable regardless of colors. It's like when you're casting a blonde white chick to play Mulan or Pocahontas. We need ethnicities that represents the original native of the story or at least similar, if not exactly that ethnic. For example how they really put an Arab to play Aladdin and Naomi Scott though not arab but was still saved by her half indian blood and features to still has its brown similarly to Arab that made it acceptable to appear as Princess Jasmine.
Even black male lead characters in White Chicks have originality.
Imagine the horror and outrage if someone remade Malcolm X with a white man in the title role? Gary Oldman playing MLK? They would lose their minds!!!
i was thinking a musical comedy with jim carrey :)
@@procow2274 Malcolm X musical 🤣🤣 love it! what about Leonardo Di Caprio as Muhammed Ali?
They have already lost there minds and someone should do this to teach them a lesson. Like teaching a dog or any wild animal.
To be fair, if you wanted to have a white man play MLK, Oldman is good enough to pull it off…
As a black person I'd find it funny.
No one ever accused activists of being geniuses.
BINGO!
Boom
Allthough movie production coorporations are hardly 'activists' - they only see a way to make money on the back of other people this way.
I mean - creating controversial stuff first and formost creates clout. People talk about it, rant about it, get upset and a lot of other people want to see what the fuzz is all about...
Movie Corps are as activist as big retailers hoisting pride flags in June.
I wouldn't call a multimillionaire Hollywood corporation an "activist" they're just doing the quickest thing they can think of to make money. They're doing a very capitalist thing
no way you think disney is "listening to activists"
I think it's just pure spite. They want to destroy it because you like it. As you say there's plenty of well respected black actors who have portrayed iconic black characters, but the goal isn't to create new stuff you'll like, it's to destroy everything you love *because* you love it.
not cause they wanna prove they're diverse and not racist? i thought its them wanting to create a good image
@@mushroomexpress3049 No. That's just the cover story. Really what this is is a revolutionary vanguard movement.
@@michaelbuick6995 Pretty much.
@@michaelbuick6995 Vanguard, now where have I heard that name before?
@@chrismckell5353
Are you talking about the card game Vangaurd?
(It has an anime too)
It's also a bit ironic that in Shawshank Redemption they basically did a race swap with Morgan Freeman's character (for if I remember correctly in the original book he was white and Irish) but that didn't matter because Morgan was a skilled actor and played the character so well that its difficult to imagine the story of the movie without him, while in modern movies with race swaps both the acting and the characters suck.
As a black man in America, my opinion is that if you don’t see the problem with race-swapping existing characters with no thematic/story based or real reason, you need to ask yourself some hard questions
I think Hollywood has just become lazy at this point. Where are the new characters and stories specifically in America? They want to be diverse fine im okay with it but its becoming sad to see them not even try to break the mold of plots in stories that are being recycled and just switching the actors. Im starting to wonder if we aren't seeing a rapid decline in creativity in films.
Yeah they are basically telling you that original black character’s story are uninteresting and original white character’s story are more interesting so just paint that character black instead of creating original stories
@@hallooos7585No. Blacks are not the victim here. They are telling you that whites have no original creations, and that blacks are superior to whites. That's what blackwashing is. Black supremacy.
@@hallooos7585 dude could you please explain to me what's going on?why are whites not interested in the original movie portrayed by blacks are we witnessing this with the new men in black that's played by Chris Hemsworth???
@@franksinatra7336Tessa thompson was in MIB and shes black
“Evil cannot create anything new, they can only corrupt and ruin what good forces have invented or made.” J.R.R. Tolkien.
Gotta love the double standards of today's society...
If it wasn't for double standards, they wouldn't have any standards at all.
Fr like they be sitting like good boys when a black person does something bad but when a white does it they act like the world is about to end. And it's coming from a brown person.
@@my3dviews Explain further because this just doesn't click for me. i.e.- it's stupid
What double standards?
@@justchilling704double standard is basically when people make rules only to apply it to different groups of people in different ways unfairly I may add.
I think it's better to create unique characters rather than just race swap a character. It's just lazy to do that, in my opinion.
Imagine if Mulan was race-swapped to be black, or the characters in the Princess and the Frog were white. Of course these people would lash out, but say it's okay to blackwash.
There are so many memorable black characters in cinema, and especially historical figures. There is no need to race-swap. When you race-swap, you take away the culture of both the original and the new race. We don't hear much about African/black culture because people keep blackwashing European/white culture and ignoring African/black culture.
In the original 19th Century fairy story, the princess was indeed European, so probably white. Disney conflated that story with the lady in New Orleans upon whom they based their cartoon. In the actual original the frog was thrown against a wall to break the spell.
Dont go to the movies. Problem solved.
Disney wouldn't dare raceswap Mulan because China. Iger would sooner cut his own foot off than try to feed China chocolate.
I love black American blues, rnb, gospel, it's so soul stirring . Forgive me but I will not like anyone to change the character of the black actress who played the nanny of Scarlett O'Hara in "Gone with the wind
I love her acting play, she was so adorable, it shows that a talented person is above all the shit . What about the "western spaghetti ", little budget films but remain classics .Copycat is not art ,so sad that talented scriptwriter,etc,are not valued. The black actors/actress must choose good scripts or they' LL be ridiculed ,it'll be their fault ...🙀⭐
Don't fall for the "What if x were white" trap. You're assuming that the left has principles. They don't.
Exactly. They misinterpreted what people's problem with race swapping is. Will Smith was one of the most popular actors of all time, and growing up I never even saw him as a "black guy"... That is until Hollywood started shoving their social commentary into a movie every time we see another race. Like c'mon... Black Panther nobody said a thing about.
Literally this
Cap!
Stop making it seem like black people are the ones who are changing the race of characters when it’s not. Attack Hollywood not black people.
They didn't misinterpret anything. It's all by design.
I don't think they have misinterpreted anything. This is deliberate. As long as Hollywood can vomit out another remake with no effort and then blame "racist audiences" for how poorly the movie did in the box office.... they WILL.
If people tell you to not be mad that they race-swapped Aragorn because "it's a fantasy world." You tell them, "Then make your own original fantasy world and I won't complain."
That's true, I'm not upset that you have a black person as the main character, I'm upset that was basically the only thing you changed about the story. and want me to act like it's a whole new thing.
Better yet lets make another mlk movie or something and lets cast a white character. Better yet make mlk Mexican. Its just a movie get over it right 😅
@@CrossRoadsOfTimeand then they get mad when you bring it up and call you racist
I got some heavy backlash on a post to a You Tube video a few years back. After " The Avengers: Infinty Wars", where half of creation was dusted into oblivion...I thought it was ironic that Wakanda was a people without a king, and Thor was a king without a people. 🤯
Nah I don't think ppl who hate MTG aragorn is racist (some are but not all), i just think they're childish.
They're immature who want aragorn to be portrayed exclusively the way they envisioned it, not any other way.
You want to have your way but not let other ppl have their way.
I don't mind aragorn being white or black, i think it's inconsequential to his character. Just like how his beard is inconsequential to his character in the movies, despite it not being in the original books.
It's because they don't want black figures who gain clout and have sway, who can think for themselves and can actually teach their audience true values. Instead they want some disposable pawns they can control.
The problem is not raceswapping. It's the absence of original stories.
Bingo was his name-O!
Both are problematic in certain cases
Writers can't write I suppose haha. No originality at all these days.
It's both....
The problem is the 24 hour media cycle running out of content. So they fabricate drama for the sake of clicks. Then Hollywood who is out of touch with the real world and reacts to it turning into a circle jerk
They don't care about bigotry They want to keep us resenting one another so we don't unite as working people.
Just like all the people who resent others because those others dared to put blacks in media.
That is the communist way.
@@bertdog7639
Communism, historic from Marx, is unité of workers above difference , like all egalitarian ideology.
Wokism is antagonist to this.
@@jean-louispech4921 its communism. look at north korea. they have the masses, the "system" (police etc) and everyone hates everybody else.
and everyone will snitch on everyone to get ahead too.
thats exactly what happens today in hollywood.
communism rules through division. so they want to create division to rule
@@jean-louispech4921 that's the ideal communism. In practice, communist nations have historically committed industrial-scale genocide against minority populations about as bad as ww2 naziism.
It’s funny because fresh prince of bel air didn’t just affect on black folks but even other races. As a Hispanic, I love how uncle Phil gave us a lesson in some if not all episodes. And honestly if he was still alive and ready for a reboot but this time with his grandkids and grand niece/nephew, I guarantee you the black community today will call him a sellout or Uncle Tom. Let’s not forget that episode where Carlton was told he wasn’t black because he had a butler and uncle Phil said he got tired of it and started from the bottom to support his family.
Don't think they've been talking trash about Adrian Holmes's character...
Uncle Phil was a solid role model.
Right except for the fact that they were a nuclear family which iin itself is seen as racist and a symptom of white supremacy-the Smithsonian Institution said so…
I've been currently watching the show again, and I have huge respects for the character Uncle Phill
You’re wrong about the black community, everything else was ok. Speak on what you know.
I agree, except for you know, Ariel, because she’s a mermaid. And the fact her story is an adaptation of a old story, not the original story. And I’m pretty sure she was chosen for more than her race, mainly she was nominated for a Grammy and she had worked for Disney in the past, a big thing they do when casting these live action films. But I’m the others I mostly agree, though I also think the creator should have a say in what happens to their character, because they might not have an issue with it.
As a 21 year old black person, this one of yhe first videos on the internet to make me put my phone down and just reflect. You have definitely got a point.
Black people are week , they need help of white character to feel good 😂😂😂
no he doesn’t. the majority of actors in those generations were comedic characters. They also appealed to this monolithic view of blackness that essentially was just acting out racial stereotypes. Obviously not all the time but there is not a single character he named that didn’t engage with that. Furthermore race swapping is ok with white audiences when it’s historical figures like Ghengis khan,Othello,Ghost in the shell,Death Note. Also racists have always had a problem with black people in movies. remember when Rue was cast in the hunger games as black?
@@imoyabrax450 when it came out I was like 6 or something
You live a sad life if this is what made you reflect lmao
@@imoyabrax450Wow, let's use big words to hide our racism.
If someone made a white Mace Windu in a trading card game I‘d also be pissed.
White mace windu looks cool. i dont mind
@@meinkek7896 that would look incredibly dumb Sam Jackson has a look and feel about him I'd argue another black man couldn't even replace him
@@theVictor-isVonDoom i prefer peter dinklage mace windu
@@meinkek7896 Mace can't be shorter than Yoda
@@theVictor-isVonDoom why not? Are you being racist?
As a 14 year old mixed race male, I just wanna say, I know it’s my own generation, but I am still allowed to speak about these issues. This, to me, seems like one big publicity stunt. The current generation of people are trying to act like the progressive ones by acting SO RIGHTEOUS and like they’re the progressive ones when in reality, they’re the ones hurting progression. They love acting like they’re the heroes of humanity when the real heroes already fixed most problems DECADES ago. BTW in this case, I’m only talking about equality, just thought I’d clarify. Anyway, I’m 50% Mexican and 50% White, because my mother is Mexican and my father is White. Despite that, I mostly have my father’s looks, especially skin color. Because of that, people commonly think I’m a full white and also commonly treat like s**t. Someone once called me a member of that certain group who are against black people, that’s all I’m going to say about that. Even when I tell someone that I’m Mexican, they almost always doubt me and usually call me a white colonizing ______ (you can fill in the blanks in your head). When a white person says this, it’s seen as pathetic whining, so I’m going to say it flat out. Racism is Racism, regardless of who’s doing it to whom. White people can be racist, Black people can be racist, Mexicans can be racist, any race can be racist. Anyone who thinks otherwise, despite what they tell themselves and others, are racist, plain and simple.
TLDR: 90% of people today are hypocrites.
Thank you for this. This is really mature thinking for your age. Keep it up, and good luck mate
Smart kid
Ehrenmann.
Dude #
Keep it short +sweet
I’m so happy to see this.
When I think of equality, I think of both sides being treated equally, not superiority being handed to the other side. In my mind, a truly equal world is where no group, whether it be race, ethnicity, sexuality, gender, etc. gets special privileges or aid for things like college or employment. Nobody can pull a race or sex card when dealt with unfairness because by that point, race and sex doesn’t matter, it’s the person themselves at fault.
I'm Black and this shyt is goofy and offensive. It's mostly defended by folks who aren't Black and see us a purse puppies
Hollywood hasn’t had an original thought in years. That’s why we have 12 Fast and Furious movies.
To be fair it's a dump fun movies, and I rather watch Fast franchise than souless Disney live action.
Im not personally a fan of the Fast and Furious movies, but at this point its entierly about the nice cars lol.
@@Sure_You_Betcha pretty much yeah, i only like until Fast Furious 7. After that the story just a bit weird, like how a honda can actually go to space
They are fun though. But they ruin it soon enough with a female cast. They always manage to ruin movies limectgat if they don't happen to raceswap.
And then Disney weirdly almost got rid of an original black character, Cobra Bubbles. I have no idea what's going on in Hollywood. 🤷🏽♀️
I thought Disney was still on a weird to remake, remakes of popular fairy tails and folklore
A lot of sick people trying to stoke confusion, anger, and racial tension. They know exactly what they're doing.
What do you mean "got rid of"? 🤔
@Adam Davis They had originally cast a Hawaiian woman to play the social worker when they first announced the castings for the characters in the upcoming live action movie. There was a huge backlash, so they later said they casted a black man and changed some other castings that got complaints.
@@hope-cat4894 Interesting; I hadn't heard about that.
In my humble opinion the thing is: back in the day there were unique and cool black characters that were just cool ass humans. Nowadays it feels like, "see we got a black character and he's so cool cause he black. He's blacker than anyone else before him. He's as cool as another white character!" The emphasis by the media is always on something race related. People are tired of that. Let black, white, brown etc. characters portray whatever they want instead of trying to shove down an ideology into the audiences throat. ❤
Exactly.
Yeah exactly
You're right about that. Race-swapping helps with nothing and it's very lazy.
Besides, it's also illogical when some people say "it's not a big deal". Why?
Because if the race of an ESTABLISHED character is "not a big deal" then when you race-swap them, you really DO think it's "a big deal". So they're lying to themselves
Fun fact : Ariel the tv show had a black mermaid as a side character... just imagine the possibilities.
But no just race swap Ariel instead... f*ck y*u disney.
I hate to break this to you, but she’s a fucking mermaid, not a white or black woman.
Agreed wish Ariel was white just like original
@@christopherantonyjacob4794 Ah yes, everyone remembers the story about the mermaid whose ancestors came from the caucuses.
@@BH-te5fs you must be black
Exactly, and Gabriella was such an interesting character, with so much potential to tell her story and the story about mermaids from the Ivory Coast where she lived. They really missed a chance here.
I'm a white woman in my early 30s. One of my first celebrity crushes as a child was on Will Smith. Some of my favorite actors throughout my life have been black - pretty much every actor most famous in the 80s, 90s, and early 00s shown in this video. My entire life I've thought Madge Sinclair (Eddie Murphy's mother on Coming to America and the voice of Simba's mother on The Lion King) was one of the most regal, queen-like women I'd ever seen.
This push for divisive ideology is so toxic and it's ruining our country. Racism was dying. It wasn't gone, no. It'll never be truly gone as long as freedom of thought exists. But it certainly was not acceptable to be openly racist. Now it's suddenly okay, as long as it's aimed toward white people. Someone with a lot of power decided racism needed to make a comeback, and what better way then to set us all against each other. Make white people angry by normalizing hatred of white people who didn't do anything to deserve it. This country is so sick. We need to find unity and let it bring us together before it's too late.
Thank you. I don't understand why people are falling for this stuff. People don't realize that divide and conquer is a real thing. They make it about race while in reality it's about wealth. so sad to see this in my lifetime. God bless you 🙏
If you looked back, it started with Obama, the most divisive high office holder. Everything is weaponized from governmental agencies to Hollywood.
Cringe, why, just why? Its not all people sympetatic to dark skin colors like u karen, grow up
oh my god YES!!!!! EXACTLY!!!!! i think it’s fucking sick and twisted and it’s basically saying that one race is superior than another (which is not true at all. it doesn’t matter the color of your skin, as long as you have good character, which is what MLK basically said) somehow white people are the assholes for just simply existing and it’s suddenly totally fine to hate white people. i don’t get it. it makes me really sad that america is SO divided. it’s certainly not doing any good. it’s fucking ridiculous honestly and i really don’t like it at all. i’m only 21 but i just know that this stuff isn’t right
it makes me sick that they even justify it with "white people did worse with blacks so this is revenge"
people who generalize a certain gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality, etc. as one personality and begin discriminating them are hypocrites. and alot of people praise them for it
"You don't deserve a new pair of shoes, you just deserve used ones.
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💯
exactly, I'm so done with people saying it's racist to not want characters to be race swapped, like bruh if anything you're being racist for thinking that giving black people leftovers instead of actual representation is ok, it's never ok to race swap an already existing character for "representation" it's lazy and insulting too
Funny, I said the other day it's like "We can't give you your own shoes but someone who feels bad for you will find you somebody's used ones".
Should start casting white people as Rosa Parks and Gandhi if it’s truly ‘equal’
Um Ben Kingsley is half white
@@olivegreenpants7153 Ben Kingsley kind of looks like Gandhi and is a good actor. We shouldn't push "it must be an indian actor", either. Isn't there a road inbetween?
I want to see more original black characters like before. Black people deserve better representation than just race swapping. That’s why Black Panther and the Princess and the Frog were good movies.
Black Panther was garbage
Hi ! Sorry for the precision but The Princess and the Frog is a popular fairytale in many european countries. It is not an original piece of work...
Black Panther was a mid movie which is a *huge* shame because the character was *so* frickin cool in Civil War
@@microvvaveovenHello, dont want to start an argument, but Black Panther is one of my absolute favorite in the MCU and is better than Civil War imo. It is just so amazing and powerful to me! Have not seen the new one so i can't comment there.
RIP Chadwick Boseman...
@@gentrydean3789 Its okay if u like terrible movies. I love some terrible movies too. But it doesnt make them any good. Imo black panther is one of the worst mcu movies. Actually the whole mcu is quite average.
static shock has been deserving of his own movie for over a decade but let’s make johnny storm black and adopted
Yes thats right. But considered how plenty of of old works remake, I think Static shock should be left alone or woke or whatever will ruin it
At least black Johnny Storm has a reason to be black 🔥
@@remc0s johnny storm and sue storm are brother and sister. then they shoulda made sue storm black too.
RIGHT?!? I’ve always thought Static Shock deserved a live-action TV show!
@@remc0s the logical move was to either make sue storm also black, or make reed richards black. but let’s be real the studio doesn’t want 2 black leads, and they definitely also don’t want reed richards to be black and sue storm to be white because hollywood does not make interracial couples with a black man and a white woman unless the struggles of their interracial relationship is the focus of the story.
Well Hollywood hacks aren't very creative. Better to leech of a existing IP. Then be creative and take risks.
Bingo!
Like when they cast ScarJo in Ghost in the Machine?
Or when they cast Jerry Lewis as an asian man?
Or when they cast liz taylor as cleopatra?
Plus apparently some writers don't even bother to do research like Station 13 and other Firefighter shows with the most nonsensical plots ever. I know writers are needed for shows. But just because they work hard, doesn't mean they're immune to criticism or being fired.
It's at least as much about money as lack of creativity. Existing IP makes money more reliably.
@@maz031Totally! I love how Last Week Tonight called out Hollywood whitewashing. I also love how some stories are passed over because they’re too Black, Brown, etc. But nothing can be too white.
I'm white and I wanted to grow up to be "Whitney Houston in the Bodyguard" 🤣 They don't have to put so much thought in it I think we all agree. A star is a star, a cool character is a cool character, a cool historical person etc. 🤭 I can't wait to see the African movie industry rise.
Fresh Prince and family matters were pretty much everybodys favorite TV shows in the 90s...... Black actors were killing it in the 70s 80s and 90s not sure why they say they are under represented
Victim mentality and the decline of the family unit entered the chat.
We even had the better black live action princess in the 90s.
I can't be the only one who remembers Brandy as Cinderella? And that movie looked way better with a fraction of the LM's budget.
Exactly man. And not a lot of black actors and directors are actually going into serious films most make gangster films and comedies so i dont know why they expect to have multiple oscars every year. Only a small portion of black actors are actually taking in serious roles and are serious about it and most of this black actors by percentage have won more recognition. I mean jordan peele has shown that a black director is needed if they truly want represention. Why would they demand representation if most directors are white and most of their script will obviously revolve into something they can relate too which is being white. They just want to demand without actually doing the work. This is literally entitlement.
Because they haven‘t been that much in the 00s and 10s…?
I don’t know what happened to make people change. But when I was a kid I watched Family Matters and Fresh Prince. I saw people struggling with life and families coming together. I never once thought while watching Family Matters, “Black.” But now you have to make a show and have color, or the color experience, be the reason why you are making the show. The 90s sitcom formula didn’t care what the actors looked like, it cared that there was a positive message. I think that is why something like Ted Lasso is successful. But nowadays you get crime dramas hand over fist. We get it there is crime, but 20 crime shows a week? Seems excessively negative.
Fun fact: Lando Calrissian was initially intended to be a replacement for Han Solo.
Apparently Haarison Ford didn't want to return to the role, so Han was frozen and Lando was brought in, introduced as a new potential love interest for Leia and even wearing Han's clothes in the end of Empire Strikes Back
I liked Lando, thought he was cool.
Dude was literally wearing Han's clothes and driving his car, er, flying his ship at the end of the movie.
Gotta love how Aragorn in the books is described as quite literally the opposite of black in every visual way
I saw someone try to make the argument that white people cannot have dark, shaggy hair.
@@Cloudstrife112233 Well then someone in my family has some explaining to do.
@@Cloudstrife112233 what????
May I know which part of the books shows his skin color? I like the movies but I don't see myself reading the books any time soon
@@charless3108I don't read the books much, but Tolkien described Aragorn as
"Pale with a stern face"
Wesley Snipes as Blade blew my pale white mind ❤ I watched it a thousand times and didnt realize he was black, he was BLADE
Anne Boleyn was a real person who actually existed. Cleopatra as well. Might want to take that into account.
Anne Bolyn was English, and Cleopatra was Ptolemaic Greek with Macedonian ancestry. Neither of these women were black. Portraying them as black women is literally rewriting history.
At least with Cleopatra if they wanted to engage in ethical minority representation they could've cast an Egyptian or Greek actress in the role, but with Anne Boleyn there's literally no excuse.
@@tabutog Anne Boleyn was english and Cleopatra was macedonian, your uneducated
@@rambolambo93 have you seen kings and gods?? every character is white 😂 yet it's set in ancient Egypt
@Tab07 open a history book about the Greek world, Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian, let alone black. She's descended from on of Alexander the Greats generals who ended up ruling Egypt, and they were Greeco-Macedonian
@@headbackshot1524 egyptians are pretty white in real life. They arent Sub-Saharan africans
It's not about uplifting one group, it's about bringing down another.
You think us black people wanted this no when I went to see the new little mermaid there were so many racist white people who kept saying racist things im never going to another movie with race swapping
If they race swap a character you are racist if you dislike it. If you race swap yourself you are considered racist for blackface lol. I wonder how badly they would lose their minds if people started turning up to the theaters in blackface to 'support' the 'improved' characters?
You do understand what blackface was, right? Whyte actors playing black characters and getting paid for it. Wow!!!
You had a point until you didn’t.
@@spongebobmiscellaneous No, he has a point, "white chick".
But you can gender swap yourself, win female athletic competitions, and not be a misogynist.
These rules are weird.
@Chryssesandchaos a movie who whole plot is about black men dressing up a white women isn't the same as white actors wearing black face to play black characters lol. Nevertheless, I could careless about White Chicks or Tropical Thunder RDJ playing a white man playing a black character. It is apart of the movie plot.