Did you read it right??
ROGER MOORE to play the detective SHAFT??
Of course not. SHAFT was black. Roger Moore is NOT BLACK.
But tell the world that some black guy shouldn't play James Bond, and yo, watch yo ass, sucka!
No Moore, Roger. If you wanna stay alive, watch yo white ass, you Lily White pasty face. Rememba, da Niggas can say whut they please, in any DIO-LEK they please, 'cuz they be the meeeenoritty.
'Cept they act like the gestapo. Or the majority. Or as if they've all got guns and knives and are ready to RIOT.
We've been through this territory before.
It's called reverse racism, kiddies, and it is BULLSHIT. It's STUPID. It's OBNOXIOUS. It's ANNOYING.
Just yesterday, fat, pudgy, dopey-looking WHITE Will Ferrell premiered his new movie, "Get Hard," playing a fat, pudgy, dopey-looking WHITE guy. Ha! He has too much money and needs to be abused and humiliated for 90 minutes by a smarter BLACK guy (played by the latest Eddie Murphy, Kevin Hart).
Now THAT is entertainment.
No wonder things are actually WORSE than ever. Consider the stink made at this year's Academy Awards because, by some quirk, there weren't a dozen fucking movies about slavery or Dr. King or some pious old guy Morgan Freeman could play, or some brilliant acting job from Jamie Foxx or Will Smith.
IF I'M BEING HONEST, I fucking hate this stupid type of affirmative action garbage.
It gets truly ridiculous when plays that happen to be written about white people, in eras and locations that were white, HAVE to feature ETHNICS in the cast, no matter how distracting, and no matter how much it strains credulity.
Oh, sure, Wing Foo was part of the Russian ghetto and should be one of the daughters in "Fiddler on the Roof." Right, right, Abira Bafukka al-Habeeb should be playing Ralph Rackstraw in "HMS Pinafore" because Her Majesty the Queen most certainly had Muslims aboard. BUT...it does NOT work the other way. You will NOT see a starving WHITE or ASIAN actor get cast in "Raisin in the Sun." How come, Ms Casting Directress? There aren't any white raisins? No cumquats either? "Of course not. It's an ALL BLACK SHOW. Stay out of it!"
If you go to a SOUL FOOD restaurant you won't see a WHITE WAITRESS. She won't be hired to serve Chow Fon at LEE HO FUK's either. And she can't get a job at Halal Hummus Palace. But you damn well should expect a black waitress at the Kosher Deli, right? BUT...a black waitress is going to file a lawsuit and make a few million off the owner of a Grman restaurant. Racism! Meanwhile he shrugs and says "customers want the ambiance of authentic old Bavaria...why can't I hire blond girls with braided hair, and pink-faced jackasses in leiderhosen??"
Yes, I think at this point we have the good sense to expect that the next Charlie Chan would be played by an Asian or a Hawaiian.
We should welcome and enjoy watching movies about the struggles and triumphs of different races and religions. But I don't want to see WILL FUCKING SMITH as one of the holocaust victims in "Schindler's List" or Neil Patrick Harris starring as Erin Brockovich, or anyone who isn't WHITE and BRITISH playing BOND (James Bond). You want to gag-cast 7 drag queens to play the seven brides in a revival of "7 Brides for 7 Brothers?" Fine. We can all do with a laugh. But let's get serious about ethnic pride. It works both ways. You want people to have pride in YOUR fucking race or religion? Then have some for the other side, too. James Bond is white and British. Shaft is black and American. Whoever has a problem with that is an IDIOT.
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