Posted on 06/06/2016 6:30:19 PM PDT by ghosthost
But it was the casting of Olivier Award-winning black actress Noma Dumezweni as grown-up bookworm Hermione Granger that caught most media outlets’ attention; in the films, Granger is played by white actress Emma Watson.
“I had a bunch of racists telling me that because Hermione ‘turned white’ — that is, lost color from her face after a shock — that she must be a white woman, which I have a great deal of difficulty with,” Rowling told the Observer in a recent interview. “But I decided not to get too agitated about it and simply state quite firmly that Hermione can be a black woman with my absolute blessing and enthusiasm.”
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Whatever - I just hope the play is good whenever it finally gets to the West Coast.
Well, she started going full Marvel Comics by making Dumbledore gay after the fact.
Maybe Hermione is really a Skrull with magic powers too?
Here is my favorite scene from "The Martian," when the black Astrodynamics whiz kid (cough-cough) uses his math skills and confirms his computations with the NASA supercomputer so he can save the mission. He is seen pitching his genius idea to the black head of NASA (cough- I really need a lozenge for this cough
She does this to push her agenda, and she does this to create controversy out of thin air. She is the worst kind of projectionist, as well. I would hate to be the one plowing her in the sack in each successive, exceedingly rare, "once in a while". She would be a hellbeast to be married to...the kind of woman that Sam Kinison warned us about.
Maybe Rowling writes good Youth books. I have not read any. But her mystery novel for adults is the most boring novel I have ever read. I only completed it because I was part of a discussion group. She wrote it under another name, and critics tore it apart. It flopped until it was suddenly revealed it was by her, the "adored" Rowling. Only then it started selling.
So Rachel Dolezal is the new Hermione ?
*** Where’s LeHarrius Potter and deQuan Weasely? ***
Okay, that made me laugh out loud.
In Hollyweird, Negroes are "magic."
It’s a school for magic. Maybe they also teach skinwalking and shape shifting as a graduate course.
Exactly. No one would care if she had initially conceptualized Hermione as black.
What everyone’s rolling eyes about now is this PC, virtue-signaling ret-conning of Hermione as black when she was white before, combined with the bull**** lawyering comments like “white skin was not specified.”
I think she needs more iodized salt.
Brown frizzy hair...but is she clever?
** So Rachel Dolezal is the new Hermione ? **
You and Two Kid’s Dad are cracking me up.
I was gonna say more shoe polish, because, hey, if you're gonna go full Al Jolson, go all out. At least she got Gene Wilder's Jewfro pretty well down pat.
Look, it’s magic, OK? Hermione can turn black or white at will, with the right spell or potion or whatever. Anything can happen with magic.
Sam Kinison?
You still think about that sack of lard loser?
(May he rest in peace).
I saw Emma Watson at some function and she magically made her underwear disappear and you could see Hermione.
when I was a child in catholic grammer school and as a reader then & up ‘til now....
One time in my own little grammar school mind i asked myself in my reading mind do people of color have these same experiences. I never voiced it to my grammar school teachers nor my english lit teachers in high school not even in college
I always felt writing transcended race & still do.
J.K.R. RUINED the last books with a totally unnecessary ,and last minute ,revealing of Dumbeldore as homosexual. Just a transparent attempt to be politically correct. A black Hermione after we saw a white Hermione in seven movies is just more nonsense.
Another author just ruined the Miles Vorkosigan series by making his father bisexual despite no hint of such deviant behavior in 20 years of previous books.
Suddenly every book and TV show has to have the full spectrum of weirdos while the normal people are cast as villains or ignoramuses.
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