Posted on 04/14/2021 3:53:41 AM PDT by C19fan
The BBC's diversity chief has claimed Idris Elba's TV detective Luther 'isn't black enough to be real' because 'he doesn't have any black friends and doesn't eat any Caribbean food'.
Miranda Wayland said the hit crime drama, which won plaudits for having a strong, black lead character, was only superficially diverse and that corporation bosses are now looking to portray minority groups in a more convincing and rounded way.
Elba, who first made his name across the Atlantic starring as Stringer Bell in The Wire, cemented his status as a worldwide star by picking up a Golden Globe, among other gongs, for his depiction of the obsessive John Luther between 2010 and 2019.
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I guess Luther needs to drink Colt 45s and listen to rap too.
I’m so racist. When I watched Luther, I only saw a detective.
And smoke Newports or Kools.
To be fair, he’s a Brit, so it shouldn’t be Colt 45 or my smokes, but their ghetto equivalent.
The left are see everyone as fitting a stereotype! Drives me crazy!
I wonder what they would think of The Chinese Detective.
This is the level of stupid you get when you hire low IQ people to become more ‘diverse’
I did too. I love Luther. He was a man. Thank God they made it before the diversity nut came along.
Idris Elba is racist.
So much for Idris ever being James Bond.
Idris isn’t Denzel, but he’s a good, solid actor.
To be authentically Black, he need to be ghetto.
Is working at the BBC considered black enough?
“TV detective Luther ‘isn’t black enough to be real’ because ‘he doesn’t have any black friends and doesn’t eat any Caribbean food’.”
A racist and stereotyping attitude.
Next season the writers will make sure he eats fried chicken and watermelon, right?
/S
2019 = Racial tropes are racist.
2021 = Racial tropes are anti-racist.
I’m not saying the Klan is behind all this, but if it turns out they are, what has happened the last 24-months sure makes a whole lot more sense.
And the amusing thing is.....
If he had black friends and ate Caribbean food, they would have screamed racist stereotyping! 😱
Just no winning with these lunatics.
“ The left are see everyone as fitting a stereotype! Drives me crazy!”
They compartmentalize everyone into their own solitary “group” based on skin color, ethnic origin, and preference of perversion, and then complain about stereotypes. It boggles my mind as to how theirs must work.
Today’s Beeb saying that it’s not diverse enough is like saying water isn’t wet enough.
Further proof that Enoch Powell was right.
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