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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That IS a racist statement. What the heck is wrong with these people?
Luther is a great series. I watched the first season on Netflix.
Sounds like racial stereotyping to me...
But did he vote for Biden?
Wouldn’t a Brit eating Caribbean food be cultural appropriation?
“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.”
What Klan? The KKK? There are only 5 of them. Three of them work for the SPLC and the other two for the FBI.
Obviously, there is no Klan to speak of. I was being facetious, pointing out the absurdity of our current racial dialogue and how that dialogue and the expectations it sets is such an incredible departure from where expectations had been established by the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.
We’ve gone from trying to make people live their lives in the absence of judging people by skin color and racial tropes to demanding that people live their lives based on nothing but skin color and racial tropes.
“If he had black friends and ate Caribbean food, they would have screamed racist stereotyping! “
100% accurate !!
Sounds like this person’s concept of “a Black” is “an American Negro from the hood.”
Was his portrayal of the MCU Norse deity Heimdall “white” enough, or not acceptable to these bigots?
Oh, wait, she left him for some white dude ....
Nevermind.
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