Posted on 01/13/2023 3:18:18 PM PST by RandFan
A new audiobook is being feverishly promoted by Amazon’s bottomless wallet, a familiar classic with an unexpected twist. It’s the iconic Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, yet the artwork and accompanying promotional materials reveal that this young Oliver is black.
It’s the latest instance of a seemingly insatiable desire to replace white characters from classic tales with black figures. Even Anne Boleyn (of King Henry VIII fame) was not immune to diversification. In any event, something seems different about this attempt in particular. It’s not merely a snippet of culture that is being stolen and trampled for political reasons, when the reverse would never be permitted.
Oliver Twist was a fictionalized account of a true story—that of poor white kids, struggling to survive, with few real opportunities to better their condition. It presents a truth that some seek to bury. Modern academia, with the help of popular media, paints a picture in which poor white people did not and do not exist.
As the academic and cultural elites would tell it, history is a tale of oppression, and the Haves and Have-Nots are readily discernible, for they can be recognized on racial grounds. Thus, white children have a myriad of opportunities and are reducible to their race alone as a descriptor of their personhood.
Simply, the person is reduced to “a white child,” devoid of the details; the truths that underlie his own pains and sorrows are submerged beneath his “whiteness.” Whatever his battles may be, he is simply a white child, who is therefore more advantaged than some other racial groups. It is this judgment that denies him human dignity, a dignity which can only come from the acknowledgment that each man is created in the image and likeness of God and that no life is without suffering.
(Excerpt) Read more at crisismagazine.com ...
It’s okay, because only white people can commit cultural appropriation and erasure.
I can’t find this black Oliver Twist in a search.
There seems to be a 2007 video where Nancy? is black.
If true, you gotta be kidding me.
‘Twould seem that there is but one culture that the left wants to appropriate. Wonder why?
Only A Pawn In Their Game——Bob Dylan, 1964
(It was meant to say the teaching that the “negro” is inferior leads the white politicians to gain greater white votes. However, the later entitlements, affirmative action reverse discrimination, set asides and quotas mean the ploy hurt the whites more, despite Bob Dylan’s 1964 intention in the song.)
For the politician’s gain
As he rises to fame
And the poor white remains
On the caboose of the train
But it ain’t him to blame
He’s only a pawn in their game.
The deputy sheriffs, the soldiers, the governors get paid
And the marshals and cops get the same
But the poor white man’s used in the hands of them all like a tool....
Only a pawn in their game.
*sigh*
My wife started watching Bridgerton on Netflix. Every time I come in and its on, I’m surprised by how many Black and Indian royals and other blue bloods there were in England during that time period.
I would do the same with a show about tribal Africa which featured White people. And what passes for Negro culture today is just whining about Whites. Whites invented the Internet, TVs, movies, light bulbs, radio: in short, the whole of the modern world. They help themselves to White inventions and culture without so much as a "thank you".
I smell BS just checked Amazon, no black Oliver twist book
Navin Johnson weeps....
Oliver Twist Audible Logo Audible Audiobook – Original recording
Took about 30 seconds to find it.
“Modern academia, with the help of popular media, paints a picture in which poor white people did not and do not exist.”
Well, at least they won’t be remaking “The Beverly Hillbillies” with a black cast. We’ll always have Jethro and Ellie Mae.
Umbrella?
Pointed shoes?
Waste coat and trousers?
The Story of Little Black Sambo is a children's book written and illustrated by Scottish author Helen Bannerman and published by Grant Richards in October 1899. As one in a series of small-format books called The Dumpy Books for Children. The story was a children's favorite for more than half a century.
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Why would he not have those things?
Forgot to say, the same picture is at the article’s link.
Thanks
You’re welcome. Just weird to see what idiocy people come up with.
Anne Boleyn? You mean they let them behead a sistah! Must be racisses!
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