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1 posted on 04/09/2024 3:09:13 PM PDT by Twotone
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To: Twotone

A white playing a black role is racist? Yet a black playing a white role is not?

https://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Culture/romeo-juliet-play-starring-tom-holland-francesca-amewudah/story?id=109012746


2 posted on 04/09/2024 3:15:05 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (A truth that’s told with bad intent, Beats all the lies you can invent ~ Wm. Blake)
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To: Twotone

Wild idea, but maybe if you’re a non-actor as well?


3 posted on 04/09/2024 3:17:46 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Twotone

In theatrical endeavors imitation is a form of flattery.


4 posted on 04/09/2024 3:19:52 PM PDT by Wuli ( )
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To: Twotone
"If you're an actor, you should do anything you want to do."


5 posted on 04/09/2024 3:22:28 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Twotone

When Billy Crystal was a cast member on Saturday Night Live, there was a routine he did a couple of times where he played an elderly Black blues singer, sitting on the front steps telling stories. The makeup job they did on him was incredible. He did not look like a White man in blackface. If you didn’t know who it was, you would think you were looking at an elderly Black man.


7 posted on 04/09/2024 3:29:58 PM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: Twotone

Bill Crystal’s Sammy Davis Jr. impression was priceless.


8 posted on 04/09/2024 3:42:08 PM PDT by T. Rustin Noone (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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To: Twotone

Williams makes a good point.

In reality, everyone COULD walk around 24 hrs a day and be pissed off. Everyone has stuff in their lives and past that they could fixate, overthink and obssess upon. Everyone.

And that would just make society completely unliveable.

The dems/libs/socialists run on negativity, division and hatred 24/7. They have to, as they use the hegelian dialectic for everything, which by default makes the status quo evil/awful in order to incrementally push their goals. There is always an enemy with them, so they constantly push that and also push their bs victimhood/false oppression garbage to foster the hatred and amp up their minions. So even when caught lying they rationalize by “the end justifies the means”.


9 posted on 04/09/2024 3:42:25 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Twotone

“When Black Celebrities Wore Blackface” -

https://daily.jstor.org/when-black-celebrities-wore-blackface/


15 posted on 04/09/2024 4:14:30 PM PDT by 1FreeAmerican
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To: Twotone
Billy Dee Williams is a class act. Can't remember him stirring up any controversies. He's had an amazing acting career and is in amazing shape both physically and mentality. Still handsome at the age of 87 year.
16 posted on 04/09/2024 5:08:58 PM PDT by CaptainK ("If life's really hard, at least its short")
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To: Twotone

Nobody got exercised when Eddie Murphy or the Wayans brothers wore “white face” for roles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_LeJfn_qW0

When Murphy did it on SNL, they even called it “comedy.”

(a lot of) black folks spend their days looking for something to get riled about.


19 posted on 04/09/2024 5:52:32 PM PDT by Paal Gulli
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