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Who Can Play a Mixed-Race Role?
Townhall.com ^ | June 5, 2015 | Michelle Malkin

Posted on 06/05/2015 4:45:32 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 06/05/2015 4:45:33 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Nachum
Why not turn the question on its head: Would a black SNL actor be white enough to play Obama?

Didn't the last SNL guy to mock Obola die under "mysterious circumstances"?

2 posted on 06/05/2015 5:07:05 AM PDT by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: Kaslin; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; GOPsterinMA; stephenjohnbanker; Clintonfatigued; NFHale

It’s called “acting”, retards. It’s pretend.

Was it racist against Russians to have the Scot Sean Connery play one in “The Hunt for Red October”?

A Black girl played “Annie”.


3 posted on 06/05/2015 5:07:14 AM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Impy

Then there were the cowboys and Indians where all of the Indians were white


4 posted on 06/05/2015 5:13:54 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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To: bert

John Wayne as Genghis Khan was inspired casting.


5 posted on 06/05/2015 5:38:20 AM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Kaslin

Crowe should have told them if he wanted to cast the part with an Irish woman in blackface and pigtails that was his business and either watch the movie or don’t. People must stand up to the identity politics nonsense.


6 posted on 06/05/2015 5:45:59 AM PDT by bk1000 (A clear conscience is a sure sign of a poor memory)
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To: Kaslin

The only Eurasian actor I know of is Keanu Reeves, and he looks pretty white.


7 posted on 06/05/2015 5:45:59 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady
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To: Kaslin
I saw the movie...Emma Stone did a real good job, in what was a pleasant couple of hours. It did feature Hawaiian scenes, culture, and history, so the gripes seem insane.

Think about where this leads. "Cinderella" should not have had blacks if there were no blacks in the courts at the portrayed time. Gays, straights, and trans-genders should only portray those with the same identities. Anyone playing HS students should be that age. etc.

Is anyone thinking of the logical outcome of their demand for authenticity? Come to think of it, I'd be all for it if they stopped it with the token minority actors in places where they wouldn't show up in real life.

End of this rant

8 posted on 06/05/2015 5:46:44 AM PDT by grania
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To: bert

Iron Eyes Cody?


9 posted on 06/05/2015 5:47:51 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (BINGO!)
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To: Impy; Kaslin; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; stephenjohnbanker; Clintonfatigued; NFHale

But it’s not pretend to them, it’s their propaganda, their dream, for what they want the world to look like.


10 posted on 06/05/2015 5:49:22 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: Kaslin
Native Hawaiians wanted a Native Hawaiian cast in the role

And just how much money did these Native Hawaiians have invested in the freaking movie? STFU!

11 posted on 06/05/2015 6:00:12 AM PDT by Feckless (The US Gubbmint / This Tagline CENSORED by FR \ IrOnic, ain't it?)
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To: bert

Those movie Indians weren’t white, they were Sicilian.

;^)


12 posted on 06/05/2015 6:06:31 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: elcid1970
Those movie Indians weren’t white, they were Sicilian. ;^)

Don't ever tell a Sicilian she's not white, nor a Canadian, Frenchman, Spaniard . . . and especially not a Russian -

13 posted on 06/05/2015 6:24:23 AM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: A_perfect_lady

Dean Cain, too. (Real name Dean George Tanaka, he is of French Canadian, Irish, Welsh, and Japanese extraction.)

Regards,


14 posted on 06/05/2015 6:31:28 AM PDT by VermiciousKnid (Sic narro nos totus!)
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To: Kaslin

Such nuttiness has been underway for awhile. Remember when Disney’s Pocahontas cartoon came out, all the VOICE actors for Indians had to be real Indians.


15 posted on 06/05/2015 6:58:51 AM PDT by Demiurge2 (Define your terms!)
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To: atc23

Holy smoke, I forgot that this is a joke-free zone!

It used to be, though, that a large percentage of movie-extra Indians were of Sicilian background.


16 posted on 06/05/2015 6:59:42 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: bert

Or “Iron Eyes Cody” who was a Sicilian.


17 posted on 06/05/2015 7:04:12 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: elcid1970

Phillipinos too.


18 posted on 06/05/2015 7:58:43 AM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: Kaslin

Aren’t these Hollywood types the same ones who promoted the TV Cinderella version with Brandy as Cinderella and a Philipinno actor as the Prince who was a son of Whoopi Goldberg and a Euro-American actor? Whitney Houston was the fairy Godmother.


19 posted on 06/05/2015 8:00:21 AM PDT by Gumdrop
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To: bert

That’s how it was played on my block as a kid in the 50’s.


20 posted on 06/05/2015 9:11:58 AM PDT by Pecos (What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.)
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