and Oz...
Posted on 01/18/2016 8:11:13 AM PST by rktman
Beloved detective Nancy Drew is returning to TV - but she'll look different from how fans remember. American network CBS is pledging that the new Nancy Drew won't be white.
At the Television Critics Association press previews last week, the head of the CBS entertainment division, Glenn Geller, told reporters his network wanted to focus on diversity, including shows designed around characters who were black and Latino.
"We're not casting colour-blind, we're casting colour-conscious," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
Isn’t that cultural appropriation?
I’ll wait for the ghetto-ALF to arrive from South Mars.
Crime in the black community? Or a nice white suburb that needs to be saved by the detective of color?
Black George Washington and Abraham Lincoln next ?
So when is a white dude gonna play little black Sambo?
I give it six weeks.
So, I guess we must celebrate them!
Baby steps for CBS, The new Nancy Drew should be a transgender male teenager sleuthing around in full burka.../huge sarc
How did that Black “Annie” movie work out?
Does this mean we’ll see an All-White reboot of “Good Times”?
and Oz...
Get rid of your racist, sexist prejudices!
Cast the New Nancy Drew with an LGBT chimpanzee!
“Dingbats of the World Unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains (sanity?)!”
My biggest problem with this is that I originally read my Mom’s old Nancy Drews, and they were the 1930s version. A Black Nancy Drew wouldn’t really work in the 1930s without a LOT of changes. And I can’t really get my mind around a Nancy in 2016....sigh
Hmmm. Maybe a x-gendered individual with some sort of mental incapacity who overcomes obstacles to solve crimes?
I read somewhere that she was going to be Asian-American.
I think that’s cool.
Bomb. I guess. I don’t know anybody that saw it. Obviously. :>)
Instead of co-opting white fictional characters and re-writing them as black characters as a sop to the politically correct, why not create original black fictional characters that can be established in popular culture in their own right?
My rule on race is pretty simple. If the casting is color-conscious for any reason other than making the characters match their plot-relevant backgrounds, I will not be watching. If the scriptwriters/directors care about race in a manner that is not relevant to the plot, that by definition harms the story, and I'll pass.
I thought it was “The Whiz”. In either case, I missed the live version last month dang it. And no, don’t send me a link to a video of it. :>)
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