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Critic Complains That Show Set in 1500s Japan Didn't Have Any Black Characters
Western Journal ^ | 3/15/23 | Michael Austin

Posted on 03/15/2024 10:56:46 AM PDT by Impala64ssa

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To: TexasFreeper2009
Re: "Nearly all scientists are black in movies now..."

My first recollection of a brilliant Black engineer or scientist was Barney in Mission Impossible (1966).

They had a still photo of Barney holding a slide rule.

Most Americans under age 40 do not even know what a slide rule is!

Also, in current day USA TV ads, 50% of the couples are Black male/white female.

They do get one thing right - a solid majority of white males are not attracted to Black women.

The flip side of that, a solid majority of white males are clearly interested in Asian females, but most Asian women have very little interest in white males.

I live in a suburb of Seattle that is 40% Asian.

Asian/white couples here are almost all Asian male/white female.

41 posted on 03/15/2024 1:01:39 PM PDT by zeestephen (Trump "Lost" By 43,000 Votes - Spread Across Three States - GA, WI, AZ)
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To: Impala64ssa

What? no Blackapanese?


42 posted on 03/15/2024 1:02:48 PM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: DeplorablePaul
DEI only applies to one group of people - this crap started during the Obama years, so there's the clue.
43 posted on 03/15/2024 1:28:38 PM PDT by Major Matt Mason (To solve the Democrat problem, the RINO problem must first be solved.)
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To: Impala64ssa

There were black people in Japan at that time? Who knew!


44 posted on 03/15/2024 1:31:26 PM PDT by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
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To: Major Matt Mason

Sorry, but 0 didn’t start this DEI stuff. I went to a DEI training session in 1981 in Silicon Valley; 0 accelerated it.


45 posted on 03/15/2024 1:31:42 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: Impala64ssa
Though many seem to be enjoying the show, one critic — writer William Spivey — felt it was failing for one major reason: There is no black representation.

I am sure he would approve of a white man representing Martin Luther King in a movie. LOL

46 posted on 03/15/2024 1:44:54 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter-deckhand-oilfield roughneck-drilling fluids tech-geologist-pilot-instructor-pharmacist)
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To: Impala64ssa

There’s no sense watching anything that corrupts history with their own goofy modern wokeness


47 posted on 03/15/2024 1:47:30 PM PDT by NWFree (Sigma male 🤪)
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To: Impala64ssa

Oh gee the TV series didnt have any black characters or actors either

and there were a lot of Asians why would that be

and the main character was played by a white man !!!

aint fair !!!


48 posted on 03/15/2024 1:59:31 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: yldstrk

“ Yeah, exactly how many black Africans were in Japan at the time?”

It’s quite likely the Portuguese had African slaves on their ships and as laborers in their colonies and outposts, but I’m not sure if any made it to Japan. However, since this is fiction, I won’t be surprised if somebody sues the writers for some DEI slight.

There’s a thesis topic for your Ph.D. in Afro-American Studies. You’d probably get a full-ride scholarship to cover that one.


49 posted on 03/15/2024 2:47:17 PM PDT by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals)
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To: VanShuyten; yldstrk
It’s quite likely the Portuguese had African slaves on their ships and as laborers in their colonies and outposts

There were a few, and one who became famous, but with Japan we're at the point where we were with medieval England 20 years ago. Working Black characters into the show for DEI would just look ridiculous and stupid.

Another interesting thing: for a while the Portuguese navigators were enslaving Chinese and Japanese and taking them back to Portugal and the colonies. The Japanese rulers didn't like it and made them stop.

50 posted on 03/15/2024 2:58:34 PM PDT by x
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To: Impala64ssa

Every time I see a mention of SHOGUN I am reminded of an earlier novel Daishi-San by Robert Lund, published in 1961.

A novel based on the romantic true adventure of an English sea captain who became the right hand of the ruler of Imperial Japan 350 years ago.


51 posted on 03/15/2024 3:30:27 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: OttawaFreeper

Which one has the line “What do you take me for! A God Cursed Sodomite?”


52 posted on 03/15/2024 3:32:11 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Impala64ssa

Had a black friend recently return from a trip to Japan.

He loved all things Japanese. He read manga. He watched anime. Loved sushi. He saved for years for the trip. Two weeks in Japan. Included Tokyo Disneyland.

He was not the same when he got back.

He said he never understood racism...real racism...until he went to Japan. He said he felt like an exhibit, an animal on display. He was stared at and most of them were angry. He says that at more than one restaurant he was ignored by the staff, especially when they were outside of the more urban areas. He learned a lot of Japanese so he could communicate, but he said they felt very free to correct him, when he saw white tourists also mispronouncing words the natives smiled and encouraged them. He couldn’t wait to go home.

He did say that it gave him a new perspective on racism in the US. We, he now says, are not really racist.


53 posted on 03/15/2024 4:00:14 PM PDT by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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To: yldstrk
In the late 1500s, At least one;

who-was-yasuke-japans-first-black-samurai

"Though Yasuke was the only Black samurai in Nobunaga’s army, he was by no means the only African present in Japan at the time. “Several hundred African people lived in Japan during the 16th century,” says Doan. “[They] worked as interpreters, soldiers, entertainers” and more. She says that Kyoto’s Japanese residents would have been surprised by Yasuke’s “foreignness” but likely wouldn’t have exhibited prejudice based on his skin color. According to Lockley, Nobunaga was a powerful man whom few were willing to challenge, so his decision to employ Yasuke wasn’t controversial. In fact, the samurai proved to be quite popular among locals, who flocked to catch a glimpse of him."

54 posted on 03/15/2024 6:32:18 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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55 posted on 03/16/2024 7:50:28 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: Crusher138
He said he never understood racism...real racism...until he went to Japan.

Well this idiot didn't help change Japanese racial perceptions for the better.
56 posted on 03/17/2024 10:44:44 AM PDT by Impala64ssa (Laken Riley is my daughter!)
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To: zeestephen

So if Asian men often date white women, and Asian women do NOT date equal numbers of white men, who do they date? Each other? Black guys? Go without any dates?

My suspicion is Asian women - who tend to be smart an driven (speaking as a white guy married to one) - do NOT want to date soy boys. And even in the late 90s, when I lived north of Seattle, Seattle had more than its fair share of soy boys.

I could also see where some white guy addicted to online games and eating potato chips might find Asian women intimidating. The Asian women I’ve known work hard, value achievement and despise lazy guys.


57 posted on 03/17/2024 11:14:18 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (We're a nation of feelings, not thoughts.)
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To: Crusher138

It probably doesn’t help that a number of US military bases have lots of blacks and those blacks have committed more than their fair share of rapes and robberies. When I was in Okinawa, black guys DID have problems being served. White guys did too because the natives were not too fond of any military guys, but they really disliked the black military guys.

Still, in my travels, I find the US and the UK the least racist places I’ve been. Wish a lot more American blacks would try living overseas for a while, including in Africa. Think they’d come crawling back looking forward to being in the “Good Old USA”!


58 posted on 03/17/2024 11:20:14 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (We're a nation of feelings, not thoughts.)
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To: Impala64ssa

My friend was in Japan last October. This crap with Johnny Somali would be fresh in their minds. No wonder he got a less than warm reception!


59 posted on 03/18/2024 9:16:24 AM PDT by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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