Posted on 12/31/2014 12:12:00 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
Target has stirred outrage with an “Annie”-themed ad campaign featuring a white model in place of the black actress who stars in the latest film version of the rags-to-riches story.
An online petition calling for the big-box retailer to remove the ads and apologize to "Annie" star Quvenzhané Wallis had accrued more than 10,000 signatures by Wednesday morning. The petition launched on Monday.
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The original Annie strip doesn’t get the respect it deserves in pop culture or even the comics field. I’ve often wondered if Harold Gray’s conservative views are the reason.
The cover I posted is part of a new series of reprints started a few years ago by a company called IDW. They started with the 20s and are now in the late 40s. Americana at its finest!
You have to PRETEND everything with Black people.
There was a freeper here complaining about my complaints that James Bond is white and should remain white.
Now apparently, that person works at Target.
That might be appropriate, given that the entire Roots fairy tale is a plagiarized fraud. They should re-shoot it as a comedy, with black and white roles reversed. Hey, you might say this version would really be a documentary, since whites are working to support a vast population of indigent blacks who alternate between doing nothing and engaging in property and violent crime.
Yeah, but they do not know what “moronic clowns” means. They like who and what they are.
I saw a black thug on camera during some riot in CA. He’d been peeled off a victim he was slugging with a brick, but he said into the camera: “Don’t matter what I do. I’m a good person.” Self-esteem at it’s finest.
And I think George clooney should play buraq Obama when they do an epic about the 2d black president
Personally, I couldn't care less. I've always viewed the series as a vehicle for outlandish stunts and gadgets, as well as panoramic shots of exotic locales. As long as the actor plays it straight, with white British rather than Caribbean or African mannerisms, the franchise will probably do well internationally. If they fool with it and make it ethnic, they will lose a bundle, due to negative audience reaction and high production costs. The person who thought it up will be looking for a new job. Think Bond movie budget and Tyler Perry box office receipts.
You didn’t even have to ask. I have noticed since o took office more and more color on the TV and in movies and I am not the only one who has made these observation.
yet it’s perfectly fine for blacks to portray whites and white roles, especially when it’s obvious tokenism
(And while we're at it, the writers of the original 1977 stage musical that the movie is "based on" should apologize for making FDR into a heroic character when the original comics always despised him and promoted free market capitalism and anti-new deal policies!
Damn straight.
They’ve never let her commie ties be talked about yet, so you’re right.
I’m offended that the knuckleheads who did the movie put a black girl in the title role, playing a girl who has been white for 85 years.
Hey, I got something the race-baiting poverty pimps can take a big bite of! It's that S sandwich they've been trying to feed us since 0bama was elected...
And a lot more TV shows filmed in Chicago.
Can we be outraged because the film makers used a black actress to portray Annie, who we all know was originally a white girl, and was always portrayed as a white girl until this politically correct monstrosity was filmed?
From now on will we always have to have a black president, black first lady, black boyfriend for the president, black Attorney General and black czars?
There is talk of re-making Perry Mason TV show but with a Black Mason and Della Street. Next we can have a black Daniel Boone and a Black Robin Hood.
but a black james bond is fine.
Della would be renamed Dayzhanaisse Street.
It was the "black power" era, and numerous movies were made where classic stories were "updated" and re-imagined with black actors playing the roles. The focus of those films were usually tough black characters triumphing against "the man". The Wiz was the tail end of it, as it had started in 1971. In fact, many people think The Wiz bombing at the box office is what ended the Blaxploitation genre, as it disappeared in the 80s before they revived the idea of remaking white characters as black characters in the late 90s.
I'd say the difference between those black remakes in 1979 and 2014 is the latter were intentionally campy and entertaining. There's very little entertaining in the new "Annie"
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