Idris Elba the next James Bond?
Well, why not?
True, the character in the books is white and, for me, the "real" James Bond will always be Sean Connery.
But the movies are only "based on" the books, anyway.
So why not go with a black Sean Connery?
Why does a movie have to be faithful to the books in that particular?
Rush Limbaugh Outraged By Black James Bond
Or would it be better if IE played Bond in whiteface, assuming there is some such thing?
Remember Olivier as Othello?
Heck, as the Mahdi?
He was brilliant in both roles, of course, though the black walk, black butt thing he did for authenticity in Othello was downright comical.
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Your neighborhood Santa could be any color, race, religion, or sex.
Santa in the American tradition is white.
Liberals and radicals hate it, I know, but just as this is a Christian country this is a white country.
When forced to face our whiteness that they openly call unbearable, they commence to complain about "white privilege" - the so-called privilege people have who belong to the majority in a country that has a single, overwhelming majority, that consists entirely of the inevitable consequences of being of the majority.
For example, if you are of the majority, in the average street crowd most people have the same skin color and religion as you.
Most of the important cultural or historical figures of your country have the same skin color and religion as you.
And so on.
In the US that would be the privilege of white Christians, even those who are only culturally Christian.
Of course, in Indonesia, say, that privilege would be on quite a different foot.
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