Black Mermaid, Black Panther, Black 007 (James Bond), are white people finally getting the subtle hint that the earth does not revolve around them?

[Anonymous]

[Chris_Morgan]

I've been supporting kung fu and Ninja movies that featured Asian women since I was 9 years old. I've always been fighting for more Asian female representation, lol.

[MiseriaCantareAFI]

Probably not. They'll still whine about it claiming "reverse racism". it's like give it a rest, ya racist

im white

[PlacentaSalad]

Black Panther is a poor example because that is actually one character who is originally black and was not 'race-swapped.' But you can bet the backlash to change an originally black character to a white character would be received even worse, so let's not pretend like it's only white people who are acting fragile when they are not typically the people who are whining.

As for Little Mermaid? A black Little Mermaid could work because, by the lore, Triton had multiple offspring throughout the ocean. In fact, black mermaids have been canon in Disney's story for like 30 years, I'm pretty sure. The issue was that there was potential for a unique and original story, as a sort of spin off to the original Disney Ariel tale where Ariel would have been a half-sister, or something. Instead, they just made a white girl, black. It's just lazy. A brand new Little Mermaid movie in another part of the ocean with all new original characters or something would have been cool. And there'd still be a white mermaid for all the young, white girls. Instead, I guess the option is to exclude white kids from having their own aquatic princess beyond 2022 since Ariel is no longer white, canonically.

A black James Bond? I think you are referring to No Time To Die wherein the new 007 agent is a black female. She's not James Bond. So this example is actually fine, because she did not inherit the "James Bond" name like the example above with Ariel. And the story makes sense to support her role as the newest 007 agent. Given that Bond quit MI6, the organization would need a new special agent. Of course, the choice to have the new agent be a black woman is likely pandering but at least it's a new, original character nonetheless. So they did it correctly for once.

People forget that within MI6 existed the 00 agency where there were a number of other special agents besides just Bond. Plenty of them can be women or POC. But James Bond is white. If you want black special agents, make a new character and don't be lazy and call him "James Bond."

That being said, there's more evidence these days to support that POC and women want the world to revolve around them more than your modern white person and men do.

[RolandCuthbert]

WTF?

There is no "Black" 007. And I have posed this question before. Why do you think merely casting "Black" actors in place of "White" ones addresses diversity issues or even the insulting premise you stated? By the way, Idris will not be playing Bond. He never wanted the role and the franchise is not interested in him.

The Problem with a "Black" Bond. . .

[bigmatt98]

I could give a fuck what color skin someone is till you start fucking with history and someone else’s culture but that goes for anything from a white black panther to black people in vallahlla to white people in Asian history movies or women in movies about the American side of ww2 or ww1 or Vietnam. It’s about history and culture not color. It’s disrespectful to the original Dutch fairy tale for the little mermaid to black my not someone’s ego. It’s fine to have a black 007 or whatever! You sound racist here we are all people with different cultures and different pigments stop taking about racism and it will go away!

[NamerOfStars]

Well, insofar as it's OUR stories black people are being inserted into, the message being sent is just the opposite: that black people CAN'T carry a movie on their own; that they HAVE no original stories of their own; and that- from an entertainment perspective, they ARE inferior.

I'm smart enough to not believe that, but if you keep hammering the idea home, some people are going to start agreeing...

[God_of_Thunder]

As a white guy, I don't think the Earth revolves around me, and I also don't give a crap what color they make a movie character. It literally makes no difference to me, nor does it impact my life in any way.

Black Panther was a bad example, though; he's always been black. Use Nick Fury, next time. He was racially swapped for the movies, and fits your example better.

[Anonymous]

It's about time that whites became the minority, yes. But it seems that whoever becomes the majority is going to be just as stupid and racist as whites were and still are. Progress? I think not.

By the way, the Black Bond isn't the issue, it's that she's a female. Ian Fleming is rolling in his grave. It's criminal to have a female 007 as a lead EVEN if she's as promiscuous as the early Bond's were. JB is supposed to bed as many hotties as possible during the course of a movie. The less sexual Bond movies, with Timothy Dalton, rank far down on the list of favorites and box office sales.

[DJB72]

No. The message is to be woke and politically correct.

You want to see how offensive it is, call it what it is: BLACKWASH.

I'm all for equality, but if a White kid dressing up as a red Indian (fuck off wokesters) is "cultural appropriation" then a black individual wearing clothes designed based on European fashion is too.

You can't have it both ways.

[jshm2]

The problem is that White people have been too used to doing all the killing, looting, raping and slaving these past two centuries.

China and the Middle East has managed to catch them up in about 50 years, with a fraction of the savagery. Makes White people look less human and reasonable than they have pretensions of being.

[Part2603]

So why should "white men" give and watch these movies if they explicitly say that these movies aren't intended for them?
Is it your opinion that white men need to see movies that they don't want to see?

[SiberFox]

Lol, why don't black people come up with their own chqracters rather than stealing white peoples culture and fiction?
It just shows that black people are nothing without whites.

[MCheetah]

I'm not white and I still think you're a sad, pathetic young woman. Sucking corporate d**k for Disney and accepting their table scraps, thinking it's "progress for niggas." Just sad.

[DesiUwU]

you're racist against yourself, judging your other posts lol, sad bro.

[BTCMoon]

The world doesn't revolve around us. We realize this because we live in the same society in which you do. You're merely disillusioned to think that all of your misfortunes are based on the color of your skin.

[findacure4wokeness]

It's funny how this works, We can't appropriate POC culture. But our culture lacks diversity therefore it becomes every bodies culture therefore we have no culture of our own. Because POC culture is so boring that we much share ours now.

[MementoMori_]

No, the message white people are getting is that some of them are lunatics. Also called Democrats.

[TacosRAwesome]

Black mermaids - who cares mermaids aren't real

Black panther - is supposed to be black

Bond - as long as he's from the UK I'm cool.

[Anonymous]

No, but we ARE getting fed up with loony lefties shoving this racism bullshit down our throats.

[Anonymous]

If only Black people were capable of creating their own stories instead of appropriating fairy tales from White Europeans.

[TonightYouu]

What about Madea?

[genericname85]

So what you're saying is the world is revolving around blacks? That's racist XD

[Shamalien]

Make your own fking story don’t just race swap an existing one. That would be like if we made black panther white

[TroyDT2]

Why are there so many bigots of all shades on this site?