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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Doug M: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by Thereal: [qb] Yeah,that doesn't make any sense. If Black race swapping is some master plan by elite whites,why not use Hispanics? If the numbers are accurate,they outnumber Black people in the U.S and the higher ups in Hollywood could select between Native, Black people, Mulatto/Mestizos and "spicy whites." It makes no sense say Black people have no value so that's why would don't get African based movies then switch white characters to Black people. That's a conflicting statement. Also,the picture in your link sucks. [/qb][/QUOTE]Its even worse than that, because 'black culture' is the face of popular entertainment from America all over the world. Yet black people don't get most of the money from it, as opposed to white owned studios. So the hypocrisy is literally all over the place. Not to mention some of the most popular modern artists in Egypt are rapping as well. Should black people call that cultural appropriation? And as far as Africa goes, a lot of fantasy in games over the last few decades have been openly harvesting African cultural elements. Even though you may not be aware of this unless you actually know African history and are aware of these elements. I can name numerous examples but it is in many games from World of Warcraft weapons and attribute suffixes based on animal names (similar to African stafffs associated with animal spirit attributes) to Elden Ring with scarabs and others. So they have no problem harvesting African culture for ideas that "have value" such as any of the numerous collections of African weapons in European collections. Yet when it comes time to tell a fictional story directly using Africans as characters or characters based on African identity it is a problem. So yes, these people are just racist and the bigger problem is most Africans in Hollywood and most African Americans are not doing much better. Most of them are in it for a check and have no problem being tokens as long as they get paid. They never promote or create any African based content or characters of their own even though they are supposedly in a "creative industry". Yet they will whine and complain about "lack of representation"..... even though that has existed for decades now. And lets not get into how rap has descended into the depths of coonery and vaudeville sambo acts. Totally sh*tting on the late 80s and early 90s conscious rap era, paid for and promoted by the industry. The reality of "woke" Hollywood is that it is a PR stunt by white executives in Hollywood to pretend to care about black people. But it is all about fictional characters not actual real positions of authority behind the scenes. White executives and creators are allowed to lose hundreds of millions of dollars on movies and tv series nobody likes. Yet these same people are scared to give less money to fund new stories and characters created by black writers, artists and directors. The whole point of diversity is to have diverse people in positions throughout the company as writers, producers, showrunners, creative executives and so forth. It is not simply about changing the skin color of a fictional character. Yet again, most black actors who claim to be activists are only activists when they get paid to say whatever these studios tell them to say. They never actually push for true diversity where it counts and they never create their own Hollywood studios to make their own content. I mean there are multiple nascent movie/entertainment studios across Africa, they should be able to work with Americans to build their own fantasy and fictional characters and brands across the diaspora. But nope. They just want to be the black version of some white character.... which is pathetic. And certainly Africans should not have to get permission to do a story about ancient African history from Europeans or anybody else who does not identify as African, whether it be KMT, Sudan, the Sahara, West Africa, South Africa or anywhere else. Some of the best films about African history have been made by African yet they are largely unknown in the west, such as Cheddo, by Ousmane Sembene: [IMG]https://img.youtube.com/vi/GJ8aM4dD5Lo/sddefault.jpg[/IMG] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ8aM4dD5Lo [/QB][/QUOTE]
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