BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//InvisionCommunity Events 5.0.18//EN METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN REFRESH-INTERVAL:PT15M X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT15M X-WR-CALNAME:RMCommunityCalendar NAME:RMCommunityCalendar BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London TZURL:https://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20250330T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20251026T020000Z RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Economic Corner 09 - media properties dictate? - 01/28/2025 DTSTAMP:20250129T005238Z SEQUENCE:0 UID:165-7-c3fe8195a3dde498d013e477e2142422@aalbc.com ORGANIZER;CN="richardmurray":noreply@aalbc.com DESCRIPTION:\n What she misses is a crossroads of three things. First\, the studios want to maximize profit\, which means they want to use media p roperties they already own and attract the most sales. Second\, the proper ties studios own are quite old\, decades old\, centuries old and tend to b e created by white people of european descent filled with mostly character s described in appearance or culture as white of european descent\, which has the problem of not being as attractive to non whites than non white ch aracters. Third\, the modern buyers of media content are not overwhelmingl y \, overwhelmingly meaning seventy five percent or more \, of white Europ ean descent and the studios want to cater to them. \n\n The three element s show the problem. The studios always want to save money+ not risk money\ , which means the studios are not going to buy new non white European char acters or use lesser known non white European characters that many\, inclu ding many non whites of European descent\, don't know. \n\n So with the d esire to maximize profits + risk least investment revenue this means chang ing white European characters they already own into non white European cha racters is most efficient.\n\n This is what I think many\, Black or non bl ack are missing.  When I think on most popular movies in the last thirty years\, few are of a new property. Every star wars/star trek/marvel/dc fil m is of an old property. Every biopic is of an old property\, that being a famous person. Little that makes the most money is new\, is unheard of.  \n\n Even nosferatu which has made a splash is again\, is old. So\, if old properties are the fans are buying\, and all the old characters owned by studios is white\, simple arithmetic to save money or risk less revenue is to change characters already owned to fit the non white European buyer.  \n\n And again\, prove the studios wrong\, not with artistic judgement vid eos or human communal statement videos but by sales. \n\n Consider DC has access to Milestone and yet\, it never occurred to them to give milestone characters their own movies. Here is a comic imprint made by non white Eu ropeans\, mostly blacks\, that has a gallery of non white European charact ers made by non white Europeans. DC made birds of prey changing white Euro pean descent characters. \n\n Marvel treats black panther as their non wh ite world movies. Black panther 1 had more black people in an action sci f i adventure than ever before. black panther 2 added first peoples of the A mericas taking namor the submariner and changing his character's design dr amatically. But this was cheaper\, and the profits prove the studios right . \n\n The biggest problem with this issue is\, and I can speak of this a s a writer. New characters or lesser known characters haven't proven to ha ve big money legs. Notice I didn't say they couldn't they haven't proven i t. \n\n https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czf2k-WJ6iU\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n MY COMMENT\n\n The problem the studios have is they want to always save m oney + risk the least revenue developing+ gain the most buyers in modernit y which has many more buyers not of white european descent than ever befor e\, and based on financial results of films\, year in and year out\, it on ly leads to one conclusion and that is race swapping. To restate my point\ , the financial returns of the film industry prove their race swapping act ions correct\, against other options. \n\n\n\n TRANSCRIPT\n\n\n\n 0:00\nb efore we get started I have a brand new\n0:02\nshort film that is releasin g on this\n0:04\nchannel very soon I love this short film\n0:06\nI think i t's the best one I've done yet\n0:07\nand I really need your guys' help fo r\n0:09\nfeedback for this short film so if when\n0:12\nI drop it which is going to be before\n0:14\nthe end of January I would really\n0:16\napprec iate if you would give it a watch\n0:18\nand please I highly recommend you watch\n0:21\nthis short film to the end because it's\n0:23\nthe best one I've done so far so without\n0:25\nfurther Ado let's get on to the video\n 0:27\none of the big controversial things\n0:29\nthat's been going on and talked about a\n0:31\nlot for years now is racebending\n0:34\ncharacters a nd I haven't really thrown\n0:37\nmy hat in the ring to talk about it yet\ n0:39\nother than saying you know talking about\n0:41\nthings like Batman cape Crusader that\n0:43\njust because you race bend a character\n0:45\ndo es not mean that the show is going to\n0:47\nbe bad or that it needs to af fect\n0:49\nanything but there were a couple maybe\n0:52\nthree things tha t I read and that had\n0:54\nhappened that made me finally want to\n0:57\n make this video because something really\n1:00\ngot under my skin regardin g this entire\n1:03\nconversation now race bending characters\n1:06\nit's very controversial does it ever\n1:08\naffect story is it wrong to ever ra ce\n1:10\nbend a character we've seen it happen a\n1:13\nlot with some ver y iconic characters\n1:15\nlately that they get race Bend and it\n1:17\nca uses a lot of tension and infighting\n1:20\nover this now when I was growi ng up\n1:22\nthere were a lot of projects that did\n1:25\nhave technically race bent characters\n1:27\nthat I loved one of my favorite movies\n1:30\ ngrowing up and what I think might even\n1:31\nbe the best adaptation of C inderella\n1:34\never was with Brandy and Whitney Houston\n1:37\nwhen they did the Roger and Hammerstein\n1:39\nor Stein's version of it and that wa s an\n1:41\ninsanely successful movie when it aired\n1:44\non TV and I lov ed watching it growing up\n1:46\nalso in my teen years getting into the\n1 :49\nAvengers and all that you had Samuel L\n1:51\nJackson as Nick Fury an d that is a race\n1:53\nbent version of the character from the\n1:56\ncomi cs but everyone seemed to love\n1:58\nSamuel Jackson as Nick I don't remem ber\n2:00\nthere being any sort of controversy over\n2:03\nit and so you c an see that in the past\n2:06\nthere were these times when race bending\n2 :08\na character would not be a big deal and\n2:12\nmost people I think ju st assumed you\n2:13\nmust have gotten the right person for\n2:15\nthe rol e and would go from there but\n2:18\nhowever I would like to point out for \n2:19\nsomething like Nick Fury in uh The\n2:22\nAvengers I don't doubt t hat there was\n2:24\nsome conversation behind the scenes\n2:26\ngoing on a bout you know the Avengers the\n2:28\noriginal six were six white people l et's\n2:30\nget somebody in here who's non-white\n2:32\nsomebody like a hi gh caliber actor so um\n2:36\nwe can maybe get a different sort of\n2:38\n audience because Hollywood has had that\n2:39\nthinking of for decades tha t they need\n2:41\nto introduce non-white characters to get\n2:44\ndiffere nt demographics to hopefully\n2:46\nwatch their film so that was the way i t\n2:49\nwas it wasn't really seen as a big deal\n2:51\nand I think we jus t went through a\n2:53\nperiod of time when racebending any sort\n2:55\nof character like it it didn't really\n2:57\nseem to anger people enough or make that\n3:01\nmuch of a controversy for Hollywood when\n3:03\nthey did it for example you had Jessica\n3:05\nAlba as a Latina actress um playing Sue\n3:09\nstorm who's a white character they did\n3:11\nmake her wear mak eup to whiten her face\n3:14\na bit and that would not fly today you\n3:16 \nhad oh I can't remember the name but\n3:18\nMichael Clark Duncan but he did a RAC\n3:20\nbement version of Kingpin for Ben\n3:23\nAffleck Daredevi l and then you have um\n3:26\night Shyamalan decided for whatever\n3:28\nr eason to get white actors to play the\n3:30\ncharacters in his Avatar movi e which I\n3:34\ndefinitely do not approve of because you\n3:37\nknow you should have gotten Asians to\n3:39\nplay Asian characters but anyway uh fo r\n3:42\nwhatever reason he got away with it at\n3:43\nthe time and so I t hink that that just\n3:45\nshows that there was a time in history\n3:48\nw here race bending was just like for\n3:50\nwhoever it was being done to it was not\n3:52\nseen as such a huge deal that it would\n3:54\nprevent it f rom happening in the first\n3:55\nplace and this was after a time where\n3 :57\ndecades ago it used to be very difficult\n3:59\nfor for a non-white a ctor to get a good\n4:01\nrole it there there were very very\n4:03\nlimite d roles back then decades ago and\n4:06\nif you go and listen to actors do ing\n4:08\ninterviews it was very limiting the\n4:10\nkinds of roles they were offered if you\n4:11\nweren't a white person so we can see how\n4:13\ nit's changed over time but now uh the\n4:17\nrace bending of White charac ters has\n4:19\nbecome super controversial and why is\n4:23\nthat well bec ause they've pushed it so\n4:25\nhard and they've pushed it in such a way\ n4:27\nthat it's in ently cause tension like\n4:31\nfor example um another thing I can say\n4:34\ngrowing up is that there used to be some\n4:36\nca rtoon characters that occasionally\n4:37\nwould be raceman like Liz Allen from\n4:40\nspectacular Spider-Man that cartoon in\n4:42\nthe original uh comic she is a Caucasian\n4:45\nblonde girl and they made her a Latina\n4: 48\nin the cartoon and I never had a problem\n4:51\nwith that I enjoyed th at version of Liz\n4:53\nAllen and I never heard anyone who\n4:54\ndidn't have a problem with that and why\n4:57\nwell Liz Allen that look for the\n 4:59\ncharacter it isn't as well known and so\n5:01\nI don't think people notice it as much\n5:03\nalso there was justification and once\n5:05\nagai n they've been trying to\n5:07\ndiversifying things like that for years\n5 :08\nnow but there was justification for Liz\n5:10\nAllen because she was another white\n5:13\nblonde character from Spider-Man she had\n5:15\nthe s ame look as Gwen Stacy so changing\n5:18\nher per race making her look dif ferent\n5:20\nthat it just it just act added an actual\n5:23\ndiversity to the cast so that every\n5:25\ncharacter had their distinct look\n5:26\ndi fferent ethnic background and I think\n5:28\nthat that really worked anoth er\n5:30\ncharacter that was race bent in a\n5:32\ncartoon X-Men evolution Amara AKA magma\n5:35\nshe was a character who was another\n5:37\nCaucasi an blonde from the comics but\n5:39\nthere were already a lot of Caucasian \n5:41\nblondes on the New Mutants team that she\n5:43\noriginated from an d they made her Latina\n5:46\nin X-Men evolution and once again\n5:48\npro bably trying to diversify with that I\n5:50\nthought it worked though you know it was\n5:52\nhelpful the characters all have their\n5:54\ndistinct l ooks I actually really like\n5:56\nthat version of Amara so you see in the \n5:58\npast it can work and not cause\n6:01\ncontroversy so how did race bending\n6:03\ncharacters start to become so\n6:05\ncontroversial for a co uple different\n6:06\nreasons number one you'll notice when it\n6:08\ncome s to characters like magma or Liz\n6:11\nAllen these were characters that weren't\n6:13\nvery well known or I would even say in\n6:15\nthe case of N ick Fury it was a\n6:17\ncombination of even Nick Fury wasn't\n6:19\nthat well known also um back then they\n6:21\ndidn't do race bending as much th ey\n6:23\ndidn't push it as hard I don't think\n6:25\nthat people expected anything other than\n6:27\nthey probably just got the right actor\n6:29\n for the role\n6:30\nbut the problem that has happened these\n6:32\ndays is they have been doing it to more\n6:34\nand more iconic characters like Ma ry\n6:37\nJane Watson that is a character who is\n6:39\nvery very iconical ly a redhead a white\n6:43\nredhead that is an iconic look for the\n6:45\n character it is really it really defines\n6:48\nher so when you did that w hen you cast\n6:51\nZena as the character in culture\n6:53\nMichelle Jones but she's sort of pseudo\n6:55\nMJ it caused a lot of backlash and this\n 6:58\nis what you see\n7:00\nwhen they race Bend characters that are\n7:02 \nmore wellknown why well because people\n7:04\nhave an expectation for th e character to\n7:07\nlook like they do in the source material\n7:09\nwhen it's that iconic like I would say\n7:12\nthe same thing and I've talked a bout\n7:13\nthis before when it comes to like you\n7:15\nknow Brandy and C inderella I love that\n7:17\nmovie I love her take on Cinderella\n7:19\nCi nderella is a story that's been told\n7:21\nby every culture every ethnici ty it\n7:23\nreally doesn't matter fairy tales can be\n7:25\na lot more lo ose than that and I would\n7:27\nsay the same for a lot of the fairy tals\ n7:30\nfrom Disney but and while I would say\n7:33\nplease like no one sho uld attack the\n7:34\nactors and actresses over this stuff I\n7:37\ndo thi nk that Disney has set up their\n7:39\nactors and actresses up to fail whe n\n7:42\nthey choose to race Ben characters in\n7:44\ntheir liveaction Dis ney movies why well\n7:47\nbecause while you can tell a new story\n7:50\nw ith these characters and these versions\n7:52\nbut there with the Disney L ive Action\n7:54\nremakes with the people who watch them\n7:56\nthey want the whole thing with them is\n7:58\nthat they're shot for shot remakes of\ n8:00\nthe original they're supposed to be\n8:01\nremakes of the original so when you set\n8:03\nup the expectation that this is Ariel\n8:05\nfor ex ample in the RAS B that character\n8:08\nthen you start to cause controver sy\n8:11\nthere is why doesn't this character look\n8:13\nthe way she does in the original and\n8:15\ndoes it matter that much well in this\n8:18\nc ase when I'm talking about the little\n8:19\nmermaid no it doesn't there's no reason\n8:21\nwhy someone couldn't play a good version\n8:23\nof uh Th e Little Mermaid that's a\n8:26\ndifferent race but the problem with it\n8 :28\nis that here's what happens you'll get a\n8:30\ncharacter like Mary J ane or Ariel or\n8:33\nwhoever it is you'll get a character\n8:34\nwhere p eople have a certain expectation\n8:36\nof how they're supposed to look uh based\n8:39\non how they were from the source and\n8:41\npeople might be critical because it\n8:43\ndoesn't look the way that it does in the\n8:44\ nsource and that's just fandom you know\n8:47\nlike fans want things to lo ok the way\n8:49\nthey were in The Source material they\n8:50\nwant events to play out the way they did\n8:52\nin the material uh we'll have more\n8 :54\nexamples of that in a minute but like\n8:56\nthat is a part of fandom when they\n8:57\nthings are iconic from the mat material\n9:00\nThe Sourc e material they want that to be\n9:01\nreflected and here's what I've seen \n9:03\nhappen over and over and over again in\n9:05\nthe past decade is t hat they will they\n9:07\nwill race been an iconic character\n9:09\npeople will get upset by it and then the\n9:12\nresponse will be like you're jus t racist\n9:15\nlike the only reason why you could\n9:17\npossibly dislike this change or find it\n9:19\nquestionable or just not be really into\n9: 22\nit is because you're are racist you just\n9:25\ncannot stand seeing a black person get a\n9:28\nrole like this get a big role like this\n9:31\na nd that is the only reason why you\n9:33\ndon't like it and so because dis liking\n9:36\nsomething like that gets you called a\n9:37\nracist you know that's a very\n9:40\ninflammatory terrible word to call\n9:42\nsomeone or to be accused of that in\n9:45\ninvites anger that invites Anger from\n9: 47\nthe people who initially perhaps just\n9:49\nwanted a character to loo k the way they\n9:51\ndid in the source material and now all\n9:53\nof a s udden they are in have been called\n9:55\nan inflammatory term that create s anger\n9:57\nthat feeds it back to more anger at the\n10:00\nperson that they cast in the role where\n10:02\nit was race bent which indeed I I\n10 :04\nimagine I can I don't have to imagine\n10:06\nthe people who' have be en casting these\n10:08\nroles do not like having anger pushed\n10:10\nbac k at them so that will come back to\n10:12\nthe way that they communicate with the\n10:14\nfan base or the audience and so on and\n10:17\non and on it goes on like that and the\n10:19\ntensions rise now once again be befor e\n10:22\nit wasn't really controversial to race\n10:25\nbenen characters so much now part of it\n10:27\nonce again is happening because they\n10:29 \nstarted doing it to more and more iconic\n10:30\ncharacters they start d oing more\n10:31\nfrequently and the other problem is they\n10:34\ngrandst and about it so much because once\n10:36\nagain I think before people woul d just\n10:38\nassume that if you got a role it was\n10:40\nbecause you we re the right person for\n10:41\nthat role but now Hollywood has just\n10:4 4\ngrandstand it so much about look at us\n10:47\nwe we put uh non-white c haracters in\n10:50\nthis project we're putting more\n10:51\ndiversity mor e non-white characters look\n10:53\nat us aren't we good people aren't\n10 :55\naren't people just going to be so happy\n10:57\nto be represented it' s always BR\n10:59\nstanding from Hollywood posturing about\n11:01\nhow go od they are doing this stuff and\n11:02\nthe more they've talked about it the\n11:04\nmore they've called attention to it it's\n11:06\nmade people r ealize this is not just\n11:08\nhappening because they happen to find\n11: 10\nthe right person for the role it's\n11:12\nhappening because they have institutions\n11:14\nbehind the scenes that demand this\n11:15\nthey're d oing this because of agendas\n11:18\nnot because they just found the perso n\n11:20\nfor the role and that once again blows\n11:22\nit up to be much more than just you\n11:24\nwanted to see this character look the\n11:26\nw ay it was in The Source material it\n11:27\nstarts to become about modern- day\n11:30\npolitics it starts to become about\n11:32\nagenda pushing it s tarts to become about\n11:34\nsomething so much bigger than that there\n11 :36\npeople are now seeing that these things\n11:37\nare not happening jus t because they\n11:39\nfound the right person for the role and\n11:41\ntha t makes you think you know you could\n11:43\nhave gotten the right person for the\n11:44\nrole maybe or the person who looks the\n11:47\nway you wan ted that character to if they\n11:49\ndidn't have these institutions if th ey\n11:51\nweren't posturing about this and once\n11:53\nagain that feeds more tension that is\n11:56\nall that has happened with this stuff is\n11: 57\nfeeding more tension to the point where\n12:00\nwe now see explosions if ever any person\n12:03\nis playing a race bent character whereas\n12:05 \nbefore it didn't used to be such a big\n12:08\ndeal now I've been of the opinion for\n12:10\nyears that it doesn't it shouldn't\n12:12\nmatter tha t much race spending a\n12:14\ncharacter usually if it doesn't affect\n12: 16\nthe story if they found the right person\n12:18\nfor the role like onc e again Jeffrey\n12:20\nWright playing Commissioner Gordon he\n12:22\ndid such a great job at that character\n12:25\nas that character but some thin gs have\n12:28\nmade me change my mind a little bit\n12:30\nbecause of the hypocrisy I see and these\n12:33\nare some of the things that made me wan t\n12:35\nto make this video for example the other\n12:37\nday I was talki ng about how I do not\n12:39\nunderstand why people want Kiki Palmer\n12:4 1\nto play Rogue not because of her race\n12:44\nbut because I just don't see the\n12:46\ncharacter in her maybe she's been in\n12:48\nsomething tha t I haven't seen where she\n12:49\nreminds people of the character I just\ n12:51\ndon't see it and the point of me saying\n12:53\nthat it's not abou t her race is me\n12:55\nsaying that if there was an actress that\n12:57\n just completely embodied the role and\n12:58\nshe happened to be A differe nt race then\n13:00\nI could understand it but I didn't\n13:02\nunderstand this one and someone under\n13:04\nthat Community post wrote that um it i t\n13:08\nshould it that race never matters to a\n13:11\nwhite character s tory that it rarely\n13:13\never is relevant to a white character\n13:14\n story and that that's why it's okay to\n13:17\nrace Bend White characters obviously\n13:19\nthat's what we're talking about here\n13:20\nbecause in this day and age they would\n13:22\nnever dare to try to race Bend uh or\n 13:25\noutright race bend a black character and\n13:29\nthat got under my skin a little bit\n13:31\nbecause I'm like but it has happened\n13:33\nwhe n it's relevant to the story Snow\n13:35\nWhite that was a big one they ha d to go\n13:38\nin and you they already revealed this in\n13:40\nthe inter national trailer completely\n13:42\nchanged the story to explain a differe nt\n13:44\nreason why she's called Snow White\n13:46\nbecause they had to ca cast a brown\n13:48\nactress to play her because um for a\n13:51\nchara cter who's described as Skin as\n13:53\nwhite as snow that's how she's def ined\n13:55\nas but Disney in the day and age when\n13:57\nthis was made j ust would not have a\n13:59\nwhite lead as this character so they had\n14: 02\nto change it to honor the day I was born\n14:06\nmy father named me Sn ow White and this\n14:09\nis an example a prime example where they\n14:12\ nhad to change the story because they\n14:14\ncouldn't cast a white actor for the\n14:15\ncharacter and it got nothing but\n14:17\nridicule once aga in I don't know what\n14:19\nthey're thinking about this it got\n14:20\nno thing but ridicule this decision\n14:22\nanother example they did is the\n 14:24\nFantastic Four uh years ago they cast\n14:27\nMichael B Jordan to p lay Johnny dorm and\n14:29\nthat creates problems because uh\n14:31\nInvis ible Woman They cast as a blonde\n14:34\nwhite woman like she was in the c omics\n14:36\nbut um they're supposed to be biological\n14:39\nbrother and sister but they had to\n14:40\nchange that for Fant for stick because\n14 :43\nthey couldn't have four white leads and\n14:45\nif you think that thi s isn't happening\n14:46\nthis has been a major conversation stuff\n14:49\ nhappening behind the scenes in Hollywood\n14:51\nthat is part of the reas on why they had\n14:53\nsuch a hard time casting for the new\n14:54\nFanta stic 4 is they're having a hard\n14:56\ntime with a movie that has four wh ite\n14:59\ncharacters as they are in the comics and\n15:02\nthey can't ha ve that they can't have a\n15:04\nmovie with four white leads anymore but\ n15:06\nyou see it did change the source\n15:08\nmaterial this does happen when you're\n15:09\nchanging the source material for me\n15:12\npersonall y though it's like you know\n15:14\ntrue diversity in real life is sometim es\n15:17\nimbalanced like in the 90s and and the\n15:20\nthese are shows I grew up with Loving\n15:22\nFamily Matters all black m cast Fresh\n15:25 \nPrince all black main cast I think\n15:27\nsometimes they brought in a w hite\n15:28\ncharacters like a villain or something I\n15:29\ndidn't care Disney was really patting\n15:31\nitself on the back of being like we\n15: 33\nhired an all Asian uh cast for Mulan and\n15:36\nI'm like yeah you sho uld have because\n15:38\nMulan is set in China centuries ago you\n15:41\nk now sometimes you're going to have it\n15:43\nwhere your cast is dispropor tionately\n15:45\nblack or Asian or white in fact that's\n15:48\njust the way it is that's what diversity\n15:49\ntruly looks like we don't all have \n15:52\nperfectly uh uh quotas filled out in\n15:55\nreal life that's jus t the way it is and\n15:57\nif you're not a racist that shouldn't\n15:59\n bother you that's just the way life is\n16:02\nso it's like there shouldn' t be a\n16:03\nproblem if you just happen to have four\n16:06\nwhite leads for Fantastic 4 as is\n16:08\naccurate to the source material cuz\n16:10\ nthere's other stuff like black panther\n16:12\nthat should be a black man cast like\n16:14\nthat's what true diversity looks like\n16:16\nbut you k now that comment that person\n16:18\nmade bothered me because it's like no \n16:20\none would ever say that blade or cyborg\n16:24\nshould ever be A different race and I\n16:26\nwould agree cuz those are who the\n16:27\ncha racters are so it's like for example\n16:29\nwith Rogue yeah I would like I could\n16:33\nlike in the past I could completely\n16:34\nunderstand you found the right person\n16:35\nfor the role the the super official\n16:37 \nraces the change but you found the right\n16:38\nperson so it's fine but I'm like yeah I\n16:41\nwould like Rogue to hopefully be played\n16:43\nb y a white actress why because she's\n16:46\nbeen white in the comics for 4 0 years\n16:49\nyeah that that because it's accurate to\n16:51\nthe source material I would like sorg to\n16:53\nbe black because that's accurate to the\n16:55\nsource material in terms of race\n16:56\nspending there has b een controversy\n16:58\nabout colorism about are they hiring\n17:01\nlight brown skinned actors to play Black\n17:04\ncharacters uh there's been som e\n17:06\ncontroversy about that like Sunspot in\n17:08\nthe various adapt ations he's had he's\n17:10\nsupposed to be black in the comics and\n17:12 \nit's important to his character and his\n17:13\norigin for him to be bla ck and fans of\n17:15\nthat character have been upset that he's\n17:17\nal ways lighter brown skin and AD ad\n17:19\nadaptations and I would agree wi th them\n17:22\nwhy because I know what Sunspot is\n17:24\nsupposed to be in the comics people want\n17:26\nstorm to be cast by a darker skin\n17:29 \nblack actress and I'm like yes because\n17:32\nshe while storm and the c omics was born\n17:35\nin Harlem she grew up in I think she\n17:37\nmoved to Cairo Egypt she grew up in\n17:39\nKenya for a time like that should be the\n17:41\ncharacters now from that I think that\n17:43\nit's okay for s omeone to also say I\n17:45\nwould like this character to be white\n17:48\ nsolely because that's the way that they\n17:50\nare in the source materia l and that's\n17:52\nfine because all this race bending has\n17:55\ndone i s it's caused tension it's caused\n17:57\nhate to the actors that they do it to\n18:00\nit's caused a lot of division and and\n18:02\nthings blowing up out of proportion to\n18:04\nbecome even bigger than just a simple\n18 :06\ncasting in a show you know here's the\n18:08\nreal big Crossroads of thinking is for a\n18:11\nlong time I've always been like you know\n18:13\ nif you've just found the right person\n18:14\nfor a role then race bendin g is okay but\n18:17\nthe problem is that it only ever goes\n18:19\nRunway like back in the day when they\n18:21\ncast uh mostly non-puerto Ricans i n fact\n18:24\nonly one Puerto Rican to play a Puerto\n18:25\nRican charac ter in Westside Story um uh\n18:28\none could also say that the actors did a\n18:30\ngood job with their roles but would it\n18:32\nbe was it still right for them to take\n18:34\nroles away from Puerto Ricans no and so\n18 :37\nthat's sort of the crossroads I come to\n18:39\nwith my thinking on t his stuff is that\n18:41\nthere is a double standards with it and\n18:44\n recently the latest controversy over Ray\n18:46\nspending came over the up coming\n18:47\nSpider-Man cartoon where Norman and\n18:49\nHarry Osborne a re black and all I saw\n18:52\nfor this was ridicule not from white\n18:55 \npeople so much but black people I just\n18:57\nsaw so many people on You Tube or Twitter\n19:00\nand these accounts of from black people\n19:02\nma king fun of this because they don't\n19:04\nactually want it and it was a completely\n19:06\nan unnecessary change and I watched a\n19:08\nvideo tha t was actually from a black\n19:10\nperson and and he said something that\ n19:12\nreally stuck out to me in it and it was\n19:15\nthat um they keep saying this doesn't\n19:16\nmatter it doesn't matter it doesn't\n19:18\naf fect the story so why should it bother\n19:19\nyou and he said if it doesn 't matter\n19:22\nthen why do it and it's insulting\n19:24\nbecause it mak es me feel as a black\n19:27\nperson that you don't see me me as\n19:29\nl egitimate unless I have to have\n19:30\nsomething else that came from a wh ite\n19:32\nperson it's annoying and there's going\n19:34\nto be people sa ying oh it doesn't matter\n19:36\ncalling demingo is a good actor and he's \n19:38\nvoicing the character you are 100% right\n19:41\nso if it doesn't matter why do it and\n19:45\nand that's the whole thing with this\n19:46\ nrace bending is so many times it's been\n19:49\nuh forced and unnecessary and people see\n19:52\nthat and all it's done is drive up\n19:53\ntension so here is my proposal How about\n19:56\nif a character is supposed to be black\n19:58\nthen cast a black person if a character\n20:00\nis supposed to be white cast a white\n20:02\nperson and that way you won't have so\n2 0:04\nmuch tension from groups and and all\n20:06\nthis infighting and arg uing and and you\n20:09\ndon't have to focus so much on people's\n20:12\nr ace all the time and I think that's\n20:14\nwhere we're headed right now y ou can\n20:15\nreally see how Disney has been affected\n20:18\nby this and the Tangled live action\n20:20\nremake and I am completely against a\n20: 22\ntangled liveaction remake but all of the\n20:24\nthe rumored castings for it has then\n20:26\nSabrina Carpenter or Florence Pew so a\n20:29\nwhi te blonde woman to play a white\n20:31\nblonde woman good fine I think tha t\n20:34\nDisney has learned from the Snow White\n20:36\nmovie that it is just ridiculous to\n20:37\nforce it when it doesn't make sense and\n20:39\ nat this point you know it's it is a\n20:41\nlittle crazy because as I sai d race\n20:44\nbending used to not be a big deal he\n20:45\nused to get aw ay with it used to be able\n20:47\nto do it it used to not be a big deal t o\n20:49\nsee a non-white person play a\n20:51\ntraditionally white charac ter but they\n20:53\nmade it a problem they made it so that\n20:56\nnow pe ople see it as Force they see it\n20:58\nas just agenda pushing they don't see it\n21:00\nas natural to the story they don't\n21:02\nassume that the person must have gotten\n21:03\nit because they were right for the role\n 21:05\nthey've spoiled it in effect because a\n21:08\nlot of this stuff th at we've been seeing\n21:09\nthis activism in media is just there and\n21: 12\nit just spoils the very thing that\n21:13\nthey're trying to promote s o um yeah\n21:16\nthat's my stance on Race bending\n21:17\ncharacters I th ink once again you could\n21:19\nhave gotten away with this uh once upon\n 21:22\na time I think that there is a big\n21:24\nminutia in it and it jus t kind of\n21:25\ndepends on the standards of the day\n21:27\nabout um wha t is considered morally\n21:29\nacceptable or not but at this point it\n21 :31\nwould just be best to cast people the\n21:34\nway they were from The Source material\n21:35\nso you won't have such a fury about it\n21:38\nbut that's all I got for you guys today\n21:39\nare you mad about me I was ne rvous about\n21:41\ntalking about this topic but I figure my\n21:44\nmaneu ver ears resolution going forward\n21:46\nis to not be so scared of talkin g about\n21:48\nthese hot button topics and the more\n21:50\nthat we talk about it and they're just\n21:52\nnormal about it I think the less the\n21 :54\npeople out there who will just scream\n21:56\nracist at you will be a ble to 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