Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Casting Announcement — Page 6

I'm making this about race?! LOL. No one in this thread had a problem with the casting it until you wrote your insipid inane post about how you're so unhappy Hermione doesn't look like how YOU envisioned her. Cut the crap. No one cares if hermoine is black or white. And no one cares that some obsessed fan is sad that hermoine isn't white. Get over yourself.

Are you serious? The Majority of Finding Namo's comments are jokes! Have you not figured this out? Dude....just stop. Hermoine is cast and that's it. Stop complaining.

from Dave - "AHLiebross said: " I'm amazed by the number of musical productions that still have largely white choruses, with one or two token black faces."

I'm amazed by comments like this.

12% of the USA population is black. That is about 2 out of every 20 persons.

2 black people in a chorus of 20 persons is therefore fully representative.

Now, the amount of black people in a chorus can be higher or lowe

r at any time, and that does not matter either. But to be "amazed" is quite strange. Are you saying that the number of black people in anything MUST be higher than the actual population? Why is that?"

And you don't care about race? You care more about race than anyone here. You better quit while you're behind.

People from Europe love to pretend they understand the complexities of race in America.

I find, in general, a certain sense of superciliousness from them toward Americans.

That's why you have to consider the source and just ignore what they say.

Clearly this poster doesn't know from whence he speaks, so getting riled up over him is just silly.

Updated On: 12/24/15 at 10:14 AM

Despite my wish to see more people of color get opportunities, I have to confess that I'm rolling my eyes at the complaint that the upcoming Gerard Butler movie, "Gods of Egypt," should have cast people of Arab descent. If I recall what I studied correctly, the ancient Egyptians were not Arab, but, along with their Hyksos rulers, stemmed from an entirely different group of people,

This movie is even more a fantasy than HP. If they cast only white people in the leads, that's a problem. However, the fact that they didn't cast modern Egyptians, is not.

As we previously discussed on a similar thread, "The King and I" casts few Thai people, but nonetheless provides work for actors of other Asian ethnicities and countries. Since there's not a tremendous clamor for Egyptians and other Arab people to get into English-language movies, this movie should have taken the opportunity to cast English-speaking minority actors in general. If the producer did not do so, that's where he slipped up, IMO.

Audrey, whatever you believe the percentage is, it should never be a need to follow it, or being amazed by it.

Talent comes first, then color, I hope.

The music industry is dominated by people of color. Nobody cares about that, Do you? Because it doesn't match the percentage?

You have NO IDEA how well I understand it. Don't get me started.

Do you know anything about the history of Europe?

We understand exactly what kind of things keep racism intact.

I know a good deal about European history, but I'd never be so arrogant as to presume I know more about the nuances of how it affects Europeans than those who actually live with it.

You're just another idiot who thinks he knows everything. A dime a dozen your lot are.

With each post you only prove how little you actually understand about race here.

Updated On: 12/25/15 at 10:08 AM

He clearly has no idea what racism is, so the nuances of what keeps it intact (whatever that means) is LOST on him.

Dave19 writes: "Audrey, whatever you believe the percentage is, it should never be a need to follow it, or being amazed by it. Talent comes first, then color, I hope.The music industry is dominated by people of color. Nobody cares about that, Do you? Because it doesn't match the percentage?"

Dave, percentages can be problems if people use them as quotas, and they can be useful if people use them as measures of whether they're doing enough to overcome the view that white is the default. By pointing out that the music industry is heavily dominated by people of color, you've agreed that the percentage of minority people in the general population is irrelevant, but the higher percentage of minority people who can sing.

In the US, we can't just rely on general recruiting because of our shameful history of discrimination. People talk about "best-qualified" as if it can be measured, but "best-qualified" means different things to different people. It's important to keep measuring our efforts, not to fulfill a quota but to be sure we're giving everyone a fair shake, regardless of whether they look like us.

Audrey, who favors affirmative action for masked men, as well as for ethnically diverse groups..

CatsNYRevival wrote: "Rowling loves black Hermione."

I wish that Rowling had mentioned specifically that Hermione is black, for a few reasons. One is that, every time an author writes a book that includes white and non-white protagonists, he or she helps readers understand that everyone is first and foremost human. Secondly, had a black kid been cast, that would have increased opportunities for black actors, and, third, raised the audience members' consciousness (a 1970's term).

Audrey Liebross