Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Casting Announcement — Page 7

AHLiebross said: "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..

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Thanks Audrey, I do agree with you.

The percentage is irrelevant. So one show can have 20 people of color, and the other show can have none. Neither one of those should be a problem.

FindingNamo said: ""Allowing people to think in race first."

Ah yes. Never trust a man (and it's ALWAYS a man!) who doesn't want to "allow" people to think!!!

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So you are racist AND sexist.

My aging brain sometimes makes detours and can still actually learn stuff.

So-having read all and seen all Harry Potter--I have watched those young children grow to be young adults when we said goodbye to them.

Now they are coming back-all grown up[think one has children]so-I've had 10 or so years with certain identities belonging to the 3 main characters.

Should I ever have the pleasure of seeing this new incarnation[?] I feel my brain would like to see an older version of the original.

I am sure in these past 12 pages there must be a sensible argument why Hermoine can now be Black and not Chinese,Malay,Indian etc so will accept that this is now possible-as JKR approves.

I just hope the glasses and a touch of ginger is still there though.

SL...x

Oh my God-Gloria Gaynor [forget all that poofy nonsense of hers]--I used to dance my tits off way back when with a little perfume bottle close to my nose[dance floor body odour] screaming 'Never can say Goodbye..

Thanks Namo for the memory--amazing how one can segue[?] from Harry to Gloria-same fantasy worlds.

SL....x

Finding Namo writes: " You know how white people are always trying to be black [to be cool]. Like Rachel Dolezal and Liza's Headband."

Namo, you just reminded me of a true story when I was talking to my youngest son, now 21, and then about 15. He said he wished he were black. I said that black kids have the sense of belonging to a "people," but he needn't be envious about that, because, as a Jewish kid, he has the same thing. He looked at me as if I'd grown antennae, and said, "It's not that -- they just know how to be cool." So add my kid to the list that includes Rachel Dolezal.

Audrey Liebross

Huh? Sure, her ethnicity is left to debate in the books, so in fact, she could be white? So they chose her to be white? I'm sure in the mass minds of the world, someone speaking with an English accent would look "English." Sure, yes, that's an entirely broad term, but I can see why they cast her the way they cast her. And I'm glad now that the part is being played the way it is. It's not a story about race, so it doesn't really matter one way or the other.