Blaxk actress gets abuse after being cast as Juliet.

[CrusaderFrank]

Stupid!

They should have cast a black guy as Juliet

 

[Sunni Man]

Racial equality will be achieved when a white guy is cast as Martin Luther King in a movie and the lefties and blacks don't go ballistic and start rioting.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

LoL......this is probably just a pr stunt to get people interested in the production. They must be having some problems.

No one will be interested. This is just another race swapped flop.

 

[Oddball]

Stupid!

They should have cast a black guy as Juliet

In drag!

 

[Hellokitty]

Wait I thought all the Shakespeare stuff was determined to be racist...

 

[rampart]

So you’re saying when antisemitic leftists take to social media to say they’ll boycott if a Jew being selected as the new James Bond, it’s just a publicity stunt? More downplaying of antisemitism, I see.

But when people say they‘ll boycott if Juliiet is played by a black, then it’s racist?

are you so sure these are antisemitic leftists?

most sympathy for the gazans (from the left) stems more from their inhuman treatment rather than religion or ideology.

do any palestinians live in exile near you? they are among the most capitalist practitioners in the free market you will find this side of china.

 

[Lisa558]

are you so sure these are antisemitic leftists?

most sympathy for the gazans (from the left) stems more from their inhuman treatment rather than religion or ideology.

do any palestinians live in exile near you? they are among the most capitalist practitioners in the free market you will find this side of china.

Yes, they are from the left. You can tell by what they say.

 

[rampart]

Yes, they are from the left. You can tell by what they say.

lolololololol do they say mean things about trump? if the answer is "no" they can not be "leftists, or even rinos can they?

 

[Dogmaphobe]

The actress does not deserve any abuse.

The abuse should be directed at the woke producers for interjecting their radical racial politics into an old story.

 

[theHawk]

Romeo & Juliet director condemns 'deplorable racial abuse' against star

Francesca Amewudah-Rivers will appear opposite Tom Holland in Romeo and Juliet in the West End.

www.bbc.co.uk

I thought we were over this shit. But there are still knuckle draggers among us.
The cowardly right wing fucks who do this are why we have hate crimes.

These right wing shits should consider this.

1. They are not the sort of people who would watch Shakespeare anyway. It is too complex for their tiny brains to process. They are more likely to be watching a Segal movie.

2. Through most of the plays life Juliet was played by a young boy in drag. Imagine the uproar from the ignorant if that was still the case ?

3.. ALl of Shakespeares black characters have been played by white actors in black face. So fuck off you racist trash.

There weren’t Africans in England during that time. But you lefties want to rewrite history, namely to write whites out of history.

 

[there4eyeM]

Romeo & Juliet director condemns 'deplorable racial abuse' against star

Francesca Amewudah-Rivers will appear opposite Tom Holland in Romeo and Juliet in the West End.

www.bbc.co.uk

I thought we were over this shit. But there are still knuckle draggers among us.
The cowardly right wing fucks who do this are why we have hate crimes.

These right wing shits should consider this.

1. They are not the sort of people who would watch Shakespeare anyway. It is too complex for their tiny brains to process. They are more likely to be watching a Segal movie.

2. Through most of the plays life Juliet was played by a young boy in drag. Imagine the uproar from the ignorant if that was still the case ?

3.. ALl of Shakespeares black characters have been played by white actors in black face. So fuck off you racist trash.

What is the advantage in taking a story that clearly speaks of specific subjects and specific types of people and turning it upside down? Aren't there other stories to tell? How is it "art" to merely "deconstruct" a work to death?

 

[Calypso Jones]

Tom Holland is Romeo. Any play with Peter Parker in it is not struggling you dribbling idiot.

triggered.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

In drag!

Barack! OMG!!

Boffo!

Barack as Juliet!

 

[Calypso Jones]

Juliet has a moustache.

 

[there4eyeM]

There weren’t Africans in England during that time. But you lefties want to rewrite history, namely to write whites out of history.

The play is set in Italy and the characters are wealthy Italians. Westside Story is a take on Romeo and Juliet. The place and people are changed. It is not Romeo and Juliet, and neither is a play where the place and people are entirely different.

 

[Oddball]

The play is set in Italy and the characters are wealthy Italians. Westside Story is a take on Romeo and Juliet. The place and people are changed. It is not Romeo and Juliet, and neither is a play where the place and people are entirely different.

Then make it a blood feud between the Bjorksons and the Mobogos!

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

that probably applies to all of these race/gender/whatever controversies.

does anyone really care?

.

Apparently your cult-mate Tammy does.

Enough to start yet another of his/her/its ridiculous whiny threads about it.

.

 

[theHawk]

The play is set in Italy and the characters are wealthy Italians. Westside Story is a take on Romeo and Juliet. The place and people are changed. It is not Romeo and Juliet, and neither is a play where the place and people are entirely different.

There weren’t Africans in Italy either.

 

[Mac-7]

Romeo & Juliet director condemns 'deplorable racial abuse' against star

Francesca Amewudah-Rivers will appear opposite Tom Holland in Romeo and Juliet in the West End.

www.bbc.co.uk

I thought we were over this shit. But there are still knuckle draggers among us.
The cowardly right wing fucks who do this are why we have hate crimes.

These right wing shits should consider this.

1. They are not the sort of people who would watch Shakespeare anyway. It is too complex for their tiny brains to process. They are more likely to be watching a Segal movie.

2. Through most of the plays life Juliet was played by a young boy in drag. Imagine the uproar from the ignorant if that was still the case ?

3.. ALl of Shakespeares black characters have been played by white actors in black face. So fuck off you racist trash.

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The black Juliet is kind of ugly

Couldnt they at least find an attractive black woman to play the female lead?

Otherwise, Shakespeare is timeless there is no reason not to have some black actors in the cast

But they should at least have a modern 21st Century setting where blacks do not look so out of place

 

[Lisa558]

The play is set in Italy and the characters are wealthy Italians. Westside Story is a take on Romeo and Juliet. The place and people are changed. It is not Romeo and Juliet, and neither is a play where the place and people are entirely different.

And Romeo and Juliet was based on two feuding Italian families IRL. They were white. Why change history?