Ildris Elba: 'I am not a 'Black Actor'

[Independent thinker]

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"I am not a 'Black Actor'."



I can't believe he actually received backlash from this and had to defend his comment.

Attempting to label him a 'black actor', as he explains, is an attempt to put him in a 'racial box'.

He is an ACTOR. His race does not define what he does.

As he points out, no one says they are a black architect or a black heart surgeon. They say they are an architect or a heart surgeon.

Ildris Elba is an ACTOR...and a damn good one!

Idris Elba fires back after receiving backlash for saying he stopped describing himself as a 'Black actor'

Idris Elba is standing behind his initial statement that he no longer calls himself a "Black actor" after receiving backlash for his comments to Esquire U.K.

www.foxnews.com

 

[ColonelAngus]

The cult hates blacks who think for themselves. He will catch shit for not falling in line and being a useful idiot for the cause.

 

[Cellblock2429]

The cult hates blacks who think for themselves. He will catch shit for not falling in line and being a useful idiot for the cause.

/——/ At his age, Morgan Freeman most likely doesn’t give a rats ass.

 

[candycorn]

The right wing obsession with race continues.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

He's rejecting the racist divisions and classifications the left is constantly pushing.

He's not rejecting them. He's feeling an effect. Movies with black actors are likely woke and no one wants to see woke.

He was once supposed to be cast as a black and woke James Bond. He's trying to run from that.

 

[Cellblock2429]

The right wing obsession with race continues.

/----/ Says the left-wingers who bring up race at every opportunity.

Opinion: The left’s obsession with race is alienating minorities in America

The fetishization of identity politics is a superficial solution that won’t actually eradicate racism

www.theglobeandmail.com

 

[candycorn]

/----/ Says the left-wingers who bring up race at every opportunity.

Opinion: The left’s obsession with race is alienating minorities in America

The fetishization of identity politics is a superficial solution that won’t actually eradicate racism

www.theglobeandmail.com

Yet here is a thread brought up by a conserve-hate-ive about...you guessed it...race.

 

[Cellblock2429]

Yet here is a thread brought up by a conserve-hate-ive about...you guessed it...race.

/———/ So, you’re claiming democRATs never play the race card….

 

[Superbadbrutha]

maybe if you consider the demafascist climate. They have turned their cities in to segregated shit holes.

Which cities would that be?

 

[22lcidw]

Yet here is a thread brought up by a conserve-hate-ive about...you guessed it...race.

All you have to do is stop it. the media and entertainers and elites who make this never ending. It is so woke that entertainment has slipped in quality. And anything that goes into the mean white past is skewered to diversity or the actor/actresses involved are the beautiful people in eras where there was not that much. We can enjoy entertainment without this.

 

[struth]

Superbadbrutha the ones that don’t teach plantation boys how to properly quote on a website that troll

 

[Superbadbrutha]

Superbadbrutha the ones that don’t teach plantation boys how to properly quote on a website that troll

Who taught you to hate black folks?

 

[BackAgain]

I stand in solidarity with Idris Elba.

I am not a black actor either.

 

[Marener]

Weird that conservatives are applauding someone who doesn’t want to identify with a race when they attack people who don’t want to identify with a gender.

 

[struth]

Who taught you to hate black folks?

hate? what a demaklan thought

 

[Superbadbrutha]

hate? what a demaklan thought

So demaklans taught you to hate black folks.

 

[Biff_Poindexter]

View attachment 756806
"I am not a 'Black Actor'."



I can't believe he actually received backlash from this and had to defend his comment.

Attempting to label him a 'black actor', as he explains, is an attempt to put him in a 'racial box'.

He is an ACTOR. His race does not define what he does.

As he points out, no one says they are a black architect or a black heart surgeon. They say they are an architect or a heart surgeon.

Ildris Elba is an ACTOR...and a damn good one!

Idris Elba fires back after receiving backlash for saying he stopped describing himself as a 'Black actor'

Idris Elba is standing behind his initial statement that he no longer calls himself a "Black actor" after receiving backlash for his comments to Esquire U.K.

www.foxnews.com

It's good to see right-wingers agree with him there...


So if he ends up being casted as James Bond, you folks shouldn't be complaining much....because him being a black actor really seemed to matter to you folks then...

Idris Elba “Disheartened” By Racially Charged Bond Casting Backlash

Idris Elba says he's bothered by some of the racial references that pop up when he's mentioned as the next 007.

deadline.com

I like this actor's take on it...


“Star Wars” alum John Boyega recently took to Twitter to tell his followers that Elba’s detractors were having the wrong takeaway from his comment. "I think we should fixate on who is typecasting and putting actors in boxes because of this,” Boyega wrote. “Not on making weird adjustments for them. We continuously focus on what we have to do so they don’t do this or that. Very worrying. We BLACK and that’s that.”

John Boyega Reacts to Idris Elba Refusing to Call Himself a Black Actor: ‘We Should Fixate on Who’s Putting Actors Into Boxes’

John Boyega wants people to question the Hollywood typecasting that exists that puts Black actors into boxes.

variety.com

 

[Rust_Cohle]

It's good to see right-wingers agree with him there...


So if he ends up being casted as James Bond, you folks shouldn't be complaining much....because him being a black actor really seemed to matter to you folks then...

Idris Elba “Disheartened” By Racially Charged Bond Casting Backlash

Idris Elba says he's bothered by some of the racial references that pop up when he's mentioned as the next 007.

deadline.com

I like this actor's take on it...


“Star Wars” alum John Boyega recently took to Twitter to tell his followers that Elba’s detractors were having the wrong takeaway from his comment. "I think we should fixate on who is typecasting and putting actors in boxes because of this,” Boyega wrote. “Not on making weird adjustments for them. We continuously focus on what we have to do so they don’t do this or that. Very worrying. We BLACK and that’s that.”

John Boyega Reacts to Idris Elba Refusing to Call Himself a Black Actor: ‘We Should Fixate on Who’s Putting Actors Into Boxes’

John Boyega wants people to question the Hollywood typecasting that exists that puts Black actors into boxes.

variety.com

It's cast. The correct use is cast. You don't "casted" a vote, a fishing line or get "casted" in a role

CAST

 

[Biff_Poindexter]

It's cast. The correct use is cast. You don't "casted" a vote, a fishing line or get "casted" in a role

CAST

dodge noted

 

[Rust_Cohle]

dodge noted

Your lack of education is noted