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| re: Question re: Once On This Island revival - a white Daniel? | |
| Last Edit: Chazwaza 09:24 pm EST 02/07/18 | |
| Posted by: Chazwaza 09:21 pm EST 02/07/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Question re: Once On This Island revival - a white Daniel? - ntjvy 09:06 pm EST 02/07/18 | |
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| I think you're being a bit myopic in how you're reading what I've written... or perhaps I was unclear, but I was speaking specifically about the way someone is treated based on what race they appear to be. Of course racism is systemic and it and culture are passed down through generations, and effect all those categories of life and existing in society that you detailed. I'm talking specifically about how, for example, a bi-racial person who passes as white could be treated differently in all situations (work application, education, dating, walking down the street, apply for a lease, access to everything etc etc) than a person who appears to be identifiably black. And yes, hair and shape of features, and name... all these and more can be put under the umbrella of "racial appearance" that can signal to a person what to assume your racial or class background might be. Yes, I was simplifying the issue very much - no need to be floored - but I think we have to acknowledge that Once On This Island also simplifies the issues it deals with, and personally I think Arden's casting and aspects of the concept he laid onto the show only serve to further simplify. I think actually we are on the same page except about whether or not Powell's casting gives us a chance reconsider our limited thinking around race, class and colorism (your take on it) or that it reverts back to a commonly portrayed conflict that simplifies and therefor limits the show from telling the story it meant to tell, at least to a degree (my take). But it's quite possible I'm wrong, or that the degree to which i'm right is worth changing or sacrificing for what it might gain otherwise? |
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| re: Question re: Once On This Island revival - a white Daniel? | |
| Posted by: ntjvy 09:33 pm EST 02/07/18 | |
| In reply to: re: Question re: Once On This Island revival - a white Daniel? - Chazwaza 09:21 pm EST 02/07/18 | |
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| If I was myopic it was unintentional. I much prefer what you wrote here than what I understood from your last post, although I still don't agree with it all. Once again, appreciate the dialog. | |
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