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It's a familiar story by now: White characters and cultural icons are turned black for the movies.
Often it is just floated as a possibility—as with James Bond some years back—perhaps to get attention for a coming release and save money on advertising. But it actually happens often enough. It is reported that the young black actress Halle Bailey (not to be confused with the better known but much older Halle Berry) will be incongruously cast in the role of the red-haired, white-skinned Ariel in The Little Mermaid. This will be a live-action remake of the famous and beloved 1989 Disney cartoon.
This kind of switch always gets the same reactions. Race realists denounce the film as “inauthentic” or find other flaws to quibble about. Liberals, keen to display their race blindness or reverse racism, make exaggerated claims about how wonderful and “vibrant” the film now is, and stress the unimportance of the race of the actor or actress.
These reactions fail to consider two important points. First, this appropriation of white culture by blacks is mostly not being done by blacks but by other whites. Second, the traffic never flows the other way. I can’t think of a single example of a remake in which a black role went to a white. ...
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