Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh complained on Tuesday about the prospect of Luther and The Wire star Idris Elba playing superspy James Bond in a movie, Media Matters reported.
“James Bond is a total concept put together by Ian Fleming,” Limbaugh said. “He was white and Scottish, period. That is who James Bond is.”
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“We’ve had 50 years of white Bonds because Bond is white,” Limbaugh argued. “Bond was never Black. Ian Fleming never created a Black Brit to play James Bond.”
Race never matters until a character that's usually white is played by a person of colour. Then they're being unreasonable, "shoving race down our throats", being too PC, being racist against whites, etc. But when white people play: 1) Native Americans like in the upcoming Peter Pan film, 2) Ancient Egyptians like in Exodus, 3) characters clearly meant to be Asian in their cartoon versions like in Dragon Ball Z and The Last Airbender, there's no problem and it's "the best person got the part so shut up and stop complaining", "we're all human!".
Don't give Rush Limbaugh any publicity, his comments are just meant to provoke. Just ignore, I don't even waste my time being mad at him because he's a troll.
Race never matters until a character that's usually white is played by a person of colour. Then they're being unreasonable, "shoving race down our throats", being too PC, being racist against whites, etc. But when white people play: 1) Native Americans like in the upcoming Peter Pan film, 2) Ancient Egyptians like in Exodus, 3) characters clearly meant to be Asian in their cartoon versions like in Dragon Ball Z and The Last Airbender, there's no problem and it's "the best person got the part so shut up and stop complaining", "we're all human!".
The character has always been white by definition and to say that the writer should change them to black would just be altering someone's creativity really
I mean what's next , Taylor Swift should date a POC and write songs about them just to be diverse? Like literally stop doing too much
Isn't James Bond British, and isn't Idris Elba British ?
Daniel Craig and Pierce Brosnana aren't even British
Daniel is British.
That means there's no black people in Great Britain? But whenever white people want to appropriate other cultures, we gotta let them, because they can, black people can't. I swear.
I don't give a **** about Bond movies (never seen one) and I do agree that non-white actors should be used a lot more frequently (especially if the character's race isn't significant for the role), but to me it sounds like a stupid af idea to randomly make a character black that's been white for over 50 years.