Thursday, June 25, 2020

REGULAR FEATURE

I guess this crap is going to occur again and again in American life from now on.  Ladies?  Ostentatious public piety is a horrible look.

As protests calling for an end to systemic racism continue to rock the nation, two white actresses pledged Wednesday to stop voicing biracial cartoon characters, NBC News reports. Jenny Slate was first, posting on Instagram that she would no longer voice Missy on Netflix's Big Mouth. She says her reasoning for accepting the role in the first place was that the character's mother is Jewish and white, like Slate. "But ‘Missy’ is also Black, and Black characters on an animated show should be played by Black people,” she wrote. “I acknowledge how my original reasoning is flawed, that it existed as an example of white privilege and unjust allowances made within a system of societal white supremacy, and that in me playing ‘Missy,’ I was engaging in an act of erasure of Black people."

Who sez?  This Guy.

Take heed that you do not do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father in heaven.  Therefore, when you do a charitable deed, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory from men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward.  But when you do a charitable deed, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, that your charitable deed may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will Himself reward you openly.

UPDATE: Oh for the love of...

2 comments:

Katherine said...

These women are actresses. Actors' job is to pretend, effectively, to be people they are not. Either do your job or find another line of work.

Anonymous said...

So, out of pure curiousity, where does that leave the cast of Hamilton?