Token black actors

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Black actors in Shakespeare, Historical Dramas. It is so crushingly clunky. If I see one in a Shakespear play holding up a spear-I always think they should be holding up a sign-‘token black’. It is so clunky. It breaks-‘our willing suspension of disbelief’.

Maybe the whole cast should black up?Dame Judi? I am genuinely interested. There were black extras in this last series of PolDARK (Mrs Plastic is a fan). But we all know there weren’t any black people in Cornwall at the time.

Nominated by Miles Plastic

43 thoughts on “Token black actors”

    • Ah, but black actors playing real English Kings who history conclusively shows weren’t black? That’s taking the piss…

      • Fuck me trying to post this is a nightmare. Trying again. Fronting as a Pedantic Cunt requires a modicum orf accuracy or else you are just a Cunt as is the case, you Cunt. As a Connoisseur orf the Classics, a consequence orf a perhaps frittered classical education, may Yours Truly offer you some correction, you irritating little git.

        Shakespoke’s Othello was never a swartzer, particularly never a Banana Boat Blackie (West Indian cunt) as invariably now cast, he was a Moor, ie a Wog. In me heyday cut cuite the sensation with me celebrated portrayal orf said sand shitter (you try serving in Wogland without eating tons orf the fly ridden stuff – fortuitously the Good Lord gave us Benghazi Bowel to regularize the situation). Ah those ENSA days.
        Returned thereafter to wow ’em in the provinces, on tour to many orf the major theatres in the land.
        ‘Twas Black Face orf course, burnt cork in the early days, later when more flush, grease paint. Spot orf white eye liner and white lippy to set orf me noble features in those dingy post war fleapits. Invariably took triumphant curtain calls after me throttling orf that old slag Desdemona (the bitch was me real life wife which helped me find theTruth). Yours Truly signalled me distraction to an an aghast open mouthed audience by rolling me eyes and mouthing a few stanzas orf “Mameee mammeee”. The I topped her. “Strangle her again Limpy” they cried – and I obliged many times. Scaled an unforgettable pinnacle orf the Thespian Arts me dears. Matinees and Evening Performances, twice on Saturdays. We were there for my public.

        Do not wish to rise too far above your Loaf old heart but an aficionado orf the old Brechtian theories orf Alienation (you might try Google sweetheart). By God we alienated those ticket buying fuckers. How tempus fugit. Me latest presentation orf that masterpiece orf the classics features a nude female/trans cast with a swartzer playing Othello in a black condom (not a sell oit, irony me dears) which ejects sperm during the Desdemona scene and splits at the end. Beyond irony. Is that possible? Me old cunt sniffer detects a triumph orf Epic stature. Book your tickets now to avoid disappointment. (No money refunded under any circumstances). Robson, Olivier, Don Warrington? Pshaw! Fucking amateurs.

      • All went into moderation Limpers – therefore duplicate post? Yes. Already several in the moderation queue.

        Released this one and deleted the many others. Post once and if “your comment awaits moderation” appears then relax and we’ll get to it. We don’t sit here permanently watching the queue so sometimes it takes a mo.

        PS It were ‘wog’ what did the deed. It’s a moderated word only allowed in proper context

      • We can argue the point Sir Limply.
        One aspect still being debated amongst some Shakespeareans is that of the ethnicity of Shakespeare’s Othello. The answer may seem obvious, but is it? The differences of opinion center around exactly what the Bard intended by his use of the term “Moor” in describing his character’s ethnicity. The word is believed to have originated from the Greek term mauros, which means black. It was first used to describe the natives of Mauretania — the region of North Africa which today corresponds to Morocco and Algeria. It was later applied to people of Berber and Arab origin, who conquered and ruled the Iberian Peninsula — the area now known as Spain and Portugal — for nearly eight centuries. From the Middle Ages onwards the Moors were commonly regarded as black Africans, and the word was used alongside the terms “negro,” “Ethiopian” and “Blackamoor” as a racial identifier.

        Glad to have a intellectual debate. Makes a change. Do I gather your background it’s in the arts? Perhaps we have met at Glynebourn?

        Whatever the answer, I did rather admire Adrian Lester’s Othello to Rory Kinnear’s Iago last year. Top points to their interplay I thought?

      • Wycliffe and team evidently did a good job of keeping Cornwall’s coastline c**n-free…

  3. Can we add Idris Elba to these cunts. He’s moaning about being James Bond again.

    • You’ll be looking for a new manager by October. I hear Mick McCarthy is available.

      • Reckon your right Freddie.

        Probably give him half a dozen more games and if nothing improves he will be on his way.

        A strange appointment with no experience at this level, and almost certainly the cheapest option.

        Personally quite liked McCarthy however know a few of the hard core fans couldn’t wait to see the back of him, and him ITFC.

      • Steve McClaren’ll probably be available before much longer. He’ll be looking for a 3 year contract that’ll be to pay in full when he’s sacked after a dozen games.

      • Schteve McClaren ? Ah, sho good to be reminded of this honorary Amshsterdam resident’s complete incompetence.
        Luckily for him (and fans of Div 3 or Conference sides tempted to employ him) a precious win today has staved off the P45 for now. P5 W1 L4 GD minus 10 still ain’t a good look.
        Want to cunt him but have far bigger fish to fry.

      • Ugh Schteve McClaren. Quite possibly the worst manager in English football – and yes, that includes Alan Pardew.

      • It’s a shame as Hurst seems a good manager (well from an outsider’s perspective anyway) who’s just decided to try his hand at a level which is a step too far for him.

    • Saves my team from being bottom willie, same points just goal difference helping us out………come on URZ……..

  6. Darkies have no problem with “culturally appropriating” roles written for whites apparently.

    • …..and straight hair, shoes, clothes, food that isn’t raw, food that isn’t just chimpmeat/nuts/bananas, etc, etc

  7. I could sling in a late cunting for Manchester Pride – but I cant be arsed. Men in tight shorts and fuck all else parading around, kids in rainbow coloured prams, turd nudger from Corrie telling viewers how wonderful it is. Its not, its unnatural – if Mother nature had intended dicks to go up the shit chutes she would have made another hole. Don’t mind a bit of bum fun with an accommodating female (treat sex we call it oop North) but the thought of storming another mans shite orifice leaves me bilious.

  8. There’s nothing new about black actors playing unlikely roles. I’m thinking about Sidney Poitier in “To Sir With Love.” Now what would a black American be doing teaching in a shitty East London school in 1967? Of course Sidney didn’t get the part because he is black but because he was a fucking star ! I’ve often wondered how they managed to sign up someone like Sidney to a two bob crappy British film like that. I can only imagine he thought it wouldn’t last and he was taking anything he was offered.

    • Poitier and Steiger outstanding in ‘In The Heat Of The Night’.

      Officer Wood: “What you doin’ wearing white man’s clothes?”

      • Tell me Virgil, what’s a negra boy like you do in Phil-ah-delphia Penn-syl-vania?

        I’m a police officer.

        Say what?

  9. If the BBC had produced the classic film Downfall, they would probably have considered that there should have been more black faces in the cast.

  10. They always have to play super duper morally upright heroes like Luther. It is so manufactured. Guess who’s coming to dinner; Super Sidney. I do believe that the only answer is full black casts. I would like to see King Lear performed by a full cast of black actors set in an African village. I would believe it. I hate tokenism. Referring to a post earlier that there are no comedies any more. There are no dramas either. Because we are not relaxed. The writers aren’t thinking about characters or stories they’re thinking about ‘issues’.

  11. Molly you always was a silly dumb ho https://i.redd.it/x03vwa7he9i11.jpg

    She helped contribute to the environment where she could be murdered and the US can transition into more of a third world country. Her family is still liberal despite a immigrant killing her and they are more pissed off at racists and white nationalists

  12. Black guy (or woman, for that matter) as Hamlet or Macbeth, no problem.
    White guy as Othello? Fucking howls of outrage from progressives and ‘right on’ bellends.
    Piss off and die, you hypocritical cunts.

  13. As a slight variant on this theme, I always loved the token Ensign with ray gun and no dialogue when Kirk, Spock and Bones ‘beamed down’ on the first away mission to some planet or other. Never seen before, blasted by some strange energy or summat, never seen alive again.
    ‘It’s worse than that he’s dead Jim…’

    • If you’re wearing a red Starfleet jersey and you’re not Scotty, you’re fucked.
      Golden rule of Star Trek…

  14. If there’s a black guy with the necessary skills to play Bond – ie. capable of breaking into buildings, have access to guns, and treat women like shit…..then give him a shot….

  15. Sir Limply dare I risk a literary allusion to at your inability to post? My mouth is stopped.

  16. May I say, after wondering whether I should’nt eject myself from this cesspit I came across this site and thought bugger me, some sane people. I may at some point propose that hideous word ‘ inappropriate ‘for a cunting if that’s ok. I am in drink.

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