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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: Medium: Not Enough Black People in SHOGUN
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2024 18:24:59 -0000 (UTC)
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Rhino  <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>On Sat, 13 Apr 2024 16:49:23 -0700
>anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
>
>> The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
>> > On Fri, 12 Apr 2024 20:24:57 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
>> > wrote:
>> >   
>> >>> Do they not understand one of the key tenets of science is to
>> >>> discover the truth of how things work and what goes into it.
>> >>> Starting off with a black woman in a Santa Claus beard pretending
>> >>> to be da Vinci doesn't sound like any sort of truth I'm aware of.
>> >>>   
>> >> 
>> >> Well, it gets their pictures in the paper. I haven’t been back
>> >> since they pulled that little stunt not even when they had the
>> >> traveling Star Trek exhibit.
>> >>   
>> > Strange - I always thought one of the main reasons for the Klingons
>> > in Star Trek was to ensure black actors always got lots of work -
>> > and in later shows beyond TOS enough of the Klingons were 'good
>> > guys' that the 1960s / 70s ancestors of the current DIE crowd were
>> > happy. 
>> 
>> No. That’s a lie told by total retard Michael Dorn (Worf) who says
>> that the reason for Klingons is so they could hire black actors with
>> nobody knowing. Klingons had been being played by non-black actors
>> for decades, before somebody hired Dorn.
>> 
>Correct! Having recently rewatched nearly every episode of ST:TOS
>recently - I skipped the really awful ones - it's blindingly
>obvious that every one of the people playing the Klingon commanders
>(and every lesser Klingon that I can recall too) was white.

Black actors is cultural appropriation, same as white actors, as they
are supposed to be Mongolians.

>Now, there *might* be some truth to the idea that later Star Treks used
>more black actors as Klingons so that they could increase their count
>of black actors; I really couldn't say about that. 

If the actor is wearing a mask or extensive face makeup, what does his
skin color have to do with anything? You don't know what it is.