Lovely; I'm happy for you. If most people accept and treat you as Irish first and black second, that is wonderful and I hope it is the shape of things to come. I remember singer Laura Izibor and actress Samantha Mumba talking about how difficult it was for them growing up black in Ireland, but that Ireland is…
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You're the one who seems miserable, my dear. You aren't comfortable with someone challenging you and don't know how to handle it when your dismissive, self-focused snark doesn't penetrate. How old are you? You are really going to assert that you aren't white because you're Irish? In what universe? Where is this…
Britain has always been the jakes of Europe, they are an accepting people.
Actually, I know quite bit about it. I'm very familiar with the "England for the English" sentiment, and I wasn't born yesterday, so when I hear or read statements that reek of a longing for fewer of "them" and more of "us", or casually ascribing terrorist intent or sentiment to anyone Muslim, they resonate. And I…
What is insufferable is your repetitiveness, inability to grasp a larger picture, and lack of reading comprehension. You're commenting in a fucking thread in which the OP refers to Freeman as a racist and posts an interview in which Freeman makes comments about multiculturalism that offended a number of people (not…
That makes me sad. :( My adoration for both Sirs is near boundless. I hope they do improve things the second season, in both writing and performance, because I need to see Ian and Derek as a couple!
Thank you. I review Broadway shows with Texas connections for a Texas website, and I usually get fairly decent press seating. I've done ok with seating on my own, but I'd looked at tix before and didn't see anything that inexpensive, so I wasn't sure how much I wanted to spend to squirm and be uncomfortable. …
I love both of these men SO HARD, and I was thrilled to hear about this. However, apparently the first series was panned by critics, and even McKellen himself criticized his own performance, saying he was over-the-top and way too theatrical for a TV series. However, it has been renewed, and he promises this series…
I've been contemplating (no, more like salivating) to see this, but can you really see from a $40 seat? My roommate and I are bigger ladies, so squeezing into these tiny NYC theatre seats is often an exercise in torture. I don't want to pay for cheap seats and then be both uncomfortable and unable to absorb the work…
No, I just give a shit, because as a woman of color who cares about more than just my own ass, I can't afford not to. It's a form of privilege not to; one I don't have. If that reads as self righteous to you, that says far more about you than it does about me.
Was that an interrogative statement? The lack of commas and a question mark makes it difficult to determine. But what I am sure of is that you think constantly repeating a term makes it valid, and on that you are mistaken.
You are misstating my comment, and I will not concede to that. I said nothing originally about Shahi being "white-passing"; that was your term. For the THIRD time, I said she is being coded by the show as white. I will concede, as another commenter noted, that her full name is supposed to be "Sameen Shaw". But she…
Seems a very concise way to say, "I think he's funny and I don't give a shit what anyone else thinks." What you call self-righteous I call self-preservation. I can't afford to be cavalier about how I engage with entertainment and where and on whom I choose to spend my money. You can; congratulations. Whatevs,…
Perhaps you need some media studies training. The SHOW codes her character "Shaw" as white. She enters and moves through spaces freely, with no concern to being stopped or standing out because of her race or ethnicity. The only time she seems awkward in an environment is when she is asked to act "conventionally…
No, just discerning. I think it's funny that Americans are criticized for our "cult of celebrity"; Brits are just as bad and will twist themselves into knots to defend someone they've anointed and dismissively tell us we just don't "get" that person's humor/politics/art/whatever the hell it is. If I were so…
Did you miss the word "coded"? Apparently so.
You started off snarky and dismissive with your original comment, so it was your hot wind that filled up that sail. You couldn't convince me of the rightness of your opinion and claimed to agree to disagree, yet kept returning to insist "but I still don't think he's a racist". You made that clear; I'm happy for you.…
A show I no longer watch since they killed off her character and tried to feed us that bullshit about this being planned from day one. Then why was she so upset by the series premiere when she was left off the TV Guide cover even though she had been marketed early on as a series lead? Did they plan from day one to…
That's nice. I think we're done here.
The playwright has been interviewed about his play numerous times. It can be easily googled, if you care enough to do so (I suspect you don't, but that's ok). Interestingly, there was this: No, I think it is a play for white people. It’s a play about white people. It’s about the white response to race, about being…