Mani-Man
I just found out about this (he/him)
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It is possible, but most of the time those that want to address it...simply do it for Racist reasons...even if its just underlying racism.Is it possible to address the ethnicity thing without sounding racist? I like characters to be faithful to source material so for that reason I don’t want a female playing 007, or a black or Asian James Bond, or whatever. The character is a white, British Caucasian male. For the record, I also don’t want a white man playing Black Panther or 3 young dudes in the next remake of Charlie’s Angels. Race or gender doesn’t bother me one bit, but accuracy does.
Literally the only two important Identification aspects of James Bond, are that he is british and male...the rest is relative unimportant in terms of his Appearance.
While as often said, its vital to the character of Black Panther to be Black.
Which is simply often the case for Black Characters, because they were often created to embrace what a racist society told them they cant embrace...being black.
We as society and in this day and age have too many people ill equipped to have such a discussion unfortunately.
There is already more outrage at the Snape casting in 2-3 days, than there ever was when Marvel didnt cast a Romani actor for Doctor Doom for example.
That is because the debate about "Race swapping" characters more often than not is bothering people when it goes it includes more POC representation, not the other way around.