What she says not only applies to military, but law enforcement, imo.
The friendly fire thing has already happened more than once:
http://https://www.nytimes.com/1994/...t-officer.html
http://https://www.nydailynews.com/n...ticle-1.372647
http://https://www.theguardian.com/u...hite-colleague
Frankly, a Black plainclothes officer who responds to an alert is taking a big chance and when some of these guys are in panic mode maybe they don't even have to be in plainclothes to suffer an "accident".
Last edited by Vic Vega; 04-13-2021 at 05:59 PM.
Why would they stop?
Got caught on camers, during a pandemic when people had nothing else to do, mass protest and riots and...
What changed exactly?
If anything, police should feel empowered. There untouchable
Black Panther Discord Server: https://discord.gg/SA3hQerktm
T'challa's Greatest Comic Book Feats: http://blackpanthermarvel.blogspot.c...her-feats.html
https://www.themarysue.com/black-hor...learn-get-out/
An article by Princess Weekes on how certain black horror media has failed in areas Get Out succeeded.
Warning for spoilers for the t.v. series "Them" and for discussion about rape and violence.
https://www.themarysue.com/bbc-diver...uthentic-what/
BBC Diversity Chief Calls Character of Luther Not “Authentic,” but What Does That Even Mean? by Princess Weekes
There has been some discussion about the BBC show Luther and how it qualifies as Black “representation.”
Luther is a BBC crime drama created by Neil Cross about Detective Chief Inspector John Luther (Idris Elba) solving brutal murders in the Serious Crime Unit of the MET. It ran from 2010–2019, and there have been talks about a possible movie being in the works.
Miranda Wayland, the BBC’s head of creative diversity, told the MIPTV media conference: “When [Luther] first came out everybody loved the fact that Idris Elba was in there – a really strong, Black character lead. We all fell in love with him. Who didn’t, right? But after you got into about the second series you got kind of like, okay, he doesn’t have any Black friends, he doesn’t eat any Caribbean food, this doesn’t feel authentic.”
Wayland’s thoughts are not totally off base, since the show was written almost entirely by creator Cross, who is a white man. He stated in response to the comments that “I have no knowledge or expertise or right to try to tackle in some way the experience of being a Black man in modern Britain.” He continued, “It would have been an act of tremendous arrogance for me to try to write a Black character. We would have ended up with a slightly embarrassed, ignorant, middle-class, White writer’s idea of a Black character.”
Cross purposefully made the character of Luther a grizzled, loner detective and as a result, he doesn’t have many friends and his interior life largely isn’t a big factor in the series. Actor Idris Elba has stated before that part of his attraction to the role was that it didn’t have any stereotypical elements to it.
The role is largely a “color-blind” one in construction because, in many ways, it isn’t constructed to perform anything other than what the crime drama usually asks from its male leads.
Luther is such a weird show to choose to make this statement about because the character of Luther is a solitary character. I don’t remember him eating or really having friends. His work consumed his life and his mental health.
The bringing up of Caribbean food especially is a bit jarring since we don’t know what Luther’s ethnicity is. Idris Elba himself is of Sierra Leonean and Ghanaian heritage, so if this was supposed to indicate his Blackness, it doesn’t even match his own. Also, as a member of the Caribbean diaspora myself, yes, food is part of my culture, but when you grow up in a white-dominant culture (like Luther does), it impacts your eating habits, as well.
I think Wayland’s point is a layered one that gets muddled because of the show she picked. There is no one, monolithic Black experience, and it can not be summed up with just foods or your friendgroup. However, Luther is a show with a Black lead and a lot of diversity, but behind the scenes it was likely a largely white environment. It is good for shows to think about the larger sphere of representation and going beyond just a lead BIPOC person and no one else.
But, it is also important that, if we constantly keep reminding people that BIPOC are not a monolith, we are not looking for stereotypic shorthand in a narrative that isn’t focusing on any interior lives. It is a complicated dance, and I personally preferred that Cross simply wrote Luther as a detective and didn’t try to create a narrative about Blackness.
I'm actually inclined to agree with Miranda Wayland about this, even if we agree/argue that part(s) of the construction of her stance was off-base (the presumption that Luther was Caribbean, for example). Because at the end of the day, Luther was still a Black character on a show that lasted 8-9 years being written and directed by a White writer, who deliberately fashioned the character in such a way that they wouldn't have to worry, in their minds at least, about portraying Luther as anything beyond a generic (and defaultly so) template.
Last edited by J. D. Guy; 04-15-2021 at 05:28 AM.
It is even mildly surprising at this point how much the internet hates Karli from Fal/WS and keeps bringing up spoilers:end of spoilers
how she bombed a building and how she is a terrorist and Sam was stupid to try and talk to here and Walker may have been kinda right
But has no problem loving Zemo, who... spoilers:end of spoilers
bombed a building in CW
Why is this stuff always so transparent lol?
Black Panther Discord Server: https://discord.gg/SA3hQerktm
T'challa's Greatest Comic Book Feats: http://blackpanthermarvel.blogspot.c...her-feats.html
This, an appropriate designation.
Also. This is also part of the struggle, just being seen, as an equal. In ways it's still a trapping, Idris Elba is an international movie star, there ain't but one of him that's as big as he is, and there ain't but one Luther (I've tried to watch it, not saying it isn't cool but here in America, we've seen a type of this procedural times before). It also plays to Elba's strengths, dude speaks in interviews a bit more culturally that the roles he's played would convey.
Beefing up the old home security, huh?You bet yer ass.
It's because Zemo said a few woke things and did a dance. There's an hour long video of Zemo dancing on Youtube. Agatha Harkness sang a song and the internet forgot that she was an evil witch. Kind of like how they forgot Loki led the invasion of earth by the chitauri. "Killmonger was right" he was just a hotep with a gym membership. "Thanos was right" Thanos was a stupid cosmic neckbeard. The marvel fandom is as predictable as the tide, as long as the villain is somewhat attractive, does something memeable, says something vaguely poignant, or all three, the fandom will fall for them, hook, line, and sinker.
But Thanos isn't even attractive by conventional standards.
(Ignorant White Boy Talking Alert)
I think the more accurate way to look at Luther is to say that he is *an* authentic example of diversity and representation, but a vague and interchangeable one - the role could be played by almost any ethnicity in the UK, and is very much a portrayal of a universal kind of “Britishness” that defies the idea of “race,” but lacks anything beyond the broad specifics of other demographics that are still under-represented in other ways.
It’s designed to break stereotypes and cliches, and to prove the humanity of its subject to all, but it isn’t education, exploring or exposing a subculture or minority group to the “mainstream” audience.
It fights against and defeats some types of ignorance, but not all type so ignorance. Racism can’t be applied against the show, but you could probably make an argument for ethnocentrism in terms of Luther still being very much “British” rather than any particular ethnic group within Britain.
Like action, adventure, rogues, and outlaws? Like anti-heroes, femme fatales, mysteries and thrillers?
I wrote a book with them. Outlaw’s Shadow: A Sherwood Noir. Robin Hood’s evil counterpart, Guy of Gisbourne, is the main character. Feel free to give it a look: https://read.amazon.com/kp/embed?asi...E2PKBNJFH76GQP
What, of course he is. He's portrayed as charming and STRONG couple that with 'being right' he's fuckin' 1974 Billy Dee Williams to a certain segment of the male fandom.
As opposed to say Red Skull, who is not charming, strong still but less right. And that's mostly because the swastika he's been known to rock is an early victim of cancel culture.
Beefing up the old home security, huh?You bet yer ass.
Black Panther Discord Server: https://discord.gg/SA3hQerktm
T'challa's Greatest Comic Book Feats: http://blackpanthermarvel.blogspot.c...her-feats.html