Rewriting the Past
WHITE characters are routinely scrubbed from historical dramas and replaced with non-whites. European history is misrepresented in a way that Asian and African history never is. Rosa Parks would never be played by a white woman. This miscasting constitutes the malicious erasure of European identity.
“History Debunked” has some interesting commentary on the phenomenon.
“The result of all this foolishness is to show a weird alternative universe which bears absolutely no relation at all to the real past. When David Copperfield was remade last year the central character was played by a man called Patel who boasted in private he had never read the book. Mister Wickfield was played by a Chinaman and his daughter Agnes by a black woman. The overall effect was inconceivably odd.” (more…)



