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Sophie Okonedo in The Hollow Crown

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Apparently I should be checking out this miniseries adaptation of Shakespeare’s history plays, immediate-style.

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Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, WRONG! A black woman playing a white English queen? And I’m not even talking about the armour nonsense. What’s next a native american roman emperor wearing a grass skirt? A white Ghandi wearing ripped jeans and psychedelic shirts?

If you throw reality and historical accuracy out of the window for being PC you’re movie isn’t worth watching because it can have no real message.

angryfangirlsdobadthings

Oh quit bullshitting like this isn’t about your racism. Anthony Hopkins did Titus Andronicus as a half-dream half art piece with Saturnius and Bassanius using podiums and 1950′s style microphones to argue which one of them should be king. Kenneth Branagh did Hamlet in the Victorian Era. David Tennant did Hamlet in a fucking t-shirt. “Sons of Anarchy” was based on the story of Hamlet and it was about a motorcycle club running guns to the IRA. Don’t give me any shit about fucking ‘historical accuracy’ you fucking ponce, it’s SHAKESPEARE- it’s literally been done by a dog dressed in little hats and jackets (Wishbone, I never forgot you) and Wednesday and Pugsley Adams. If you have a problem with this you are not only a racist asshat, but you are so damn ignorant of Shakespeare I don’t even fucking know why you bothered to have an opinion except to let people KNOW you are a racist asshat.

diversehighfantasy

And I mean, all good Shakespeare companies blind cast. Shakespeare companies pretty much invented that. An African-American actor was playing King Lear in the 1820s in London, yet yt people still get bent out of shape over actors of color in Shakespeare in the 2010s. It’s a long tradition, unlike the movie and TV tradition of casting people of color mostly in small roles and only “when there’s a reason for it.”

medievalpoc

I love you for bringing up Ira Aldridge because now I have an excuse to post portraits of him starring in Shakespeare plays in London:

[Ira Aldridge as Othello; portrait by William Mulready c. 1840]

[Taras Shevchenko. (Ira Aldridge, as himself) 1858]

And 30k notes later, people are acting as if Black actors in Shakespeare plays are brand new. Nice to see we’ve progressed since the frigging 1800s….oh, wait. :|

diversehighfantasy

Many people may also be surprised that Black actors were performing Shakespeare professionally in New York in the early 1800s, half a century before American slavery was abolished. From Aldridge’s bio on BlackPast.org:

Ira Frederick Aldridge was born in New York City, New York on July 24, 1807 to free blacks Reverend Daniel and Lurona Aldridge. Although his parents encouraged him to become a pastor, he studied classical education at the African Free School in New York where he was first exposed to the performance arts. While there he became impressed with acting and by age 15 was associating with professional black actors in the city. They encouraged Aldridge to join the prestigious African Grove Theatre, an all-black theatre troupe founded by William Henry Brown and James Hewlett in 1821. He apprenticed under Hewlett, the first African American Shakespearean actor. Though Aldridge was gainfully employed as an actor in the 1820s, he felt that the United States was not a hospitable place for theatrical performers.

Why was it not hospitable?

Many whites resented the claim to cultural equality that they saw in black performances of Shakespeare and other white-authored texts.

In other words, people complaining about actors of color in Shakespeare (or fantasy, or historical drama, or anything) sound exactly like slave-era whites.

handful-ofdust

Julie Taymor was the person who made those choices re Titus Andronicus, but otherwise, I agree completely.

teenybuffalo

I was going to reblog from the source and evade the racist comment, but since it led to fine takedowns and portraits of Ira Aldridge, I’m going for this one. I have never seen a portrait of Aldridge before and I have little hearts in my eyes now.

medievalpoc

Since you’ve never seen a portrait of Aldridge before, I want to share my very favorite painting that he ever modeled for. It was a collaborative abolitionist project between Aldridge and John Phillip Simpson, in which Aldridge posed as an enslaved man, entitled The Captive Slave.

It was first displayed in 1827 at the Royal Academy of Arts Along with this poem:

But Ah! what wish can prosper, or what prayer

For merchants rich in cargoes of despair

-Cowper, 1782

And then, this masterpiece somehow ended up sitting in a basement for over 180 years, before it was rediscovered in 2009.

Aldridge’s acting skill is breathtaking here, as is Simpson’s skill at showing it off. I think everyone should look at this painting and think about it as often as possible, to make up for nearly two centuries of neglect.

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Important.

Cause some ppl are stupid and they don’t get this. Even if you have to beg for it, asking over and over, you are a rapey fellow.

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This is Angel Rice. She’s a 17-year-old gymnast who defies physics.

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Ok i didn’t expect that

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This has been on my dash all day and I finally watched it and ajdjfksk

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The new don’t hug me I’m scared is great.

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OMG the end got me

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Well then…

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dont act like it isn’t true tho

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Adam Buxton is a national treasure

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「美少女戦士セーラームーン Crystal」第3期＜デス・バスターズ編＞

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We don’t need a Frozen sequel, we need a sequel to The Princess and the Frog where Tiana and Naveen are human during the entire movie.

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Still hungry?

the-exercist

Absolutely!

The average active adult needs 2,000 calories per day in order to function in a safe and healthy manner. If I’m active to the point where I consistently run 1+ hour every day, then it is far more likely that my caloric needs are around 2,400-2,500.

Considering that, a meal of 1,200 calories would perfectly suit my needs. It would supply roughly half of my calorie requirements, which is a God-send since a fast food meal is relatively cheap. It’s a great value, especially if I don’t have much time to cook or have the resources to prepare my own meals!

The average burger is going to supply me with significant protein and carbs. That’s exactly what I’d need in order to build more muscle and have enough energy to make it through a workout. Even the sugar within the meal can be beneficial in supplying me with a boost of energy and can stop me from feeling hungry for a prolonged period of time. Not half bad.

Is this the most healthy meal known to man? Of course not. But it’s still a very reasonable deal and the calorie count is well within the average adult’s daily needs.

Don’t let calories scare you! You need them. If you were capable of burning off an entire meal within the hour, you’d probably be dead by now.

apatheid

1200 empty calories in a meal

next to no nutrition. all the calories are sugar and fat. that’s it. you’ll have no energy and have glucose spikes in your blood because the lack of fiber because of the lack of complex carbs. this is diabetes in a meal.

so no, you should not be hungry for diabetes

the-exercist

Nutritionally, this BK meal contains roughly 28g of protein and 3g of dietary fiber. It potentially also includes 35% of our Vitamin C daily requirements, 2% Vitamin A, 12% calcium, and 27% iron. Of the 1,010 calories (that I could verify directly from the company’s nutritional information guide), only 410 are from fat. That isn’t a terribly significant amount of fat, in the long run, nor are the nutrients small enough to be viewed as negligible.

Eating this will not cause you to get diabetes. Eating this meal is perfectly fine if you do have diabetes, as long as you are able to adjust your insulin intake accordingly. So don’t use an illness as your debate point - Diabetic people are not a prop.

vulnerate

“So don’t use an illness as your debate point - Diabetic people are not a prop.” I want that and variations of that on t shirts.

rikakuuma

damn, man. Someone just got completely schooled by a nutritionist.

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THIS A GOOD POST

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Black mom nails the problem with dads posing in prom photos with guns

Ivery Justivery is sick of seeing these photos, so she took to Facebook to say why she’s over it. It’s traumatizing and reinforces the objectification of women. A lot of people on Facebook agreed, but after some said she was taking the “joke” too seriously, Ivery edited her post with another sharp point.

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DARK SKIN APPRECIATION DAY IS JUNE 5, 2016.

The # is #FuckYourPaperBag

My dark skin fam, I want to see y’all show out. You can add a story of loving your skin tone, how you grew to love being dark skinned or you can just slay with your pictures. I’m here for it all. #FuckYourPaperBag

JUNE 5, 2016!

kingrudegyalchina

Please please PLEASEEEEEE BOOOST LE FUCK OUTTA THIS Cause I can’t WAIT

parttimeheaux

Can someone please follow this up with a brown skin appreciation day?

Idk who to take that to.

kimreesesdaughter

A brown skin appreciation day? Why not just post on DSAD…they are somewhat the same…

bantugal

What’s brown skin??? Please PLEASE don’t tell me Black people have been separated by skin tone beyond light and dark skin😒😒 light/dark seperation is bad enough

onlyblackgirl

Why don’t you make your own post about “brown skin” (whatever that is. Guess dark people ain’t brown now too) y'all just refuse to let dark skin people have anything.