The White Male Role Model 150 Years Later
My wife and I have started to make a point of watching some
television shows together to enjoy scheduled time together and provide another
common interest to discuss. I typically watch just sports, news or movies. Kerri likes to watch television series though
and sometimes binge watches entire seasons of shows in a matter of days or
weeks using streaming services. She
suggested a new (to us) series that might be mutually interesting, Fox’s “The
Last Man on Earth” knowing that I kinda like the sci-fi premise and comedies so,
the two together sounded promising. We
made it thru something like a half dozen episodes before I started complaining
that I didn’t like any of the characters; Kerri watched a few more on her own
and reported today that she is through with it.
Our electronic billboard ads for this Confederate History
and Heritage month feature General Robert E. Lee, perhaps one of the finest
leaders our nation has ever produced.
Loved and respected by his soldiers and fellow citizens of Virginia, the
Confederate States of America as well as the United States of America.
Certainly a timeless role model of a courageous, honorable, brilliant,
distinguished Christian man of character which we all should strive to emulate. Today, Hollywood provides us Phil Miller, the
Caucasian lead for “The Last Man on Earth”. Phil embodies the polar opposite of
Robert E. Lee as the bumbling, lying, conniving, inept, immoral, blasphemous
drunkard. The other characters thru the
first few episodes are women whose characters while flawed demonstrate much
more admirable qualities of industriousness and temperament. The final straw for which Kerri provided a
spoiler to save me from the effort and consternation of watching any more
episodes was the arrival of the object of desire for all the female characters,
a special ops trained, talented engineer, savior of an Adonis, a black
character also named Phil Miller, whose coincidental naming served to
accentuate the marked contrast to our original last man on Earth. Don’t waste your time on this television.
We are plagued with portrayals of flawed unlikeable white
males as the stereotype for Hollywood shows today. “Hamilton” is supposedly the hottest show on
Broadway featuring a portrayal of our Founding Fathers as all of black
ethnicity in a rap musical format. If
that doesn’t conjure up unseemly images sufficiently, Todd Starnes of Fox News
reports, “The producers of
“Hamilton” really did put out a casting call, “Seeking NON-WHITE men and women,
ages 20s to 30s, for Broadway and upcoming Tours!” their casting notice read.
The NON-WHITE part was in all caps.
(While) CBS 2 News in New York City reports that “Hamilton’s” casting
notice for ‘NON-WHITE” performers may violate the city’s human rights law, NYC’s
Commission on Human Rights declined to say if they were investigating and, producer
Jeffrey Seller told CBS his casting call for NON-WHITE performers is on the up
and up saying, “I stand by it and believe it to be legal.”” Starnes provided,
“The actual casting call: “George Washington: Males & Females, 30-49,
African American, Hispanic, Asian, South Asian, Native American, Middle
Eastern, Southeast Asian/Pacific Islander, Ethnically Ambiguous/Mixed Race,
African Descent. Non-White, tenor/baritone.” In other words, no white folks
need apply. After a bit of online
outrage, the producers changed their minds and decided to open the auditions to
the pigmentationally-challenged.” The
show’s producers continue unabated though their tasteless “discriminatory” and,
by some online observers astute observation, racist agenda, “As the Daily News
pointed out (casting) none of the lead roles by a Caucasian.” (“Hit
Broadway show celebrates diversity by excluding whites”, by Todd Starnes,
Published March 30, 2016, FoxNews.com)
No comments:
Post a Comment