Post by Radrook Admin on Jan 29, 2022 13:03:45 GMT -5
West Side Story Racist Agenda
Interesting preview showing the remake promoting the idea that no Puerto Ricans can ever be white, and that they are all essentially Sub Saharan Africans. This time, however, it is more forcefully conveyed via the employment of an Afro American, whose father was partially Puerto Rican, to play the role of Anita She is shown singing that Puerto Ricans should stick to their own kind. Of course that is being deemed far more effective than the first time when they resorted to forcing Rita Moreno, the original Anita, to hide her fair skin under dark makeup.
Naturally, Anglo and Afro American audiences will simply chuckle with approval since it reinforces their very popular misconceptions about what type of person qualifies as Puerto Rican. However, many members of a Puerto Rican audience who have been systematically and constantly exposed to such racist propaganda all their lives, can logically be expected to be very distracted. In turn, this will likely cause them to perceive Spielberg's attempt to assure us that he truly respects the Latino culture by not providing interpretational captions in English whenever Spanish is spoken in the film speak Spanish in the film, as merely a meaningless symbolic veneer that ineffectively attempts to hide a racist agenda.
But is Spielberg really going out of his way to convey this idea stereotypical notion concerning Puerto Ricans? Or is he totally innocent of all malice? Innocent? Nahh. Spielberg and his cronies cannot possibly be unaware of the Latino racial-identification issues that are very relevant and of constant concern to Latino community residing in the USA. He would need to be comatose not to have noticed and comatose, Spielberg is certainly not.
Addendum
I am not saying that the New Anita should not have been Afro Latina. After all, Afro Latinos are just as much a part of Latino culture as are all other racial groups. So this choice would have caused absolutely no controversy had it not been for the seemingly fanatical obsession in proving that Puerto Ricans can never be white and forcing a Puerto Rican actress to smear her face brown in order to be allowed to play a part of one of her own people, despite her objections during the filming of the original.
This is the only reason why the remake tends to be perceived as a disrespectful continuation of a previous policy that should have never been followed in the first place, and that is now abusively adding fuel to a blazing discriminatory racist, fire that had previously been cunningly lit.
Naturally, Anglo and Afro American audiences will simply chuckle with approval since it reinforces their very popular misconceptions about what type of person qualifies as Puerto Rican. However, many members of a Puerto Rican audience who have been systematically and constantly exposed to such racist propaganda all their lives, can logically be expected to be very distracted. In turn, this will likely cause them to perceive Spielberg's attempt to assure us that he truly respects the Latino culture by not providing interpretational captions in English whenever Spanish is spoken in the film speak Spanish in the film, as merely a meaningless symbolic veneer that ineffectively attempts to hide a racist agenda.
But is Spielberg really going out of his way to convey this idea stereotypical notion concerning Puerto Ricans? Or is he totally innocent of all malice? Innocent? Nahh. Spielberg and his cronies cannot possibly be unaware of the Latino racial-identification issues that are very relevant and of constant concern to Latino community residing in the USA. He would need to be comatose not to have noticed and comatose, Spielberg is certainly not.
Addendum
I am not saying that the New Anita should not have been Afro Latina. After all, Afro Latinos are just as much a part of Latino culture as are all other racial groups. So this choice would have caused absolutely no controversy had it not been for the seemingly fanatical obsession in proving that Puerto Ricans can never be white and forcing a Puerto Rican actress to smear her face brown in order to be allowed to play a part of one of her own people, despite her objections during the filming of the original.
This is the only reason why the remake tends to be perceived as a disrespectful continuation of a previous policy that should have never been followed in the first place, and that is now abusively adding fuel to a blazing discriminatory racist, fire that had previously been cunningly lit.