So this beautiful person that is Isaiah Mustafa was cast as Luke Garroway for the upcoming Shadowhunters TV series.
And people on Twitter are spewing bullshit like these:
WOAH WOAH WOAH. HOLD UP.
WHY THE HELL IS IT OKAY FOR WHITE PEOPLE TO PLAY CANON-POC BUT WHEN IT’S A BLACK PERSON PLAYING THE ROLE OF A CANON-WHITE PERSON, EVERYONE GOES BALLISTIC.
LIKE, REMEMBER HOW HOLLYWOOD DID THESE:
Jake Gyllenhaal as Dastan (Prince of Persia)
Jackson Rathbone & Nicola Peltz as Katara & Sokka (The Last Airbender)
Jim Sturgess as Hae-Joo Chang (Cloud Atlas)
Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen (The Hunger Games)
Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra (Cleopatra)
Colbie Smulders as Maria Hill (The Avengers)
Justin Chatwin as Goku (Dragon Ball: Evolution)
Johnny Depp as Tonto (The Lone Ranger)
I MEAN. I DON’T HEAR YOU PEOPLE COMPLAINING ABOUT THIS.
STOP SAYING THAT YOU ARE NOT BEING RACIST. BECAUSE *NEWS FLASH* YOU FUCKING ARE.
SO CAN YOU JUST BACK OFF ISAIAH MUSTAFA BEING CAST AS LUKE GARROWAY.
Just a collection of trivial topics and events that some may perceive to be racist, racially discriminative, and/or biased towards those with privilege in the U.S.