Racism in Who: Post 4,735,009
Nov. 26th, 2008 07:32 pmWD: lj user="neadods"> has a href="http://neadods.livejournal.com/760274.html">Racism in Who post #4,735,009
Top-posted half because I have readers
lizbee doesn't and half because I'm laying the groundwork for the "Isms" panel at ChicagoTARDIS.
So.
lizbee posts a bingo card that sums up the staggeringly disgusting arguments against leading contender Paterson Joseph for Doctor 11. (ETA: Not the "I prefer actor X" or "I'm not sure of him specifically because" arguments, which are a different concept, the knee-jerk "I'm not a racist but I won't tolerate a black Doctor" arguments, which are legion.) All of the bingo squares are apparently exact quotes from the fandom and one particularly knots my shorts:
"America would never cope with a black leading man."
Overlooking our President elect because he's not an actor, leaving Whoopi Goldberg and Nichelle Nichols out of this because they're "just girls," and somehow totally ignoring Sammy Davis Jr., Avery Brooks, Jesse L. Martin, Denzel Washington, Will Smith, Gary Dourdan, and Samuel Jackson, I've got two words for y'all bigots:
Bill. Cosby.
Top-posted half because I have readers
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"America would never cope with a black leading man."
Overlooking our President elect because he's not an actor, leaving Whoopi Goldberg and Nichelle Nichols out of this because they're "just girls," and somehow totally ignoring Sammy Davis Jr., Avery Brooks, Jesse L. Martin, Denzel Washington, Will Smith, Gary Dourdan, and Samuel Jackson, I've got two words for y'all bigots:
Bill. Cosby.