On Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:19:00 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

On Oct 18, 8:58*am, Graham P Davis wrote:
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On Oct 17, 10:20*am, "Dave Cornwell"
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On Oct 16, 9:34 pm, (Gareth Slee) wrote:

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http://wattsupwiththat.com

...and that's a more reliable source than the BBC?

Yes Gareth, the same BBC that gave us is latest production of Oliver
Twist casting a black girl as Nancy. Ideology over reality every
time.
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It wouldn't occur to you that she might have been the best actress at the
audition would it? I saw it and thought she was a brilliant Nancy and
don't see what difference it makes. I don't recall the line in the novel
"Bill Sikes' girlfriend, the poor white girl, Nancy....."
Dave

No Dave it didn't occurr to me that she was the best actress for the
job, not in a million years. Taking your logic a step further, how
about Hugh Grant *playing the part of Nelson Mandella, *now that would
cause riots amongst the Guardinista's .

As for

*"I don't recall the line in the novel "Bill Sikes' girlfriend, the
poor white girl, Nancy"

Silly me *I forgot the novel *Winston Twista was set against the
backdrop of the Notting Hill Carnival..

You still seem to be confusing fictional characters with real ones. Just to
clarify the matter, Nelson Mandela is a real person who is black and Nancy
was a fictional character whose race was, as far as I know, not specified.
So why have you such a problem with Nancy not being played by a white
person?

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Simply this: The bbc are doing this all the time at every opportunity
they try and portray the world to suit their cringing self-loathing
view. In these more enlightened days there would rightly be an outcry
to have a white actor play an obviously black character, but when the
other way round

In what way is Nancy obviously white? You appear to have a major
hang-up about the colour of a person's skin.