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Finally, racism is over now that there’s an all-black version of a classic Jane Austen novel.
The Hallmark Channel is best known for its popular contemporary Christmas-themed fare. But this February, or “Loveuary,” as they are calling it, the network has a different cause for celebration — the debut of a quartet of new films inspired by the creativity and fandom of Regency-era novelist Jane Austen, including Sense and Sensibility with a mostly black lead cast.
Not sure who’s celebrating it except the sorts of woke white women who attend ‘conversations about race’ dinners.
Racial recasting does not add, it subtracts, and when done with period stories it takes them out of the realm of their time and place, and into the realm of fantasy.
The Hallmark Channel, briefly, resisted the tide of wokeness and with its watered down versions of Christmas romances based on Meg Ryan movies that never happened, it was an insular island of middlebrow cultural stability that had largely vanished since the 1950s. But, much as Disney had to be conquered and corrupted precisely because it represented wholesomeness, Hallmark had to be besieged and forced to surrender. First it was LGBTQ romances and now it’s remaking Sense and Sensibility with fewer members of the ‘bad’ race.
The point has less to do with the specific project than with the need to impose its ideological destruction of the culture on everyone.
Hallmark could and does make plenty of black specific romances. It could even make a historically grounded black romance set in a historical period. But that wouldn’t make a ‘point’ and it’s never about the story, and it’s always about ‘making a point’.
That’s why we’re in the middle of an unprecedented storm of content with more people tuning much of it out than ever before.
The DEI and ESG folks that Hallmark allowed inside the door have done what they always do, alienate the core audience, stir up controversy and ensure that everyone must know that they are the ones in charge.
Bravo! Jane Austen is sacred to many of us. This version is sacrilege. I don’t even have to view it to know.
How large an audience will be waiting to see this crude apology for featuring white people in the original cast?
I think I’ll wait for the all white cast version of Porgy and Bess.
You forgot an all white “a raisin in the sun” or better yet, an all white “Hamilton”
If they wanted to update S&S to modern times and use an all-Black cast I think that is completely fine. Setting it during Austen’s time is just….REALLY weird
My girlfriend watches Hallmark and she’s black, so she’ll probably like it. She’s one of those chicks who decorates her place in a psuedo African motif, which I teased her about at first, but now I like it because it’s so different from my place.
When she watches Hallmark when I’m over there, I just want to shoot myself in the head, though.
In the big picture, this seems like much ado about very little. Just another corporate entity’s transparent attempt at getting on the wokie bandwagon. I seriously doubt that political ideology was consulted at all–a commercial decision more than anything else. It reminds me of 1979, when Mattel launched Christie, the first black Barbie doll. Did this prove that the toy manufacturer was all for racial equality? No, it just proved that all you have to do is change some dye in the plastic, and you’re instantly down with the struggle.
Hallmark’s motivation is political, not commercial, because productions like this never perform well and Hallmark knows that.
Replacing white characters in movies, TV shows and comic books with black ones is racist as F. It’s not enough to have blacks in those venues. No, the whites have to be extirpated, effectively killed and replaced.
Actually, sociological, not political. It’s “woke.”
I thought those books were supposed to give an insight into the lives of the British Aristocracy of that time, a rare flower of history,
I think they should be seeking out original Black stories. At this point there are many African and American Black stories that could be adapted for film. Otherwise, it looks like Blacks need to poach white stories — they don.t.
There’s a reason I don’t watch many modern television shows or current movies, and this is it. When a white girl shows up in dreadlocks it’s negatively considered “cultural appropriation”, but when ‘Sense and Sensibility’ (a classic Austen period piece) is remade with a black cast, it is whole cloth cultural appropriation with an “In your face!” flavor that tastes like indoctrinational trash.
My dearly departed mother-in-law was a movie house ticket taker as a teenager during the great depression. She was able to see many movies of the period, and her take on movies has always stuck with me. “People go to the movies to be swept away from their workaday lives, not reminded of them. They are there to be entertained, not educated. There are schools for that if they so choose.”
Might be time for a John Wayne movie marathon. He was her favorite.
Just have DVD’s don’t bother with this leftists propaganda and PC poppycock
Do I smell cultural appropriation and racism in this woke mess? Pretty sure there was NO black people in South West England, London, and Sussex, between 1792 and 1797.
The last line. Splat, might as well have been shot/self lobotomized. My wife expects me to sit with her through a Hallmark marathon tonight. Says something special is on. I’m thinking special K, out the door in five minutes.
So when they do a re-make of Porgy and Bess with an all White cast there should be no problems, right?
I’m a little disappointed they didn’t make any of the Dashwood sisters crossdressing guys, or heck, all of them. Hallmark is obviously transphobic, and something needs to be done about it. Jk, but you watch, lol.
This trend of trying to insert “people of color” into white history,literature and culture is not new,but it’s becoming more blatant and absurd.The good news is that a growing number of viewers are tuning out this garbage.They know it’s not realistic and not worth their time.You can attach an aristocratic european facade to a person of color,but it’s never convincing or authentic,only pathetic.
This is cultural appropriation, again from the canon of famous dead white authors (Shakespeare has already had this treatment).
The original author of the Bridgerton series, a romance novelist consented to a TV adaptation by a black show-runner changing her white characters to black, dressing them in vintage wigs and clothing they never wore, portraying British nobility when their African contemporaries were actually still selling defeated tribes into slavery, Dead authors cannot consent to such manipulation of their work.
Blacks should write their own stories if they want fantasy, but it should be hands off literature in historic settings by white authors.
It’s all about the Great Replacement and the genocide of the white race, together with our heritage, history, and culture. They want us gone.