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How about a white actor playing Charlie Chan?


Man, I bet Chinese people would go crazy if they ever let some white guy, like maybe from Sweden or something, play the celebrated Asian American detective.

And what if they let some British guy play Fu Manchu? Or some Hungarian freako play Mr. Moto? I mean, c'mon! East is East and West is West! I think Mark Twain said that.

Well, all I know is they better not ever let a white man play Othello.

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I personally don't like the new series, but I wasn't such a huge fan of the old one either. I think Ving Rhames is cool, and does a great job in the role. I don't see any reason Kojak can't be black. Hey, it even RHYMES with black. KOJAK BE BLACK, MAC!!!

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Newsflash...

Othello throughout history was strictly played by white actors.

It's only recently African Americans have been allowed to sadly...play themselves.

Even the black & white things(no pun intended) in life are hard to obtain it would seem.

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Hey, cylons, do a character search for Charlie Chan here at IMDb and read the biographies of the actors who have played him. The two I have seen were Sidney Toler (Scottish) and Roland Winters (son of Felix Winternitz, sounds Jewish to me).

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Guys, the thread starter was being ironic. White racists who love to believe that soceity is biased against hetrosexual white men complain about things like Rhames casting as Kojak all the while conveniently overlooking the long historical trend of whites playing every other race

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Didn't actually Christopher Lee(british guy) play Fu-Manchu?

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