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My comment was both sincere and sarcastic. There is a tendency to blanche characters by hiring white actors in this country. I've got nothing against a little turning the tables a bit.

Except you don't fix one problem by creating another. Let's face it, this is the wrong crusade to be on. You don't suddenly cast blacks in white roles just to spite all the whites that might have played blacks in the past. That doesn't help equality, it just creates throws the balance the other way.

We can't change what happened in the past, people need to learn to accept it, learn from it, and move on to better things. Accepting it also means to properly protray it. There's nothing racist about Norse culture because they are all pasty white, that's just a fact of life for them, living as far north as they did. Making a movie about their culture and mythology and casting all white people is not racism.

Did anyone say anything about Black Nick Fury (Samuel L. Jackson) ? In the comic books, Nick Fury was a white guy. However, he's just some american guy, so his race doesn't matter, there's a lot of diversity in America. Nick Fury makes sense as any race.
 
Wasn't Jake Gyllenhaal in the Prince of Persia? I didn't watch that because he wasn't persian.

That said - if this was a History Channel movie about Norse gods I could see a protest, but this is Marvel. They're treating Thor as a super hero and not a Norse god. In fact, I have more problems with the leaked costumes of the gods than the casting call.

On the other hand Will Smith was the lead in Wild, Wild, West and look at the result.
 
What about every white Jesus you see in movies?

What about every white, English-speaking actor you see play a person of non-Western culture. "He's English, but he looks a bit dark, so he could play Moroccan."

In fact, even getting Mexicans to play Moroccan would be racist. Race is about physical traits, culture, and history.
 
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