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2019-09-15 Home Front: Politix
Pete Buttigieg: James Bond Not ‘Intrinsically White’
[BREITBART] Mayor Pete Buttigieg
...the testicleless mayor of South Bend, Indiana, since 2012. Buttigieg graduated from Harvard College and, on a Rhodes Scholarship, from Pembroke College, Oxford. From 2007 to 2010, he worked at McKinsey and Company, a consulting firm. From 2009 to 2017 Buttigieg served as an intelligence officer in the United States Navy Reserve, attaining the rank of lieutenant and deploying to Afghanistan in 2014. Buttigieg was first elected mayor of South Bend in 2011 and was reelected in 2015. During his second term, he announced he was gay. Buttigieg also campaigned for Indiana state treasurer in 2010 and for chair of the Democratic National Committee in 2017, losing both elections. He is running for the Dem nomination in 2020 on the theory that being mayor of a nondescript medium sized city is qualification to run the country...
 believes that characters like James Bond are not "intrinsically white," allowing Hollywood executives to switch up the race of any character.

"I think, whether we’re talking about James Bond or whether we’re talking about comic books, it makes sense for the portrayal of these characters to reflect the amazing cultural diversity of the country," he said when asked about black actors playing characters that were previously played by white actors.
Oooo! How edgey
The South Bend mayor weighed in on pop culture on Friday in an interview with TMZ Live after the Democrat debate.

One of the TMZ hosts asked about the current proposal by Marvel Producer Kevin Feige,who floated the idea of casting white X-Men characters Professor X and Magneto as black.
Genius!
Buttigieg praised recent portrayals of the leading X-Men characters by white actors but indicated that changing their race would be a good thing.

"Look, one of the beauties of making comic books into movies is, you can reimagine them constantly and there’s nothing intrinsically white about any of those character roles," he said.

He added that he would "love" to see a racial change of characters in the upcoming X-Men movies.

"I just care about whether it’s going to be good ‐ and I believe that they are up to that in producing a new film, and I would love to see that kind of diversity."
Posted by Fred 2019-09-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [16 views ]  Top

#1 Not that I care about Bond, but...
Posted by g(r)omgoru PB 2019-09-15 01:29||   2019-09-15 01:29|| Front Page Top

#2 Butt gig not intrinsically American...
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-09-15 02:23||   2019-09-15 02:23|| Front Page Top

#3 He added that he would "love" to see a racial change of characters in the upcoming X-Men movies.


Scarlett Johannssen in blackface?
Posted by M. Murcek 2019-09-15 02:25||   2019-09-15 02:25|| Front Page Top

#4 "one of the beauties of making comic books into movies" is that the material is so moronic that it can appeal to a billion morons drawn from across all the races ... and make billionaires out of cynical white Hollywood film industry execs
Posted by Lex 2019-09-15 04:32||   2019-09-15 04:32|| Front Page Top

#5 The recently released 'The Boys' series was actually quite a critique of hollow and mindless following of pathological frauds as 'hero figures' and idols by moronic masses. It revealed the frailty of the individual, the citizen before the 24/7 digital power of the idol worshiping MSM and the super villains disguised as heroes themselves.

Did you know that the Stan Winston designed Predator are a race called Hish that are actually hermaphrodites that seasonally change from male to female and back ? They hunt and kill when they're males and rule and administrate as females.
Posted by Dron66046 2019-09-15 05:57||   2019-09-15 05:57|| Front Page Top

#6 When is Pete going to announce he is pregnant?
Posted by Airandee 2019-09-15 11:29||   2019-09-15 11:29|| Front Page Top

#7 When he sells as many novels as Ian Fleming did, his characters can be any race, gender, orientation or whatever he wants. In the meantime, leave James Bond alone.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-09-15 12:11||   2019-09-15 12:11|| Front Page Top

#8 Great men make history. The generations that follow are usually much lower. Especially those who want to be women.
Posted by Varmint Splat1454 2019-09-15 13:18||   2019-09-15 13:18|| Front Page Top

#9 I say, run the experiment. Spent the $200-300 million recent cost to make a James Bond film, this time going all the way over with with a black, female actress — Halle Berry, perhaps, who could do for the Bond franchise what she did for Catwoman.
Posted by trailing wife 2019-09-15 13:23||   2019-09-15 13:23|| Front Page Top

#10 To get enough woke points, Bond will have to be a transgender person of color. (White is not to be considered a color).
Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2019-09-15 13:32||   2019-09-15 13:32|| Front Page Top

#11 And no guns!
Posted by Matt 2019-09-15 13:53||   2019-09-15 13:53|| Front Page Top

#12 Supposedly it's already been decided that the next Bond will be a black woman. Don't think they aren't happy to flush a franchise down the toilet, look at what they've done to Star Wars.
Posted by Silentbrick 2019-09-15 14:21||   2019-09-15 14:21|| Front Page Top

#13 Still waiting for the white Shaft or the remake of Roots with an all Korean cast.
Posted by ruprecht 2019-09-15 15:32||   2019-09-15 15:32|| Front Page Top

#14 Othello where the MC is the only white among blacks.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-09-15 15:35||   2019-09-15 15:35|| Front Page Top

#15 I wanna see a black Hitler. How about Ben Affleck in blackface playing Idi Amin ? If all art is really a diversity experiment, why not ?

Posted by Dron66046 2019-09-15 16:05||   2019-09-15 16:05|| Front Page Top

#16  I wanna see a black Hitler.

Well, you did ask.
Posted by Secret Master 2019-09-15 22:17||   2019-09-15 22:17|| Front Page Top

#17 Actually, I agree with Buttigieg, as I'm one of those who holds the theory that within the film franchise the names "James Bond" and "007" are really code words for whatever drunken, horny, crazily armed maniac the British Secret Service can throw at a problem. That's why there's been six of them so far that we know about. If a black woman can do a great job of sleeping with, shooting, and blowing up Her Majesty's enemies with a maximum of collateral damage and no regard for her own safety the, yeah, she's Jane Bond 007. No problem. Bang Bang Kaboom!

However, I have no idea why I or anybody else should care that Mayor Pete thinks. Is he still running for president?
Posted by Secret Master 2019-09-15 22:26||   2019-09-15 22:26|| Front Page Top

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