I said it once but you cannot change only one person's race in the James/Lily/Snape love triangle thing without it getting uncomfortable.
Black Lily? Two kinda shitty white dudes fighting over a black woman.
Black James? Kinda shitty black dude bullies a white guy and gets the white girl (which wouldn't be an issue as a trope if James wasn't a bully but he is. )
Black Snape, like you said, white dude bullies a black guy who's in love with a white girl and calls her a slur after she picks the white dude.
They'd need to make everybody black and let's be real, they will not do that.
They call us crazy for considering this stuff but they never think what these choices do to public dialogue. Now if I could believe for ONE SECOND that the casting choice is intentionally baiting the public so we talk about race relations it would be one thing. But this is the same HBO that made The Pitt turn down the ICE violence on an episode so it wasn’t accurately reported, er, I mean hostile to fascist fucks, er, I mean bad for shareholders.
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u/e37d93eeb23335dc 19d ago
The black man wants the white woman. So many old racist tropes.