"60% of Blackbeard's crew was black, including the #2 man. Maybe 10% (if generous) of "Pirates of the Caribbean" cast is black. 100% of the cast of the previous umpteen pirate movies, going back to Errol Flynn, were white."
Why are you comparing the largest % black crew estimated to the entire *cast* of a movie primarily about a bunch of people from Britain? Does that not strike you as absurd? Did you not think that maybe, just maybe, you were comparing apples to orangutans?
And it's worth pointing out that Barbosa's #2 was also black. As was Blackbeard's, in the 4th movie.
I only had to go back to the 70's to find a movie with a black main characters whose name I recognized - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swashbuckler_(film)
And that's without digging through cast photos!
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"10-15% of George Washington's army was black, yet you don't see that reflected in fiction."
I'm not sure where you got this number, but it's much higher than any source I could find.
That said, what fiction? I don't tend to read a lot of historical fiction, so I have no idea whether this statement is accurate or not.
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"You're telling me that, in a work of fiction set in an era where individual marshals chased individual fugitives, it's implausible that one man with a 40-year career was ever in Seattle?"
That's... not really how the Marshals worked. Cross-country chases were extremely rare. Not impossible, but implausible. And you're telling me that you think that the author *just happened* to choose the only black Marshal from the time period?
And just ftr, Vox's ballot is Rabid Puppies. Sad Puppies is Correia/Torgersen/Hoyt/???
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Why are you comparing the largest % black crew estimated to the entire *cast* of a movie primarily about a bunch of people from Britain? Does that not strike you as absurd? Did you not think that maybe, just maybe, you were comparing apples to orangutans?
And it's worth pointing out that Barbosa's #2 was also black. As was Blackbeard's, in the 4th movie.
I only had to go back to the 70's to find a movie with a black main characters whose name I recognized - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swashbuckler_(film)
And that's without digging through cast photos!
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"10-15% of George Washington's army was black, yet you don't see that reflected in fiction."
I'm not sure where you got this number, but it's much higher than any source I could find.
That said, what fiction? I don't tend to read a lot of historical fiction, so I have no idea whether this statement is accurate or not.
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"You're telling me that, in a work of fiction set in an era where individual marshals chased individual fugitives, it's implausible that one man with a 40-year career was ever in Seattle?"
That's... not really how the Marshals worked. Cross-country chases were extremely rare. Not impossible, but implausible. And you're telling me that you think that the author *just happened* to choose the only black Marshal from the time period?
And just ftr, Vox's ballot is Rabid Puppies. Sad Puppies is Correia/Torgersen/Hoyt/???