Would it be racist for a tv channel to celebrate white actors?

[newspresenter]

Whats your answer, quick, quick, quick?

Well FIVEUSA, a channel i watch regular for the series House, is doing a Hollywood's finest season, only, they're all black, they're only black Hollywood's Finest Season Five.tv

So would it be deemed racist if the actors featured were only white?

Would a tv channel be too scared to do a white actor version for fear they'd be called racist?

[Don]

I note that it celebrates Hollywood's best Black actors. Says nothing about claiming them to be Hollywood's best actors. I see nothing racist about it. Neither would I see anything racist if they had Hollywood's best White actors.

I would venture that all but Snipes should be listed among Hollywood's finest regardless of race.

BTW, "Fallen" especially is not to be missed. Denzel Washington is a fine actor and it's a great movie.

Haven't seen "Edison" nor "Hard Luck", but I find it hard to believe that they couldn't find a better actor to feature than Wesley Snipes. Perhaps Laurence Fishburne in "Tuskegee Airmen" or Forest Whitaker in "The Last King of Scotland" or "The Crying Game".

[DougieG]

No point in Hollywood's best 'white' actors programmes. The vast majority of actors in Hollywood are white, so a general list of excellent actors would include most of the best white actors anyway. Noone would make it because it would be a complete waste of time and ultimately just exclude five or six excellent actors due to race. Doing a black one is different because a lot of those actors wouldn't get recognition otherwise, since practically all main parts in films and TV are written for white people.

[pauli007001]

No point in Hollywood's best 'white' actors programmes. The vast majority of actors in Hollywood are white, so a general list of excellent actors would include most of the best white actors anyway. Noone would make it because it would be a complete waste of time and ultimately just exclude five or six excellent actors due to race. Doing a black one is different because a lot of those actors wouldn't get recognition otherwise, since practically all main parts in films and TV are written for white people.

The majority are indeed white, as are the majority of the population.
Is it your opinion that because there are more of a particular group that they should be ignored/ attacked or eradicated?

Does that explain modern socialisms doctrine of elevating select groups above others?

For example. laws are passed favoring ethnic minoritys, selected sexual orientations, genders and other specific groups, am i right?

These laws are bribes.
So whites are (Approx based on memory/scientifically formulated wild ass guess method, but kind of accurate) lets say 70% of the UK populace, 5% are asian 20% black and 5% others.Women are roughly(not calling women rough, dont even go there, but some are better if they are a bit rough)50% of the population. gays who knows because many do not openly claim to be gay due to social constricts/prejudice and hate.
Now if we add together all the specially privallaged minority groups, Women, blacks, Asians, other ethnic minorities, Gays and any other select privalaged groups and compare their numbers against white hetrosexual males in society, the former will outnumber the latter.Still wanna use the term Minorities??????
More silly and divisive crap from the socialists, how silly.

Morgan Freeman is still the best though!!!

[DougieG]

The majority are indeed white, as are the majority of the population.
Is it your opinion that because there are more of a particular group that they should be ignored/ attacked or eradicated?

White people aren't being eradicated. A TV program about black actors does not damage the white population in any way.

Does that explain modern socialisms doctrine of elevating select groups above others?

Firstly we don't do that. Secondly, raising some groups above others is the opposite of socialism.

For example. laws are passed favoring ethnic minoritys, selected sexual orientations, genders and other specific groups, am i right?

Not in Britain. There are laws which require EQUAL opportunities though.

These laws are bribes.

No, human rights.

So whites are (Approx based on memory/scientifically formulated wild ass guess method, but kind of accurate) lets say 70% of the UK populace, 5% are asian 20% black and 5% others.Women are roughly(not calling women rough, dont even go there, but some are better if they are a bit rough)50% of the population. gays who knows because many do not openly claim to be gay due to social constricts/prejudice and hate.

Whites are closer to 85% but whatever.

Now if we add together all the specially privallaged minority groups, Women, blacks, Asians, other ethnic minorities, Gays and any other select privalaged groups and compare their numbers against white hetrosexual males in society, the former will outnumber the latter.Still wanna use the term Minorities??????

They don't have special rights. Until recently it was illegal for gays to get married in a church. Now it is legal but not compulsory for churches to do gay marriages (which is quite right). How is that having more rights than straight people? White people can rely on exactly the same discrimination legislation in the European Court of Human Rights - there is no race-specific aspect to the legislation. As a white heterosexual male I can promise you that I have never once been discriminated against.

More silly and divisive crap from the socialists, how silly.

Its divisive to suggest that the equal rights legislation is weighted towards one group when it patently is not.

Morgan Freeman is still the best though!!!

Agree. Will Smith is a bit crap in comparison, though still a reasonably decent actor.

[pauli007001]

White people aren't being eradicated. A TV program about black actors does not damage the white population in any way.



Firstly we don't do that. Secondly, raising some groups above others is the opposite of socialism.



Not in Britain. There are laws which require EQUAL opportunities though.



No, human rights.



Whites are closer to 85% but whatever.



They don't have special rights. Until recently it was illegal for gays to get married in a church. Now it is legal but not compulsory for churches to do gay marriages (which is quite right). How is that having more rights than straight people? White people can rely on exactly the same discrimination legislation in the European Court of Human Rights - there is no race-specific aspect to the legislation. As a white heterosexual male I can promise you that I have never once been discriminated against.



Its divisive to suggest that the equal rights legislation is weighted towards one group when it patently is not.



Agree. Will Smith is a bit crap in comparison, though still a reasonably decent actor.

White people are not being eradicated but the nature of race laws(offering specific rights and or government funding to select groups) is giving some whites the feeling of exactly that.Giving rise to a growth in the power base and electorial support of groups like the BNP.

Race laws cause racism, they are divisive, without them the BNP would have no ammunition.

Socialisms doctrines are ALWAYS based on offering specific increased rights to selected groups, usually the highly educated members of their parties, the other side to socialism is attempting to divide the workers and set them against eachother(stalins efforts against the Kulaks(workers who owned their own land) and Hitlers efforts against the jews.Both worked excellently for a while and then collapsed, socialism you see, will always collapse, the murderous and totalitarian nature of socialism is not acceptable to most humans.


Under Equal rights legislation some groups are more equal than others(look at divorce laws, then at how divorce laws are interpreted by judges).


These laws are not human rights, they are bribes to Minority groups who have been convinced by the Government and its propeganda machines that they are being denied human rights, minority groups are bribed with extra finance rights and opportunities in the hope that they will show their thanks when NULAB allow us the right to vote, in the hope that they will Vote Nulab.Nulab target select groups for extra rights those groups include, minorities based on ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender and god knows whatever else in order to purchase votes, that is vote purchasing or as the Americans call it Pork barrel politics.

The % as i said was an estimate based on the SWAG method

Now whilst the forign European human rights legislation is written to say all are equal, it dosnt seem to be applied that way and it is not a british law and has no place in Britain, nothing in the EU has a place in Britain, the EU is, as i Have pointed out before "A United Europe under German controll" exactly what Hitler( the ubersocialist) desired.It is Hitlers Plan B, I reject Nazism, I reject the EU.

As a white male with many years on you I can say that the divorce system in the UK is discriminatory against males, how else did my ex wife, after shagging half of the town whilst i was away serving my country, get away with, my home, my family, my pension, the upper hand and the sympathy of the courts?Whilst I, the aggrieved party who never cheated, always did the right thing and actually cared about my kids(she used to go out on Drug and drink fueled binges but that was OK) was considered in law to be in the wrong.
If I was a better man she wouldnt have cheated, her cheating was evidence of my unsuitability to be a father, how twisted is that?
In the court next door a cheating husband was told that HIS cheating was also evidence of his unsuitability to be a father, yes laws are made favouring select groups, Divorce laws always favour women no matter what the facts of the case.

Will smith is different, he is an all round entertainer, singer, comic and actor.