I want to give a special “f**k your couch” to the individuals who are protesting and pitching a bi**h fit over the casting of Idris Elba as Heimdall; a being who can hear the sap flowing in trees and look across time and space. The Council Of Conservative Citizens, a White Supremacist organization is calling for a boycott of the movie, saying that the God is known in the Marvel comics as being a White icon and Elba does not fit this role for what they consider obvious reasons.

The Council of Conservative Citizens is upset that London-born, very chocolatey Idris Elba, star of The Wire and BBC detective series Luther as well as a number of Hollywood films, is to play deity Heimdall in the Marvel Studios feature. The group, which opposes inter-racial marriage and gay rights, has set up a website, boycott-thor.com to set out its opposition to what it sees as an example of leftwing social engineering.” This sounds like White hate to me.

HollyWood White Washing

Well I have formed my own group. The Council Of Cynical Coloreds and we call bulls**t on this whole debate. I personally call tons of bulls**t on this because Hollywood has a tradition of White washing the hell out of traditionally ethnic roles by allowing a White actor to portray them. There has been countless times where a role that called for an ethnic person was given to an actor that was White as rice. Why? Because studios are afraid that if they stray from what they feel audiences are accustomed to, the movie will be a fail at the box office. Let’s go down a quick list.

Prince Of Persia- Which was released last year and starred the very White Jake Gyllenhaal as a Middle-Eastern “type” lead. I never knew that Persians were interchangeable with White men. Yet the audience ate the crap up as they were trained to do.

Thank You Come Again Or F**k You Pay Me

Every Actress That Ever Played Cleopatra- Now the origins of Cleopatra are sketchy. In some historical discussions she is Black and in others she is White. It really depends on who you ask. Either way, whenever her character is portrayed in a movie, the actresses are always White women. No doubt or questions about it. White is right for this role. This goes back as far as Elizabeth Taylor all the way to Angelina Jolie. White women have always had the privilege of playing the Queen Of Egypt.

Bonanza and Kung- Fu- These are both shows that had ethnic characters that were mostly portrayed by White actors with make-up on to give them color and some horrible accent to accentuate their “ethnicity”.

Any movie where Jesus Christ was a part of the story line- Come on! Even the Bible gives Jesus Christ ethnic features. At the least he was more so of some Middle-Eastern Background if not a Black man. However whenever he is portrayed in a movie or show, you already know what race the actor is.

I can literally go on and on but I’m not. My point is that, if it works for them, then it should work for others. In other words, if it is acceptable for a White actor to play a traditionally ethnic character then it should be equally acceptable for a Black or any other minority actor to play a traditionally White actor. Get over it. The act of Race Bending is not a new phenomenon but it is one that usually worked in White people’s favor. Race bending is defined as when a movie studio/publisher, etc… Changes the ethnicity of a character with a resultant discriminatory impact on an underrepresented cultural community and actors from that community.

Race bending seems to only have an adverse response if it does not benefit Whites in the manner in which they are portraying the historical hero in question. So who cares if Elba is playing a traditionally White character? There have been countless occasions where the opposite has occurred throughout cinema history.

With that being said, The Council Of Conservative Citizens, in the great words of Dave Chappelle, “fuck your couch” and the White horse you rode in on. You can also interpret that as f**k what you guys are talking about and all of your bias displays. No one rallied when Angelina was cast as Cleopatra. No one rallied when David Carradine was chosen for the lead in the series Kung Fu over the more skillfully trained and historically accurate actor Bruce Lee. No one protested when Jake Gyllenhaal was chosen to be the racially inaccurate Prince of Persia with hair pieces added. I am not moved. Idris Elba make that money…With your sexy ass…

Quote Via: Guardian.UK

Race Bending definition taken from Racebending.com.

For those who did not understand what “F**k Your Couch” means I can break it down… I got this term from the Dave Chappell show in the scene where he played Rick James and he was literally stomping on Eddie Murphy’s couch screaming “f**k your couch”. Well my f**k your couch is more figuratively speaking. It means forget what you are talking about. I do not respect your thoughts, opinions or actions and perhaps not you.

Before you go, check out Edris on Jonathan Ross a few months ago talking about his new role in Thor..