Not a single black face

This thread reminded me of Charlies Angels 2 when bosley is trying to pass as a black scottish man..........people crack me up

I think the young lad in the film was thinking - "Hmmm if they do give us emancipation, what ever will I do in Montrose ? I think I'll make my way to Dundee, I've heard a new company called Robertson's is looking for someone exotic to front some new food products."

Black Scots ? how about the obvious ? The Black Watch or, the Queen's Own Cameroon Highlanders ?

More seriously, the KAR (King's African Rifles), had an all black African kilted pipe band in the 1950's.

Getting back to basics - you cannot "will" people into a story who would not have been there. To do that is ridiculous. I saw something like that in Kevin Kostner's Robin Hood film. The Moor in the film version was really stretching things as the traditional English legend even as told with variations over the centuries, never featured any black members of Robin's band. It was clearly done as American PC for this Hollywood movie.

I would never expect to see white people appear in any story featuring black cultures where white people would not have been, likewise Native American stories at time and place where no whites would be there. That is totally proper and I would hate to see white Hollywood faces where they don't belong.

There was a distinct absence of black Highland clan members in early 18th Century Scotland and the British Army at that time had no black membership. My own clan has, to the best of my knowledge, not had black ancestry, however, the Confederation of Clan Chattan, of which my clan has been a member since 1396, has the hereditary chief's bloodline vested through emigration and marriage in the chief of the Creek race - the Chief of all Clan Mackintosh is Creek Chief Waldo Mackintosh (though maybe now he's passed on).



"Giftzwerge" - German nickname for The Cameronians "wee Glasgow hard men" - Minden 1950's

Complaining about a lack of Black Characters for a story set in Scotland during the 1700's is like complaining that Memoirs Of A Geisha doesn't have enough non Asians people should just realize that if the movie is dealing with a culture that is almost entirely Black, White, Asian etc than the cast of the movie should reflect that so let's get real

I love it now I expect the trolls to turn their energy around and advocate more white actors and actresses for a civil rights drama

While I agree the original post is ridiculous, I think you picked a bad example in "Roots".

And I'm black but agree there is no reason to cast or feature any black characters in this period piece. But since the original post IS so ridiculous and outlandish, It should've been viewed for what it is - trolling.

Either the author is a black person of limited intelligence or a white person trying to get all the self righteous white people stirred up that want reinforcement for their belief that all we black people do is "play the race card over every little thing".

The race card could not be played if it were removed from the deck.