Quotes / Race Lift

"Munro Kelly, I'm your Great White Hunter for this trip, though I happen to be black."

— Congo

Priest: Well, you should definitely see The Passion. It's a very important movie.
Huey: Couldn't see it. White Jesus.
Priest: Excuse me?
Huey: (sighs) Come on, man. It's supposed to be all historically accurate and they still got a white man playing Jesus? That's some old bullshit.

— The Boondocks

"I'm back and I'm black!"

Adolf Hitler, portrayed by Gabourey Sidibe in Movie: The Movie, Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Miles Morales: Hey, do they have a Nick Fury where you come from?
Peter Parker: Oh, yes.
Fury: Yeah? What's he like?
Peter: Uh, white.
Fury: Sorry to hear that.

— Spider-Men

Watch as the ethnically diverse heroes you know and love are brought to life as generic white kids. And the ethnically diverse villains... stay ethnically diverse.

—Honest Trailers on The Last Airbender

Every scene Idris Elba is in is a resounding THAT'S WHY to all those doubters who wondered why they cast a black man as a Viking God.

—Harry Knowles, in his review of Thor

David Alan Grier told me he once starred in a multi-culti Wiz and it was weird. "It was like an all-Filipino episode of Empire."

—Steven Zeitchik

Alright, now that we've got everyone introduced, I should address the big, colorful elephant in the room: the character's races have all been changed. In the manga, Light and Misa were Japanese. L was 3/4ths white and a quarter Japanese according to the author and to the illustrator, who considered L English. But in Death Flicks, they took the Japanese characters and made them white...or half-white, then took the Eurasian character and made him black. We're hitting the Last Airbender levels of racebending that shouldn't even be possible!

—E;R on Death Note (2017)

Mario: Iron Man 3! Directed by Hawkins from Predator, and featuring...the Mandarin! As played by Sir Ben Kingsley!
Fafa: Wait a minute! Isn't the Mandarin Chinese? Ben Kingsley isn't from China.
Mario: I don't care! Ben played Gandhi^note It should be noted that Kingsley is half Indian on his father's side. and won an Oscar for it!

—Glove and Boots, "Glove and Boots Summer Movie Review"^note Well, he wasn't the actual Mandarin, but they haven't seen the film.

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