I’m dark skinned, so I must be having an identity crisis. I’m also a creative person. It may be appealing to take someone’s character and change them to your liking, but that doesn’t make it right. For the record, what they did with Exodus was just as bad.

Looks like another generation of pale African and middle-eastern people in film…

The look of Annie is iconic. They should have created their own character and movie if they were going to make such drastic changes to the story and the characters. Honestly, these people should stop remaking things. You can’t ask dead people for permission to vandalize their work. Annie’s dark skin isn’t the issue here, it’s the large amount of changes made to the work someone else put it.

Since Will and Jada Smith put this in motion it’s hard to believe that they didn’t push the ethnic change on purpose. They custom made the new Karate Kid (as many people have pointed out) for their son. The boy doesn’t even learn Karate, he learns Kung-Fu. They also completely changed the story. So instead of just making their own film and calling it something else, they took the name of another film and used it instead. It’s sloppy and shameful.

Red headed light skinned people are perhaps the biggest minority on the planet (less than 2% of the human population) and they are treated with extreme prejudice and discrimination, especially in Brittan where they are in greater numbers.

There are far less iconic characters who are true redheads (hair, freckles, and pale) than there are dark skinned ones. So much for diversity. If you want to play the race card, you’re just making all of us look bad.

I’ve heard the blind prejudice that many of my brothers and sisters spew. It’s just as bad as what they claim to abhor, because it’s the same thing.

Racism is not the cause of every decision light skinned people make which has to do with us.
It is the REASON some of us think that way about them.

Be kind to each other.
-L-