I was “black” when I read The Odyssey in high school...
...but somehow I never imagined the characters as looking like me.
Why?
Because they were GREEK characters.
I didn’t need Odysseus to look like me to appreciate his story.
I didn’t need Helen of Troy to look like me to understand her importance.
They were Greek characters from a specific culture, with a specific history.
And this is what Hollywood keeps getting wrong.
We don’t identify with characters because they look like us.
We connect with them because we recognize something human in them - their struggles, their courage, their flaws, their values.
Odysseus is a GREEK hero.
Helen of Troy is a GREEK woman.
Their identities are part of what makes their stories meaningful.
Casting Colombians and Africans and Indians as Greek ISN'T "representation."
It’s just insulting.
Stop it.
The Odyssey is worse than you can imagine.
Christopher Nolan has disrespected Greece, historians, and the original text.
It’s an atrocity.
In one fell swoop he has ruined his legacy. This is the first time I’m not watching one of his movies. Hollyweird got to him!
Un bully matón escupió y acosó a un anciano de 73 años delante de su esposa... Pero no tenía idea de con quién se estaba metiendo y se llevó una megadosis de paloterapia. ¿Apoyas al valiente que se defendió del abusador?
Do not stop talking about Epstein.
Do not stop talking about Epstein.
Do not stop talking about Epstein.
Do not stop talking about Epstein.
Do not stop talking about Epstein.
Do not stop talking about Epstein.
Do not stop talking about Epstein.
Remember that time when HillaryClinton introduced her friend GeorgeSoros and his interest to get involved in US elections?
The Internet sure doesn't.
Why?
Because it has been wiped from existence for the most part. Turns out I found a copy of the file I had archived years ago.
Be a real shame if people save and shared this widely.
FOLLOW ME, THE NEXT DROP WILL BE SHOCKING.
Her neighbor r*ped her 13-year-old daughter at knifepoint. He served seven years, then walked free on parole.
The day María del Carmen García ran into him near her home, he looked her in the eye and asked how her daughter was doing.
She went and bought gasoline. She found him in a bar. She poured it over him and lit a match.
Antonio Cosme d*ed in the hospital with burns over 90% of his body. María del Carmen García was arrested the same day.
What would you have done in her place?
🇺🇸 Politician Valentina Gómez burst into a Muslim protest in Texas, took the microphone, and shouted:
"Islam is the religion of the rape, incest, and pedophilia …
I will never allow Sharia law to take over Texas.
This is a Christian country."
@WHLeavitt Dude, the kind of punishment that should be done would prevent so many others when it becomes mass used.
What would that be you ask? Excessive, but its to castrate all the rapists, make it clear they were castrated, and it will happen to every other rapist
It will scare 'em all