Fighting casting racism for the Airbender world.

Check this out:
http://racebending.com/

Remember that lots of kids watch Avatar, which is why I can't unfortunately post comments with swearing. I do understand how hard it is to talk about this subject without cursing.

I've added annotations to update the address to write to. Do not write to the previous address or your letter will be returned to sender.

The new addresses are:
Mr Mark Bakshi
President Features Production
5555 Melrose Avenue
Shulberg Building
Suite 211
Room 115
Los Angeles, CA 90038-3197

and

Kathleen Kennedy and Frank Marshall
Kennedy/Marshall Company
619 Arizona Avenue, Fl. 2
Santa Monica, California 90401

This video deals with the casting decisions made for the new Airbender movie by Shyamalan. I believe it fits within the Fair Use doctrine as it is critical and used for commentary. And I'm sure Rage would support fighting racism.
If you want to do something about this horrendous decision.
Check out http://aang-aint-white.livejournal.com
(That isn't my site, but it has a lot of resources to help you do something.)

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Airbender
• Movie
• Film
• Casting
• Cast
• Shyamalan
• Avatar
• White
• Chinese
• Zuko
• Katara
• Aang
• Racism
• Discrimination

[Cracksnapper]

why make a movie of this in the first place? 3D work better. Just look at FFVII Advent Children and Resident Evil Degeneration.

[Daibhidh646]

I don't mind the medium so long as it is pulled off well. It is about the raw talent of the people making the film and their ability to work together to make something breathtaking. In my mind's eye, I can see a live action version of this working. But it's a very difficult thing to pull off.

[IEurasian]

And maybe the next pop culture is black? Who knows...

Today you see millions of teens listening to black singers, and some of them are imitating black people's accent, they even use the word nigga even though they aren't white. Black is becoming cool, little by little, and asian is going down the drain little by little. in my "horrible" opinion.

[Daibhidh646]

Two things:

1 - The African American people were taken over on ships of slavery from Africa to the USA, then after they arrived, they were treated very poorly. (That kind of history is hard for people to ignore)

2 - There are some successful black people in the media like Oprah. These people can fight for the rights of Blacks, but is there an Asian Oprah? Not yet.

[hookahvision]

What I can't believe is that on the ACTUAL casting call for the main characters, it says on the casting call sheet under race: "Caucasian or any other ethnicity." This means that they were DELIBERATELY looking for white actors to play the leads. If they didn't care what ethnicity the leads were, the sheet would have read: "any ethnicity." COMPLETE. UTTER. BLATANT. RACISM. I'll not stand for it.

[moonbay1992]

But wait, not only are most of the major actors white, all the 'evil' actors, like the guys form the fire nation, are all indian or middle eastern... not so subliminal message there...

[leevi1234]

Why is it that most of the anime/hentai or whatever porn is usually always caucasian women. Mostly blonds with blue eyes? I wonder why that is. And i did not say all. i said most. Hajime Sorayama just saying one soft core stuff. The real extreme hardcore portrays like 90% white women. But i don't discuss that here.

So what is it?

[FlamebergeDuster]

I'm not putting money in Shyamalan's pockets for this crap.

He's ruining a great cartoon by removing the Asiatic people from the Asiatic environ that the creators of Avatar made.

Not only that, but if Shyamalan's wanted to do something great he could have broken Hollywood's sick tradition of outing ethic people in good roles by investing in the Asian and Inuit youth's talent.

[endbutterfly]

I beg to differ. A lot of the man characters look caucasian. It's the style of art.

[endbutterfly]

Or maybe the black doll just sucked for reasons other than its colour. Are you saying that she should have pointed at the white doll because the black one was better?

[endbutterfly]

You're labelling an actor for the role he played. The guy may have played Jasper, doesn't mean he IS Jasper. Nor is he a 'vampire actor'. Just an actor who coincidentally played a vampire.

[serenity20201]

man why do movie studios r should the people. eff u really good shows?

m night? u've got to be kidding...

[hookahvision]

I can't believe that on the ACTUAL CASTING CALL SHEET for the main characters it clearly states when asked about race "CAUCASIAN OR ANY OTHER ETHNICITY." This means that they were deliberately looking for white actors to play the leads. If it didn't matter, the sheets would have read "any ethnicity." COMPLETE. UTTER. BLATANT. RACISM. I'll not stand for it.

[sokerhead]

yeah I agree bronson pelletier looks like Sokka & he's first-nation actor it's funny cause he's going to be in the same film as Jackson Rathbone (who's actually playing sokka) xD