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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You do realize there were in fact black barristers in the UK in the 30s and 40s right [/quote]

Gandhi was a barrister in England in those times, early 1900s.[/quote]

Gandhi left India to train as a barrister and was called to the bar (meaning he passed his qualifications) but didn't practice or build up a legal career in England, but returned to India and then went to South Africa. He was 22 when he finished his education left England. He was inspired to become who he was in part because of the discrimination he faced from white British, particularly in South Africa and India.

It's like saying there were black lawyers in America in the 1930s. They did exist, but [b]they were not partners in white shoe firms and hobnobbing with the social elites and living in rich neighborhoods, which is what Disney is showing in the revised Mary Poppins. [/b]That's fine for the sake of a Disneyfied movie but let's not pretend it's historically accurate. [/quote]
That character was not a legal partner: he was a solicitor. He wasn’t “hobnobbing with social elites”: he was doing his job, which was checking on a contract. We neither saw him in a social setting, nor at his home, so we have no idea with whom he socialized nor whether he lived in a rich neighborhood. You’re making things up in order to protest the casting of a person who is completely within his rights to have this role. [/quote]

I have not seen the movie (I have only seen the original Mary Poppins and know Mr. Banks is a wealthy man) so I cannot comment on his role beyond being a solicitor for a bank. But even I can confirm that it would have been extremely unusual for such a person to be African in 1930s Britain. A quick glance at Wiki's page on the black British says there were only around 20,000 people of African heritage in Britain in 1948. I am not making things up to protest the casting of a person - in my post I made clear that in a fun Disney movie it really doesn't matter what the racial skin tones are. But at the same time just be careful in assuming that it was a normal occurrence. At one time we would have said there was a danger in romanticizing the past. Today we may be in danger of diversifying the past. [/quote]

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