#(and yes i am a heathcliff is cathy's brother truther)

[mermaidsirennikita]

Like, I need people to get that when people who love Wuthering Heights say that Heathcliff shouldn't be played by a white guy, it's not because we're arguing for a colorblind casting, it's because (and I hesitate to use Wikipedia here but they cite their sources!) the text literally refers to him in pretty unveiled language to NOT be a white guy.

Like. This isn't a romance novel referring to a white British lord as "swarthy". This is characters in the novel making DIRECT references to the potential racial identity (not white) of a child who is brought in out of nowhere by this white guy who was ~traveling about~ and then treated like shit by the white family that "took him in".