#nonwhite james potter

[fourquartertoast]

deshi james potter is my roman empire but also

ethiopian james potter? anybody?

[theinvisiblemuseum]

unpopular opinion: i'm tired of the current fan casts & want new ones

give me nonwhite james & sirius and reg

strongly agree | agree | neutral | disagree | strongly disagree

i’ve never liked the marauder fancasts like i like ben barnes & andrew garfield & atj separately but when i see them as the marauders i see red LOL (i don’t even like peter but dane dehaan as peter.. jail) the only one that i don’t hate is timmy as reg but i think that’s just because that one is more updated & he’s still relatively young- he also looks like how i could imagine a version of regulus, and the others look nothing like any version of the marauders my brain could come up with

but yeah white james potter is just like… no .. my brain simply does not compute.. and i’m also excited to see more ppl hcing reg & sirius as not being white either !

no one asked but some of my current fave fcs are reiky de valk as james, william gao as reg, sadie sink as lily, conan gray as sirius, sophia bryant as mary (& a couple that i’m p sure i’m the only one that uses but assa sylla as dorcas and sophie thatcher as marlene *mwah*)

[pottermetaarchive]

Mrs Potter was Mrs Dursley’s sister, but they hadn’t met for several years; in fact, Mrs Dursley pretended she didn’t have a sister, because her sister and her good-for-nothing husband were as unDursleyish as it was possible to be. The Dursleys shuddered to think what the neighbours would say if the Potters arrived in the street.

Philosopher’s Stone, Ch. 1

This works particularly well if you subscribe to the popular headcanon that Harry is of South Asian descent through James. The Dursleys hate Harry because of his magic, of course, but outright racism would certainly not be out of character for them (read: Vernon’s Japanese golfer joke in Book 2). We already know that people can tell on sight that Harry isn’t a Dursley, and in addition to his shabby, second-hand clothes, being half-Indian would make him stick out even more in their rich, probably mostly white suburban neighbourhood. If Lily had married an Indian wizard, it would have damaged Petunia’s understanding of her own life as being “normal” (read: white and nonmagical). Any attempts to further distance herself from Lily’s life would have proved fruitless when Petunia was then forced to raise a magical, nonwhite child.

[peppermintstranger]

Suggestions for a dark haired/dark eyed James Sirius Potter? Both white and nonwhite options work! Preferably no older than 25, if you can manage. Thank you! 💓💓

Hello there!

You have: Matthew Clavane, Parker van Noord, George Scorus, Jackson Hale, Alex Dragulele, Romain Hamdous.

Hope it helps c:

[auskultu]

Negroes 'Marked For Death': Militant Asserts Genocide 'Is White Man's Intention'

Dave Potter, Chicago Daily Defender, 6 February 1968

Chicago Police Superintendent James B. Conlisk and other big city police officials and mayors are “learning how to fight civil disorders with their own brand of violence.”

This in essence was the reaction of Westside militant Russ Meek yesterday when the police leaders were convening in Warrenton, Va. at a Justice Department-sponsored seminar in handling civil dis-orders.

Coupled with the fact that Warrenton is a short distance from Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Washington, Meek fashioned a mosaic which depicted genocide for the black man in America.

According to Chicago Police Director of Public Information, Mel Mawrence, Conlisk indeed was in Virginia yesterday to attend the seminar. Mawrence told the Daily Defender that other pertinent details would be released today at a departmental news conference. According to Meek, the CIA will play a vital role in “the white man's war against the black man here.” To amplify his beliefs, Meek said the CIA , has offered its full resources to the country’s police departments in an effort to cope with the black revolution.

Meek foresees the government agency using its tactics to penetrate and crush the revolution, “just as it crushed governments abroad. This is the other end of vast military preparations already begun by urban police forces, white totalitarian-slanted groups and others to kill every black man in America. And there are historical precedents for what is going on in Germany … South Africa … and the period following the destruction of the Reconstruction subsequent to the Civil War.”

He also cites the training of urban police forces in “the martial arts,” including karate and aikido, which he calls “the most murderous methods of self defense known to man.” According to the militant, evidence of a “final solution” for Negroes abound:

“First there is the rise in police brutality, which has almost tripled here since (former Police Supt.) O.W. Wilson resigned; then there is the blatant murder of black youth with no action brought by coroners’ juries. There is evidence of a plan of complete genocide — medical, political and psychological murder.”

Among the factors which have guided Meek’s thinking are:

the frequent fires in ghetto “deathtraps” which snuff out the lives of black children and adults:

the “repressive atmosphere and ever-present police brutality in the ghetto”;

the “atrocious” conditions which exist in Cook County and other hospitals which serve the black community;

“the glaring inequities that exist in our judicial system that fills jails with black people. (“The stigma of arrest and a police record marks 90 per cent of our black youth before they reach their 21st birthday.”);

the new and deadly equipment police forces are ordering to “handle” rather than prevent riots;

“the permissive atmosphere generated by white supremacists which characterize our policies in Southeast Asia. The duplicity of our executive branch of government in its continual refutations of situations like the Pueblo and U-2 incidents; and the persecution, arrests and “frameups” of black leaders like LeRoi Jones, H. Rap Brown and “local civil rights leaders.”

“When these things and others arc weighed.” Meek continued, “there is no chance of a misinterpretation or a misunderstanding as to what they mean.”

What is the black man’s answer to his plight? Meek puts it this way:

“There is a need for black people to form a ‘psychological nation’ to equip themselves mentally and physically to defend their right to exist. They must dissipate their differences, casting out their Judases.”

(Meek defines Judases as those Negroes who have white values, and are economically, politically and socially tied to the Establishment; those who would compromise the rights of black people.)

"We must enrich ourselves with our own black revolutionary history; cloak ourselves in a mantle of black culture to enlighten ourselves concerning our common bond with all nonwhite people of the world. We must make the promotion of black revolution a day-to-day activity. We must recognize and analyze the enemy and proceed to prepare ourselves for a defense against the massive assaults that are to come.”

He also believes black men must instill in their youth a "fierce and determined pride in being black that will enable them to face the fight and emerge victorious.”

Meek is dead serious when he compares contemporary America to Nazi Germany. He shudders when he likens the “complicity of Uncle Toms” to that of the German Jews who laughed while en route to be slain in Hitler's “final solution.”

The Westsider tends to wilt when he is called a “civil rights leader,” and blushes with anger when he is called a “news-made leader.”

Yet Meek’s thinking is not confined to himself. Across the city and nation there are thousands upon thousands who share his beliefs — albeit in various tints of intensity.

Whether Meek and his “brethren” are justified or not, right or wrong can only be determined by the events that are to come.

And, as Meek puts it, “By then it might be too late.”

[antoine-roquentin]

To understand the sovereign citizen belief system, one must understand the history of the movements that preceded and accompany it, including the Christian Identity, tax protest, Posse Comitatus (power of the county), and patriot/militia movements. The Christian Identity movement has its origins in 19th century England, where religious writers advanced the theory that modern European people were the descendants of the lost tribes of the Old Testament.1,2 This belief was introduced into the United States by speakers from England in the late 19th century and was adopted by a small number of people. It became more popular during the Great Depression in the 1930s, when it began to evolve into an anti-Semitic philosophy, particularly on the West Coast, where its primary leader, Wesley Swift, was also active in other extremist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan. In its present form, many Christian Identity adherents believe the nonwhite races were created before Adam and Eve and thus have no soul. They also believe the world is very likely in its last days and thus have little faith in secular institutions, which makes Christian Identity an attractive theology for people who hold antigovernment beliefs, including sovereign citizens and militia members. The Christian Identity theology spread rapidly through right-wing extremist groups in the 1960s, including segregationist groups, the Posse Comitatus movement, and the Aryan Nation. Christian Identity declined as a separate movement in the 1990s, as extremist groups were dismantled by arrests and prosecutions. It is currently believed to be strongest in the Pacific Northwest and the Midwest.1

The tax protest movement began in the 1950s and 1960s and continues to exert a strong influence in right-wing extremist ideology.3,4 This movement coalesced in the late 1950s around the proposed Liberty Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which would have banned income, estate, and gift taxes. With the failure of this effort, the more extreme opponents of income taxes moved on to develop arguments that the income tax was nonetheless illegal. In the 1960s, Arthur Porth put forward the argument that the Sixteenth Amendment, which authorized the federal income tax, violates the Thirteenth Amendment, which banned slavery, as citizens were placed into involuntary servitude by their obligation to pay income taxes. Porth later adopted the strategy of writing on his tax form that he was invoking his Fifth Amendment right of avoiding self-incrimination.3 Since then, tax protestors have brought forth a variety of creative strategies and explanations to avoid paying taxes, many of which have been adopted by people who also hold sovereign citizen beliefs. Many tax protestors ended up in court due to their refusal to pay federal taxes, and the courts have not been sympathetic to their arguments. In 1991, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Cheek v. U.S.,5 ruled that tax protestors could not use a good-faith argument to excuse their failure to pay taxes after adopting tax protestor beliefs; this defense was also raised by actor Wesley Snipes and was rejected on appeal.6 The tax protest movement is believed to be an entry point into other extremist belief systems, including Christian Identity and the sovereign citizen philosophy.3 The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) began to challenge tax protest efforts aggressively in the early 1980s, but this focus diminished in the late 1990s, in response to congressional hearings on allegedly abusive practices employed by IRS investigators and cuts in the IRS budget.4

In the late 1960s, the Posse Comitatus movement brought together elements of the Christian Identity and the tax protest movements into secretive, decentralized, and loosely organized extremist groups.7 This movement apparently began as two separate groups in the late 1960s, one led by Henry Beach and the other by William Potter Gale. The latter was a Christian Identity minister who had championed the tax protest movement and became one of the recognized leaders of Posse Comitatus.7,8 Its adherents hold a strong anti-government philosophy and believe that the only legitimate forms of government are those of towns and counties. The common law, as they understand it, is the basis of government, rather than constitutional law, and the sheriff, as the highest legitimate elected official, is supposed to enforce this common law. This movement began in the United States Northwest but became popular in the Midwest during the 1980s, when the U.S. farm economy, particularly small farmers, struggled with a combination of low prices, high debt burdens, and high interest rates, which led to many farm foreclosures.7 In assisting farmers facing foreclosure, Posse Comitatus members tried to intimidate local officials with threats of physical violence and so-called paper terrorism. The latter strategy consisted of filing false liens on the property of targeted officials, filing multiple court documents in an attempt to overwhelm and frustrate the court process, and issuing indictments from common law courts created by local Posse chapters. One Christian Identity and Posse adherent, James Wickstrom, preached to beleaguered farmers that the federal government and taxes were illegal; driver's licenses were a form of tyranny; and, as a sovereign citizen, one could use false money orders to pay taxes.9 Around the same time, Frederick Saussy created the idea of using “public office money certificates,” which he claimed were “redeemable in dollars of the money of account of the United States upon an official determination of the substance of the money of account” to pay taxes.4 The Posse Comitatus movement faded when many of its leaders were convicted of a variety of offenses, ranging from tax evasion and impersonating public officials to plotting assassinations and bomb attacks. A few Posse members violently resisted efforts to arrest them; in 1983, Gordon Kahl, while fleeing federal tax charges, killed three police officers before he was killed in another shootout with police.3 Media reports on these and other high-profile incidents publicized the racist and anti-Semitic underpinnings of the Posse Comitatus and Christian Identity movements, which contributed to their decline in popularity.

The militia movement is the ideological heir to the Posse Comitatus movement. Posse members often engage in paramilitary training in preparation for the struggle to bring the government back to the people, and Posse leaders often call their groups unorganized militias, referring to language in federal and state laws created after the end of compulsory military service.10 The militia movement did not directly derive from the Posse Comitatus movement, but instead grew from anger about the federal government's role in the violent incidents at Ruby Ridge in 1992 and Waco in 1993. These events mobilized Christian Identity and sovereign citizen adherents and catalyzed the growth of armed militias, particularly among those who held radical gun rights beliefs and regarded members of militias as exempt from federal gun laws. Militia members and individual militia groups were quite diverse but were united in their fear of and opposition to the federal government, which they believed was part of a vast conspiracy to strip Americans of their rights. As a result, ideas common to sovereign citizens were popular within these groups. In particular, many militia groups held a strong belief that the United States had a common law heritage that had been abrogated by the federal government and feared that U.S. courts had become military courts. Some of these groups advocated the use of paper terrorism tactics as retaliation and issued fraudulent monetary instruments on their own authority. One of these groups, the Montana Freemen, gained a degree of notoriety in 1996 when they engaged in an 81-day standoff with federal and state law enforcement that ended peacefully.8

The militia movement grew in the mid-1990s, even after law enforcement agencies greatly increased their focus on domestic terrorism in response to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.10 However, by the end of the 1990s, many militia groups had disbanded, and many members were put in prison for violation of firearms laws. The movement did not disappear, however, and appears to have strengthened in recent years.11,12 The recession in 2008, which was accompanied by increased unemployment and many home foreclosures, facilitated the growth of the militia, tax protest, and sovereign citizen movements. Observers of these groups have observed a gradual coalescence of the beliefs of the tax protestors, sovereign citizens, and militia members and have described the combined beliefs as the patriot movement. In addition, anti-immigrant minuteman groups have moved toward the ideology of the patriot movement and have begun to promote sovereign citizen beliefs.13,14 As these movements have grown and come together, they have attracted the attention of federal law enforcement agencies. After Jerry Kane and his son, both sovereign citizen adherents, killed two police officers during a routine traffic stop in 2010, the FBI described extremist sovereign citizens as “a domestic terrorism movement” and a potentially serious threat to law enforcement staff.15 The number of people who hold sovereign citizen beliefs is difficult to measure, given their strong antigovernment beliefs, but the SPLC has tracked a significant increase in the number of patriot movement groups, from 149 in 2008 to 1,274 in 2011; they estimated that 300,000 Americans held sovereign citizen beliefs and 500,000 shared tax protest beliefs.11 Another recent development in the spread of sovereign citizen beliefs has been the growth of these ideas in African-American and prison populations.16 African-American adherents typically subscribe to the belief that they are Moorish American, which gives them privileged legal status, but otherwise hold many sovereign citizen beliefs, such as redemption theory, and apply similar tactics, including misuse of liens and creation of false accounts.

[newyorktheater]

Michael Luwoye takes over the title role of Hamilton on Broadway, on the same day that Sara Bareilles, the creator of Waitress, takes on the lead role as Jenna, Peter Jöback the title role of The Phantom of the Opera. All have performed these roles on Broadway before.

Two reports show a nudge towards more diversity on Broadway, and elsewhere in New York theater as well — more nonwhite theater artists on stage, younger theatergoers in the audience. Details below, along with news about Leslie Odom Jr., a video of the American Theatre magazine panel discussion with directors Anne Bogart, Rachel Chavkin, Liesl Tommy, and Anne Kauffman; news and a slideshow about “Angels in America” cast. We bid goodbye to Javier Munoz in Hamilton, and watch while Bernadette Peters says Hello, Dolly. And, while there’s news (yet again) about harassment and high ticket prices, as well as fear’s effect on creativity, we are happy to end with Sarah Ruhl explaining her preference for happy endings, even though they’re not in vogue.

The Week in New York Theater Reviews

John Lithgow Stories from the Heart

John Lithgow, a Tony winner for his very first Broadway show in 1973, has decided to devote his 24th to the reading of two old short stories, Ring Lardner’s “Haircut” and “Uncle Fred Flits By” by P.G.Wodehouse. But “John Lithgow: Stories By Heart” differs from your basic library storytelling hour…Lithgow doesn’t just read the two stories; he performs them…Before each story, Lithgow also tells us at some length why they matter to him. These amount to something of a memoir of his father, and it is no denigration of the short stories to say that Lithgow’s well-told personal anecdotes are what provide much of the heart in Stories by Heart.

Pursuit of Happiness

What makes us happy? The clear if indirect answer in “Pursuit of Happiness” is a lot of laughs, since that’s what the Nature Theater of Oklahoma, a notoriously inventive downtown theater company, provides in their new theater piece. “Pursuit of Happiness” is a bizarre and hilarious hybrid of physical comedy and surreal Hollywood parody, which swings wildly from the Wild West to the Iraq War, and from wondrously slapstick to borderline offensive to surreptitiously insightful.

The Hendrix Project

It’s New Year’s Eve 1969, and a dozen fans are in the balcony of the Fillmore East watching a concert by Jimi Hendrix and his electronic blues trio, Band of Gypsys, nine months before Hendrix dies. That is a summary of “The Hendrix Project,” running at BRIC through January 14, as part of the Under the Radar Festival. That is also more or less all there is to say about it. We in the audience spend an hour watching the fans in the balcony as they watch the concert.

Mikaela Bennett as Acquanetta in the opera “Acquanetta”

Acquanetta

“Acquanetta,” [is an opera] inspired by a cult horror film of the 1940s, “Captive Wild Woman,” and by its alluring and mysterious star, who went by the stage name Acquanetta. The most charitable thing I can say about the opera, which is running through January 14 at the Gelsey Kirkland Arts Center, is that Mikaela Bennett’s performance as Acquanetta provided some occasional sparks, and Deborah Artman’s lyrics were at times intriguing, but  “Acquanetta” was simply not for me.

Disco Pigs

Enda Walsh, best known in the U.S. for the Broadway musical “Once,” first gained fame as the playwright of a furious burst of a play he wrote in five days about two intense and inseparable teenagers who share a birthday and a private language….Luckily, there is an energetic rhythm and vividness to Walsh’s prose that two good actors can make more accessible with their bodies, turning the language visual and physical. Colin Campbell and Evanna Lynch (best known as Luna Lovegood in the Harry Potter films) do just that.

Mankind

Mankind [is] a fun comedy that turns berserk about a future world in which women are extinct…O’Hara’s premise is promising, his inspiration laudable, and his stated intentions honorable.. But, ultimately, “Mankind” is muddled. If it does establish the tone of a satiric cautionary tale, it’s not always clear what it is satirizing or what it’s cautioning against.

The Week in New York Theater News

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Beth Malone (Fun Home) will play the Angel at select performances of Angels in America. Also joining Nathan Lane and Andrew Garfield in the cast are: Patrick Andrews, Glynis Bell, Amy Blackman, Curt James, Rowan Ian Seamus Magee, Mark Nelson, Matty Oaks, Genesis Oliver, Jane Pfitsch, Lee Aaron Rosen, Ron Todorowski, Silvia Vrskova and Lucy York.

The two-part play opens at the Neil Simon on March 25., 2018.

Encores Off-Center season at New York City Center:

Songs for a New World, Jason Robert Brown Jun 27 – 30

Gone Missing, book by Steve Cosson, music by the late Michael Friedman Jul 11 and 12

Don’t Bother Me, I Can’t Cope, by Micki Grant and the late Vinnette Carroll Jul 25 – 28

  Bette Midler’s ended her run in Hello, Dolly on January 14.   Bernadette Peters will be taking over the role of  Dolly Gallagher Levi on January 20th.

  Leslie Odom Jr. as Aaron Burr

Leslie Odom Jr. Will Sing at the Super Bowl LII on February 4, the second year in a row that original cast members of Hamilton appear during the premiere football game of the year

Crowds remain white and female and primarily tourists, but younger people and New Yorkers are making up a larger portion of the Broadway audience, according to the Broadway League’s report, The Demographics of the Broadway Audience for the 2016–2017 season. There were 13.3 million admissions to Broadway shows. New Yorkers – 22 percent, highest in 15 years (tourists 61 percent) Under 25 – 25 percent Female – 66 percent Playgoers tended to be more frequent theatregoers than musical attendees. The play attendee saw nine shows in the past year; the musical attendee, four. About half of respondents said they purchased their tickets online, although those who live outside the U.S. were more likely to buy their tickets in person.

Theatergoers reported personal recommendation as the most influential factor when it came to selecting a show to see. Other factors included the music, having seen the movie, internet listings and having seen the show before.

Thirty-five percent of all roles on Broadway and in the 16 largest non-profit theater companies in New York City went to actors of color and disabled actors, according to a another report, conducted by AAPAC (the Asian American Performers Action Coalition, Ethnic Representation on New York City Stages 2015-2016. (Details here) That is better than the average over the ten years that AAPAC has been conducting the study.

  https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/08/theater/2018-kleban-prize-winners.html?utm_content=buffer22fcd&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

The Kleban Prize, named after the Tony-winning lyricist of A Chorus Line, along with $100,000 apiece, was awarded to Alan Schmuckler (“Diary of Wimpy Kid The Musical”) and Amanda Yesnowitz (“Somewhere in Time”),  for their lyrics, Christian Duhamel (“My 80-Year-Old Boyfriend”) for his libretto .

Google Starts Vetting Broadway Ticket Resellers

  Blockbuster shows are finding new life Off-Broadway

Can a filmed performance, even live streamed, do justice to live theater? 

Why Fear may be killing your creativity

Panel discussion with directors Anne Kauffman(Marvin’s Room), Rachel Chavkin (Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812), Anne Bogart (SITI Company), and Liesl Tommy (Eclipsed)

Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin has acquired the archives of Arthur Miller, from his first play “No Villain” (1936), written when Miller was at the University of Michigan, to “Finishing the Picture” (2004), produced just months before his death.

USA. Roxbury, CT. 1962. Playwright Arthur Miller at his desk with daughter Rebecca.

From the Arthur Miller Archives

Inside the Battle for Arthur Miller’s Archives

The Ransom Center has bought the entire archive for $2.7 million, following a discreet tug-of-war with the Miller estate, which tried to place the papers at Yale University despite the playwright’s apparent wishes that they rest in Texas.

For her latest play, Adrienne Kennedy, 86, wrote while angry, which is how she’s written for 50 years. “Things are just boiling inside me. I keep a lot of notes and then suddenly it emerges. Every word.”

On first day of the final COIL festival, Performance Space 122 has a new name — Performance Space New York — new website , new logo, &and a newly renovated space, under a new director Jenny Schlenzka. But the same Twitter name — @PS122

The Artist Co-op (TAC) will be holding a conversation on sexual harassment in the theater, moderated by Claire Karpen, with Diana Oh, Shakina Nayfack, and Alexis Williams, on January 19th, 2018, 12:00 PM 2:00 PM, in person at 500 West 52nd Street, and on Facebook Live. There will be an on-site community counselor.

Art is not sacred – the abuse of power must end – by R.M. Vaughn in The Globe and Mail

  Howard Sherman: Should we really be celebrating record-breaking Broadway box office results?

(That’s why I think that the statistics should emphasize attendance figures, not box office receipts.)

His final performance today: Thank you @JMunozActor for performing in @HamiltonMusical from the get-go, & for speaking out on issues that matter. pic.twitter.com/BrGY0Y3H30

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) January 14, 2018

Playwright Sarah Ruhl

Sarah Ruhl on Happy Endings

Happy endings are not in vogue…

It could be that I wrote more happy endings once I had children. I was looking less at the afterlife and more at the ground. Tolstoy said, “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” And so Tolstoy furthered the myth of unhappiness as a marker of uniqueness. What if happy endings are also unique unto themselves; and each search to find them as rare and singular as the proverbial snowflake.

Hamilton, Waitress, Phantom Cast New Leads. Broadway’s Getting More Diverse. Week in NY Theater Michael Luwoye takes over the title role of Hamilton on Broadway, on the same day that Sara Bareilles, the creator of Waitress, takes on the lead role as Jenna, Peter Jöback the title role of The Phantom of the Opera.