Roald Dahl’s Widow Says ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’ Hero Was Supposed to be Black

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/15/books/roald-dahl-charlie-black.html

 

Gene Rodenberry wanted Captain Kirk to be Black.

He even had the actor picked out.He knew the guy having worked with him in the past.

 

Man.

Once again, the power of history and those who write it.

I swear it almost feels like a conspiracy when you consider the lengths institutional racism has gone to keep the Black man down.

Think of all the hidden history of Black folk in this country we don't know about because White keepers of that history simply erased it.

 

Just more proof of America being a white male dominant country that operates it's dominance with white male supremacy. Don't really care for anyone who isn't a straight white male, especially if your a black man or native american. They still want us to believe that Pocahontas fell in love with a white man.

 

WM come from a culture that puts WM first.

BM do not have that.

 

The takeaway is stop relying on white people to give us self esteem

 

Roald Dahl wrote the screenplay for the James Bond film You Only Live Twice. When I first saw the film Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory, though it took place in England, and featured the song The Candyman(written by Anthony Newley and famously sung by Sammy Davis, Jr.), Charlie's family could have been black. Charlie was a poor kid and good fortune came his way when he bought a candy bar with the gold ticket.

Dahl hated the film adaption of his story.