December 8, 2009, - 12:41 pm
South Africans Angry @ “Yank” Casting: Winnie Mandela’s “Our” Terrorist
When I first read, a week or so ago, that singer/actress Jennifer Hudson had been cast to play Winnie Mandela in a biopic, I wondered: will they show her laughing and being entertained while her henchmen “necklaced” innocent fellow South Africans?
For those who don’t know, “necklacing” is the process of setting a gasoline drenched tire around a person’s neck and setting it afire–a very torturous way to murder, often practiced by the former Mrs. Mandela as she engaged in assorted barbaric terrorism against fellow Black South Africans as a way to “fight the oppression of apartheid” and institute her own far more oppressive methods. Yup, the woman, Winnie Mandela, is a murderer and a terrorist, not to mention a crook who used the money of anti-apartheid forces to spend on herself.
Given all this, I have to laugh at South Africans who are now upset that Ms. Hudson, who is American, has been cast to play this cretinous terrorist, instead of casting a South African actress.
It would be a little like America protesting that a Norwegian or Swede had been cast to play Jeffrey Dahmer. “He’s our serial murderer cannibal . . . and–damn it!–it’s a matter of American pride that a Yankee play him.” Say what you want about America and Americans, but at least we wouldn’t be that stupid.
So glad that the “post-Apartheid” South Africans have their priorities and sense of national pride straight.
Tags: African National Congress, ANC, biopic, cast, casting, Jennifer Hudson, movie, Movie Reviews, necklaced, necklacing, protest, South Africa, Winnie Mandela
Aw c’mon, they need the money!
Norman Blitzer on December 8, 2009 at 1:02 pm