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[Lord Jim]

Any Race Except Caucasian' Posting For CBC Job Raises Eyebrows

A posting for a job at CBC calling for "any race except Caucasian" is prompting shocked reactions online.

The posting appeared on the website for Larissa Mair Casting & Associates and on Craigslist, but has since been changed or pulled down completely. You can see a screenshot of the Craigslist post here.

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The ad calls for audition submissions for a male host between 23-35 years of age and not white for the "Kids' CBC" programming block. Yahoo's Matthew Coutts tweeted that the new host is to appear with CBC puppet "Mamma Yamma" and personality Patty Sullivan.

The posting began making waves Monday afternoon after right-wing blogger and director at the National Citizens Coalition Stephen Taylor wrote about it on his website.

Larissa Mair told HuffPost Canada the post was made in error[well of course...one can easily see how the phrase "Any race except Caucasian" could be an innocent typo] and that CBC did not send her the exact language. Mair said she was working with the network to change the post's wording, and that technical issues were preventing her from quickly changing it.

Soon after Mair spoke with HuffPost, the 'Caucasian' wording disappeared from the firm's website.

Reached for comment, CBC spokesman Angus McKinnon said the network was looking into the matter.

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/04/29 ... 80730.html

[dales]

Well, that easily remedied....



btw: where's mediator when you really need him?

[oldr_n_wsr]

And why only males? I'm surprised NOW isn't all over this also.

[Scooter]

I am guessing that because the other host is a white female, they wanted a non-white male host for "balance". This is television, folks, it's not as if casting agents aren't looking for specific sexes, races and ages all the time.

[oldr_n_wsr]

it's not as if casting agents aren't looking for specific sexes, races and ages all the time.

Sounds similar to the bar owner in the other thread. although bar owner's only looking for someone who knows about a certain culture, that candidates ethnicity, color or sex was not a gating item like it seems to be in this instance

[Big RR]

Except it's in Canada, not NYC. And even in the US, one can use race as a criterion for some entertainment jobs--imagine what would happen if a white man tried to play Othello on Broadway in blackface (they had enough problems with Miss Saigon). Looking for someone who is of the same race as the character as written is not necessarily discrimination. Awarding preference on the basis of national origin might well be.

[dgs49]

What is the "CBC"? Communist Broadcasting Corporation?

I believe Mexicans are "caucasian," but not generally considered "white." Same for Amerindians. Would Mexicans have been precluded?

[liberty]

We don't need no sticking honkys.

[Long Run]

They didn't include the other criteria that the applicant be very, very, very good looking.

[liberty]

Except it's in Canada, not NYC. And even in the US, one can use race as a criterion for some entertainment jobs--imagine what would happen if a white man tried to play Othello on Broadway in blackface (they had enough problems with Miss Saigon). Looking for someone who is of the same race as the character as written is not necessarily discrimination. Awarding preference on the basis of national origin might well be.

Where it written that only a black man can play Othello; he written as a moor, a North African. North Africans have traditionally been Caucasians. Europeans are more closely related North Africans than North Africans are related to the Negroid (Congoloid) people of the south.

[Rick]

Except it's in Canada, not NYC. And even in the US, one can use race as a criterion for some entertainment jobs--imagine what would happen if a white man tried to play Othello on Broadway in blackface (they had enough problems with Miss Saigon). Looking for someone who is of the same race as the character as written is not necessarily discrimination. Awarding preference on the basis of national origin might well be.

Where it written that only a black man can play Othello; he written as a moor, a North African. North Africans have traditionally been Caucasians. Europeans are more closely related North Africans than North Africans are related to the Negroid (Congoloid) people of the south.

Wow Lib yer slowing up it took ya 2 days to respond.

BTW ya might want to check yer sources on the ethnicity of Moors, just sayin...

[Gob]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... state.html

[liberty]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... state.html

Gob, I am not sure I follow your point unless you are saying the it is racist to see a difference in peoples; perhaps in five hundred to thousand years that difference won’t exist, but as it is now it does exist and can be seen. How to distinguish Caucasians from Congoloid (Negroid) peoples:

Among other characteristic Caucasoid are a much hairier people. Native Europeans, central Asians and Arabs will always win the beard growing contest when competing against native equatorial Africans ( black) with no European ancestry.

Also Caucasians along with their genetic cousins Chineseoids ( mongoloids) have Neanderthal DNA in their genes. Black Africans with no Caucasian ancestry have none.

It is not racist to see what exist.

So there is no reason the Othello should only be played by a black man.

[oldr_n_wsr]

Orania's motto is 'Working for freedom'

[Big RR]

Lib--if you don't like the Othello example, take Porgy and Bess; the estate of the composers (the Gershwins) will not allow white casts to perform the opera/musical, whether in blackface or not. A restriction which, I understand, has been upheld. Someone seeking to produce the play would be able to audition and employ only black actors.

[Scooter]

The village idiot's "logic" - there are differences between races, therefore it doesn't matter if an actor of one race plays a character of a different race.

No doubt he was a fan of minstrel shows as well.

[Lord Jim]

Personally I'd fully understand not casting Will Smith to play John Kennedy, or Kevin Costner to play Martin Luther King...

[Crackpot]

I can see a reason for not wanting Kevin Costner to play anyone

[Rick]

Caucasoids, Chineseoids...better watch out they'll start referring to you as a Hemorrhoid...

[liberty]

Lib--if you don't like the Othello example, take Porgy and Bess; the estate of the composers (the Gershwins) will not allow white casts to perform the opera/musical, whether in blackface or not. A restriction which, I understand, has been upheld. Someone seeking to produce the play would be able to audition and employ only black actors.

Well that is personal creativity property and individuals should be able to place whatever restrictions on such property that they wish. It would be same if the owners of a story about whites would not allow black actors to audition. That way the wiz may might have been produced if the owners of the story had opposed it.