7:18am July 6, 2013

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Not only did Hollywood ignore black cowboys, it plundered their real stories as material for some of its films.

The Lone Ranger, for example, is believed to have been inspired by Bass Reeves, a black lawman who used disguises, had a Native American sidekick and went through his whole career without being shot.

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More on Hollywood’s omission of black cowboys in the Old West and interviews with black cowboys in their 80’s.. from Sarfraz Manzoor in BBC News. (via deanarrindell)

Of course they did.

(via searchingforknowledge)

So the Lone Ranger was supposed to be about TWO PEOPLE OF COLOR TEAMING UP TO BE AWESOME TOGETHER

But instead we got this bullshit.

TWICE.

I’m not fucking surprised.

AT ALL.

(via sourcedumal)

So let me get this straight… They had this awesome as hell story just RIPE for the picking, and they chose to go with a boring white dude and some insulting white man dressed up in a white man’s inaccurate portrayal of a Native American man?

… Riiight.

Now I’m gonna write a Lone Ranger story that’s racebent and genderbent, because fuck the movie, that’s why.

(via goddessofnapsandcoils)

Would it even be racebent if you used a Black person and a Native American? Or race-unbent?

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