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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

But..wasn't Khan played by an Hispanic actor?

[(Anonymous)]

Actually, his parents were from Spain and moved to Mexico so....

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, but this was in the 60s. He's an Indian character and they got someone who they could put make-up on to look Indian. Basically a form of blackface. They really should of had him played by an Indian actor.

Ricardo Montalban was white.

[chardmonster]

He was the son of Spanish immigrants to Mexico.

Being Mexican or speaking Spanish doesn't make you a POC. There are white people in Mexico and other parts of Latin America.

Hell, a big chunk of Mitt Romney's family has been in Mexico since the nineteenth century. They're as Mexican as Montalban.

Re: Ricardo Montalban was white.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't disagree with your point re: Montalban and hispanics and POC, but the context for the Romneys being in Mexico is very different from the context for Montalban and people like him. Light-skinned Mexicans of Spanish descent =! Mormons hiding out in Mexico to practice bigamy.

Re: Ricardo Montalban was white.

[chardmonster]

I wasn't talking about the immigration context though; I'm talking about race. I'm not sure there's so huge a difference though; they live in Mexico, they are Mexican citizens, they're both white.

Aside: there are still Mormon towns in Mexico long after they gave up the polygamy thing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonia_Ju%C3%A1rez,_Chihuahua

Re: Ricardo Montalban was white.

[(Anonymous)]

Fair enough.

Re: Ricardo Montalban was white.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, this is why I don't understand why people make such a big deal about him being a POC. He was a white guy with heavy makeup playing an Indian character.

Re: Ricardo Montalban was white.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, but the character, Khan Noonien Singh, wasn't white. Which, considering his backstory and the context of the show, was a big fucking deal. Casting problems of the 1960s aside, it was still an important statement re eugenics and race.

Re: Ricardo Montalban was white.

[(Anonymous)]

^This!

Re: Ricardo Montalban was white.

[(Anonymous)]

ikr? John Wayne also played Genghis Khan. HE WAS WHITE, OMW. That wouldn't forgive a modern adaptation making a similar (lbr, worse) mistake.

The CHARACTER is clearly not fucking white

Re: Ricardo Montalban was white.

[luxshine]

Ricardo Montalban didn't consider himself white, and did a lot to make Hollywood respect Latino actors more. So please, whatever else you think about this mess, don't erase his identity please.

Re: Ricardo Montalban was white.

[ex_valour601]

Totally agreed.

Re: Ricardo Montalban was white.

[chardmonster]

"Latino" is a complex identity. Montalban's parents were from Spain, though. You can be both white and Latin.

I mean there are people of Spanish descent who try to get POC scholarships and grants but that doesn't make them any less European.

Speaking Spanish doesn't make you a POC. I could be born and raised in Africa, be a citizen of an African nation and speak an African language, but that wouldn't make me black.

I'm not erasing his identity. Perhaps Montalban and I disagree on what is considered "white," but we ultimately don't get to decide our own identity. Our community and culture does.

Re: Ricardo Montalban was white.

[luxshine]

Yes, you are if you're calling him white.

Mexicans, as a culture, are very, very protective of their roots, and for us (Because I'm a light-skinned Mexican, btw) being called 'white' in the context of race, it's pretty much as calling us 'not Mexicans', and erasing our identity. And Montalban said in NUMEROUS interviews that he was not a white actor, that he didn't consider himself a white actor, and he was very rarely cast in white roles because Hollywood considered him 'non threatening brown'. It wasn't until much later in his career that he got main characters due to this. And if you talk about community deciding, well, we Mexicans don't consider ourselves white, and no, Ricardo Montalban wasn't white.

So again, if you consider that Ricardo Montalban being Mexican makes it ok for Benedict Cumberbatch to play a character of Indian decent, perfect. No problem. But don't call Montalban white because that only erases all his hard work.

Re: Ricardo Montalban was white.

[chardmonster]

I'm not going to argue with you. But I don't think calling a man of Spanish descent a man of Spanish descent is erasing his identity. I also wouldn't say Pope Francis isn't a Brazilian, but his parents are from Italy.

I was under the impression that racism existed in Mexico, and that light-skinned Mexicans are at the top of a hierarchy. I'm not accusing you of anything of the sort, but you have to admit that part of the reason white Hollywood considered Montalban a "nonthreatening brown" had to do with the fact that he was often not particularly brown in the first place.

Re: Ricardo Montalban was white.

[ex_valour601]

There is very much a class problem in Mexico, but most people are so ignorant of the fact that I've heard them openly dismiss the concept that those at the top of the hierarchy actually exist (or that they're also quite wealthy), so it just adds to the confusion around the topic.

As you said before, the concept of a Latino identity is a complex issue, but I think the real issue is the fact that we're apparently still in the sixties in terms of casting, and not Montalban himself, although a comment made in a similar discussion mentions that he's grown paler as time passed:

"...In fact, part of the reason Ricardo's family immigrated to Mexico was due to how poorly "dark" Spaniards were treated in their home country due to lasting racism against anyone remotely North African looking. Ricardo Montalbán had noticeably darker skin that wasn't just because he tanned a lot. It began to fade into a paler complexion as he aged though, hence the big difference between.

this: http://sharetv.org/images/win_lose_or_draw/cast/large/ricardo_montalban.jpg

and this: http://images.zap2it.com/images/celeb-53949/ricardo-montalban-1.jpg"

(I'm lazy, so I just pasted everything.)

Apparently he was also made-up to be paler during Wrath of Khan to show how the planet affected him, or something similar, but I don't know enough to fact-check that.

EDIT: I tried to wiki some of this to find better sources, but I gave up after seeing that Hollywood back then regularly cast him in the role of Asian characters and wanted to change his name to Ricky Martin. The silliness is too much.

Re: Ricardo Montalban was white.

[luxshine]

Ok, I'm going to explain a bit as best as I can because it's one of those things deeply ingrained in our culture that it's very hard to get and I'm sensing that you don't mean any disrespect.

Calling a Mexican 'of spanish descent' is a bit worse than calling us 'white'. Even if our parents are spanish and we're first generation born here. Mexicans are deeply patriotic, and there's nothing, nothing more important than being Mexican. If you were born in Mexico, or spend more than 5 years living here, you're a Mexican. And while there's racism in México, it's not the same as in the USA as it's ingrained in clasissm. It doesn't matter if you're dark-brown skinned, if you're rich. Then, you're on the top of the hierarchy. If you're poor, it doesn't matter if you're pasty white. To put it plainly, Ricardo Montalban was darker than I am, and he was way higher than I in the hierarchy in México. And, none of that matters when we're talking about México as a country. We're Mexicans in the end, and when it's our identity in game, all of us, light skinned or dark skinned are still Mexican.

Which is my point. I'm not saying that it was right for him to be casted as Khan, or to take the fact that he was Khan as the reason why it's wrong to have Cumberbatch as Khan now. I'm just saying that please, respect his own self-identity and his culture and don't call him a white actor.

Re: Ricardo Montalban was white.

[chardmonster]

Okay. I'm going to flat out admit (to you and Valour) that I was familiar with black-and-white movie Montalban and "Rich Corinthian Leather" Montalban; I hadn't seen many pictures of him between.

Thank you both very much for explaining all this to me! I just want to be clear--I didn't mean to claim that he wasn't 100% Mexican.

I will say this, though: I'd argue that racism and class are also very deeply connected in the US. There's a reason someone like Obama--whose mom was an anthropologist--can go so far in politics, while the kids from my minority majority high school are far less likely to get similar chances no matter how smart and ambitious they are.

Re: Ricardo Montalban was white.

[luxshine]

I know you didn't mean any offense, which is why I took my time to explain at the best of my abilities.

And well, now we understand each other :)

Yes, class and racism are connected in the US too but let me put it this way. Our most beloved president was very dark skinned, and when a comedian made a joke of his name (Not a race joke, not an offensive joke. Just a silly joke), he got blacklisted for almost 20 years, unable to get a job. Do you see that happening to someone making fun of Obama with a racist joke? When I mean that at a certain point we don't care for the skin color, I mean we don't care. Which makes very hard to explain american racism to some mexicans, unfortunately.

Re: Ricardo Montalban was white.

[jerico_cacaw]

Actually, Francisco is not Brazilian, he's from Argentina.

Also, people of mixed descent (the so-called POCs) make most of the population in Mexico. Actually I can't say what exactly I am, other than mixed, as my ancestors come from at least eight different ethnic groups (completely different pre-Columbian civilizations), all of which still exist on modern Mexico, AND I am of Spanish descent as well. I can assure you I'm not the exception.

Also, as far as I know, not all Spanish people is white. Or so I was told on school, but teachers might have been deceiving me *shrug*

Where I live (South Mexico), most white-white locals you meet are usually at the bottom of the hierarchy. And they are usually the odd ducks. Same with black-black people. It is more usual to meet locals of Asian or Arab or Indian descent. White and black people are usually confused with tourists, and basically ignored.

Re: Ricardo Montalban was white.

[(Anonymous)]

Spain...is white. The whole reason why Mexicans are POC is because the Spanish conquistadors raped/intermarried with the NA tribes there.

Somehow I'm getting the feeling that people just want to be labeled something exotic, because they think being white is too "boring". (Not saying you, but the poster who said their blood is purely from Spain but live in Mexico)

Re: Ricardo Montalban was white.

[(Anonymous)]

Seems like a lot of people are jumping through a lot of hoops to make Cumberbatch's casting Not A Big Deal, when the truth is that Star Trek especially should be leaping at ANY chance to make main characters not white. It's 300 years in the future, ffs.

Anything to defend the pasty British guy, I guess.

Re: Ricardo Montalban was white.

[(Anonymous)]

Star Trek has been pretty good (at least in its televised incarnations) at having POC main characters, though. I mean, not always perfectly so, but it's not like they've been lily white either - it's something I'd argue they've consistently been very good about. I mean, they've had POC captains, first officers, doctors, security officers, helmsmen, communications officers, engineers. The best Star Trek captain was black (this is a true fact that you cannot argue with btw). It's an element that's always been part of the Star Trek future in a fairly unequivocal way - that racial distinctions are outmoded and that we're going to move beyond them. So they have, historically, leapt at that chance. They've done it.

Re: Ricardo Montalban was white.

[tabaqui]

Pretty much this. I'd have loved to have seen an actual Indian actor in the role (well, not 'seen', as i have not seen the movie but, you know what i mean....) instead of very white, very British, very-not-Indian Cumberbatch.