Catherine Zeta Jones is the latest actor to come under fire for so-called 'whitewashing', where a White actor plays a character who is ethnically Other. Jones plays Colombian 'Cocaine Godmother' Griselda Blanco in the biopic of that name airing tonight on Lifetime. As usual, the blatantly anti-White Huffington Post has led the charge, with Latina journalist Carolina Moreno screaming for the casting of someone from her own ethnicity. Moreno claims it has caused an angry backlash and shows a handful of social media comments to prove it. It is not the first time this furore at 'whitewashing' has been manufactured in the media, with the likes of Johnny Depp, Jennifer Lawrence and the cast of Gods of Egypt all having come under fire in recent years (even though the Egyptian Gods were White).
A few days ago, an editor of the online mainstream newspaper The Huffington Post wrote the tweet below, which garnered some media attention. It did not get anywhere near the hysterical outcries from the mainstream press that, say, Donald Trump earns for a bit of harmless locker room banter, which suddenly become 'trumped-up' charges of rape and molestation. McCombs' genuine hatred for men has been, in contrast, largely ignored by her fellow mainstream journalists and she continues to serve as 'Editorial Director of Parents'. As some Alt Right commentators have noted, Mzz McCombs has a young son, but that is not the whole story....
