Netflix, which is rebroadcasting The Daughters of Caleb, has decided to censor the second episode in which Roy Dupuy plays the black-faced nativity scene as King Balthasar.
“It is a business that has been filmed for over 30 years, what is our respect for the business?” asks Regine Laurent, the chair of the Laurent Committee.
For the speaker, it is important not only to respect the works, but to consider their historical context, and not to impose our own.
“It was filmed 30 years ago…Maybe today we would have staged the series to have a black actor playing the witch-king Balthasar. But it wasn’t like that back then. You can’t always erase history and rewrite it. I respect business”
This story reminds him of the controversy that afflicted Professor Lieutenant Duval of the University of Ottawa, as well as of the treatment he received at the work of Pierre Valier.
“We can no longer speak today in universities about Pierre Valier’s book ‘White Negroes in America’. We can’t. We have a new vocabulary, we say ‘n-word’. That is crude hypocrisy!”
For Ms. Laurent, he awaits a paradigm shift in today’s society.
“We run our society with emotions, it’s very dangerous,” she says.
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