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Today we welcome Oxford Kondo (http://twitter.com/oxford_kondo) to discuss whether it's racist for Game of Thrones to be so white, and on the flipside the trend of casting minorities to play white characters, including racebending (changing traditionally white characters to black,  or even using nonwhite actors to play white historical figures in biopics). Escape from Plan A magazine and podcast can be supported here: https://www.patreon.com/join/planamag

This is Part 2 of a two part episode. Part 1 is available here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/26758276

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C Ozmun

Is The Spook Who Sat by the Door the perfect reverse of that "Mighty Whitey" trope? A Black man enters another culture (the White imperialist culture of the CIA in this case), becomes better at that culture than all its "indigenous" inhabitants (in this case the white CIA agents) and eventually uses his superior skills to subvert and destroy the worst elements of the culture he infiltrated to the greater benefit of humanity?