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Just to
clarify the matter, Nelson Mandela is a real person who is black and Nancy
was a fictional character whose race was, as far as I know, not specified.

Did Dickens actually ever meet a black person before 1838?

As for me, I'm not bothered a toss by such casting. Indeed, if Bill
Sykes had been cast to a Jamaican rastafarian and Fagin and the rest of
his gang as Pakistani's and Nancy and Oliver and Rose and all the other
goodies were cast to well loved upstanding white people, I would have
found the resulting furore to be quite entertaining.

Better still, Oliver is good old fashioned English white, Rose is
Nigerian and Monks is Chinese.

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