Disney's The Lone Ranger is ripe with opportunity to point out the perils of putting a white dude— no, sorry, a part-something Native American dude— dressed as a white guy's interpretation of a stoic Native American nature fairy named Tonto. But you guys, Johnny Depp knows the pathetic state of the…
Despite the fact that Johnny Depp is supposedly "reinventing" the character of Tonto in the re-imagining of The Lone Ranger, the early buzz has been mixed, with accusations of Redface. But last week, LaDonna Harris, a Comanche and president of Americans for Indian Opportunity, invited Depp to join the tribe.
Look, anytime you're trying to update a fictional character created for the radio in 1938, you're going to run into some issues. Why Disney decided to dredge up the ancient Western franchise is anyone's guess, but The Lone Ranger is a go, hitting theaters in May 2013. The flick started shooting last week in New…
