A giant NO to this: “others make the argument that a black American woman appropriating from Indian culture has less impact than a white woman doing the same”. When a black/Latinx/Native or any variety of POC asks me “are you dot or feather” or “why are you eating beef” or “explain reincarnation to me,” it is no less…

Gotta make a bargain with a sea witch in order to be part of “that world.”

This isn’t hard. He’s embarrassed he likes having his ass played with. She was not embarrassed to do it and did not think less of him for liking it. She does think less of him, in general, and specifically for being embarrassed about his enjoyment of ass play.

Oh man, Kanye...why, just, why?

do you mean tossed salad?

It’s not even that. I’m Black and I’ve had to witness over my short-ish life the flagrant whitewashing of several characters, both fictional and real. The excuse that “well, they look like [person here] because of [physical traits here], so it’s not that bad” is a bullshit one and I’m tired of hearing it.

Michael Jackson was never white. He was a Black man with vitiligo. He never described himself as not being Black and casting a white man to play him strips him of his own ethnicity.

Evan Ross. I find this all to be very interesting. So, albino Black people should also be played by white people because of skin color? That’s the logical conclusion from everybody pointing out that Michael has literal white skin. Nevermind the fact that Michael never hated being Black and was quite upset when Pepsi…

Michael Jackson was never a white person. Jesus fucking Christ.

White passing Black people exist. Black people of all shades exist. There is no need to cast a white person to play a Black person.

At the end of the day this white man will be putting on a performance as a black man, leaving the film set and going back to his life as a white man. Its absolutely metaphorical blackface. There has been endless speculation as to why MJ got the procedures he had done and about his diagnosis with vitiligo, but even at…

I don’t think Kara is saying “no more movies about slavery, period”, but rather let’s put slavery movies on hiatus until we can get OTHER films featuring POC. Because right now, if you have a large cast of POC (minus Tyler Perry movies which I hesitate to call movies), you can make a reasonable guess it’s about…

Black and Latino high school students only exist to challenge brand new white teachers and then grow to love them while, in the end, teaching the teacher the most meaningful lessons of all.

Don’t hijack the thread to make a dumb opinion about a genre of books. Books =/= box office films. There are a billion books written over centuries just waiting to be downloaded onto your Kindle.

Yup. I mean, what I’m talking about is a movie that actually reflects the experience of most young (under 40) black people. Especially those living in big cities. We’ve gone to college. We have jobs. We have friends and lovers of all different races. We go to bars and clubs and parks and book stores and restaurants.…

“More movies with black people just being people.’

It’s pretty fucking rich that people are cool with consuming and confronting slavery in the form of entertainment while gasping at the horror of it all, but refuse to budge when it comes to things like criminal justice reform, income inequality, etc., and acknowledging the lingering effects of a country built on the…

Wouldn’t it be crazy to have a mainstream, blockbuster with all black cast etc. just a regular old movie.

They do, but only to terrible schools where they are about to drop out until some middle-age white man having a mid-life crisis really connects with them.

You know what I would love? More movies with black people just being people. Like dramas, character pieces, etc., with black people just being normal people, you know, like we are in real life. Not “black movies” (stay away Tyler Perry. Stay far, far away). Not slavery movies. Not Straight Outta Compton. Not Boyz in…