In your previous comment, you admit that you "don't get" colorism. So you can't make a judgment that this "probably isn't a case of it". I know it can be hard to understand, but Black people really do know more about issues that affect them.

Our Spidey senses are tingling for a reason. The "I'm offended that you're offended" talk gave it away.

How on Earth is POC a stupid bullish term? It means person of colour?

Aah the ubiquitous and dismissive standard " get over it " is it just me or does this sound familiar ...HMMMM

Not to mention that Zoe will deny being black at the drop of a hat...only to claim her "blackness" when it benefits her. ::severe side eye::

Nope. I blame Saldana. Especially with the bullshit she has said in past interviews.

Rewrite the history of blackface, my ass. You need to actually read the history of blackface. Ever heard of Bill Robinson? Bert Williams? Black minstrel and vaudeville performers were forced to wear blackface to perform. So were lighter-skinned black film actors. This is the kind of fuckery that shouldn't be…

Honestly, I'm not worried about any backlash that Keke Palmer got for I'm guessing not being light enough to play Chilli. The reason is because historically speaking such casting is a blip. You can probably count the number of times that a darker actress has been cast to play a mixed-looking black woman in a biopic on…

"That's not what this post about though. It was about racism and colorism. It's a derail to talk about Nicole Kidman."

I'm not explaining it anymore. Fuck these ignorant fuckers, who really don't give a shit about POC. They just wanna start some shit and say "see, you're really the racist ones" or some stupidity like that.

Seriously? As a light skinned POC myself (almost white passing) we really should acknowledge the privilege we have and the effect colourism has on darker skinned POC. I'm Indian myself and I don't know exactly how it is in the Black community but in Desi culture darker skinned women are put down and their social…

I think its to do with the history of blackface and the way it was used to ridicule and oppress black people and deny them roles so they could be played by white actors. Casting Zoe Saldana as Nina Simone, who was by no means fitting into the Eurocentric idea of beauty, and changing her features is an example of how…

I see where you are going with this but Ben Kingsley is half Indian. His real name is Krishna Bhanji and his dad is from the same area as Gandhi was from. Now Richard Attenborough had no bloody idea that Kingsley was actually part Indian when he cast him which is appalling because: British filmmaker making British…

It's about colorism, a fun offshoot of white supremacy. Particularly onerous in this case because Nina's skin color and features were things that affected her life greatly, so hiring a lighter actress with less African features and then using Blacker Face as well as a wider nose is a slap in the face to the truth of…

Not at all.

just know that there have always been mixed people, especially in America, and that all black Americans have non-African blood. I am mixed race, but so is my entire black family. My great great grandfather was half white, too. His father owned his mother.

Zoe Saldana isn't mixed. Both of her parents are Black Latinos (though from different countries). If anything, she's bicultural.

Part of me really doesn't want to bring Bamboozled into this. Bamboozled starred Damon Wayans but was very much a Spike Lee joint. It's a very, very different film from this. The blackface is integral to several overall themes Mr. Lee was exploring in relation to black and white identity and interaction in America.…

This isn't really my area of expertise, so I don't presume to have the final word. But I would imagine that people object because of the implicit assumption that Zoe Saldana — with her lighter skin, straighter hair, and narrower nose — has a casting advantage over actresses with darker skin, curlier hair, and…

Yes, but Kidman wore a prosthetic to change her stereotypically Caucasian nose into a different, stereotypically Caucasian nose in "The Hours." Saldana wearing a prosthetic to have a broader, "blacker" nose — when there are already actresses who HAVE that nose — is a different thing all together.