The company, the eyewitnesses, and the people in question all say that the employee handled it was inappropriate. The women in question weren’t so loud and aggressive that they deserved the treatment by the employee.
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I suppose—forgive me for not making myself clearer—that you may have missed my point. Even granting that the bookclub was being too loud (and it’s a wine train, not a college seminar) the response of the employees was disproportionate to the ‘offense’. One is, at most, a social faux pas, which even delicate…
how was this even a possible result? he was convicted of killing a person. it was not in self-defense, or in the line of duty. how is it legal for the court itself to negate the guilty verdict returned by the jury after it was reached?
That’s what kills me. Zoe Saldana is the hill they wanted to die on? Really?
BET-Johnson was involved. Lol, as if there would be “good” decisions made with that asshole in the mix.
a radical feminist who is aware of anyone who is disenfranchised or marginalized.
If the director felt that Zoe was “Black Enough” why’d she put her in black face?
You know what really bothers me about this film and the casting? Given what Zoe Saldana looks like, what conventional beauty standards are, and what Simone really looked like- this is Hollywood uglying up what they consider a pretty actress to play a serious role! Like Charlize in Monster.
Ta-Nehisi Coates put it the best possible way in his editorial: the simple fact and tragedy of this film and the mentality behind it is that a young Nina Simone would not have been cast in a movie about her own life.
As I said in one of the other threads on this topic ithis situation illustrates how insidious colorism in Hollywood is. Even when the character being portrayed is dark-skinned and it was an integral element to her life experience so you would think it would finally give dark-skinned actresses a once in a lifetime leg…
No. No one is saying that. If you really want to, you can find out what the problem was without even leaving this site.
At least we know she can never say that!
If she had the characters she would have added “polka dotted”
I don’t see how you can cast the two of the because of their chemistry, then get mad when fans and critics notice that same chemistry you picked them both for. It’s almost at if there’s something hidden deep within the minds of people in Hollywood that tells them the kind of chemistry between Beharie/Mison…
I’d stopped watching right about when Jennifer Lopez became a judge. She’s okay now but back then she was in my “I irrationally severely dislike you” category. I think it was just over saturation, plus I found her judging singers to be...laughable at best. I only watched this season because of LaPorsha. I wish she…
This. When I see stuff like this, as a privileged white woman, I use the mantra. “Maybe I don’t find it offensive, but it’s not about me.”
After reading this my initial reaction is that it is OBVIOUSLY an overreaction.
As I read on, and into the barrage of dismissive comments, I was trying to decide if I could see the point of view of the complainant, or if this is political correctness run amok.
I was leaning towards agreeing with the mob, but then I…