I find myself nodding aggressively in agreement with all of your comments on this post. Thank you for putting it so well. As a biracial woman with a black dad and a white mom I too know that I have a level of privilege that some of my peers do not. It’s frustrating to me that people are refusing to acknowledge the…

I disagree. There is no moving of the goalposts. She’s Black. Some people will try to say otherwise and they’d be wrong. She’s AfroLatina. She’s Black. Both of her parents are Black. She codes as Black. She’s Black.

I sort of see your point. But I think her comment still comes off a little tone deaf, especially coming from a woman who has more than benefitted from having eurocentric features and adhere’s to “traditional” Hollywood beauty standards.

lol latinos tienen sangre Negro sin duda. Being latinos is to be of Europeean, African and indigenous descent. When the African “blood” is predominent they can identify as Black .What is wrong with that ? The issue (if there is one) is that US society want to keep everyone is a clear and define category .When most of…

I like this: “believe your own eyes.” Why do people do that, I wonder? I mean...can they not see Zoe?

The point is, she has different views on race than you do. That is her right because last time I checked, critical race theory wasn’t law and Saldana is free to hold any view she likes.

The Atlantic Slave Trade didn’t begin and and end in North America. You should watch Black in Lantin America with Dr.Henry Louis Gates so you can believe your own eyes.

She said: “So to all of a sudden leave your household and have people always ask you, “What are you, what are you” is the most uncomfortable question and it’s literally the most repetitive question. I can’t wait to be in a world where people are sized by their soul and how much they can contribute as individuals and…

Whatever nonsense Zoe might have said in the past, I get very uncomfortable with the idea of telling a black woman that she’s “not black enough” to play a black woman.

And when you’re feeling defeated, listen to this song.