Some of the comments here are weirdly ignorant. The concept of colorism isn’t new. Title VII has included color as a separate category than race or ethnicity for decades.
False equivalence, but thanks for playing. Nina Simone suffered discrimination because her appearance - darker skin and broader nose - are more strongly associated with blackness. Zoe Saldana’s lighter skin and narrower nose are closer to white conventional beauty standards. Therefore, Saldana’s misuse of prosthetics…
I only have a surface level understanding of colourism, and I’m white so I’m not going to go barrelling into the conversation like I’m some big authority, but I am a little surprised at how dismissive a lot of people are being here. The producers clearly wanted to replicate Simone’s features (hence the darkening of…
Fine, if you can’t do the math yourself: I’m trying to say that a lot of the criticism was valid.
I mean, Saldana herself said it best - how Nina Simone looked was very much part of who she was and the life she led, hence a movie about her life that doesn’t even attempt to portray that is being - to put it very generously - inaccurate.
Thats exactly the problem. They made her look like someone else by applying offensive makeup and terrible prosthetics in an industry (and world) that privileges lighter skinned or non-american black women. Nina Simones actual real life struggle centers on her being a dark skinned woman in America. Its like you’re so…
While those commenting may not feel ready to learn about colorism, based on the general tone of these responses, it’s about goddamn time. She wore a prosthetic nose to play a darker-skinned Black woman. The world isn’t so didactic that being Black is justification enough to play any Black person, and the time it took…
I think the reason that you find the criticism invalid is because you don’t understand colorism. Even though Saldana is Black, the choice to cast her in this role was in line with a long history in Hollywood of casting people with lighter skin and more delicate features, which are seen as more appealing to white…
What you are missing is that she didn’t criticize his choice of wife. She just pointed out the pattern of all of these wives being light. It’s not a flaw on the women’s part, nor a question of their blackness. What is being pointed out is the pattern of preference on the part of the rappers.
Let me also point out that…
The ‘Oh he’s a old crank, don’t fret’ shit doesn’t hold even a single drop of water. The man has a fucking known history and cranks can and do ratchet shit up all of the time. If he’s known for doing this, a point is going to come when one day he will actively assault someone and then your worthless ass is going to be…
This man survived stage 4 colon cancer and died after trying to cape for President Trump. He really blew a lead, just wild.
So... what y'all having for dinner tonight. Looking for ideas.
COVID-999
More like COVID 999, amiright?
And fuck you again for doubling down on being complicit with racists.
Fuck you dude. Like I really need to see this sort of racism during my day. Why are you white people so fucking determined to make sure “racists get their free speech” to fuck with the rest of us.
And you know those motherfuckers have a Netflix subscription!
Or the “I don’t even own a TV” folks. They are the worst.
Always lock your computer before leaving the office!