Hi there, fellow white person here. Please stop. You’re making us all look bad. Jackson identified as black therefore a black actor should play him. That he “looked white”is irrelevent. Tis all. Kthxbye

LOL. Do you actually think dropping an undergraduate degree cred (OMG?? A white dude has a BA or a BS??!!!!) is impressive? It’s not. I may or may not be much, much, much more credentialed than you, but I am choosing not to play that game (the degree-dropping-one)—because it is classist and actually indicative of very…

LOL You’re calling my IQ into question? Good on you for keeping the middle-school playbook close at hand.

Any experience with discrimination you may have is NOT WITH RACIAL DISCRIMINATION. How hard is that to understand? Homophobia is not racism. You have not experienced racism. You clearly don’t know much about Black people, and have attempted to flex your white privilege by talking over actual Black people with your “I…

Thing is, Mariah and Vin don’t even look white. At all. She looks like a mixed race person; he looks like a light-skinned black man to me. Shaving off them 4b curls didn’t make him look less black.

Truly fucking tired.

I’m related to several and gave birth to one white-passing child. Nearly every black person in America, the Caribbean, Brazil and other places we got dropped off have white-passing relatives.

By your logic I could say you know nothing of whiteness. I won’t, and you know why?

This guy is the worst type of white person. Thinks they’re “down” with the cause, thinks they’re open minded, thinks his opinions are enlightened and need to be heard and is actually so further from everything he thinks about himself he’ll probably never get through to. Oh and I bet he has a black friend too.

And, there it is. I knew if I pushed back enough, I’d get to the heart of the matter. You think because you’ve read a Black academic (or 2) that you get it. That you couldn’t POSSIBLY be racist. Oh, at least not a “real racist”.

‘I am white, I’m very white, I grew up on a tiny island where almost everyone was white’

I just want to put this out as a PSA for everyone: Please don’t ungrey trolls. Don’t reply to them, don’t star them, you can “dismiss” them and their comments will never even show up. This Ross guy is a waste of all our time.

No I’m telling you to piss off because many many commenters here, many of whom are POC have been explaining this all to you for quite a while now, and you refuse to take them seriously or believe them. You are committed to being right or seen as some kind of amazing ally, and in fact you are proving yourself to be the…

They should cast Tracy Morgan as Marlon Brando.

Sure. Here I am trying to take off a sweater my mom bought for me:

Heyyyy, boo

I look exactly like Idris Elba.

It’s possibly a mythical trip that didn’t happen, apparently.

“I’m as shocked as you may be.”

This casting feels jokey and disrespectful. There is alot of stuff they can do with makeup or they can find a black actor with his skin tone.