Even if I wasn’t black , I’d be using that word for you and the others playing their game here and elsewhere.

Show me when I haven’t been.

The original commenter wrote they’d need Phoenix because they’d require an “able-bodied actor” for the pre-disability scenes.

They don’t accept it. They put up with it. That’s why so much money is spent nowadays on CGI de-ageing.

“Based on the memoir of the same name, Gus Van Sant’s new biographical film, Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot, tells the story of cartoonist John Callahan, played by Joaquin Phoenix, who became a quadriplegic after being in an auto accident when he was 21.”

This is straight up performance art. This is beyond a single or an album.

Fool, this is a public forum on a hot topic, Donald Glover.

And all you have to give them is your fingerprints and a retinal scan.

You’re also telling these people that if they aren’t “unimpeachably black” (whatever the hell that means when it’s at home) they can’t talk about issues YOU brought up and presented as universally true.

That is not a discussion to be had with people outside of the community.

She’s trying to gaslight you and others, at this point, yes.

Basically, for you and Sheesh up there, if you’re black but not doing a full on black nationalist ten-percenter thing, you might as well just call yourself a white person.

You make a great point there. A point that makes far more sense than a blanket “Oh, he likes Asian/Latina/white girls, so he’s problematic!”

You want black Jesus?

He’s okay. He deserves his Wins and his accolades.

Except Joaquin Phoenix will never look like a teenager or a 21 year old.

He wants to make an Oscar bait film. You don’t get Oscar bait films with unknowns. ‘

TRANSLATION BOT: “I cast Phoenix because I started out being in love with his brother but then he got older and died, so I transferred my crush onto Joaquin. He got older, too but, since we’re both weird as fuck, I wanted to support him in his quest for an Oscar by giving him a sure-fire Oscar-bait part. Maybe he’ll…

If that’s how you think karma works, you’re in for a helping heaping your damn self soon.

It’s a word created by Spanish/indigenous American-ancestry Latinos. Not white activists.