Wow. You just found the perfect balance with this comment. It’s not exactly mean and callous, but it isn’t overly-fawning either. Well done.
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Hell just got a whole lot classier.
This. She had the ability to consult my girl Goog and see what Eunice was all about in her childhood and as Nina in adulthood. Her inability to grasp, let alone appreciate the struggle and blossoming of wokeness of Nina, who this woman exactly was is soul-crushing to me. I find it so tragic that Nina, the woman who…
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The real problem with casting Zoe Saldana is that she has benefitted from white supremacy in the industry; Nina was victimized by it. Though they are both black women, they represent almost entirely different existences, and it is this contradiction many black women have the most trouble with.
I think that’s true — and I also think there are a couple of other actresses whom they could have asked, and probably should have asked, but whom it didn’t occur to them to ask (quite possibly because there were only white dudes - and possibly a few white women - in the room who were making the casting and money…
Ignorance + arrogance is an awful combination.
Everybody wanna be a nigga but nobody wanna be a nigga...
Nina Simone’s skin color and features were an intrinsic part of her experience as a Black woman and that was put into her art. In this instance, the way she looked was extremely important to how her character was formed, what her beliefs were, and how she expressed herself artistically. To cast a lighter-skinned…
I think it’s safe to say that there wasn’t enough moisture for pruney fingers.
*IF* the judging of the competition was done blind (that is, the judges did not see the competitors or the competitor’s name in relation to the project being judged, and did not know the gender of the competitors) - then I think this is fine. On an even playing field, women can win on the merits - NO PROBLEM. They…
based on nothing is exactly right. Why do you doubt her version of the story?
Do you also look at pink breast cancer ribbons and shout, “What about prostate cancer and lung cancer and skin cancer? ALL CANCERS MATTER!”
Look, I’m very sorry by what you’ve been through but nothing in my comment was meant to be insulting and, besides, I’m merely agreeing with the study’s conclusions. But sure, I’m the one to blame for doing nothing more than saying that the study pretty much confirms what I’ve always thought: that good sex is an…
He's an asshole and you dodged a bullet.
You know you that bitch when you cause all this conversation.
Sounds like the background premise to Wall-E as well.