First of all, fake noses usually mean shitty scripts. Better-known, darker actresses (AKA Viola Davis) can afford to turn down bad projects. Secondly, it wasn’t white people who creepily appraised Nina Simone’s darkness and who now creepily appraise Saldana’s lightness— racists hate everybody equally and…

If casting a “white-featured” black actress to portray a black woman is racist, exactly how, “black-featured” does the correct choice need to be? How many millimeters wide must her nose be? How dark must her skin be?How closely must the actor resemble the represented figure to be socially just?