“It’s not just $80 million to $100 million.” Imagine being so detached from the value of money that you would utter the word “just” before saying $80 million.

I don’t know if you’re a nonBlack troll or an actual West African Black person deliberately dishonest. I tend to think you’re the former. I’m myself West African and have lived on both continents. What you’re saying is patently false. There lightskinned and biracial Black people in Africa. They are family and not…

People have been calling her an attention whore since she writhed on the stage at the VMAs- this is what she does. It’s her brand. It’s like how you can count on Cher wearing a fishnet bodysuit and Dolly Parton to wear gravity defying wigs- Madonna is going to be overtly, physically sexual. Why change what’s worked…

There are plenty of people who identify as biracial, mixed, mestizo, Creole etc. in the States. But descendants of American slavery have a common culture and history that people across West Africa do not. As racial minorities in the U.S., there are advantages to organizing under the “Black” umbrella for political and…

The character Beetz plays, Stagecoach Mary, is based on a real person: a dark-skinned Black woman who, after being emancipated from slavery, became a mail carrier infamous for “liking liquor and gunfights.”

Are you under the impression that Hermione and James Bond were real people?

Right? People who love the klan precisely because they LARP as light skinned black women sure have a lot to say on the topic of colorism.

Heaven forbid instead of trying to tell us what we should be outraged about and how outraged we should be, that certain people shut the fuck up for once and actually listen.

Must be fun over there in 1999. We left “all women just need to support each other” feminism behind for good reason. Flattening women’s issues into a fantasy sisterhood leaves many people out. Can anyone point out to me where Beetz was blamed? This article is about casting decisions, which you are absolutely correct,…

All of this. The audience here can’t understand the points raised, so they are choosing to be righteously angry they were asked to even think about it. 

It’s weird how defensive light skinned POC get when the issue of colorism comes up. If Scarlett Johansson gets taken to task for taking roles she shouldn’t, Zazie Beetz, Zoe Saldana etc should also rethink if they are right for these roles as well. Nowhere does this article lay the blame on Beetz. Using her picture is…

I think these comments are from women who have no idea the damage that colorism can do. They see black people and assume we are all the same and should just be happy to be represented. We are not all the same and darker women get fewer opportunities. The replies are very disappointing.

I used to think these things about my sister when my wild niece would be out all hours and out of control, doing drugs, stripping, etc. And then my own kid became a teen. Until you’ve been there, you have no idea how impossible it is (barring imprisonment) to control teens. I’m so grateful that the worst thing my kid…

Thanks for replying. I’m glad we both know the other is acting in good faith and that misunderstandings come from unintentional problems with how we expressed ourselves. Also, we’re again in agreement that both those actors shouldn’t have their being Asian policed because they’re biracial. I tend to be verbose (as…

Both men are also half White. I’m not negating their handsomeness, I’m a Black woman who notices how light/biracial Black actors are largely presented as attractive, good, rich. It’s part of the same bias for phenotypical proximity to Whiteness. I understand why as an Asian man you’d notice this. There’s been a long…

What kind of dork joins a frat or sorority? 

“…has this ridiculously large family that he’s always showing off.”

Might be that no one knows who he is? 

“. . . the Emmy’s proved themselves nearly irrelevant by awarding easy-to-watch mediocrity instead of the tough stuff.”

If the results of an awards show are “unbearable”. If thinking about them “exhausts” you, then stop thinking about them all that much.