If you cannot understand how black immigrants from the diaspora are regarded higher than African/black Americans, then I cannot help you.

LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE.

Girl, no. Not the same. Stay in your lane.

The issue is that you are missing the forest for the trees. You are so caught up in this damn Lupita scenario that you are missing the greater issue. Just in case you aren’t aware, here is the greater issue: Non-American black actors are constantly being chosen to play African American historical people or AA…

“Girl, I’m tired, physically and emotionally.”

EXACTLY.

I MISS YOU. COME BACK *REACHES OUT ARMS*

Seriously. Colorism is complicated as fuck. You can’t just gloss over that shit.

Yeah, it is taking some nerve, I must say.

Welp, I guess Lupita Nyong’o’s can kiss her acting career goodbye since according to the stellar logic of these brilliant people just chock full of common sense, she can only accept roles if the character she’s playing happens to be Kenyan and born in Mexico.

Oh, come on. Be serious. No one is asking for that level of specificity.

““I’m not there” used a very theatrical convention by using multiple actors of different sexes, ages, and ethnicities to portray Dylan, it’s was a cool device that they used. Cate Blanchette was great in that movie, but if it was supposed to be a straightforward biopic grounded in realism, she’d have been a bad…

I cannot EVEN.

“Well I took this as not necessarily critiquing Daniel, but directors, producers and casting directors. Cause what hes saying is a thing, and it’s stupid cause if you pull up the resume of pretty much any working AA actor/actress they are all classically trained at all of the top universities for acting.”

“Also, what’s trash: this article being shared on the white feminist site. Talk about mess.”

The Zoe Saldana criticism was 100% valid.

And black American actors aren’t well trained and come from highly prestigious schools??

Small note, but it’s casting directors, not agents. Agents are entirely different, and they’re licensed.

“In fact, truthfulness is much more important to acting than being a chameleon, and though you can research a role to kingdom come, sometimes you need an actor who lived the life and walked the walk.”

I am the kitty. Please take me away.