It’s irrelevant what term you would use. You can call it whatever you want for your own purposes. But, for the purposes of this discussion (in which we are specifically talking about Zoe Saldana portraying Nina Simone on the big screen) it should be obvious what we mean when we use the terms “light-skinned” and…

To...Nina Simone?

Oh, she knew. She’s addressed it several times. She just didn’t care.

No one’s telling her she’s not Black enough. They’re telling her her skin isn’t dark enough to convincingly portray Nina Simone, a dark-skinned Black woman. There’s a clear difference there and it seems people are willfully ignoring it. It’s obvious that Saldana irl is nowhere near the same color as Nina, or they…

LOL

Is your doctor Leo Spaceman?

You’re clearly living your best life, and I can only aspire to be like you.

Related: this is one of my favorite memes of all time. LMAO!

LOL.

He admitted that he’s poured millions of his own money into each collection.

Agreed. He’s shown repeatedly that he has little concern for racial discrimination when he’s not personally affected by it. After all, isn’t this the same person who recently claimed that “racism is a dated concept” that no longer really applies? Though he does have a legitimate point about racial bias in fashion, his…

He couldn’t find any investors because most of the fashion industry doesn’t take him seriously. He’s spoken - ok, ranted wildly - about it many times, and now, he’s looking for a $100 million injection of cash for his line, which I’m guessing he’s not going to find either, lol.

I’d submit that outrage over racism isn’t the fad so much as actual racism having been (and continuing to be) the fad for centuries in this country.

Your comment is honestly one of the stupidest things I’ve ever read. Exactly who is preventing “overweight/not-the-same-body-type-as-the-character cosplayers” who happen to be white from expressing their own experiences of bigotry within cosplay? Do you really believe that this is a zero-sum game, where if one group…

Lol, I thought she was Erika Christensen.

Damn. That’s a ridiculous amount of gorgeous in one picture.

Yes, it does happen here in Canada - especially if you’re a person of color.

How has Hollywood not hired you yet? You’re clearly a genius at casting.

Good point. I think this is because many white people need to constantly see their image reinforced everywhere they look or they start to feel as if the tables are turning on them (in the here and now) - and nothing is more frightening to people who think this way than the possibility, however remote or fantastical,…

Ugh, what a shitshow.