“In America you can’t even talk about whiteness,” said Drew Domalick, who lives in Green Bay, Wisconsin. “If you try to embrace being white, you are portrayed as being a racist”

I love that they kept the station open just for her. Her education was seen as so important there was a whole train station to facilitate. Now if only the whole world could take this attitude to towards the education of women and stop bombing / shooting at buses of girls on their way to school.

For what it’s worth, I appreciate that you’ve made what seems like a sincere effort to hear people out and understand the points being made (and made very well at that). The only other thing I’d add is in response to this comment: “How can i learn if every time I ask a simple question it’s either ignored or treated…

Amazingly, people can and often do consider more than one problem at a time. Because cops are shooting our children and politicians are poisoning entire cities doesn’t mean that we can’t discuss colorism. Not to mention, do not tell Black people how they can and can’t or should and shouldn’t feel about white supremacy…

Because it's a blatant slap in the face of both black women in general and it's own subject in particular. You don't understand the issue. That's fine but, what you don't get to do is tell black people what they get to be upset about.

It’s not about Zoe not being black enough, as people who have discussed this issue have stated over and over and over again. She is a Black woman, clearly. It is that she is neither dark enough nor has the proper type of features to portray Nina Simone - which is obvious since they put her in blacker face and…

Especially since Zoe Saldana barely counts as a bigger name. I like her and I’ve liked movies that she’s been in but she doesn’t strike me as a massive box office draw - at least not in the sense that the film would have received no backing if she was not cast in the main role. This would have been an excellent chance…

Dear Ms. White Person:

i don’t know if this matters, or if i’ll even phrase this well, or if i am even right in writing this...so i apologize if i do not say it well...

HELLLLLO?? THAT’S THE PROBLEM.

I think there’s another aspect of this, too, that the studio thought that a biopic about Nina fucking Simone needed a bigger name to draw in viewers. As if the only way to get someone to watch it was to lure them in with a relatively popular, pretty actress. I’m not going to pretend that I know Nina’s story inside and…

Nice job Kara. This and a shout-out from Ta-Nehisi Coates himself.

This movie (10) came out in 1979 and the braids were a topic of conversation. It was appropriation then and it is now. But it isn’t new appropriation.

few key points to work through here:

The original did make Ernie Hudson not a scientist so I get that blame could be put on it, but this one should also receive blame because it did nothing to fix that. Why remake it at all if you’re going to just repeat mistakes and use the exact same formula, except for a gender-swap. They should have tried to improve…

So, changing the characters to women is cool and progressive, but making the one black person not the one working class person is too far? Maybe the next Ghostbusters in 20 years. :/

But why is she automatically the Ernie Hudson’s replacement? And why not blame these filmmakers for keeping that aspect the same? They’ve already changed the genders of the characters, they’ve already added a blonde-haired blue-eyed ghostbuster.

My husband is livid about this especially after what happened with Ernie Hudson in the original. I get that Leslie Jones is fine with her character being the ‘everyman’ but I get the frustration with all of the scientists being white *again*.

I think the fact that a black person is the “uneducated” Ghostbuster again is actually fueling the controversy.

Some people feel differently about it.