JamalSpunky
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Here's another thing I came across on twitter. A group of black women were having a discussion about the issue they were having with the casting by DuVernay in a "Wrinkle In Time". They were focusing on the people picked to play the mother, father and daughter who is the focus character. Wait, I told myself. Could this mean what I thought it meant? Silly rabbit. These ladies were pissed that the woman chosen to play the wife was not a dark skinned woman but instead a biracial female. There not being any black men in this equation wasn't an issue to them. One of them even wrote that she hated black men. Of course this didn't stop them from adding their two cents about the Black Panther motion picture. They criticized the writer/director Ryan Coogler for casting a light-skinned black woman to play a small villainous character (American) who works alongside Michael B. Jordan's character in the film. These catty bitches suggested that if Tessa Thompson was available Coogler would have cast her as one of the black females of Wakanda. Of course that is bs. Coogler hired darker skinned women intentionally and for a reason fin those Wakanda roles. But these ladies have to attack him. Meanwhile they gave DuVernay a pass for not casting black men period.
Speaking of Michael B Jordan he is doing an adaptation of Fahrenheit 451 for HBO. I've kept an eye on casting to see if he would get a love interest and what actress they would choose if so. Turns out they gave his character a wife and of course TPTB chose a black actress, the woman who was the object of Peter Parker's affections in Spiderman Homecoming. Was it too much to give Jordan a non-black wife? Black actresses benefit big time when black actors become stars because Hollywood still looks at black women to play their love interests. Black actors don't benefit when stardom hits black actresses because Hollywood look for mostly non-black men to play their on screen squeezes. I'm almost a point these days that I don;'t look forward to a movie or show starring a black man when he gets "stuck" with a black woman. Lord help me that may sound evil but that's where I am.
Speaking of Michael B Jordan he is doing an adaptation of Fahrenheit 451 for HBO. I've kept an eye on casting to see if he would get a love interest and what actress they would choose if so. Turns out they gave his character a wife and of course TPTB chose a black actress, the woman who was the object of Peter Parker's affections in Spiderman Homecoming. Was it too much to give Jordan a non-black wife? Black actresses benefit big time when black actors become stars because Hollywood still looks at black women to play their love interests. Black actors don't benefit when stardom hits black actresses because Hollywood look for mostly non-black men to play their on screen squeezes. I'm almost a point these days that I don;'t look forward to a movie or show starring a black man when he gets "stuck" with a black woman. Lord help me that may sound evil but that's where I am.
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