Films, Food, and Fandom

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What did you do THIS time, DC?

alexandraerin:

filmsfoodandfandom:

sourcedumal:

thebigblackwolfe:

I’m somebody who’s picked up a comic book in the past 20+ years.

Luke Cage from the start of his publication has been portrayed as a brown/dark skinned, 4c Afro having man:

Now you finna tell me that this light skinned half-Black almost white passing guy is going to play the character shown above:

Now I personally adore Dwayne Johnson, brutha is FINE (oh dear god is that a peak of pubic hair in the last picture jesus be a biscuit and sop me up), however he should not be playing Luke Cage AT ALL. He is an acceptable non-threatening choice to appease white people who may not be willing to accept a character like Luke Cage. It’s a cop out, it’s erasing dark skinned Black folks out of media AGAIN, and I don’t fucking like it.

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Naw. Michael Jai White is a much better choice than Dwayne Johnson.

Actually Dwayne Johnson is half-black, half-Polynesian.

And, wait, are we seriously, SERIOUSLY arguing over whether or not an actor is “black enough?”

So, apparently a white British guy can play an ethnically Indian character, but a GENETICALLY BLACK actor can’t play ANOTHER black character because his skin doesn’t have the right amount of melanin?

…..yeah, that makes sense, tumblr.

I’m confused how you’re a Tumblr blogger about films and fandom and yet you seem to think literally everybody was just fine with Benedict Cumberbatch playing Khan. You actually missed the entire ongoing backlash over that?

Anyway, even if I had no familiarity with the bloggers above and had never heard of or thought about this issue before (which does happen, when privileged folks live in a bubble) I would assume just based on the fact on that the folks above are objecting to the idea of casting a lighter skinned man as Luke Cage that they were also against the casting of Benedict Cumberbatch as Khan.

But you, you basically made up an opinion that would make them hypocrites and ascribed it to them so you’d have something to shake your head about.

We know at this point that you’re scandalized about the idea that someone can be “not Black enough” to play a certain role on the screen, but the reality is that movies get cast (or in some cases, shelved) because the people making them believe that some actors/characters are “too Black” for “mainstream America”. The conversation above is calling that out and pushing back against it, and to answer your question, it doesn’t seem to have been an argument before you joined in, and no, we shouldn’t be arguing about this.

(Note: I’m kind of guessing you’re white, because of the use of phrases like “genetically Black” and not having any idea that the casting of Khan was widely, roundly, and soundly criticized. If I’m wrong, I apologize for stepping across a line here, but if I’m right, then seriously, this is not our table.)

Yeah…I didn’t know that “colorism” was a real thing.

I thought it was just a solitary case of over-reacting. And for that, I apologize.

thebigblackwolfe:

filmsfoodandfandom:

thebigblackwolfe:

filmsfoodandfandom:

sourcedumal:

thebigblackwolfe:

I’m somebody who’s picked up a comic book in the past 20+ years.

Luke Cage from the start of his publication has been portrayed as a brown/dark skinned, 4c Afro having man:

Now you finna tell me that this light skinned half-Black almost white passing guy is going to play the character shown above:

Now I personally adore Dwayne Johnson, brutha is FINE (oh dear god is that a peak of pubic hair in the last picture jesus be a biscuit and sop me up), however he should not be playing Luke Cage AT ALL. He is an acceptable non-threatening choice to appease white people who may not be willing to accept a character like Luke Cage. It’s a cop out, it’s erasing dark skinned Black folks out of media AGAIN, and I don’t fucking like it.

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Naw. Michael Jai White is a much better choice than Dwayne Johnson.

Actually Dwayne Johnson is half-black, half-Polynesian.

And, wait, are we seriously, SERIOUSLY arguing over whether or not an actor is “black enough?”

So, apparently a white British guy can play an ethnically Indian character, but a GENETICALLY BLACK actor can’t play ANOTHER black character because his skin doesn’t have the right amount of melanin?

…..yeah, that makes sense, tumblr.

I would strongly recommend going back to your elementary school and asking for your parent’s tax money and your lunch money back cause it’s obvious they didn’t even teach your ass to read.

I dunno. I’m not the one claiming that an actor of African descent isn’t black enough.

I am saying AS A LIGHT SKINNED BLACK PERSON that it is majorly fucked up for Dwayne Johnson ANOTHER LIGHT SKINNED BLACK PERSON to come along and take a role MEANT FOR A DARK SKINNED BLACK PERSON.

Hollywood has a LONG history of casting light skinned or racially ambiguous Black people over dark skinned Black people because they are less threatening and more acceptable to white america. 

This possible casting is just one more incident of this happening recently, with another being Zoe Saldana playing Nina Simone, a real singer who was adamantly pro-Black women especially pro-dark skinned Black women like herself. Instead of casting a dark skinned actress to play her, they picked Zoe Saldaña, and then they put her in Blackface.

All of that because they did not want to pick someone dark skinned.

So if all you want to read into is that I’m being the big evil Blackness police because I am upset by the idea of Dwayne Johnson being Luke Cage? Fine, I’ll be that. Because it IS MAJORLY FUCKED UP that he is contributing to the erasure of dark skinned Black people like this.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

I’m not trying to accuse you of anything!

I just think it’s messed up actors can be “not black enough.” It’s like when that one black group said that Barack Obama wasn’t “really black” back in 2007.

thebigblackwolfe:

filmsfoodandfandom:

sourcedumal:

thebigblackwolfe:

I’m somebody who’s picked up a comic book in the past 20+ years.

Luke Cage from the start of his publication has been portrayed as a brown/dark skinned, 4c Afro having man:

Now you finna tell me that this light skinned half-Black almost white passing guy is going to play the character shown above:

Now I personally adore Dwayne Johnson, brutha is FINE (oh dear god is that a peak of pubic hair in the last picture jesus be a biscuit and sop me up), however he should not be playing Luke Cage AT ALL. He is an acceptable non-threatening choice to appease white people who may not be willing to accept a character like Luke Cage. It’s a cop out, it’s erasing dark skinned Black folks out of media AGAIN, and I don’t fucking like it.

(made rebloggable by request)

Naw. Michael Jai White is a much better choice than Dwayne Johnson.

Actually Dwayne Johnson is half-black, half-Polynesian.

And, wait, are we seriously, SERIOUSLY arguing over whether or not an actor is “black enough?”

So, apparently a white British guy can play an ethnically Indian character, but a GENETICALLY BLACK actor can’t play ANOTHER black character because his skin doesn’t have the right amount of melanin?

…..yeah, that makes sense, tumblr.

I would strongly recommend going back to your elementary school and asking for your parent’s tax money and your lunch money back cause it’s obvious they didn’t even teach your ass to read.

I dunno. I’m not the one claiming that an actor of African descent isn’t black enough.

sourcedumal:

thebigblackwolfe:

I’m somebody who’s picked up a comic book in the past 20+ years.

Luke Cage from the start of his publication has been portrayed as a brown/dark skinned, 4c Afro having man:

Now you finna tell me that this light skinned half-Black almost white passing guy is going to play the character shown above:

Now I personally adore Dwayne Johnson, brutha is FINE (oh dear god is that a peak of pubic hair in the last picture jesus be a biscuit and sop me up), however he should not be playing Luke Cage AT ALL. He is an acceptable non-threatening choice to appease white people who may not be willing to accept a character like Luke Cage. It’s a cop out, it’s erasing dark skinned Black folks out of media AGAIN, and I don’t fucking like it.

(made rebloggable by request)

Naw. Michael Jai White is a much better choice than Dwayne Johnson.

Actually Dwayne Johnson is half-black, half-Polynesian.

And, wait, are we seriously, SERIOUSLY arguing over whether or not an actor is “black enough?”

So, apparently a white British guy can play an ethnically Indian character, but a GENETICALLY BLACK actor can’t play ANOTHER black character because his skin doesn’t have the right amount of melanin?

…..yeah, that makes sense, tumblr.

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hellyeahsupermanandwonderwoman:

Kingdom Come - Fan Film First of many to come! GET EXCITED! — with Margie Vizcarra Cox and Danny and Heather Kelley.

EEEEEEEEEH!!!!

Magnificent!

(I’ve always loved that Wonder Woman costume, BTW)

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