Posted on 10/24/2014 9:54:28 AM PDT by therightliveswithus
Salon.com, well know for its nonsensical liberal platitudes, has reached the summit of absurdity once again, saying that filmmakers are too reliant on "light skinned black characters," and that African Americans in the film "Dear White People" are not dark enough.
The author, Morgan Jenkins, ironically, is herself a "light-skinned" African American. And she does not feel that people like her can truly capture African Americans' experience in the United States.
She writes, "Frankly, as a light-skinned African-American female, I am tired of seeing women who look like myself presented as the epitome of complexity when it comes to setting forth the many different layers of the black experience for a mainstream audience."
So, why are "light-skinned African-Americans" used in movies? Jenkins explains, "A lighter-skinned black person is more marketable to an overwhelmingly white-dominated space. Not to mention, white appeal equals more marketability. The brown skin with a yellow undertone is the color 'nearest [to] the light,' as Goethe once wrote, or in this case, to whiteness."
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Easy answer. Dark skin doesn’t show up well in film.
Race card again. Bo-ring.
Yeah, that Denzel Washington is so light skinned.
For God’s sake, don’t they every grow up and get mature?
This is a paradox, because dark skinned African immigrants do not act like lighter skinned American blacks. In fact, dark skinned African immigrants are socially far more like conservative whites in many ways, so they are *not* what liberals want to see as a depiction of “black people.”
Why does anyone take these people seriously?
“Easy answer. Dark skin doesn’t show up well in film.”
Right, all you can see is the whites of their eyes and their white teeth when they smile.
Take responsibility for their own outcomes?
For SHAME, sir!
From watching Jerry Springer and Maury sometimes in the afternoon, I concluded that Black people are more concerned about levels of color in the black race than ANY white person is concerned about them, or even the white/red/yellow races. PS, spare me the PC names, I really don’t care, you need to tell somebody else that gives a crap.
it borders on fixation/obsession. and everything is about it.
“The author, Morgan Jenkins, ironically, is herself a “light-skinned” African American. And she does not feel that people like her can truly capture African Americans’ experience in the United States.”
Then recruit actresses that are as dark as a coal bucket, quit the business and start bussing tables.
I’m really sick of the whining.
From what the black community said, neither is Obama....
Can you just imagine someone anywhere lamenting the lack of whiter-white people in film. Honestly, who really thinks like this? This woman is mentally unstable to worry about such frivolity. The sad thing is there are so many more just like her in the liberal world.
You should hear some of the names I heard some blacks call each other. I really can’t say them because I’d be exsanguinated most likely.
If you've watched more than a couple of the videos of Mr. Tommy Sotomayor, you will know that this is true.
"You're lighter then me" and "She's darker than me" is a constant theme of trouble between persons of color.
Mr. Sotomayor is funny as he&& as well. He's not what I would call a conservative, but he is almost certainly not a liberal.
Put his name in on the YouTube search window and you'll find lots of his stuff. Definitely NSFW, NSFC.
Black people treat Light-skinned differently, more so than Whites.
You don’t have to even go as far as movies from Hollywood, just
look at all the light negros in TV commercials.
There are a lot more lighteys than darkys.
There are as many lighteys a whiteys.
One reason we got Obola is because he appears on the scene as a “clean black” affirmative action candidate.
Crazy uncle Joe knows.
Yes, but the crux of the WHOLE problem that slave minorities have been genetically modified by their white slave masters to believe that tint with respect to closeness to white is a distinguishing factor. And, in this regard, they, the most blackererest (my new word) deserve more preference and reparations.......
NO!
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