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."
(Excerpt) Read more at thepunditpress.com ...
“Black people treat Light-skinned differently, more so than Whites.”
Oh yeah, heard many comments at work by blacks about the lightness or darkness of another black persons skin. They are absolutly obsessed about it.
If you were exsanguinated then you’d really be white!
My first instinct is that lighter skin blacks can get away/easier time with taking an education seriously, and therefore can read scripts and be taken seriously by casting directors.
Probably why there are so many non-US blacks proportionately, in tv and films.
Well, probably true for me.....I’m not so sure about those that care about tint.
Couldn’t the movie makers have just spray painted the lighter blacks a darker shade so Morgan Jenkins could have a happier life?
Yes, but too black can mean something else to them also. A blacker than black Jamaican is probably not high on their “down with the slave struggle” badge either.
Beat me to it!
seems like the old SNL skit...
Oh wait, that was the wrong one.....
Here is the right one....
http://snltranscripts.jt.org/76/76rblackperspective.phtml
These people are out of there ever-lovin’ minds.
pardon me:
...THEIR ever-lovin’ minds
They’re not happy when they’re left out; they’re not happy when they’re left in.
But I think the most blatant racists, (Jeremiah Wright, for example), tend to be the lighter-skinned blacks, as if they have to prove to others that they really are black by saying the most outrageous things.
There’s an aspect of this that is staring us in the face, but nobody ever talks about it.
Dark-skinned black men can make it as musicians or actors. Their female equivalents are almost always very light in color.
If there is a black couple in TV or a movie, she is AFAIK always at least several shades lighter.
This is perhaps similar in some ways to how overweight male actors can do okay. Reference John Candy or Jack Black. Their love interest in the movie is always thin.
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