Harold Perrineau: Stop Saying My Daughter’s Not Black Enough for ‘Jem and the Holograms’

[African Peasant]

I mean it isn't her fault. She just auditioned for a movie. But Hollywood is a fukked up place that doesn't like dark skinned black women. They want to change the definition of black to fit their ideals. But by the same token I don't buy her bullshyt about always identifying as black. She seems like the token who gets told she isn't black by her white friends. I can't stand when mulattoes pull that double shyt. Don't fukking be black only when it is convenient. Hollywood needs to knock it off with this. Stop casting mulattoes into black roles. They already only put 1 black person of each gender in works. You'd never see a mulatto cast as a white person. This girl wouldn't be cast as Jem would she? This girl wouldn't be cast as Marlyn Monroe, would she? This girl wouldn't be cast as Princess Diana would she? This girl wouldn't be cast as Hilary Clinton would she? Then stop doing it the other way around. If you want mulattoes in movies and shyt give them their own roles. Instead of 6 white people 2 blacks and a Mexican/Asian in a movie how about 5 white people, 2 blacks, a Mexican/Asian and a Mulatto?

I hear you fam.

It's a sad situation.

She's a victim of a fukked up situation.

 

[K.O.N.Y]

Bruhs always cheesing extra hard in pics with cacs

fixed

 

[Box Cutta]

fukk her, but fukk Harold Perric00n more.

c00n makin' R&B songs to support american troops....

 

[ReturnOfJudah]

Cash Warren is black.

Cash and his daddy.

Daddy Warren now and when he was on Hill Street Blues 30 years ago.


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The Warren Granddaughters. Breeding the black right out, yessiree. fukking bedbucks. But anyway, Cash is black. At least in America. In the rest of the world I reckon he's jet white, like Kris Humphries and Ali's grandkid via Luigi Gloves.

c00n family of the year

 

[Red Shield]

I mean it isn't her fault. She just auditioned for a movie. But Hollywood is a fukked up place that doesn't like dark skinned black women. They want to change the definition of black to fit their ideals. But by the same token I don't buy her bullshyt about always identifying as black. She seems like the token who gets told she isn't black by her white friends. I can't stand when mulattoes pull that double shyt. Don't fukking be black only when it is convenient. Hollywood needs to knock it off with this. Stop casting mulattoes into black roles. They already only put 1 black person of each gender in works. You'd never see a mulatto cast as a white person. This girl wouldn't be cast as Jem would she? This girl wouldn't be cast as Marlyn Monroe, would she? This girl wouldn't be cast as Princess Diana would she? This girl wouldn't be cast as Hilary Clinton would she? Then stop doing it the other way around. If you want mulattoes in movies and shyt give them their own roles. Instead of 6 white people 2 blacks and a Mexican/Asian in a movie how about 5 white people, 2 blacks, a Mexican/Asian and a Mulatto?

Hollywood ain't gonna stop doing that unless black people start seriously callin this out..







which ain't likely

 

[Originalman]

Hollywood ain't gonna stop doing that unless black people start seriously callin this out..







which ain't likely

Thank you breh this is the smartest post in here. First I am not gonna trip on any dude that defends his daughter from attacks. You know how folks love to be ignorant on the internet and dog people out so I can't blame old boy for defending his daughter.

Second of all we need to stop acting like casting light skin or mixed black folks is new. shyt 2/5s of the Cosby kids were mixed or light skin. We can go back to shows and movies in the 80s, 70s and 60s. I don't know why folks acting brand new about this shyt.

Secondly modern day black folks mostly talk but ain't about to boycott shyt. You know the reason why black shows in the 90s, 80s and 70s had black folks of all completions and looks? Cause black folks demanded it (especially in the 70s and 80s). If the show didn't look and feel authentically black they would call that shyt out and even protest and boycott it. Now a days negros will watch that shyt just cause one black person is in the show (oh and don't let them be a lead. Black folks gonna give the show full support).

Case in point (about how black folks didnt take that shyt like now) the famous scene in the god father where they were saying give the drugs to the blacks. Well originally the language in the scene was calling blacks N-words and monkeys. Black folks protested and had the language for the scene changed. And even after the language was changed blacks still protested the movie because the scene still talked about blacks in a negative light.

But these folks now a day can bytch about the images of blacks on shows and still toon in every week to see some shows making blacks look ignorant, have no black couples (but plenty of swirling) and very few blacks of dark complexions.

 

[Originalman]

In the end black folks start boycotting these dumb ass studios and shows they will listen.

But keep supporting these fukkers and think they gonna act right.

 

[Big Boss]

Thank you breh this is the smartest post in here. First I am not gonna trip on any dude that defends his daughter from attacks. You know how folks love to be ignorant on the internet and dog people out so I can't blame old boy for defending his daughter.

Second of all we need to stop acting like casting light skin or mixed black folks is new. shyt 2/5s of the Cosby kids were mixed or light skin. We can go back to shows and movies in the 80s, 70s and 60s. I don't know why folks acting brand new about this shyt.

Secondly modern day black folks mostly talk but ain't about to boycott shyt. You know the reason why black shows in the 90s, 80s and 70s had black folks of all completions and looks? Cause black folks demanded it (especially in the 70s and 80s). If the show didn't look and feel authentically black they would call that shyt out and even protest and boycott it. Now a days negros will watch that shyt just cause one black person is in the show (oh and don't let them be a lead. Black folks gonna give the show full support).

Case in point (about how black folks didnt take that shyt like now) the famous scene in the god father where they were saying give the drugs to the blacks. Well originally the language in the scene was calling blacks N-words and monkeys. Black folks protested and had the language for the scene changed. And even after the language was changed blacks still protested the movie because the scene still talked about blacks in a negative light.

But these folks now a day can bytch about the images of blacks on shows and still toon in every week to see some shows making blacks look ignorant, have no black couples (but plenty of swirling) and very few blacks of dark complexions.

 

[Originalman]

Yep dikk gregory and a few other folks such as Jessie Jackson and Bev Smith. Folks need to understand this shyt ain't new. Hell Lena Horne use to catch hell back in the day from black folks in the 50s and 60s because they felt she was too light and Hollywood used her as the go to black girl to cast in movies.

But like I said black folks stayed on Hollywood and when we had the black television movie and TV explosion in the 70s you had a diverse look of black folks in skin color and weight. All because black folks said we want images we can relate to.

shyt all gone now......you know why. Cause black folks accept this shyt and won't take away that viewership and green backs.

 

[Red Shield]

Thank you breh this is the smartest post in here. First I am not gonna trip on any dude that defends his daughter from attacks. You know how folks love to be ignorant on the internet and dog people out so I can't blame old boy for defending his daughter.

Second of all we need to stop acting like casting light skin or mixed black folks is new. shyt 2/5s of the Cosby kids were mixed or light skin. We can go back to shows and movies in the 80s, 70s and 60s. I don't know why folks acting brand new about this shyt.

Secondly modern day black folks mostly talk but ain't about to boycott shyt. You know the reason why black shows in the 90s, 80s and 70s had black folks of all completions and looks? Cause black folks demanded it (especially in the 70s and 80s). If the show didn't look and feel authentically black they would call that shyt out and even protest and boycott it. Now a days negros will watch that shyt just cause one black person is in the show (oh and don't let them be a lead. Black folks gonna give the show full support).

Case in point (about how black folks didnt take that shyt like now) the famous scene in the god father where they were saying give the drugs to the blacks. Well originally the language in the scene was calling blacks N-words and monkeys. Black folks protested and had the language for the scene changed. And even after the language was changed blacks still protested the movie because the scene still talked about blacks in a negative light.

But these folks now a day can bytch about the images of blacks on shows and still toon in every week to see some shows making blacks look ignorant, have no black couples (but plenty of swirling) and very few blacks of dark complexions.

Never knew that



But yeah you're right with everything you just said. No boycotts and no demands, and blacks will still watch anyway..

 

[teacher]

Amandla doesn't look the way Rue is supposed to look. I know because I read the book myself and Rue was described as dark-skinned, not light skin biracial. For white people any mixed person may be enough to represent blacks, which is the whole point. Amandla took the role from a black girl on account of the fact the white producers--who knew Rue was supposed to be a dark-skinned girl--were happier with giving the role to a mixed girl. Some random cacs not wanting any person with black ancestry to play Rue is irrelevant to the above facts.



@Cabbage Patch didnt "crush" anyone. Some ***** comments don't take away from the fact Amandla took a dark-skinned black girls' role on account of the fact she was mixed and the white producers prefer mixed to actual black girls. Welcome to reality.

As for Empire, Wesley Snipes was originally offered Terrance Howard's role in Empire but Taraji said she'd quit if Snipes was cast. Why don't black women protest that? Also, the "race of your father" argument is not "heavily flawed". In every country, the people look more like their fathers than mothers. The countries and people follow their fathers. This is why bedwenches walk around getting asked, "Are you a nanny", b/c the kids don't fcking look like them. Amandla only looks the way she does b/c her mom was so black (a waste of blackness btw).

it's random....dominant and recessive traits are random....you can have a greater chance of one vs the other but it's random....father's gene doesn't hold more weight then the mother's. On a side note I wonder whose X gene goes dormant when a girl is born

 

[Stacker Pentecost]

I hate this weak ass sentiment. The erasure of Blackness in media is real, especially when it comes to women. This whole 'so mixed people aren't Black enough????" bullshyt completely ignores the bigger issue people have, which is the idea that Black people have to be mixed white to be seen on tv and movies. It's not that she isn't Black enough, it's that fully Black people are seen as TOO BLACK to be acceptable.

And she just doesn't look like Shana, period.

 

[Stacker Pentecost]

Of course the movie is getting shytted on. shyt is Jem in name only.


I woulda made a updated period piece with Scott Pilgrim type effects. And it would have had a shyt load of glitter and neon everything. Also woulda have gotten some of those 1 hit wonder 80 bands to do new songs. Plus some of the new synthwave bands


My ver might bomb but damn if it wouldn't be a cult classic. Have that shyt in the criterion collection

Please make this movie

 

[Originalman]

I hate this weak ass sentiment. The erasure of Blackness in media is real, especially when it comes to women. This whole 'so mixed people aren't Black enough????" bullshyt completely ignores the bigger issue people have, which is the idea that Black people have to be mixed white to be seen on tv and movies. It's not that she isn't Black enough, it's that fully Black people are seen as TOO BLACK to be acceptable.

And she just doesn't look like Shana, period.

True and that is also the issue why you all these swirl couples on TV shows but can barely find one or two shows with black couples on it. The reason is black couples equal too black and a couple with only one black person equals OK and not too black.

See it is multiple layers to this shyt. My problem is folks pick and choose on this shyt when it is an attack on all black folks on TV. Not just black girls or black men or black couples. It is an attack on all blacks.

 

[Originalman]

Please make this movie

shyt I would actually pay cash money to see that and I am mister boycott Hollywood. Just the fact the story would stick to the cartoon plot would be worth it.