Michael B. Jordan: "They See White and Black. I Don't"

[Numero Deux]

Jordan was recently photographed leaving a Met Gala afterparty in New York at the same time as Kendall Jenner, and there was a brief ripple of stories wondering whether the two of them were dating, speculation which was dampened by “sources” insisting that the photo was simply two people leaving a party at the same time by chance in the same frame. Nevertheless, it stirred up a little online squall, with those who presented themselves as Jordan’s fans almost universally hostile to the idea.

“It’s the world we live in,” says Jordan. “They see white and black. I don’t. Kendall’s a friend of mine, you know. I don’t know her, like, that well, but I know her enough. People’s perspective on that is what it is. I don’t fukking know. I don’t live my life to make other people happy. It’s so weird, though, right? A lot of black fans were feeling like, ‘Oh, my God, he should have been with a black woman’ and that whole thing. I get it, but on the other hand it’s, like, relax. You know—it’s 2015. It’s okay! People can like one another, not necessarily from the same history or culture or whatever the fukk it is. It’s just the new world, you know what I mean?”

http://www.gq.com/story/michael-b-jordan-gq-cover-story

 

[Birnin Zana]

Tell D'angelo that we found Wallace..........on the c00n train

Jordan drew widespread and very vocal criticism across social media for an interview he granted to GQ, in which he said that only wanted to play “white” characters in the future.

“I want to be part of that movement that blurs the line between white and black,” the actor said.

“I told my team after I finished ‘Chronicle’ [the successful low budget sci-fi movie that first partnered him with ‘Fantastic Four’ director Josh Trank] that I only want to go out for roles that were written for white characters,” Jordan told the magazine. “Me playing the role will make it what it is.”

Michael B. Jordan Shredded on Twitter After Saying He Wants 'White' Roles

To make things worse, Jordan scurried over to Snapchat and said #ALLLIVESMATTER in hopes of trying to justify his comments. Let’s just say Twitter chimed in and destroyed the Fantastic Four heart-throb.

Twitter Roasts Michael B. Jordan For All Lives Matter & Interracial Dating Comments

Smh Wallace

@Street Knowledge, plz update OP with these quotes, they are relevant and from the same interview / time period.

 

[Donald Trumps Twitter]

Do you even hear yourself?!?! The fukk does interracial dating have to do with racism? Racism happens on a social, economical, and political level. Dealing with racism requires understanding what racism is, and what it means to be racist. Education. The are a lot of questions that arise when talking/dealing with racism and you're not going to find those answers to any of those questions between a person's legs!!!

How can we get to understand other ethnicities and build a better society if we are rigorously fighting against IR relationships.

Not all relationships are in between another persons legs.

An IR relationship can also be a friendship. A comraderie. Co-existence. It just means two people of different ethnicities have found common ground and are able to look past their own traditional customs.

 

[Labadi_Mantse]

Yall seriously can't be this ignorant..

You know Compton is 60% Mexican and 39% black? 1% other.

Same lower class tier, same government programs. Same poverty. Same discrimination.

the Dec. 15 murder in the Harbor Gateway neighborhood of Cheryl Green, a 14-year-old African American, allegedly by members of a Latino gang, was shocking.

Yet there was nothing really new about it. Rather, the murder was a manifestation of an increasingly common trend: Latino ethnic cleansing of African Americans from multiracial neighborhoods. Just last August, federal prosecutors convicted four Latino gang members of engaging in a six-year conspiracy to assault and murder African Americans in Highland Park. During the trial, prosecutors demonstrated that African American residents (with no gang ties at all) were being terrorized in an effort to force them out of a neighborhood now perceived as Latino.

 

[BlackFruitPunch]

Malcolm X said black men would run over black women to go and dance with white women in his autobiography. nikkas lost.

 

[BlackFruitPunch]

Malcolm X said black men would run over black women to go and dance with white women in his autobiography. nikkas lost.

 

[OG_StankBrefs]

Yall gonna neg rep me for having a different view than you.


My nephew is half black. My best friend is black. I was raised around black people.

Maybe I am wording this wrong, but I'm just trying to say we should be Better than the racist white man, and not stoop down to their levels.

And yet you still don't get it.

 

[Spuffy]

You guys are a bunch of hypocrites. Just yesterday there were like 3 or 4 threads calling black women wenches for having white boyfriends. And you guys were up in arms about it like if she wasnt with him, she'd be with you.

 

[Donald Trumps Twitter]

the Dec. 15 murder in the Harbor Gateway neighborhood of Cheryl Green, a 14-year-old African American, allegedly by members of a Latino gang, was shocking.

Yet there was nothing really new about it. Rather, the murder was a manifestation of an increasingly common trend: Latino ethnic cleansing of African Americans from multiracial neighborhoods. Just last August, federal prosecutors convicted four Latino gang members of engaging in a six-year conspiracy to assault and murder African Americans in Highland Park. During the trial, prosecutors demonstrated that African American residents (with no gang ties at all) were being terrorized in an effort to force them out of a neighborhood now perceived as Latino.

My step dad almost died when he lost his arm at work. He immigrated here from Mexico (like my mother)

A black man took his shirt off and held my stepdad in his arms applying pressure to the wound.

He kept my stepdad from bleeding out. My stepdad invited him and his family to our church (Mexican) where people thanked him, cried of joy for him. And my step dad made a speech.

He said "we all have been taught to think of black people as criminals and bad, but if it weren't for this Man, I wouldn't be alive."

It was a beautiful moment because lots of people attended mass that day.


That story never made the news even though the doctors called my step dad Milagro (Miracle)


I love black people. Yall tripping for thinking we're not stuck in the same struggle

 

[GilSho]

His comments weren't that bad but when you read about his unwillingness to speak on Ferguson because of potential backlash, his "I don't see color" talk, apparent lust for white p*ssy, only going after white roles & that cringeworthy #AllLivesMatter hashtag then you just know this nikka is a c00n.

Why are some dudes bringing up what BW would potentially say if it was a black female celeb btw ? Since when did men start using deflection tactics?

 

[OG_StankBrefs]

You guys are a bunch of hypocrites. Just yesterday there were like 3 or 4 threads calling black women wenches for having white boyfriends. And you guys were up in arms about it like if she wasnt with him, she'd be with you.

Name names because "you guys" only really amounts to a hand fulla posters who enjoy dancin to dat record on repeat.

 

[WaveCapsByOscorp™]

i'm sure he sees race, he just doesn't care about it anymore

 

[GilSho]

You guys are a bunch of hypocrites. Just yesterday there were like 3 or 4 threads calling black women wenches for having white boyfriends. And you guys were up in arms about it like if she wasnt with him, she'd be with you.

Except several posters have called him out but I'll let you cook.

 

[wickedsm]

My step dad almost died when he lost his arm at work. He immigrated here from Mexico (like my mother)

A black man took his shirt off and held my stepdad in his arms applying pressure to the wound.

He kept my stepdad from bleeding out. My stepdad invited him and his family to our church (Mexican) where people thanked him, cried of joy for him. And my step dad made a speech.

He said "we all have been taught to think of black people as criminals and bad, but if it weren't for this Man, I wouldn't be alive."

It was a beautiful moment because lots of people attended mass that day.


That story never made the news even though the doctors called my step dad Milagro (Miracle)


I love black people. Yall tripping for thinking we're not stuck in the same struggle

quoted for posterity.

 

[jaguar paw]