NWA Cast Weighs in on Controversial Casting Call

[bcrusaderw]

Are you sure?
After all, Black folks historically have been known to take stereotypical roles just to work.
So how do you know who would have been "crying"?

Furthermore, do you know of other casting calls like this that were made public?
You don't think it's somewhat strange that this movie is the only one whose casting call was made public?

I don't care about the circumstances of its release. Good on whoever released it. It's a shameful casting call considering that most of the actors in the movie, the director, and screenwriter are black. Black male actors complain about discriminatory casting all the time. Why wouldn't they cry about this?

 

[KinksandCoils]

The more money a black man makes the less he wants a black girl.

Black men need to support their sisters. So sick of black men looking outside of their race and if she is gonna be black she is a light skin girl with non black features.

No other race of men shyts on their own kind like black men.

 

[knickscrusaderm]

The movie was dope . The bye Felicia scene .

 

[XII]

Fake outrage? I bet you would be up in arms if someone told you to save your fake outrage when you're talking about police brutality towards black men.

That's not even close to the same thing

 

[marcuz]

fake outrage

 

[marcuz]

Fake outrage? I bet you would be up in arms if someone told you to save your fake outrage when you're talking about police brutality towards black men.
.

the sad part is women think this is a legitimate argument

"whaaaaaa, our beauty standards are comparable to police brutality. whaaaaaaaaa "

 

[bcrusaderw]

fake outrage

I know the movie chronicles your hometown, so you can't be objective, but how is this fake outrage?

 

[marcuz]

I know the movie chronicles your hometown, so you can't be objective, but how is this fake outrage?

because its fake outrage, y'all want to act like overweight, dark, weave wearing hoodrats didn't exist in compton. y'all also never point out that on the top tier list of women, they included black women as well. just a bunch of fake outrage for no reason.

 

[bcrusaderw]

because its fake outrage, y'all want to act like overweight, dark, weave wearing hoodrats didn't exist in compton. y'all also never point out that on the top tier list of women, they included black women as well. just a bunch of fake outrage for no reason.

No one is saying they didn't exist, but dark-skinned women damn sure weren't the only ones running around with those traits which the casting call does imply. There is no fake outrage here.

 

[marcuz]

No one is saying they didn't exist, but dark-skinned women damn sure weren't the only ones running around with those traits which the casting call does imply. There is no fake outrage here.

im sorry but what exactly did you want? for them to put a bunch of white women in late 80s early 90s compton? if they're looking for certain women to play certain characters, they dont have time to be PC. crazy part is MOST casting calls are like this, but NWA is the only one catching flack for it

 

[Taadow]

Just going to drop this right here....


Here's What's Missing From Straight Outta Compton: Me and the Other Women Dr. Dre Beat Up

On January 27, 1991, at a record-release party for the rap duo Bytches With Problems in Hollywood, producer/rapper/then-N.W.A. member Dr. Dre brutally attacked Dee Barnes, the host of a well-known Fox show about hip-hop called Pump It Up! Dre was reportedly angry about a Pump It Up! segment hosted by Barnes that aired in November 1990. The report focused on N.W.A., and concluded with a clip of Ice Cube, who had recently left the group, insulting his former colleagues. Soon after the attack, Barnes described it in interviews: She said Dre attempted to throw her down a flight of stairs, slammed her head against a wall, kicked her, and stomped on her fingers. Dre later told Rolling Stone, “It ain’t no big thing – I just threw her through a door.” He pleaded no contest to assault charges. Barnes’s civil suit against Dre was settled out of court.

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Here's What's Missing From Straight Outta Compton: Me and the Other Women Dr. Dre Beat Up


^^^This article, more than anything else, is what has convinced me not to see this movie ever.

Did you legit not know who Dee Barnes was before this article??

 

[bcrusaderw]

Did you legit not know who Dee Barnes was before this article??

Let's say she didn't. Does that make Dee Barnes' story less factual, and Dre's actions less reprehensible? You're the same people who rightfully shyt on Paula Dean for admitting to using the n-word 25 years ago, but we should just forget that Dre beat SEVERAL women 25 years ago. You all really are the gift that keeps on giving.

im sorry but what exactly did you want? for them to put a bunch of white women in late 80s early 90s compton? if they're looking for certain women to play certain characters, they dont have time to be PC. crazy part is MOST casting calls are like this, but NWA is the only one catching flack for it

Of course most casting calls are like this because Hollywood is white-owned. Pardon black women for not wanting to be discriminated against by their male counterparts in a movie FOR and BY black males. Due to your privilege as black males we can understand why that concept is so hard for you all to grasp. It's even more disturbing that black males would want to promote stereotypical images of their female counterparts, but alas we can't expect much from a privileged group.

 

[marcuz]

Of course most casting calls are like this because Hollywood is white-owned. Pardon black women for not wanting to be discriminated against by their male counterparts in a movie FOR and BY black males. Due to your privilege as black males we can understand why that concept is so hard for you all to grasp. It's even more disturbing that black males would want to promote stereotypical images of their female counterparts, but alas we can't expect much from a privileged group.

how are black women being discriminated against by that casting call?

"black males would want to promote stereotypical images of their female counterparts"

would you prefer they flat out lie about the type of women around compton during that time period?

 

[bcrusaderw]

how are black women being discriminated against by that casting call?

"black males would want to promote stereotypical images of their female counterparts"

would you prefer they flat out lie about the type of women around compton during that time period?

So what you're saying is the ONLY type of overweight and poor women in Compton in the 1980s were dark-skinned? Why was skin tone even mentioned? Why was their a hierarchy placed on skin tone going from best to worst with dark being the worst?

 

[marcuz]

So what you're saying is the ONLY type of overweight and poor women in Compton in the 1980s were dark-skinned? Why was skin tone even mentioned? Why was their a hierarchy placed on skin tone going from best to worst with dark being the worst?

what the fukk are you talking about? :have you seen the movie?

like i said, they were looking for specific types of women to fill specific roles. they have just about every variety of black woman you can find listed on their casting call. at the very top of the "hierarchy," the first thing requested is a black woman.

edit: the only mistake they made was how they alphabetically listed the requirements. if the "D Girls" were listed as the "A Girls," black women would have nothing to say