So this girl Zendaya Coleman is playing Aaliyah in her Biopic....Seriously

[pike]

This girl looks exactly like Aaliyah.

I know right! these c00ns wanted keke palmer or some other basic darkskinned black girl for the role. Hey c00ns lupita aint doing shyt how about her?

 

[pike]

She's rumored to be dating Trevor Jackson....who is 17.

Shocking, considering the amount of wenching in the entertainment business.

Anyways, I still can't support this movie. Apparently, her mother and brother are strongly against it, but her Uncle, who controls her estate, is on some bullshyt and is going along with the movie anyways.

https://twitter.com/DaRealMonieLove
https://twitter.com/BarryHankerson​

That guy is gay.

 

[pike]

Aaliyah has 2 Black parents and looks like a fair skinned Black girl. She would never be confused for Mexican.

And phenotype is a but a component of race.



Nope, she will go for what White people give her and since she is half-Cac that is more than what they will give full Blacks and many times opportunities meant for full Blacks. It starts with Blacks acknowledging biracials are different (but still embracing) and controlling the media depiction of themselves.

exactly.

 

[Gizza]

you're a grown man with an anime avatar aint no one taking you serious

You have a pic of dogs but okay avatars mean something. Anyway all I will say is you're logic of making biracial people at the "bottom of the totem pole" is laughable since white supremacy still gonna beat our ass regardless. This isn't India breh & reading your posts you're gonna move the goal posts. Deuces

Side note: I believe in loving your people & respecting those who only fuk wit their own. But dnt give me no elitist bs when you yourself are a casualty to white supremacy. You believe making other people under you, will help the blacc man? Get at me about blk on blk crime, prison, aids you know REAL issues that been talked about for decades and some been talked about since slavery.

 

[Box Cutta]

That guy is gay.

Naw, he's in those guts.

 

[Will Ross]

better than having mixed breeds and biracials at the forefront of the black race.

mixed breeds, the gate keepers and ****** overseers of blacks in US

most of them are not even mixed just products of a mixed parent

 

[pike]

She doesn't even look remotely "black"....

 

[Versa]

I just heard Alicia Keys got casted for the Audrey Hepburn biopic dropping next Spring on the Hallmark Network. Ya'll pumped? I am.

Resemblance kinda uncanny forreal forreal.

 

[Dameon Farrow]

I've been saying this for the longest...

Real talk we theoretically should do more genres of movies. Spike Lee spoke on this before. He called it the 'fickle black audience' and said they only support certain kinds of movies. He is actually right. He also said that during a time where movies generally didn't have to compete with blogging and illegal downloads. Movies aren't pulling money like they used to. Not pound for pound anyway. Movies trailing no. 1 at the box office pulling in a mere 10 or 12 million opening weekend. The hit theaters have taken from having to compete is crucial out here.

 

[Box Cutta]

She responds : http://www.theroot.com/blogs/the_gr..._black_is_just_enough.html?wpisrc=mostpopular

http://www.tmz.com/2014/06/20/zendaya-aaliyah-father-video/

Zendaya Coleman Responds to Critics on Aayliah Role: Half-Black Is Just Enough
Zendaya Coleman and her father thinks she is black enough to play Aaliyah.

Last week, TMZ caught up with Coleman as she was leaving an airport, and she had a few comments to say about the issues surrounding her complexion and ethnicity. The TMZ reporter asked the actress about the talk surrounding the question: Does color matter?

“Well a lot of people say that I’m not black enough,” Coleman stated while introducing her father, Kazembe Ajamu, who’s black. “Half-black is just enough. It doesn’t matter what color you are, it’s how you portray the character.”

Coleman also brought up the fact that Angela Bassett portrayed Tina Turner in What’s Love Got to Do With It, and they looked nothing alike. In defense of his daughter, Ajamu let the reporter know that the film is shooting in the summer, so she’d be able to get some sun and tan in the process, and will be dark enough.

The politics of who’s black enough in Hollywood to portray certain roles is always a subject of conversation when it comes to casting. Last year, Zoe Saldana caught flak when people felt she robbed other black actresses of the Nina Simone biopic.

The issue of color is also brought up when it comes to translating a black character from print or cartoons to the big screen. Years ago, people questioned why Halle Berry secured the role of Storm in the X-Men series, even though the character was drawn as a dark-skinned woman. And most recently, with the announcement of the new Jem live-action movie, the woman cast to play the role of Shana Elmsford, who was a dark-skinned black woman with purple hair, is biracial actress Aurora Perrineau.

Does Coleman’s comment ring true? Is half-black just enough?

^ This is even worst than the Aaliyah role.

Hollywood disgust me.

 

[GetInTheTruck]

She responds : http://www.theroot.com/blogs/the_gr..._black_is_just_enough.html?wpisrc=mostpopular

http://www.tmz.com/2014/06/20/zendaya-aaliyah-father-video/

^ This is even worst than the Aaliyah role.

Hollywood disgust me.

The aaliyah shyt is whatever but this JEM shyt...... fukk outta here with that....

 

[Vonte3000]

This Zendaya chick looks like Tinashe's clone

 

[Michael's Black Son]

This Zendaya chick looks like Tinashe's clone

And both of them could get this dikk in their ass

 

[Kingshango]

TIME OUT!






They're making a Jem and the Holograms movie!?

 

[Ripp]

Don't really feel like quoting anyone but Malcom X was not biracial

And im surprised Vin Diesel hasnt been mentioned in this biracial debate