Thandie Newton: "All My Career, I’ve Felt Like To Black People, I’m Not A Legitimate Black Person"

[doublejump]

That scene. Breh should have killed them devils

Yeah that whole movie was doing too much.

 

[Commish]

Thandie Newton should just continue to live her life, practice social distancing, wear her mask and handle whatever professional business she has til she is ready to retire.

Perhaps she isn’t or wasn’t fully accepted by some Black people for being bi-racial. Maybe she will learn that there are a lot of Black people with two Black parents who are also not accepted by some Black people. Point is, so what? Part of the Black experiences whether full Black or not, is that you will experience non acceptance on all fronts. It will be from white people to Black people and everyone else in between. It is what it is. If it doesn’t kill you or drive you crazy, then it will make you stronger! Besides, why would she empower someone who doesn’t know her personally to decide whether she is legitimately Black or not? She should define herself and move on with her life.

 

[HarlemHottie]

I honestly never heard this side of her. I know she mentioned once it was easier to get roles as a BW in the USA than UK.

Not sure who didn't accept her. US Blacks are pretty about mixed Black people and typically don't separate them. Maybe some bitter chicks or something.

Ain't nobody thinking bout no thandie newton.

First movie i saw her in, she was at boarding school chasing a white boy. I didn't get the impression she wanted to be down. Halle, otoh, made it very clear how she identified, while not hiding her white mama.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

She a future cac

So she gonna be viewed diff

And have a diff experience

retarded quality posting

 

[African Peasant]

because it does our society is patriarchal

That's not what patriarchal means.

 

[southern.girl]

malcolm x is not biracial

Not only that, Malcolm’s mom was only mixed as a result of her mom’s rape....at the tender age of 11...in 1897.

It is disrespectful & disingenuous, IMO, to conflate mixed people of yesteryear, who’s lineage was most likely was attributed to sexual abuse/assault with biracial people whose parents chose to have a non black partner.

*Edit* I posted before reading the thread, as several others have made this exact point.

 

[DrBanneker]

People need to understand how race is a social construct because in different countries, Thandie would be put in different categories.

In America, she’d be seen as black if you still subscribe to the one drop rule.

In Britain she’s mixed race.

In South Africa she would be a “coloured”.

In Brazil she would be “Pardos”.

Yeah I lived in Brazil and saw this first hand. That's actually one of the big reasons why I am so hesitant about pushing off mixed people in their own category as opposed to what we have traditionally done in the US and lumped them with Blacks. I mean, the racial dynamics and colorism in Latin America and even most of the Caribbean are

A good book about this, by an AA living in Brazil is "Coal to Cream". He talks about how on the outside Brazil's racial system looks appealing but when you deal with the dysfunctional ass dynamics and self-hatred it engenders, it isn't something I want here.

Crazy stuff like chicks looking like Sanaa Lathan trying to call themselves "branca" (white) to be upwardly mobile. Or my lightskinned (not mixed) AA friend down there who kept getting the question "why do you want to be Black?" , not from Whites but Blacks and Pardos wondering why he would choose a "downgraded" identity.

Part of the reason Afro-Brazilians have a hard time fighting is they can't unite over shyt when half of them think they can get more scraps from table by screaming "eu não sou negro!"

 

[ThrobbingHood]

@DrBanneker its all political. Lest we forget that the Irish and Italians were not considered white until white supremacy realized their own numbers were stagnating. It won’t be long until Hispanics are mostly racialized as white.

Brazil actively imported Portuguese to whiten up Brazil (as you know). And there was a huge genocide of black people in Argentina. When our people realize that white people see us as a sign of their extinction, They won’t be so forgiving of their actions.

 

[Rev Leon Lonnie Love]

Yeah I lived in Brazil and saw this first hand. That's actually one of the big reasons why I am so hesitant about pushing off mixed people in their own category as opposed to what we have traditionally done in the US and lumped them with Blacks. I mean, the racial dynamics and colorism in Latin America and even most of the Caribbean are

A good book about this, by an AA living in Brazil is "Coal to Cream". He talks about how on the outside Brazil's racial system looks appealing but when you deal with the dysfunctional ass dynamics and self-hatred it engenders, it isn't something I want here.

Crazy stuff like chicks looking like Sanaa Lathan trying to call themselves "branca" (white) to be upwardly mobile. Or my lightskinned (not mixed) AA friend down there who kept getting the question "why do you want to be Black?" , not from Whites but Blacks and Pardos wondering why he would choose a "downgraded" identity.

Part of the reason Afro-Brazilians have a hard time fighting is they can't unite over shyt when half of them think they can get more scraps from table by screaming "eu não sou negro!"

I think this is a Brazilian isolated issue. In African countries half-cacs are not treated differently nor is there any prevalent colorism going on. They are just classified as their own and recognised for what they are, but not given some sort of preferential treatment.

 

[Genos]

Are you a natural born idiot or a disingenuous troll? If it's the former I feel sorry for you, if it's the latter I have no respect for you. The average black man isn't even thinking about Thandie at all. Like @Speaking Womanese pointed out this is about a woman who sees the black inside her as a manifestation of the curse of ham, resents that the fact that she's half black means she can't fully assimilate into the white race, and is now trying to ride two horses with one ass by affixing herself to whiteness by having kids with a white man and playing the white man's love interest in most of her movies, despite being sexually assaulted by white men in her teens, while also projecting her inner anguish and resentment onto the black community by trying to guilt trip us, who have nothing to do with, and should not be held responsible for, her personal struggle in accepting who she is. If she were a biracial man acting in similar fashion we would clown him just as hard. You're trying to pivot this thread into gender strife and I'm not for it. You save that bellhook babble for your mother, she's the only one who gives a fukk to hear it.

so what you are saying is c00ns arent black. Well if that was the case there could be no such thing as a c00n as they arent black.

Can you show me the threads saying how Lavar Balls songs arent black?

 

[VladTheImpaler]

To be so torn about wanting to be Black, she married a cac.

 

[Mowgli]

No matter how u ack, you still black....

 

[3rdWorld]

Literally just about to post this. They never seem to openly question why white people don't accept them when they’re half white... but of course, Black people are the “true racists”.

We get blamed for everyone's woes..they all know to somehow blame us, even if they don't have any conact with Black people.

 

[NormanConnors]

I love thandy she's a hottie

 

[Uno]

Coli says she is not black but still a bedwench