The Biracial Aesthetic: Colorism and Hollywood.

[Rollo Goodlove]

Yall talk all this pro black bilge but will be the first in line to see this movie no matter who these white people cast

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

The real issue is the same actress have been getting all the acting jobs for years. The Colorism is issue is mainly bullshyt.

My nikka, do you have a working tv set?


30+ years of Hollywood casting says otherwise.

Unless your argument is that the same actress had been getting cast for the last 30+ years.

 

[MikeyC]

However, Shipp is not the only light-skinned actress to take a role from a dark-skinned actor, or character, and the practise of coloursim doesn’t just reside within Hollywood.

Who was the actress Shipp "stole" the role from?

 

[Kasgoinjail]

I have definitely met light skinned and mixed race people I feel are more racially in tune then darker tones people

That doesn’t negate the fact that they definitely have a privilege as far as media aesthetics are concerned

 

[Will Ross]

My nikka, do you have a working tv set?


30+ years of Hollywood casting says otherwise.

Unless your argument is that the same actress had been getting cast for the last 30+ years.

These sista have been the leading black actress
The whole biracial actress stuff is mainly myth
Angela Bassett
Gabrielle Union
Sanaa Lathan
Keri Washington
Tariji p Henson
Luptia
Sherri Shepard

 

[Cel 510 kid ados forever]

These sista have been the leading black actress
The whole biracial actress stuff is mainly myth
Angela Bassett
Gabrielle Union
Sanaa Lathan
Keri Washington
Tariji p Henson
Luptia
Sherri Shepard

Nah its not myth.

They def favor biracials

 

[10bandz]

I think BP was supposed to fix all this. Black folks told me if we make Disney 5 billon dollars off BP, our dollars will forever be respected in hollywood

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

These sista have been the leading black actress
The whole biracial actress stuff is mainly myth
Angela Bassett
Gabrielle Union
Sanaa Lathan
Keri Washington
Tariji p Henson
Luptia
Sherri Shepard

That's cool and all but to dismiss colorism in Hollywood by naming a couple actresses was pretty condescending.

Look at the daughters on the Cosby family
And the daughters on fresh prince
The one daughter on my brother and me
Sister sister
The two main girls on my brother and me


Those are just the TV shows from my childhood

 

[horizon]

"Colorism doesn't exist" - thecoli.com

 

[Will Ross]

That's cool and all but I to dismiss colorism in Hollywood by naming a couple actresses was pretty condescending.

Look at the daughters on the Cosby family
And the daughters on fresh prince
The one daughter on my brother and me
Sister sister
The two main girls on my brother and me


Those are just the TV shows from my childhood

Rudy and Vanessa was on Cosby show Ashley was on fresh prince.

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

Rudy and Vanessa was on Cosby show Ashley was on fresh prince.

Cosby also had 2 mixed daughters

Tatyana's dad was Indian/Desi
And you know damn well Hilary banks was mixed.


Stop being so daft

 

[RTF]

Ashley’s not light skinned but she looked Afro Latina or Trini with the hair and skin tone.

Most black people in the USA look more like the og Aunt Viv and the og Clare from MWAK.

Just looking at mainstream tv and movies. You would think 50% of AA’s were light skin or exotical looking.

Yara dad is Iranian. That’s black and Persian - an exotical.

 

[Emoryal]

I have definitely met light skinned and mixed race people I feel are more racially in tune

What does this mean and why does it matter?

 

[TooLazyToMakeUp1]

I have definitely met light skinned and mixed race people I feel are more racially in tune then darker tones people

Because there's no need for darker black people to compensate for their obvious identity as black people

 

[Kasgoinjail]

What does this mean and why does it matter?

That I’m not going to totally write someone off or exclude a mixed person from aspects of the Black experience.....