Zoe Saldana as Nina Simone

[DaChampIsHere]

stop, just stop. it's idiotic that you have a problem with white woman/black male relationships when you consider their off spring black. i think it's perfectly natural for a dark skinned black person to have an insecurity towards bi-racials being considered one of them, because they aren't.
you're trying to walk a real fine line. which is why you're having trouble justifying your disdain for zoe as nina simons. when per your own beliefs, she's just as black as her. (socially)

Im not walking a fine line. And it's not my fault that you can't understand why I don't favor Zoe Saldana playing Nina Simone. Like I said earlier, if you listened to her music and knew about her life, you'd realize why this casting is off. Those things + Saldana's acting skills.

Like I said, type all this overly militant stuff if you want, but your own girlfriend isn't black by your standards. She was paler than any woman I've ever dated and I've dated bi-racial females. It just seems like your exclusion of people who socially identify as black comes from more of a place of jealously and self hate. If you really believed what you typed, you wouldn't be with a girl who is that pale during a Cali summer. You're not mad/insecure about those people being called black. You're mad at your own skin color.

And again, you all keep throwing out the terms biracial and mixed, most black Americans are mixed, even dark skinned people. So what are y'all talking about

plz if anything its the other way around

None of us would be anywhere without the other.

 

[YBE]

That nikka LOOKED like Malcolm, though. ​

Its uncanny how much they made Denzel look like Malcolm

 

[emoney]

whites are going to give you nikkas the okie doke. once they're bred out most of the dark skinned population and you're great grand children look like jason kidd, that's when they'll start handing out reparations

that would actually be a very good strategic move.

In fact, If I was white and arguing against reparations I would argue on the basis that "Black" Americans are no longer racially Black

 

[ℒine ☈acks]

Zoe could've just hung out in the sun and would have obtain the correct amount of blackness to play Nina, but she didn't want to take it that far so she went with the Al Jolson treatment.

 

[ℒine ☈acks]

Black people will always claim mixed race people as their own, because it behooves them to do so. It boosts their numbers and they get to say that President Obama is black, Oscar winner Halle Berry is black, Malcolm X is black and so on. They get to claim those people and more importantly their accomplishments.

Where would black people be today without mixed race people?

The reason black people claim Malcolm X is because Malcolm claimed to be one of them.

 

[HelgaPataki]

malcolm x isn't biracial. his mom is. he's about as black as the obama girls. blacks playing biracials/mixed people is rare. in fact i'd be interested for more than denzel to be listed. please list women.

the list of biracial/mixed people playing blacks would be far too long.

there are a lot of double standards when it comes to black & biracial and that spills over into representation such as actors. we treat biracials like they have the right to play black roles even if they do not look the part. we celebrate when they say they are black because it makes us feel better which in itself is sad

but a full black person who looks like a typical black is ridiculed for identifying as mixed even if they do have some mixed ancestry. look at things like this photo that someone invested the time out of their day to make for entertainment

and they sure as heck aren't considered for roles as biracials/mixed people

to the poster who said he's happy when we complain but offer no substitutions you're happy there aren't more popular black actresses for us to name? how about black actresses who aren't famous yet. not everyone in a movie has to be famous already

 

[avon barksdale]

she'll do any part that doesn't involve having a black love interest.

 

[GreatestLaker]

malcolm x isn't biracial. his mom is. he's about as black as the obama girls. blacks playing biracials/mixed people is rare. in fact i'd be interested for more than denzel to be listed. please list women.

the list of biracial/mixed people playing blacks would be far too long.

there are a lot of double standards when it comes to black & biracial and that spills over into representation such as actors. we treat biracials like they have the right to play black roles even if they do not look the part. we celebrate when they say they are black because it makes us feel better which in itself is sad

but a full black person who looks like a typical black is ridiculed for identifying as mixed even if they do have some mixed ancestry. look at things like this photo that someone invested the time out of their day to make for entertainment

and they sure as heck aren't considered for roles as biracials/mixed people

Malcolm X is still mixed, but the rest of your post is on point.

You saw how nikkas were when this dude and Mariah Carey said they were part black

 

[BHPiff]

Black people will always claim mixed race people as their own, because it behooves them to do so. It boosts their numbers and they get to say that President Obama is black, Oscar winner Halle Berry is black, Malcolm X is black and so on. They get to claim those people and more importantly their accomplishments.

Where would black people be today without mixed race people?

There ?

http://www.the-coli.com/locker-room/1828-big-thread-black-excellence.html

 

[Danie84]

Zoe dressing and emulating Ms. Simmone's mannerism and voice would have been just as effective, then putting her in Blackface (literally). That dark make-up makes this look comical and slightly disrespectful.

 

[kingdizzy01]

next we gonna see clifton collins jr playin tupac

 

[Un-AmericanDreamer]

I'll never understand why folks get carried away with an actor needing to look like the person they're portraying in a biopic. The quality of the acting is far more important.

When white directors start casting blacks and biracials to play high prominent white individuals I'll see your point, until then

" Thomas Jefferson as you've never seen him before, a new take on one of Americas founding fathers. Denzel Washington is Thomas Jefferson , coming to a theater near you..."

 

[Un-AmericanDreamer]

 

[jilla82]

Nina wanted Whoopi Goldberg to portray her. So that should give you some idea of how she wanted to be seen in a movie about her.

this is funny because Whoopi was the first person I thought of when thinking of who to play Nina

 

[RTF]

Classic internet response immersed in hyperbole.

Nina's a black woman, and her race is important to her story (as it is for anyone else). The shape of her cheek bones? ehh not so much.

I can tell from this you know very little about Nina Simone.

Getting Zoe Saldana to play Nina Simone is like getting T.I. to play Biggie. It's worse because Nina's physical appearance dictated a lot of things in her music and image whilst Biggie did the norm artistically.

You don't get dark skinned women, afro with physical features like Nina becoming iconic in popular music. Her facial features where important to her story breh.