Rarebird77
Pro
I don't ever think anyone was calling for them to be twins. Just that Nina's story, given her features and skin tone, and her actual words regarding that experience should have been honored in the casting.
Zoe Saldana Getting Clowned For Trying To Play Nina Simone
I don't ever think anyone was calling for them to be twins. Just that Nina's story, given her features and skin tone, and her actual words regarding that experience should have been honored in the casting.
Rarebird77
Pro
2 bedwenches
Lots of c00ns and wenches in our history. Malcolm X included but I guess he learned the error of his ways. .. .
Not much we can do about that.
Black people with color issues abound, hence Robert Johnson green lighting the casting of Zoe as a dark skinned black woman.
You aren't Nina
And your music wasn't discriminated against because of your dark skin, large lips and broad nose
No it doesn't... Their darkening was ridiculous as well...
At the very least those two had the acting chops to argue for their casting
Rarebird77
Pro
One of mines is too, well Asian. .. Guess I'm a mulatto now, who knew.
A mulatto is a real word with a real definition tho. Mulatto is defined as someone who is mixed with black and white. Being mixed with Asian doesn't make you mulatto it just makes you mixed. I think that blasian is the term, it is that only for the women?
spliz
SplizThaDon
It's not a problem with her playing a black woman cause she's technically black. The problem is they wanna pick the safest looking black woman with petite features to play a woman with broad features. Could've easily gotten Viola ? That being said. Only on the fukkin Coli is a lightskin person not black. But fukk it half y'all muthafukkas in this forum is white posing as black. TLR is the most ignorant subforum of this site not including JBO. From the way cats be tryna shyt on black women alone. I wouldn't be surprised of 80% of this fukkin subforum ain't black. Reading some of the rhetoric on here is fukkin cringeworthy. And try hard as fukk.
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bourgeoisie tall freak
Superstar
Zoe is not that fair and her nose is not that straight. I think i heard her speak on it as something she can probably relate with Nina in the industry. shyt, from what i can tell, Nina was not the darkest shade of black either. I think the the word "black" has a lot of people caught up and thinking too much about this, its like yall expect a caricature or something
Field Marshall Bradley
Veteran
Just to be clear...
Mulatto is a term originally used to refer to a person who is born from one white parent and one black parent, or to persons of two mulatto parents
Mulatto is a term originally used to refer to a person who is born from one white parent and one black parent, or to persons of two mulatto parents
loyola llothta
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Nina Simone would go ballistic if she knew a light-skinned actress with dark makeup was portraying her in an upcoming biopic ... so say members of the late singer's family.
Nina's brother, Sam Waymon, tells us Nina would blanch at the studio's choice of Zoe Saldana -- whose skin was drastically darkened to resemble her.Sam says "painting up" a light-skinned actress is insulting, and "raping Nina's legacy."
Nina was a civil rights activist, and Sam says there are plenty of qualified dark-skinned actresses who could have pulled off the role ... like Viola Davis or India Arie.
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No, a mulatto was a person of obvious mixed heritage.
Griffes, Quadroons, Octoroons, Melungeons, Sacatras are all mulattos.
Field Marshall Bradley
Veteran
In the classical sense...... mulatto means ....... offspring of one black parent and one white parent...... to denote 50% white.....
Octo for 1\8ths and Quads(1\4ths) for that one black grandparent
but Liberals think these literal definitions are too "offensive" and its more politically correct to say mixed now, or to say that mullato means mixed ancestry.....
Definition of MULATTO
This confirms what I thought. Every biracial is mulatto but not all mulattos are biracial. Malcolm was a griffe thus a mulatto.
