Will Smith not black enough!!!

racso1975

So a new documentary about the Williams sisters has will Smith potentially cast as their father. Now there is an online backlash, or can I say blacklash, that Will's skin tone is not black enough!!

As somebody said before how a generation raised on family guy, American dad ettc etc can become so butt hurt over the most stupid things is truly beyond me. This is a new level of pathetic

Ush1

Race is a social construct. What they mean is he acts too white.:pac:

AllForIt

Ush1 wrote: »

Race is a social construct. What they mean is he acts too white.:pac:

if you not from the hood you ain't no good

TheValeyard

Same thing was leveled against Obama by some activists. You are always going to have outrage junkies that need something complain and protest about to justify their use of oxygen.

sbsquarepants

All I know is will smith don't got to cus in his raps to sell records, but I do, so fúck will smith and fúck you too.

Outlaw Pete

All these people talk about MLK as if he is their savior but their deeds and words are regularly in direct contrast with almost everything the man stood for.

EPAndlee

It's probably because he makes non offensive rap music

El_Duderino 09

racso1975 wrote: »

So a new documentary about the Williams sisters has will Smith potentially cast as their father. Now there is an online backlash, or can I say blacklash, that Will's skin tone is not black enough!!

As somebody said before how a generation raised on family guy, American dad ettc etc can become so butt hurt over the most stupid things is truly beyond me. This is a new level of pathetic

Butt hurt. Groan.

Who is outraged? 3 people on Twitter?

RWCNT

Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull wrote: »

Same thing was leveled against Obama by some activists.

Obama was touted to play the father of Venus & Serena Williams in a film??? Really???

Dingaan

Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull wrote: »

Same thing was leveled against Obama by some activists. You are always going to have outrage junkies that need something complain and protest about to justify their use of oxygen.

Obama was a mixed race president. It seemed in his case people were happy to ignore 50 percent of his racial construct. To say he was the first black president is just wrong and ignorant to the facts.

Liamario

RWCNT wrote: »

Obama was touted to play the father of Venus & Serena Williams in a film??? Really???

No, there people saying that he wasn't really a black American president.

chalkitdown1

El_Duderino 09 wrote: »

Butt hurt. Groan.

Who is outraged? 3 people on Twitter?

Yeah, not even a link ffs. This thread is the first I've heard of this particular outrage.

There are probably more people outraged in this thread than wherever the OP saw this originally.

kneemos

Dingaan wrote: »

Obama was a mixed race president. It seemed in his case people were happy to ignore 50 percent of his racial construct. To say he was the first black president is just wrong and ignorant to the facts.

Was he white?

Outlaw Pete

Some sports writer in the states appears to have kicked it off with the following tweet:

https://twitter.com/clarencehilljr/status/1102807701174865920

Dingaan

kneemos wrote: »

Was he white?

50 percent White.

Working class heroes

Dingaan wrote: »

Obama was a mixed race president. It seemed in his case people were happy to ignore 50 percent of his racial construct. To say he was the first black president is just wrong and ignorant to the facts.

Why? Who was the first?

Boom_Bap

kneemos

Dingaan wrote: »

50 percent White.

50 percent black.

Dingaan

Working class heroes wrote: »

Why? Who was the first?

We are still waiting for the first.

mad muffin

Please. Just pass me the virus vile. I’ll pop the cap.

Stab*City

kneemos wrote: »

50 percent black.

100% Mixed.. yay you two!!!!

jimgoose

Liamario wrote: »

No, there people saying that he wasn't really a black American president.

Obama put a swing set on the front lawn of the White House. That some Niggah shit right there - he from the Hood. :cool:

I misinterpreted the OP as meaning that a new documentary was to reveal that Will Smith actually was the Williams sisters' father. :pac:

ohfa6muwtsvkc1

I kinda get it tbh. Casting a lighter skinned person in that role is like the trend of bleaching via surgery or photoshop that celebs such as Beyonce do. We need to reenforce the message that you don't need to be white!

If you were making a film on Paul McGrath, you wouldn't hire me for the role even though we're both Irish. he's a shade darker and it's the same with this.

Varik

Watched Luke cage and a character mentioned someone being "colour struck", had to google that and oh boy.

This isn't a recent snowflake millennium thing, that's probably just made it worse.

wakka12

Their dad? Will Smith looks younger than them

beauf

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1489889/characters/nm0366389

Bob Stone : Wow, Jet! You look amazing!

Calvin Joyner : You think?

Bob Stone : Oh, what? Yes!

Calvin Joyner : I just didn't know the kind of look to go for on my first day at the Agency.

Bob Stone : You look like a black Will Smith, or something!

kneemos

Sean Connery played a Russian submarine captain with nothing more than a slightly altered Scottish accent.

Venom

kneemos wrote: »

Sean Connery played a Russian submarine captain with nothing more than a slightly altered Scottish accent.

Slightly altered accent my arse. Jump to the 0.58-second mark.

Guy:Incognito

If Scarlett Johansson plays Venus then Will Smith will be black enough. Problem solved

kneemos

Venom wrote: »

Slightly altered accent my arse. Jump to the 0.58-second mark.

Alright,pure Scottish.

SoundsRight

It gets more ridiculous by the day. Has there ever been a more sensitive bunch in human history?

SexBobomb

Do you think they know that acting is mostly just pretending ?

jimgoose

Guy:Incognito wrote: »

If Scarlett Johansson plays Venus then Will Smith will be black enough. Problem solved

Genius. And Brigitte Nielsen as Serena.

Venom

SexBobomb wrote: »

Do you think they know that acting is mostly just pretending ?

Well, even some longtime actors such as Meryl Streep are even confused over what they do!

Amirani

Mae Hollow Slingshot wrote: »

I kinda get it tbh. Casting a lighter skinned person in that role is like the trend of bleaching via surgery or photoshop that celebs such as Beyonce do. We need to reenforce the message that you don't need to be white!

Could you imagine similar outrage for a white actor playing a white character with a different skin tone?

This all at the same time that people are talking about a black actor playing James Bond, who is white in the source literature (which I have no issue with). Cognitive dissonance galore.

You either consider skin colour an important differential factor or you don't.

ohfa6muwtsvkc1

Amirani wrote: »

Could you imagine similar outrage for a white actor playing a white character with a different skin tone?

If RTE commissioned a series about travellers and cast it all with settled people, there would be outrage.

jimgoose

Amirani wrote: »

Could you imagine similar outrage for a white actor playing a white character with a different skin tone?...

What, like Alexander Skarsgård playing Al Pacino in some future biopic? That's what's known in the trade as fuckan stoopid. :pac:

Hercule Poirot

Colorism....? FFS.......

Boom_Bap

In the USA, there is an ongoing discussion of skin tone by African Americans.
Most commonly its known as light skinned and dark skinned, the debate ranges around how more light skinned black people have better opportunities and doors opened for them.
This is just a case of this that is in the media.

kneemos

Amirani wrote: »

Could you imagine similar outrage for a white actor playing a white character with a different skin tone?

This all at the same time that people are talking about a black actor playing James Bond, who is white in the source literature (which I have no issue with). Cognitive dissonance galore.

You either consider skin colour an important differential factor or you don't.

Like a northern European playing a Mediterranean?

Still white.

As Will Smith and the William's are black.

seamus

Can you find any examples of real people who matter, who have made this complaint, or this is made-up outrage again?

corner of hells

Could one of the Williams sisters not play the part of thier own father ?

Ush1

Boom_Bap wrote: »

In the USA, there is an ongoing discussion of skin tone by African Americans.
Most commonly its known as light skinned and dark skinned, the debate ranges around how more light skinned black people have better opportunities and doors opened for them.
This is just a case of this that is in the media.

It's been going on for at least 15 years. I can remember American chat shows where lighter skinned black people were saying they wouldn't marry a very dark black American.

kneemos

Boom_Bap wrote: »

In the USA, there is an ongoing discussion of skin tone by African Americans.
Most commonly its known as light skinned and dark skinned, the debate ranges around how more light skinned black people have better opportunities and doors opened for them.
This is just a case of this that is in the media.

All of this shoite starts in the US of the America's.
It started with dog grooming and breakfast on the patio,we laughed.

Well...

jimgoose

Ush1 wrote: »

It's been going on for at least 15 years. I can remember American chat shows where lighter skinned black people were saying they wouldn't marry a very dark black American.

Isn't that... like... y'know... racist, an' shiz-nit?? :pac:

Deebles McBeebles

corner of hells wrote: »

Could one of the Williams sisters not play the part of thier own father ?

If they can make Sam Jackson look like he did 20 years ago in Captain Marvel, surely they have the technology for this

Varik

kneemos wrote: »

All of this shoite starts in the US of the America's.
It started with dog grooming and breakfast on the patio,we laughed.

Well...

Not just the US, most of Asia too.

Grayson

Murray TheDemonic TalkingSkull wrote: »

Same thing was leveled against Obama by some activists. You are always going to have outrage junkies that need something complain and protest about to justify their use of oxygen.

Stephen Fry one said he asked a kenyan what it was like seeing a black man with kenyan ancestry in the white house. the kenyan replied that if Obama was the leader of kenya he would have been the first white leader of Kenya.

Boom_Bap

Ush1 wrote: »

It's been going on for at least 15 years. I can remember American chat shows where lighter skinned black people were saying they wouldn't marry a very dark black American.

It's going on since the days of slavery!

Deebles McBeebles

Boom_Bap wrote: »

It's going on since the days of slavery!

Yup. Lighter skin, in the house. Darker skin, in the fields.

Ush1

Grayson wrote: »

Stephen Fry one said he asked a kenyan what it was like seeing a black man with kenyan ancestry in the white house. the kenyan replied that if Obama was the leader of kenya he would have been the first white leader of Kenya.

Reminds me of a sketch that Chris Rock done years ago about Tiger Woods. He went to a black neighbourhood and loads of the kids had taken up golf and were hoping to be like Tiger Woods.

Then he went to an Asian neighbourhood and they just looked at him funny; "Tiger Woods? He's just some black guy":pac: