re: The Rock Is Not Black Enough For Every Role Apparently....

Blacks are so racist, and bigoted even within each other. Nvr forget the first time I heard "high-yellow," when a super dark girl said why she wasnt digging a guy hitting on her. "Nah he high-yella"

People lost their shite over Ciri because it went away from "source material", and this is especially the same thing. Johnson is technically black, but no one really views him as a traditional black man. I have no problem with him playing John Henry, but both groups lost it over a fictional character.

Same.

So who’s the desgnitated person that determines who’s black and who isn’t??

There’s always been an invisible civil war between who’s “black” and who isn’t black “enough”.

Just like the dark skin/light skin fight.



It’s saying He isn’t black “enough” for this, but if something else happens...Oh, he’s black.

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Some black people are stupid racist towards lighter and blacker black people.

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To hear them criticize another black person for not being "black enough" just kills me. The leader of my bible study is black. The people who host it at their house are an interracial couple. They are very much "black" at times when they get around each other (kind of like how I get an accent again every time I go back to Louisiana), but they don't try to lean hard into any stereotypical view of black people. It's just a dumb thing.

This board never ceases to deliver.

They don’t even know what they are crying about.

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so people are just racist fricks?


I'm not saying it's right.

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i am. As Cork said earlier. It is a part of being an animal to want to be around like animals. It is a fact.

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I honestly wouldn't think of him for that role right off the bat. Maybe Idris Elba. But you'll always have that group of people who take fiction way too seriously.

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well if i was a movie producer and im doing the Big John movie...... And think an Idris Elba character would do very well and think like 20-50 million bucks......... Then i think The Rock.....and done. 200-400 million plus. Now tell me what is the better play.

Just so we are clear... a couple of twitter trolls are now equal to "backlash"?

I can't figure out who to call a snowflake in this situation. Is is the twitter trolls that are bitching about nothing or everyone else in this thread bitching about the bitching.

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Acting "too dark"?

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No like literally being too dark a color. You'd be surprised how often that happens from what I've seen. It's stupid.