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i have noticed this too, especially in commercials where a blacks are playing a black family unit.
it is usually a darkskinned male with a mulatto wife and a mixed race/curly hair looking child. i have never seen where the roles are reversed e.g a mullatto husband with a dark skinned wife. i find this extremely odd to say the least in addition when they need to cast a black token character in soaps it is always a someone who is clealy mixed race. i am talking about british soaps here, a mixed race girl with a full black guy and the rest of the cast is usually white. examples of shows are skins/hollyoaks the aussie shows are even one step behind where no blacks or asian are casted they have a white only policy |
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i have noticed this too, especially in commercials where a blacks are playing a black family unit. Just one film with a brown-skinned woman and a mulatto man comes to mind ... "Diary of a Mad Black Woman" Shemar Moore played Kimberly Elise's love interest. |
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The woman tends to be lighter than the man in real life quite often -- maybe not a "mulatto", though. I'll bet looking at your own families, it's pretty common. i lol'd at the title of the film |
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She's interviewed in this video. I nearly cracked in half at 8:04 when he said "Last time I checked... 48% of latin america's population - is black." ![]() |
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I always felt that this issue was perhaps a bit over hyped. There are a number of prominent Dark skinned women within the media world. I also don't see a need for celebrities to be "representative" of any one group. Also light skinned AAs are just as much a part of the group as the Darker toned AAs, so why is it a bad thing that there are light skinned media figures? Are all media figures supposed to be of the Darker branch of the AA community?
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is that any different the past?
I think some these movies were made by black people with blacks as the target audience. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And look at a movie like CB4 The dark skinned girl is seen as a scamming gold-digging slut who is also very masculine and trashy ![]() The light skinned girl is portrayed as pure and innocent. ![]() Wasn't this move produced and written by black people? Whos to blame? |
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Coming to America is actually a pretty good movie. It has its highs and lows...Comedy and drama...A range you don't necessarily expect from movies primarily written, produced, and starring those of African descent. I have seen them but they are not known well enough for people to expect them. And there's a range of people in the film, light and dark. Even the movie's heroine is neither dark nor light...But pretty between. The company that's suppose to be from Africa remind me of Western Africans now that I think about it. Good storytelling.
I was thinking about a movie I saw only a bit of yesterday. Apparently it's an older movie. Girl 6. It's about a black woman who gets addicted to being a telephone sex operator. There are other aspects of the sex industry present. It's another movie that's a bit of an anomaly in the world of black movie making(By Spike Lee). It's more serious...There's bits of it that's kitschy and comedic, but all in all, it's a pretty strong movie. I also wanted to add that I like the realism of it...She's not tailor made for this job and it shows. She learns and grows...and I like that progression. She's every bit as meek and coy as you would expect. And Quentin Tarantino can really play a douche ![]() ![]() Ghost Dad's cast did look more "Mixed" to me...Especially the girls. But maybe that's just me. I like the film. The story. It's been a while since i've seen it. But that's another strong movie. I think that level of storytelling in film has gone downhill. Music is a lot more diverse for women of African descent. Because anyone who can make music *can make music. But not everyone will be picked to star in a film. That's where some biases will show. The Trinities and morpheus' of films are usually the sidekicks. Black characters in title roles are usually reserved to the realm of unrealistic action movie heroes. Rarely do they play those people whom have a variety of emotions, such as fear and vulnerability, and thus are put into more unrelatable roles. I often wonder at the lack of black people in Horror movies. Again, I guess if anything, it's assumed black people have a voodoo curse or bullet for any ghosts inhabiting their house ![]() A bit off topic. But it still relates to movies so ![]() |
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Coming to America is actually a pretty good movie. It has its highs and lows...Comedy and drama...A range you don't necessarily expect from movies primarily written, produced, and starring those of African descent. I have seen them but they are not known well enough for people to expect them. And there's a range of people in the film, light and dark. Even the movie's heroine is neither dark nor light...But pretty between. The company that's suppose to be from Africa remind me of Western Africans now that I think about it. Good storytelling. |
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^^ I never understood that cliche or stereotype...i have seen many horror films and all the classics and honestly i rarely see black characters at all, it is mostly young dumb white teenagers ![]() ![]() |
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