Kylie is black/white. Her character is black. Her character's parents are black. Her character's brother is black. Her character's childhood self is black. But magically her character grew up and transformed into a biracial black/white woman. Casting directors - Please stop doing this. It is annoying and ridiculous.
shareObviously you have issues but you should learn more about genetics. I have a friend whose parents are both black. Dark skinned. She has two sisters who look a lot like her. Except one of her sisters is extremely light skinned. So much so that people keep asking her if she was adopted.
Obviously one of her parents have lighter skinned or even white people in their ancestry. It's a lottery. It's not like mixing paint.
For every lie I unlearn I learn something new - Ani Difranco
I have a relative who is light skinned with 2 dark parents. I'm well aware of the phenomenon. Doesn't change anything.
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Usually I would agree with you but if I didn't follow her on Instagram I wouldn't have known she was biracial. She pretty much looks black. I don't really agree that you have to be the exact ethnicity to play a character as long as you look like it.. She looks as black as Kerry Washington.
HOWEVER Hollywood is a mess for always casting biracial actresses to play black characters though and it is annoying.
She really doesn't look as black as Kerry Washington. I've never once though Kerry Washington was biracial. The actress doesn't look as biracial as stereotypical biracials - she looks more like an afrolatina. But her hair is still a huge giveaway.
Either way, the girl that plays the younger version of herself has afro textured hair and a tighter curl pattern and the biracial girl doesn't. That doesn't make any sense.
I understand that she might be able to pass for some people, but no one should be able to pick up on these things. This isn't some amateur network.
And here's the thing about Fox. They've had Wentworth Miller and Mark Paul Gosselaar in their shows and both of them are biracial but they pass. They had Wentworth Miller keep his hair shaved down for the most part because if his hair grew past a certain length everyone would have been confused. If they want to be all tacky and janky, they need to be tacky and janky with all races and stop singling out black people.
It bothers me when I see black people allowing people to treat them like this. Whether you care about it or not, you should have a problem with inequality and unfairness, and you should really question why these people are doing the things they do when they don't have to, and why you keep seeing certain phenomena over and over again. You need to understand where you stand in this country and stop being complacent but then turning around and complaining when nobody likes you. These people are constantly pushing negative propaganda about black people. When they get called out on it, you have black people saying "no big deal, it's okay, I know you give everyone else this privilege but we don't need it." That's a sickness.
eh I watched Kylie on Twisted (her old tv show) and didn't know she was biracial for the whole time I watched the show. I'm black by the way. I'm pretty sure this is the case for most people. LOL at the hair thing. It's not that serious. Like I get it's an issue but Kylie isn't really the problem. She doesn't have the typical biracial look. She just wants to get roles.
I do have an issue with hollywood always casting biracial actresses in black roles but I'm not going to take it out on Kylie.
I don't really get your problem is though? You're mad they passed Wentworth Miller as white? He looks white lol. Like Kylie looks black. I'm kind of lost about what you are so mad about. Are you even black?
No. Now I'm going to block you because you have poor reading skills. I didn't say I had a problem with Wentworth Miller. READ. COMPREHEND.
shareI agree with you, OP (Gaatka). Surrprised at some of the responses. You make a good point about the contrast between Ginny and her brother. They will allow the black men to be phenotypically black but black women must often look mixed/be cast with mixed women.
There's an inherent bias there. Shame.
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Thank you! It's insane. And Fox has done this before in the past. It's completely BIZARRE.
I just don't understand how we've gotten to a point in society where these huge networks can make these laughable errors and nobody wants to call them out on it. Since when? People rag on Tyler Perry shows all the time for being janky and tacky but what do you call this?
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That could actually be a possibility, the mother could have been mixed, not completely African decent and if that was the case the child could be born with a lighter complexion.
shareI completely understand what you mean, but I wouldn't bother trying to explain since the posters are very likely not black, ignorant and racist and cannot tell the difference between biracial and black. They believe insane things like the one drop rule or think that because they do not respect other cultures to understand, members of those cultures shouldn't respect themselves. Anyone with the smallest bit of sense would understand that it's like casting
Remember, these are the same people who are only aware of racial miscasting when Jaden Smith becomes Karate Kid.
Remember, these are the same people who are only aware of racial miscasting when Jaden Smith becomes Karate Kid.
Most stupid post ever, it's called acting and who cares what her real life ethnicity is. Also, for those living in America, if one of your parents are black in this country you are considered black....period.
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Cool. Goodbye.
shareAlso, for those living in America, if one of your parents are black in this country you are considered black....period.
jerk off, it is what it is. Are you mixed? If so, I bet you can't walk into an all exclusive white country club and think with your tanned skin they wouldn't see a black person you're more ignorant than I think you are.
shareSO what if members of an all white exclusive country club think a mixed person is black. It doesn't mean the person is black just because a group of white people say. Discrimination does not make you black. BEING BLACK makes you black.
SMH at the ignorance some black people choose to spread. It's damaging.
I suppose you'll start swinging from branch to branch if a white person calls you a monkey.
Moral of the story is that black people are not defined by white people. Not unless you're still mentally enslaved.
All I'm saying is what you think really doesn't matter in America. You can strut around all day and night and think they don't see a black person all you want. Now I can't speak for other countries but it is what it is.
One more recent news, the actress Meghan Markle from the show Suits is dating Prince Harry and even in Europe people see her as black even though she's mix and she also said in Hollywood she's missed out on certain roles because her looks are so ambiguous. Can't get the role of a woman white and can't quite get the role of a black women. The moral to what I'm trying to say is, the dichotomy is the issue and being black or anything other than white is and will always be defined as just that, a grey area.
Also your monkey statement is stupid, being called something and what is perceived are two totally different things.
Good bye!
Sorry, but people like you are the problem. This isn't about what white or people who are not black think, it's about black people knowing what they are.
The actual lesson is - All other groups define what they racially are except black people.
Not every single person in Euope sees her as black. Being black IS NOT about being what non-black people say you are or experiencing discrimination.
Unfortunately, we have too many mentally weak black people like you who look towards non-black people to define black people so these simple issues are not going to go away anytime soon. It's SOOOO sad.
i think hypocrites like u who r racist one moment and then play victimization next have done far more damage to the western black community then anything else.
sharei think hypocrites like u who r racist one moment and then play victimization next have done far more damage to the western black community then anything else.
shareRemember, these are the same people who are only aware of racial miscasting when Jaden Smith becomes Karate Kid.
Her character's childhood self is black.
I've only watched the first 2 episodes of Secrets and Lies so I'm not familiar with it but I can tell you I wouldn't be equally upset because the situations are not the same. One concerns a black character and what you're talking about concerns a biracial black/white character. An equal comparison would be to compare this scenario to a white or Asian (or other) character who was being portrayed by a biracial person. Off the top of my head there's Fear the Walking Dead with the guy who plays Nick - he's black and white - and there's Prison Break with Wentworth Miller who is also black and white. In both those cases, they convincingly portray white people. If they didn't I wouldn't be able to watch the show because it would be fake.
Biracials have so many different possible outcomes in terms of their looks and way of being. For example some white/Asians or white/native mixes can pass as biracial-black people. A lot of people thought Jessica Alba was like 1/4 black or 1/8 black when she did Honey but she has no black ancestry at all. She's 1/8 American Indian and white.
There HAVE been instances where there are "fully black" people portraying biracials that black people objected to because their looks didn't make sense though, so it's not like it never happens the other way around. That happened on that show Underground with Adina Porter - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0692013/?ref_=tt_cl_t24 It just doesn't happen often the other way around that you see something so obvious.
It seems like Mekia Cox and Michael Ealy are playing siblings and they're both supposed to be biracial. I don't think either of them are actually biracial in the sense of having black/other parents so Corrine Massiah portraying a young Mekia Fox wouldn't be weird. Mekia Fox's character's hair on the show could be relaxed or straightened I guess and there are biracial people with kinky hair.
Mekia Fox and Michael Ealy (along with Corrine Massiah) could definitely pass for being biracial in terms of looks. They might have something closer to 50/50 ancestry despite having black parents, like how Vanessa Williams is, or they could just be fully black and naturally have those features as some black people do. But they all definitely come off like they had two black parents to me.
The thing is some biracial (black/white) people can pass for black (or white!) - in appearance and also in their way of being - but a black person can only pass as biracial in terms of their APPEARANCE - not in their way of being. If a person's parents are both biologically black, you know it regardless of how they look because they just have a different way about them. But if a person has a non-black parent, you might be able to tell or you might not.
WTF are you even talking about? The girl is darker than me and both of my parents are black. No one would even know she was mixed without looking her up. Get over yourself.
It's really sad that some black people spread slave mentality around and continue on with the racist "science" that was used against black people back then. Real scientists have already dropped everything that idiot OP is throwing around. They've already said humans only come in one race because our differences aren't large enough to denote a new race.
Uneducated jackasses like the OP don't realize that by calling yourself a separate race you give power to those who wish to continue to divide us for personal gain.
The rich keep us fighting so we don't question why they hoard the best resources on the planet within their own families while the rest of us work our butts off for life.
Modern day slavery is a far better topic than crying about skin color but most are too dumb to even realize they have shackles on. White, black, red, yellow, etc. Doesn't matter you're still a slave if you're in the wrong tax bracket(and the real rich don't actually pay taxes so that's the joke that never ends).
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You wish I had to look it up. But I didn't. Take your own advice. If this bothers you so much, KEEP IT MOVING. BLOCKED.
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