Poll Fair or Foul: Petition Made For Actor Playing Fred Hampton To Be Changed

[King Freeman]

This is no different than people being upset about ol girl playing Nina Simone

Nah. She did blackface to play that role. This ain't it fam.

 

[Dwayne]

Nah. She did blackface to play that role. This ain't it fam.

Blackface is a strong take on it.

 

[King Freeman]

Blackface is a strong take on it.

Its light. She wore a whole prosthetic to make her look like an overweight dark skin black woman.

 

[mryounggun]

This is no different than people being upset about ol girl playing Nina Simone

Here is the issue with Nina Simon being played buy fucking Zoey Saldana.

An INTEGRAL part of Nina Simone's story and what made her NINA SIMONE was the fact that she was dark-skinned and, to a lesser extent but by her own admission, not very attractive. You can't really tell her story without that. So you can't then go and cast her with this tall, thin, super attractive, light-skinned woman...and then darken her skin. And still not even darken her skin even close to the color the real Nina Simon was.

That's the difference.

If there was something physical that was really integral to the Fraud Hampton story or the man himself, that Daniel Kaluuya wasn't right for, niggas would feel the same way.

 

[Inori]

lol this foundational shit is getting out of hand.

First it was: "We dont have anything against non-foundational black people.. they just shouldn't get reparations from the US"
Then its: "Non foundational black folks shouldn't be able to say nigga.. they dont fuck with us anyway"
Now its: "Non foundational black folks shouldn't play the roles of foundational black folks"

Yall are fuckin exhausting lol. Must take a hell of a lot of energy to be outraged at every got damn thing all the time.. sheesh

 

[AP2.5]

Draw the parallel...

You not in on the dig

He responded though

I still got it

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

It’s called acting

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

Shit where were these niggas when the Wire was out lol

 

[Inori]

Shit where were these niggas when the Wire was out lol

 

[Disanthrope]

The petition is foul

The point is fair

 

[Dwayne]

The petition is foul

The point is fair

The point ain’t fair.

Well the person they get has to be a

Black Panther
From Illinois
Not an actor

See where we going with this

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

This some supreme hater shit though

 

[Disanthrope]

The point ain’t fair.

Well the person they get has to be a

Black Panther
From Illinois
Not an actor

See where we going with this

From the other thread

Nah bruh. All of these black movies have been led by British actors instead of American as if there's an agenda

Selma, harriet, some others, now this. That's a trend

Forget where I saw it, but someone said maybe thats happening because they're from the UK and studio exces over here dont have to worry about them trying to take a stand or commenting on race relations over here.

 

[Dwayne]

From the other thread

That shit ain’t true at all.

 

[Inori]

From the other thread

a short google/youtube search proves that as some bullshit

 

[Disanthrope]

Idris Elba the goat kicked the door down for his folk. Is what it is

 

[huey]

should be happy we got a damn fred hampton movie in the first place

 

[Disanthrope]

Franklin from snowfall is British too

 

[AP2.5]

Franklin from snowfall is British too

And?

The nigga can act his ass off

What are we doing here

 

[Disanthrope]

And?

The nigga can act his ass off

What are we doing here

I stated a fact, that's all