Black Americans FOUGHT for the FEW movie/tv roles we do have. Now those roles are being given to FOREIGNERS. Whitney Houston, MLK, Harriet Tubman should NOT have been played by actors who do not share our UNIQUE LINEAGE. #IdrisElbaIsUnintelligent
What Black American Barbershop has so few Black Americans in it? Why are they discussing Black American Business? What kind of gentrification propaganda is this?
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Less Black? No one said that. We said that YOU do not share our UNIQUE Lineage, YOU do not share our LIVED Experience. WE want our OWN Actors to tell OUR OWN STORIES. Watch out when people create lies to push their propaganda. #IdrisElbaIsUnintelligent
Why is it "unintelligent" for a UNIQUE group of people to want to tell OUR own stories? We have a unique lineage, we are Black Americans who Descended from US Chattel Slavery. We are Freedmen. We are Foundational Black Americans.
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Then Idris Elba labels Black American's desire to have our own representation as a Caste System?! This foreigner is SICK! Indians practice a Caste System go holla at them. When Foreigners feel threatened financially, they will lie about ANYTHING.
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At the end he tries to clean it all up with "Cultural Appropriation" This whole segment was saying it's okay to TAKE Black American Roles because "We are All Black" which ERASES the Uniqueness of Black American Negro Culture while you COSPLAY as us aka "Cultural Appropriation"
Btw Whitney Houston is not a "character" she is a Black American LEGEND and ICON. #IdrisElbaIsUnintelligent
Ex: Let's say you have 10 Black American Lead Roles in a year, 8 of them go to Black Foreigners like Idris Elba, that means ALL of Black America has to fight for 2 roles. We will NEVER have another Denzel or Cicely Tyson because all of the acting debut roles will go to FOREIGNERS
Black Americans need to PROTECT our Culture & not allow anyone to ERASE us. Black American Actors don't speak out because they will be BLACKLISTED in Hollywood. So we must speak out. We must draw the line in the sand & say NO MORE. You've TAKEN ENOUGH. #IdrisElbaIsUnintelligent
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