Cynthia Erivo as Harriet Tubman — Page 4

Just so I can understand precisely where to correctly target my fury, we're specifically outraged that Cynthia accepted the role that was offered to her because of her heritage, which is something she cannot change or control, but NOT at the people who offered her the role. All the responsibility of the casting falls squarely on her shoulders. Okay. I just want to make sure the discrimination is super duper specific and absurdly disproportionate as we fight to end this very very very very specific perceived discrimination against African Americans by discriminating black people who are not specifically African-Americans-descended-very-specific-tribes. Don't get me wrong, discrimination is BAD. But it can be perfectly acceptable depending on how you justify it. It will always be BAD. Except for when I say it's not. Yeah, that sounds right.

I haven't followed her social media stuff, but maybe that's a better reason for avoiding this choice of casting, and you know, directing anger towards her for something she's actually done and for which she could be held as the responsible party.

By the way, why does this particular form of indignation by Writergirl28 sound so familiar? The specificity of the justification reminds me of some other event that happened and was discussed on these boards. Probably unrelated. Or maybe not.

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Mister Matt said: "Just so I can understand precisely where to correctly target my fury, we're specifically outraged that Cynthia accepted the role that was offered to her because of her heritage, which is something she cannot change or control, but NOT at the people who offered her the role. All the responsibility of the casting falls squarely on her shoulders. Okay. I just want to make sure the discrimination is super duper specific and absurdly disproportionate as we fight to end this very very very very specific perceived discrimination against African Americans by discriminating black people who are not specifically African-Americans-descended-very-specific-tribes. Don't get me wrong, discrimination is BAD. But it can be perfectly acceptable depending on how you justify it. It will always be BAD. Except for when I say it's not. Yeah, that sounds right.

I haven't followed her social media stuff, but maybe that's a better reason for avoiding this choice of casting, and you know, directing anger towards her for something she's actually done and for which she could be held as the responsible party.

By the way, why does this particular form of indignation by Writergirl28 sound so familiar? The specificity of the justificationreminds me of some other event that happened and was discussed on these boards. Probably unrelated. Or maybe not"



She said yes to the role, when she says she had turned down other roles that she felt she was not right for. So she is aware that there is some space she should not inhabit. Now she doesn't say what those roles were but I will take her word for it. For the last time, non-black American actors are treated better by white Americans than black Americans.This is a known fact. This trend has been noticed by many people in the casting of good films about African Americans. And people have said that Black Americans are not qualified to play themselves. I know for a fact that is what happened here because there are literally thousands of black American actresses who would have played the role better than her. If you are not African American you need to stay out of this argument, because YOU are actually the cause of it.

http://www.blackwestchester.com/never-forget-americas-forgotten-mass-lynching-when-237-black-sharecroppers-were-murdered-in-Arkansas/

"If you are not African American you need to stay out of this argument, because YOU are actually the cause of it."

Anyone can contribute to the conversation and share their opinion. That is how a message board works. If you post something, anyone can respond to what you are saying. And if you really feel that way, then you have already opened the door by speaking about white people and how they think, behave, make choices and point the finger directly to either them as a group or to someone specific (maybe me, but you weren't very clear) to specifically assign blame...even though you start off blaming Erivo directly...so you already invited non-African Americans into the conversation by doing so.

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