Gabrielle Union has said countless amounts of times that she will never play a mammy/maid/stereotypical role. She has turned down a bunch of major acting gigs because they wanted her to play one of those embarrassing roles.
Next Negro To Win A Oscar For Play Subservient Roles
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Neither one of them African American
denzel isnt african american? than what is he?
BULLshyt,all she's ever played is lame ass stereotypical sassy black woman roles
she mind as well have got that mammy money, aint nobody checking for her old ass like that anymore, she could've had scandal over kerry washington
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Oh I thought you were talking about Lupita and Steve McQueen this year
she only played the sassy black woman role in deliver us from eva.
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I understand when people like Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh say this bullshyt, because they're pandering to their bases.
It's sad that supposedly educated negros believe this as well, please educate yourselves on the differences between the African POW system and Arab/European chattel slavery.
This whole Africans enslaved eachother and then sold their slaves to the Europeans shyt is a half truth used to take the blame for American slavery off whites.
she played it in that cheerleader flick and also that mary show
Negro's also don't understand that Denzel only won for Training Day. Because they didn't want to give it to him for playing a strong black man in Coach Herman Boone the year before. I remember Denzel was talking about this in an interview. Saying it was a make up award for Remember the Titans. He said they rather give him the award for playing a bad cop, than a positive strong black male character.
to Denzel for keeping it real.
Oscars are notorious for make up awards. LOL @ Pacino finally getting his for Scent of a Gotdamn Woman....
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This thread is about any actor/actress that played such a role. Far beyond Lupita and Chiwetel, I haven't nor do I plan to watch 12 years a slave but I'm not going to hate someone for succeeding.
BTW, I agree that the offense should also come from the fact that none of these people have African American roots.
I agree that some stories like 12 years need to be told for educational purposes & for an historical perspective. But hollywood as a way of marginalizing events & making them more fiction than non fiction. Like the butler, most of that movie was completely false & I didn't like the way lee daniels made the black panthers look & eugene allen's son was never a black panther.
It was nice to see lupita when an award but in the back of my mind I can't help but think is this some kind of backhanded compliment by white people. I didn't even like training day & I've only seen it once because I hated denzel's role, halle berry made way better movies that monster's ball but all people talked about was how she got dug out by billy bob.
It seems you have some blacks that say be happy for their success, we're making strides. But you have others like myself that say the days of us tap dancing & playing these type of roles to get critically acclaimed should be at a minimum.
That's why I SMH @ tyler perry because to him the only objective is getting paid, he doesn't care that when he introduces characters like mr. brown that whites are laughing with us but at us or when he continues to dress in drag & act ignorant that everyone of those movies are trashed in hollywood & he knows his only meal ticket is black women but they have to be tired of his act as well.
It was nice to see lupita when an award but in the back of my mind I can't help but think is this some kind of backhanded compliment by white people. I didn't even like training day & I've only seen it once because I hated denzel's role, halle berry made way better movies that monster's ball but all people talked about was how she got dug out by billy bob.
It seems you have some blacks that say be happy for their success, we're making strides. But you have others like myself that say the days of us tap dancing & playing these type of roles to get critically acclaimed should be at a minimum.
That's why I SMH @ tyler perry because to him the only objective is getting paid, he doesn't care that when he introduces characters like mr. brown that whites are laughing with us but at us or when he continues to dress in drag & act ignorant that everyone of those movies are trashed in hollywood & he knows his only meal ticket is black women but they have to be tired of his act as well.
she wasnt sassy in Bring It On. Just a young talented sista that disliked them routine stealing cacs.
And although I'm not a big fan of Being Mary Jane, the role shes playing can be played by a woman of any race. Not sassy at all.
...........how many white or spanish or jewish or asian or german or british woman you know named after a drug??
With Denzel and Pacino, it pretty much took them stepping out of a "comfort zone" kinda role to get the award. You see it pretty routinely, esp for guys. When they take roles people aren't used to them doing....
