Don’t go by media on this. A bright black guy, Denzel Washington, knows his REAL audience very well. He knows his people better than the advertisers who ONLY race mix.
Do you realize how goddamn difficult it is to be a great classical actor? They need training and opportunities. Without that, they won’t become great. Whites aren’t getting those opportunities.
Well, a large number of the WN commenters here have very openly said that for them, having sex with a mulatto woman is worse than having sex with a white men. Since Rebecca Hall and Carly Simon are both about ~10% black, I suspect most of them would still prefer a white man over either (in their prime).
Uh, that’s not what science said. All the studies on the matter have shown thst men find Asian (and half-Asian) women prettier than white women. These women also have lower rates of divorce than white women — indicating lower neuroticism.
Hall is one of those actresses who everyone told me was hot but I never felt attraction to. Much like with Angelina Jolie and Scarlett Johansson. Ironically, all three have ended up in Marvel movies in major roles. (Hall was in Iron Man 3 as one of Tony’s former lays/lady genius scientist). With Hall, her jaw always throws me off. It seems oversized and cavemannish when she talks. Probably helped her mother when she belted out all those arias.
That’s just sexual competition, not dislike of race mixing as such. They’re fine with it when it’s the other way around.
A lot could be happening, but we both agree this can happen with Creoles and Dominicans and that 3% of South Africa that is mixed. That’s good enough for me — I’m not heavily invested in the particulars of Liang’s story one way or the other because even if she had some other father, it wouldn’t change the point about Creoles and Dominicans and so forth.
So 34 year old Kleeman reaps the unearned privileges of a conventional, white pretty face and attractive figure. If her Wonder Years were defined by these details peers hounding her about her looks and her racial identity: who, exactly, encouraged this interest?
We as Asians can borrow her for a story, but we can’t claim her for a narrative. And we cannot afford to gloss over her identity as a Black woman, which includes significant aspects of her physical appearance, in this day and age.
I won’t quote reams of the review, but this part has stood out in my mind for some time, and remember, the 1934 version is closer to the 1920’s, and serves as a more accurate, authentic slice of life for racial relations in US society.
Her race is never mentioned, despite the fact that both shows did use race as points of awkward humor (e.g. the famous “Diversity Day†episode of The Office). She seems to avoid “black†roles, so I wouldn’t be surprised if Jones was offered this and declined.
That “Don’t Stop†thingy from a few years earlier (not to be confused with Fleetwood Mac’s or Queen’s or Journey’s) was okay, but it’s 99% production and 1% song.
In theory at least, a half black half white person who mates with a full white person could create a full white baby.
Of course if Sandra herself is actually convinced of this theory, she could always take a DNA test. She could’ve had it done as part of the documentary, or maybe to celebrate the release of the feature film. Clear her mother’s name, shut up the skeptics. Yet she hasn’t, and won’t.