black lives matter UK (led by somali) reduce Asian actor to tears

[MARAQ DIGAAG]

http://metro.co.uk/2017/04/13/slumd...d-asian-role-in-new-tv-show-guerilla-6573307/

 

[Jjero]

they're right tbh

 

[DuctTape]

Where's the Somali leading this questioning?

 

[Codeine]

I thought they were mad because she got cast as a light skin Black girl, but it clearly states 'interracial' couple. Why are they mad?

 

[DuctTape]

I thought they were mad because she got cast as a light skin Black girl, but it clearly states 'interracial' couple. Why are they mad?

Black women aren't being represented enough, they haven't fit the minimum "not racist" quota of 10 black women per scene

 

[Codeine]

Black women aren't being represented enough, they haven't fit the minimum "not racist" quota of 10 black women per scene

 

[Jjero]

I thought they were mad because she got cast as a light skin Black girl, but it clearly states 'interracial' couple. Why are they mad?

same twitter acc tweeted
'You're not going to erase black women in a movement that wouldn't exist without them so you can PROJECT your interracial relationship.'
pretty true honestly see no lie in this

 

[DrippinglyWet]

Somalis in the U.K. Are a lost cost, the only thing we can give them is a swift and painless death

 

[waraabe]

We need honour killings asap as a community

 

[Codeine]

same twitter acc tweeted
'You're not going to erase black women in a movement that wouldn't exist without them so you can PROJECT your interracial relationship.'
pretty true honestly see no lie in this

Is it specifically about the movement or is it centered around the couple? If there are no other prominent Black women and it's the former then I agree, that's next level fuckery. If not though, they need to sit down.

 

[Jjero]

Is it specifically about the movement or is it centered around the couple? If there are no other prominent Black women and it's the former then I agree, that's next level fuckery. If not though, they need to sit down.

It's not about Interracial couples, You can look at the cast list if you want
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5650574/
They're basically erasing the history of black women to cater to a white/non black audience
Let's be honest no one would complain if there were more black female actors in the series

 

[iui]

 

[Codeine]

It's not about Interracial couples, You can look at the cast list if you want
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5650574/
They're basically erasing the history of black women to cater to a white/non black audience
Let's be honest no one would complain if there were more black female actors in the series

I just went on wiki and I don't see the erasure. The whole thing is fictional and set out in the 1970's London. There are no references to actual real life persons. If you're speaking of wider representation I suppose there is erasure, but there are no Asian men either. Then again, going by the casting list and the screen time actors are getting, there's a disturbing lack of Black women. I thought the problem was an Asian woman being randomly thrown in the mix, but she's literally replaced Black women's role.

Anyway, maybe if she was White, but Black man with a South Asian female in the 70's? She's kinda buff too, but I can already smell curry just by looking at her. That alone puts this thing under Fiction and Sci-Fi

 

[BANTU]

The whole production is a joke. Casting a South Asian girl made literally no sense and any one with a brain could've predicted the backlash (the director/creator is black, no less.)

Is Freida Pinto a big star in the UK? Because star power would explain this fuckery. You have Idris Elba as the male lead and Freida as the female lead (the plot so far is basically Idris' character still pines for his increasingly militant ex girlfriend, Freida.)

In the U.S., Freida is barely known if not not at all.

 

[Asma]

The whole plot doesn't make any sense. A militant timo jileec woman in the 1970s is fighting for black rights and taking on the police??? Am i suppose to believe that. Indian women are so docile if they step outside they get a face full of acid. Lets be honest the only thing an Indian woman was doing in the 1970s was making chapatis.

 

[Mudug-Madman]

A show about black civil rights, with a South Asian female lead who's the love interest of the black lead.

I can see why they're angry.

 

[MARAQ DIGAAG]

The whole plot doesn't make any sense. A militant timo jileec woman in the 1970s is fighting for black rights and taking on the police??? Am i suppose to believe that. Indian women are so docile if they step outside they get a face full of acid. Lets be honest the only thing an Indian woman was doing in the 1970s was making chapatis.

Actually the scenario is not that far fetched .in the 70-90s,there was an alliance of Asians ,white MArxists and African Caribbean folks
taking on the police ,the national front and other racist groups . The racists did not differentiate between blacks and Asians ,therefore such alliances were needed and convenient to some extent . Black was a much more loose term in those days than it is now .As for the black fellow having an non-black girlfriend, that doesn't really happen ,does it ,in this land where you literally see a mixed-raced person every minute ?

 

[Asma]

Actually the scenario is not that far fetched .in the 70-90s,there was an alliance of Asians ,white MArxists and African Caribbean folks
taking on the police ,the national front and other racist groups . The racists did not differentiate between blacks and Asians ,therefore such alliances were needed and convenient to some extent . Black was a much more loose term in those days than it is now .As for the black fellow having an non-black girlfriend, that doesn't really happen ,does it ,in this land where you literally see a mixed-raced person every minute ?

There was an Asian and black alliance in 1960/70s Britain. However I very much doubt there were Asian woman rambos taking on the MET police and issuing orders. Asian woman back then couldn't even speak English, like is said all they did was make roti and chapatis.
Asian men and black people having a alliance I can understand. Asian xena warrior princess I dont believe.

 

[MARAQ DIGAAG]

There was an Asian and black alliance in 1960/70s Britain. However I very much doubt there were Asian woman rambos taking on the MET police and issuing orders. Asian woman back then couldn't even speak English, like is said all they did was make roti and chapatis.
Asian men and black people having a alliance I can understand. Asian xena warrior princess I dont believe.

It is a film, though ,not a bloody biopic of Michael Jackson .The black lives matter needs to relax their aFro combs on this one . A militant kneegrow having an Asian girlfriend is not anymore far fetched than him a black east African girl in the 70s..I for one Will be watching this and supporting the long history of brothers and Asian sisters in the British islands .

 

[TooMacaan]

A show about black civil rights, with a South Asian female lead who's the love interest of the black lead.

I can see why they're angry.

Lol, not just that but...the only black woman that they cast (a role as a police officer, I believe)...they made her a traitor to the Civil Rights movement [which is far from the truth]. Also, the black female character doesn't get much screen time beyond that.