Black Entertainment : Casting of White Actor as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Sparks Sharp Rebuke From Playwright

[umbrarchist]

What!?

That is so weird I don't know how to react.

 

[Deleted member 65318]

Hey it is happening on the other side too it seems. A former beheaded Queen of England played by a sister... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Boleyn_(TV_series)

 

[umbrarchist]

Hey it is happening on the other side too it seems. A former beheaded Queen of England played by a sister... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Boleyn_(TV_series)

I agree that is weird too, but it is not living memory and with video and sound.

Talk about cognitive disonance!

Listening to white ministers trying to sound like black ministers messes with my brain. And I am regarded as an Oreo cookie because my black English is so bad.

 

[Deleted member 65318]

I agree that is weird too, but it is not living memory and with video and sound.

Talk about cognitive disonance!

Listening to white ministers trying to sound like black ministers messes with my brain. And I am regarded as an Oreo cookie because my black English is so bad.

"Black English,""oreo cookie." They still say such things in America? Or you just dating yourself a bit?

 

[umbrarchist]

"Black English,""oreo cookie." They still say such things in America? Or you just dating yourself a bit?

I am probably dating myself but the attitudes are still there even if they use different terminology.

Ebonics | dialect

Ebonics, also called African American Vernacular English (AAVE), formerly Black English Vernacular (BEV), dialect of American English spoken by a large proportion of African Americans. Many scholars hold that Ebonics, like several English creoles, developed from contacts between nonstandard...

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