Deep. It's cool to call yourself Black, but we gotta distinguish looking and being Black. Loving the wrong men is not loving yourself.
Well said bro. Asomfwaa, well said indeed ... It causes me to wonder why she goes to great length resisting the non-black classification, only to take up non-black relationships. One would think it would be just the opposite, she would run to black men based on this:
But despite all the ambiguities about Saldana's ethnicity, she self-identifies as black rather than Latino — a fact which some sections of the latter community find hard to accept. She was also criticised recently for being cast in the role of Nina Simone in the upcoming biopic about the singer, by those who thought an African American actress should have been cast. “It doesn't matter how much backlash I will get it,” she responded. “I will honor and respect my black community because that's who I am.”