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Na. Keeping it a buck I think duke right here is the best fit for the role of JH
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He might be half black but he looks 100% Polynesian and that’s the problem.
This is as bad as when he played Hercules.
The big point that most people are missing behind all this is that the Rock's production company, 7 Bucks production, is producing this film. More than likely the only reason this film being made it all is because of his attached to it.
Is it though? If his blackness is already in question by simply being mixed he will forever be fighting an uphill battle with everyone's idea of what "blackness" means. This is what I mean by the paradox of "blackness". It's not a concrete concept (though, neither is the concept of race). It shifts, ebbs and flows depending on the individual, to a white audience he may be too black, to a black audience he may not be black enough.There is no paradox here, it is clear where people's frustrations are coming from
No one says Jesse Williams isn't black enough and he's more light-skinned than the Rock.
Is it though? If his blackness is already in question by simply being mixed he will forever be fighting an uphill battle with everyone's idea of what "blackness" means. This is what I mean by the paradox of "blackness". It's not a concrete concept (though, neither is the concept of race). It shifts, ebbs and flows depending on the individual, to a white audience he may be too black, to a black audience he may not be black enough.
I feel like this further highlights the division we push upon ourselves (speaking about humanity in general), it's especially exacerbated by echo chambers like twitter, where someone is never good enough to be someone else's idea of "X". Or if someone did meet someone else's idea of "X" and does one thing they don't agree with no matter how mundane, suddenly they were never "X" to begin with. And since these discussions mainly take place inside the echo chambers, they almost never get challenged.
People def say this. Heard it with my own ears, heard somebody say he's not even really black too
Someone said Kaep wasn’t black
It is one thing to be questioned based on LOOKS, superficial. But when folks are questioning whether or not you are down for the fight, that is a different story.
Nobody EVER questioned Jessie Williams and/or Kap for that reason.
The Rock? Strikes in both categories.
Or you know, things have a lot more nuance than twitter would like to admit.Again, if he embraced his black side and wasn't promoted (which he CAN control) to be a racially ambiguous Superman, folks wouldn't trip.
Again, it is pretty clear WHY folks are bothered.
It doesn't need a deep dive like you are attempting to use.
But I am sure you know this already, just trying to play dumb. Or as NT likes to say, "Being an obtuse angle."
And the nuance here isn't about how he looks, it is about how he acts as the, "All Purpose Player."Or you know, things have a lot more nuance than twitter would like to admit.
Easy to say that from a place of privilege.There is nothing wrong with never speaking on public issues. Some people like to keep their opinions to themselves and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.
And why should he have to be more than that? Also, ******** that this isn't about how he looks. Had he looked like any illustration of JH, nobody would bat would an eye, no matter how silent on black issues the actor they choose was. But since the rock is mixed.......he has to prove/own his blackness to slacktivists on the internet.And the nuance here isn't about how he looks, it is about how he acts as the, "All Purpose Player."
He doesn't HAVE to do anything he doesn't want to do. It is his life and his career. He has been WIDLY successful doing what he has been doing. *Hats Off*And why should he have to be more than that? Also, bull**** that this isn't about how he looks. Had he looked like any illustration of JH, nobody would bat would an eye, no matter how silent on black issues the actor they choose was. But since the rock is mixed.......he has to prove/own his blackness to slacktivists on the internet.
Please read my comment again, I wasn't the one making this about his looks, I think you missed a few things. The lightskinned folks slacktivists do rock with have to go EXTRA hard to "prove" themselves to a bunch of strangers on the internet. They don't have an assumed aura of being "pro black", that's the double standard that I'm pointing out.But you keep trying to discuss how he LOOKS when there have been examples of folks being light-skinned as hell and folks don't question where they stand.