The actress recently retweeted that the sentiment that someone "blacker" should play Nina Simone was "reverse racism at its best." Clutch magazine [5]'s Yesha Callahan wonders what it will take for the public to accept Saldana's identity, and the fact that Hollywood will do what it wants.
Now a retweet can be taken in several different ways. It could either mean she's cosigning the sentiment, or felt the need to share someone's opinion about the subject [that's] been brewing for some time now. Either way, she's apparently feeling some kind of way about it.
The possibility of Saldana being [cast] as Nina Simone has received a lot of backlash. People have said she just doesn't have the talent to pull off such a role, that she's not a singer, but mainly because of her aesthetics.
Whereas the tweet is citing 'racism', it may be more appropriate if it mentioned colorism. Although Saldana has claimed many times that she is a black woman, apparently to many people she isn't black enough to portray Nina ...
How many times must she yell, that she is a black woman? Just because she comes from a [Spanish-]speaking country, doesn't mean she's any less blacker (yeah it's not a word ... so ... ) than the next black chick.
Yesha Callahan's entire piece at Clutch magazine [5].
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