Also if you wanna go a little further back My Wife and Kids replaced Jazz Raycole with Jennifer Freeman. In fact, for the promotion of the show after the new Clare was cast, they didn’t even bother shooting new pictures; they just put Jennifer’s head on Jazz’s body.
#Facts If we are serious about inclusive representation, then we have to get into colorism and the erasure of darker-skinned Black female characters.
Another fact, Black Hollywood content creators often inflict this problem on their own. That’s why “Insecure”, “I May Destroy You”, “Selah and the Spades” and any number of recent TV shows and movies are important. And it is no coincidence that a lot of these new good projects are created by darker-skinned women who knows what’s up and are centering more sisters on the darker spectrum. Long overdue.
take the time to read this post it’s important
this is a really really important thing to talk about and something we have to keep talking about, especially when people fan-cast gugu mbatha-raw into roles originally written for dark-skinned black women. i see you, i get you, we all want gugu mbatha-raw in absolutely everything....but widen your pool and elevate dark-skinned black women too. colorism in hollywood is no fuckin joke and your fancasts can challenge that
feel like this is worth reblogging again especially considering we now KNOW Hollywood literally takes tumblr fancasts into account when casting popular shows (thanks Ben Barnes)
