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I just wanted to tell the people who said that Bucky only smiled to Sarah because her name reminded him of Steve's mother that they're the reason why Bucky stopped hanging out with White people.

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KIKI LAYNE as Princess Meeka in COMING 2 AMERICA (2021)

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KIKI LAYNE

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How Hollywood casts black familys

Parents

Son

Daughter

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Is there a sociological reason on why this is repeatedly done?

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Colorism. A happy, successful black family? The women must be light skinned. Especially the young women

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oh I know colorism is the base cause, I mean why specifically does the young woman in the family have to be light? is this some twisted fetish? the mom is always a medium brown, afro-american lady. The daughter is always mysteriously mixed, but not all women in the family look like her just her alone

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I think that it has to do with what characteristics are most valued at different ages and the characteristics associated with dark and light skin tones. I think it’s no coincidence that the older a black woman is in the media the more likely she is to be dark skinned. Not always, but a lot of the time the grandmothers are darker skinned. That’s because the most valuable thing as an older woman is being a caregiver and that is one stereotype associated with dark skin tones. (I feel like this goes back to the “Mammy” archetype.) But as a young woman the most valuable characteristic is beauty. Our society sees racial ambiguity as the most beautiful thing so our young black women characters are never made to look like they are actually black. And if she’s the main character of course she has to be the most beautiful so they probably make all the other women darker than her to make her seem more beautiful. I feel like I’ve seen this a lot in tv shows where the “estranged sister” is dark skinned.

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They also don’t consider dark skin feminine. Being a woman and being dark skinned is a literal oxymoron for them.

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Yes. And if she is cast as dark skin she is abused to high fucking heaven or casted as a sapphire(angry) jezebel( promiscuous) or mammy(eternal caregiver) rarely three dimensional

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Kiki Layne For Storm!

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KiKi Layne wears custom Gucci at the Camp: Notes on Fashion Met Gala in New York City on May 6, 2019 (Getty)

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KiKi Layne on the red carpet - Oscars 2019

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Can we have a movie?

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Chris Evans helps Regina King up the stairs to the stage after her Oscars win

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The best part of Oscars 2019.

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Beautiful.

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Why Star Trek matters.

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Why representation matters too.

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Everyone should know, in the 70s Nichelle Nichols went to NASA and asked why there weren’t black astronauts in the pipeline, and they said, “Come recruit for us.” And she did.

“From the late 1970’s until the late 1980’s, NASA employed Nichelle Nichols to recruit new astronaut candidates. Many of her new recruits were women or members of racial and ethnic minorities, including Guion Bluford (the first African-American astronaut), Sally Ride (the first female American astronaut), Judith Resnik (one of the original set of female astronauts, who perished during the launch of the Challenger on January 28, 1986), and Ronald McNair (the second African-American astronaut, and another victim of the Challenger accident).“ (x)