Cosplaying as Super-ADOS

Muhammad Rasheed - [MEME] Jerome Duffy ADOS

Gene Peterson - I definitely think he was playing as an African American and a Kenyan American.

I don’t want Mr Terrific’s AA origin erased but there are so few roles for continental Africans that I don’t want them excluded.

Muhammad Rasheed - Gene wrote: "I definitely think he was playing as an African American and a Kenyan American."

That means this Kenyan-born foreigner was doing his cosplay impression of a Black American, which is clearly inferior to putting an actual Black American actor in the role.

Gene wrote: "I don’t want Mr Terrific’s AA origin erased"

Full stop.

Gene wrote: "but there are so few roles for continental Africans that I don’t want them excluded."

There are so few roles for Black Americans in our own country, so why should we give them, away to hostile & disrespectful foreigners? Just because they favor our melanin count?

Gene Peterson - I don’t have a problem with black outside of the US playing AAs …UNLESS I can tell they’ve bought into the same stereo types that lead to the minstrel show. I find that blacks playing the roles of other blacks across the world highlight our similarities and common ancestry.

YES, I HAVE seen us mocked by other blacks… but I’m not gonna burn an actor who’s NOT doing that.

And… I didn’t have a problem with so many of the roles in Black Panther being played by AAs. Give some roles, take some roles.

Muhammad Rasheed - Gene wrote: "I don’t have a problem with black outside of the US playing AAs"

There's limited work opportunities for Black Americans, so why should those opportunities go to foreigners who have their own nations?

Gene wrote: "YES, I HAVE seen us mocked by other blacks…"

This isn't a matter of shallow name-calling, but of economic exclusion and disenfranchisement. The 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act was the COUNTER to the 1964 Civil Rights and 1965 Voting Rights Acts—that's why the Black immigrants are here, not to help us in any way.

Gene wrote: "And… I didn’t have a problem with so many of the roles in Black Panther being played by AAs"

The Black Panther (2018) was an American product. Every single role could've been played by Americans doing accents and there would've been nothing inherently wrong with it. All the foreigners have their OWN countries and can make their OWN movies backed by their OWN governments and capitalists. What sense does it make to give my country's opportunities to foreigners when my own unemployment statistics are through the roof?

Gene Peterson - these movie studios are “international” now. Superman is played by a Brit, so is Spider-man.

They shot a lot of BP in Africa.

If we want to solve the lack of roles, we’re not gonna do it through Disney.

We’ve got to grow AA owned production companies. And even then we should be reaching out to African talent to support our MUTUAL interests in developing the industry across the diaspora.

That way we control the number of roles, settings and stories, period.

Muhammad Rasheed - Gene wrote: "these movie studios are 'international' now."

It's clearly an American product produced by an American studio.

Gene wrote: "Superman is played by a Brit, so is Spider-man."

I'd prefer if the roles went to Americans, but my focus is on my own ethnic group. Whites do as they like among themselves.

Gene wrote: "They shot a lot of BP in Africa."

Most are shocked to learn it was primarily shot on Tyler Perry's lot. Getting permission to shoot some of it in foreign climes doesn't make it a foreign product. lol

Gene wrote: "If we want to solve the lack of roles, we’re not gonna do it through Disney."

We're not going to solve it by giving the few available American roles to foreigners either.

Gene wrote: "We’ve got to grow AA owned production companies."

We need to advocate for transformational politics. We can't compete with trillion dollar white-owned monopolies with unlimited government subsidies by "hustling" with "financial literacy" schemes.

Gene wrote: "And even then we should be reaching out to African talent to support our MUTUAL interests in developing the industry across the diaspora."

What mutual interest do we have with foreigners?

Gene wrote: "That way we control the number of roles, settings and stories, period."

We control it by giving it to the envious foreigners who long to replace us?

Freeman Grey - Apparently this violates TikTok standards 😆

Anthony Tony A Farrar - Or.....it's not a conspiracy theory and James Gunn convinced Edi Gathegi to come back to the superhero film genre after his unfortunate time playing Darwin in X-Men: First Class. They had a personal relationship and wanted to work together and after initially turning down the role, Edi read for it after Gunn had auditioned several people for the role but couldn't find an actor that did it the way Gunn envisioned it.

Oluwadamilola Akinwale Akinayo - @Anthony... Exactly, what James and Ed said.👌🏾

Muhammad Rasheed - Anthony wrote: "Or.....it's not a conspiracy theory"

It's actually an ongoing trend of replacing Black Americans with foreigners in our own country.

Iam Sam - @Muhammad... you think white folks thinking that far ahead? Gun just booking his friends up and works with people he likes.

White folks never mad that Ryan Reynolds, Tom Hardy, Hugh Jackman, Tom Holland, Gary Oldman, Christian Bale, etc taking all the parts.

That is why folks are getting the fatigue. Any benign thing someone gotta cry.

Folks finally getting representation and being told they ain’t the right type of black.

Anthony Tony A Farrar - @Muhammad... And that argument might hold weight if you applied it consistently across the board. I.e. raising a fuss about Nick Fury, Hawkman, Hiemdall, and Valkyrie. Claiming that you need more representation, landing it when the change is for your benefit and decaying it when the change goes the other way is hypocrisy.

Muhammad Rasheed - Iam Sam wrote: "you think white folks thinking that far ahead?"

White folks control 90% of the national household wealth, and have used racketeering organized crime tactics to hold a total power monopoly over industry and government for centuries, and have successfully kept my people economically excluded in our own nation.

Iam Sam wrote: "Gun just booking his friends up and works with people he likes."

Hollywood is a white-owned power monopoly, which enables people like Gun to do exactly that. Whites prefer to replace Black Americans with immigrants because the latter cost less and are gleefully pliable to white leadership compliance.

Iam Sam wrote: "White folks never mad that"

Other folks can fight the battles that are important to them with my blessing.

Iam Sam wrote: "That is why folks are getting the fatigue. Any benign thing someone gotta cry"

I'm fatigued over the white supremacist ideology and its acceptance by the willfully ignorant.

Iam Sam wrote: "Folks finally getting representation"

Why would I care about first generation Kenyan-immigrants getting represented in a major Hollywood blockbuster when my own multi-generation American group isn't being represented in it?

Muhammad Rasheed - Anthony wrote: "And that argument might hold weight if you applied it consistently across the board. I.e. raising a fuss about Nick Fury, Hawkman, Hiemdall, and Valkyrie."

This is a false equivalency fallacy.

Anthony wrote: "Claiming that you need more representation, landing it when the change is for your benefit and decaying it when the change goes the other way is hypocrisy."

I need more representation because I've been purposely economically excluded from the wealth-building ownership side of industry by the descendants of the former slave holder class for the last 150-years. Being excluded in a society that has traditionally excluded me in the nature of the civil rights/antiracism activist fight. White people control the entire table, so why would I fight for them in the same way when our situations are 100% different in every single way that can be measured—which is why any white person using the term "reverse racism" with a straight face is either a gaslighting con-artist, or just incredibly stupid af.

If white people want to play grifting "DEI" games to pretend to be compliant to the 1866 Civil Rights Act inside of their own white-owned monopolies, what does that have to do with me? Race-swapping their own IP ("Nick Fury, Hawkman, Hiemdall[sic], and Valkyrie") means nothing to me, outside of them doing it for fake political clout on the liberal side.