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I realize Black folks are excited about this new film. As a Black woman born and reared in Mississippi, the birth place of white racism and subsequently the blues, I get it! I thoroughly enjoyed seeing the rare image of black people celebrating life, in this case through our rich music. But the film's uniqueness was robbed by the stereotypical casting of a white woman as the love interest of the leading protagonist. Some black people have argued that she represents evil, but her character demonstrated no greater evil or sin than the married black woman who had sex with one of the leading actors, and who also was turned to a vampire. In contrast, the film provided a wonderful, rare opportunity to see romance between a leading black male protagonist and an authentic black woman, but their short live romance and unnecessary deaths were very disheartening and disappointing particularly given that the interracial relationship between the leading black male and white woman continued indefinitely. I am not sure of Cooglar's intent for these two distinct relationships, but as a black man, married to a black woman, who presents himself as being socially conscious, I would have expected him to know and do better, hence, allow the black couple, who had suffered the loss of their newborn, to have a second chance at life and happiness; instead, for them he chose death and some BS pie in the sky justification, "they waiting for me and you too," suggesting once again that Black people can have happiness and peace only in the afterlife. In this regards, the film was very disappointing and counterproductive. Finally, I think it would have been cool for the leading Black woman to tap into the power of rootwork as an effective form of resistance against vampirism as it was against slavery.

So starved to see an authentic Black couple in a serious film I’ve watched it 4 times and will watch again. However I was pleased that race played no role in this sad but beautiful film.

The plot is a hollow joke. And once again a black man is cast without a black mate, racist. If they are allowed to only be cast opposite women of other races I would prefer not to see them at all.

This trend of casting black men and white women as love interests while every other ethnic and gender group is racist. This movie sucks.

I couldn’t possibly not watch the elegant, stunningly gorgeous and physically fine Mahershala Ali. He made it possible to tolerate the rest of the cast.

Bravo! However, it’s unfortunate DuVernay didn’t go a little further and connect the Israeli apartheid (caste) system that European Jews subsequently created post holocaust to justify the military occupation and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians over 75 years. However if she had done so the film probably wouldn’t have been funded. Apparently it’s acceptable to critique the oppression and inhumanity of other ethnic group’s except Jews.

I definitely don’t want to see buffaloes be slaughtered. Reading the history of white colonialism in the Americas was enough.

Hollywood has a thing for coupling black men, particularly dark skinned, with any woman but a black woman. In this film, the leading male, Apollo, is supposed to be a biracial man, but he is portrayed by a black man, who at a minimum should be light skin. His love interest is supposed to be a black woman, but she is portrayed by a biracial woman. This is the typical racist model that Hollywood uses to represent black people. Black men must have classical African phenotypes and women cast as Black must have white or biracial phenotypes. Light skinned black men and brown/dark skinned black women are consistently excluded.

I totally hate it and it’s stereotypical trite black male/white female relationship.. The industry is blind to other types of inter racial relationship, particularly those involving white men. Celebrity white male actors are rarely ever portrayed in inter racial relationships because the industry is careful not to upset the liberal white female audience while it ignores its black female patrons. There was a time when Black women were allowed to star opposite their own men but not today. They have been hijacked by every race & class of women. Nothing funny about that.

Interestingly this half Black, half Samoan celebrity heavy weight is cast opposite exclusive white love interests. White actors like Mark Wahlberg would never be cast in such a way for fear of tarnishing their white image or offending the white female audience. But black women are expected to accept any BS that Hollywood produces especially if the film includes black or biracial men despite their own exclusion and replacement by women of every other f... race. Black women should boycott all his s...