swiz123:
Thinking you are better than someone because of your skin color is nothing short of mental illness.

To be honest they are better. Don't deny it.

We4all:


Have you ever heard of the word 'remake' in the film world? Juliet was a fictional character and anyone can play that role if there is ever going to be a remake. People are just crying foul due to ignorance.

A fictional character in the mould of a white person. Abi did the story describe her as a black person?
So then Van Diesel or Roger Moore should have played lead role in black pantha instead of Bossman and we will call it "remake"

You seem the ignorant one here

Imagine a documentary of fela and fela is played by a white man.? Wouldn't make sense?

All these woke people. Must it be a black woman to play Juliet or are they trying to set an agenda?

dsocioemmy:
These racists think everything should be under their control. To them, blacks should always take lesser roles

yeye people

Why can't blacks create their own? Must they feed on the white man's creation? Just as you guys are trying to "Japa" to their countries they have built.

Bruisecruise:
They love setting Black people up for insult ehn.

No white production company would allow a movie of Idris Elba to pair with some hideous white girl whatever the story line may be.

It’s time Black people build and take complete ownership of their own EVERYTHING and stop ranting or complaining to get treated better in white spaces.

Exactly. That is the solution. Blacks should build their own.

brunobaba:
na crime to be black?

The problem is black people are putting their nose into the affairs of white people rather than building their own. For example, instead of Nigerians to build their country they prefer to migrate to the white man's land. You will be disrespected if you don't build your own.

I'd be shocked if that girl did not get abuse. These producers.. they'd do this experiment and watch the madness go on. There are tons of roles black women could get, why Juliet? Africa has a lot of stories yet untold, why the struggle and hustle to act their own stories? See how the world basically worshipped Chadwick boseman, lupita and co for playing strong black people. I hope she does not allow those racists break her though. She's finnne...

We4all:


Out of everyone that commented, you were the only one that said the most reasonable thing.

The comments here are something else. Even more racist than the whites, radarada

Bruisecruise:
They love setting Black people up for insult ehn.

No white production company would allow a movie of Idris Elba to pair with some hideous white girl whatever the story line may be.

It’s time Black people build and take complete ownership of their own EVERYTHING and stop ranting or complaining to get treated better in white spaces.

The owner of the production company is a white dude. It's even a stage play and not a movie.

jamesversion:
The whites have every right to protest such vain revisionism.

Na Which day wey Shakespeare Juliet turn black.

Me self dey reason am o. Did the writer of the story described his characters as black? Why the fuse. The same way we shouldn't expect black man to portray James Bond, we shouldn't expect black characters as Romeo and Juliet

Difrent:


A fictional character in the mould of a white person. Abi did the story describe her as a black person?
So then Van Diesel or Roger Moore should have played lead role in black pantha instead of Bossman and we will call it "remake"

You seem the ignorant one here

If a production company decides to cast a white actor to play the role of black panther, then there is nothing wrong with that. For the fact that it's yet to happen, doesn't mean it will never happen. Stop being ignorant!

And besides the owner of the production company is a white man and the production is a stage play. So, why the fuss?

Why can't black people act in their own theatre and fairy tales? Always trying to look for trouble acting roles that aren't theirs canonically.

Maxcollins042:


The characters shouldn't be black-washed. That's what they are simply agitating for. Blacks won't be happy if Black Panther or any black-centric film character is portrayed by a white. We cried foul when Cleopatra was whitewashed and they are doing same for theirs.

Do unto others what you want done to you. It's as simple as ABC.

DUDE….

THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS AND PHARAOHS WERE BLACKS.

THE BIBLICAL JEWISH PEOPLE WERE BLACKS.

JUST ABOUT EVERYONE IN THE BIBLE WAS BLACK, INCLUDING JESUS, MARY, MOSES, ABRAHAM, JEREMIAH, SOLOMON, ISAIAH, TIMOTHY, JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA, JOSHUA, AARON, SAMSON AND DELILAH, EZEKIEL, DANIEL, NEBUCHADNEZZAR, ETC ETC.

ALL BLACKS.

JOB WAS BLACK.

Job 30:30 “MY SKIN IS BLACK…”

SOLOMON, SON OF DAVID WAS BLACK, MEANING DAVID WAS BLACK.

Song of Solomon 1:5 “I AM BLACK…”!

Lamentations 3:10 “OUR SKIN IS BLACK LIKE AN OVEN….!”

They were ALL blacks.

IN FACT JUST THE OTHER DAY THE RUSSIAN PRESIDENT PUTIN RELEASED THOUSANDS OF ANCIENT EUROPEAN PAINTINGS AND ARTEFACTS HIDDEN IN RUSSIAN VAULTS WHICH DEPICTED THE HEBREWS, INCLUDING JESUS AND MARY, AS BLACK PEOPLE.

Have any of these people since you were born, EVER been portrayed as anything other than WHITE by Hollywood?

FOR ALL WE KNOW, SHAKESPEARE HIMSELF WAS BLACK!

THE EUROPEANS WHITEWASHED EVERYTHING DURING THE 17th CENTURY IN THE HEAT OF THE SLAVE TRADE AS THEIR RACISM GREW TO STRATOSPHERIC LEVELS.

SO FOR ALL WE KNOW, SHAKESPEARE HIMSELF WAS PROBABLY BLACK, AS WERE HIS CHARACTERS, ROMEO AND JULIET.

BlackhatMentor:


But a white man played Tarzan 😐

Wait was Tarzan originally black? Was Tarzan not a white man kid who got trapped in the jungle after his parents died of plane accident and he was taking care by apes.

DoWhatThouWilt:


Source: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/10/too-much-to-bear-black-actors-condemn-racial-abuse-of-romeo-juliet-star

everytime we complain about racism but d one we do here in our own country is worst than racism imagine a Yoruba parent telling they’re child not to marry a ibo child cuz of tribe or ibo parent telling they’re child not to marry a Yoruba child cuz of tribe hypocrite everywhere make dem racism us more I don’t care the white are still better than we blacks 💯 times

Elsueno:
I actually did not like how the whites ganged up on d young girl.

But to be fair, let's be honest, Juliet should not be black just as much as black panther cannot be white.

its much better to look for or create an original story that requires a young black actress.


It's a shame really, I perfectly understand how she's feeling sha

It's a play. As long as she can act the role, that should be all that matters.
How many times have whites acted black roles?
How many times have schools staged this Shakespeare's classic?
Or should African schools have to import white actors just to reenact it?

What's bad is bad, no sugar-coating it.
There's just so much hatred on the Internet and for some reason US just doesn't seem to know how to get racism behind them. It's really an eyesore to keep seeing this vicious cycle play out in a country that's trying to teach other countries how to run theirs.

Goddyrichie:
everytime we complain about racism but d one we do here in our own country is worst than racism imagine a Yoruba parent telling they’re child not to marry a ibo child cuz of tribe or ibo parent telling they’re child not to marry a Yoruba child cuz of tribe hypocrite everywhere make dem racism us more I don’t care the white are still better than we blacks 💯 times

Self hating slave.

REPULSIVE, IGNORANT LOW IQ PEA BRAIN.

English parents also object to their wards marrying Russians, Italians, French and blacks, and vice versa, so they are not strangers to discrimination among themselves either.

Stupid air head.

Bruisecruise:
They love setting Black people up for insult ehn.

No white production company would allow a movie of Idris Elba to pair with some hideous white girl whatever the story line may be.

It’s time Black people build and take complete ownership of their own EVERYTHING and stop ranting or complaining to get treated better in white spaces.

I hear.
Upon the way your compatriots dey run abandon their country rush go white man land?

maestro299:


I hear.
Upon the way your compatriots dey run abandon their country rush go white man land?

SHUT UP.

THERE ARE MILLIONS MORE WHITES AND ASIANS IN AFRICA THAN AFRICANS IN EUROPE AND ASIA.

REPULSIVE PEOPLE SWIMMING IN SELF HATE AND COMPLEX.

Mumu people. You want to play Romeo and Juliet who are obviously part of the white race history but if a white man or woman acts as slaves in a movie pertaining to slavery, you'll see black Americans ranting about it being insultive. Black Americans are so toxic. They would be calling white men "white" but when a white man calls them "black" war don start be that. Deluded folks!

Goddyrichie:
everytime we complain about racism but d one we do here in our own country is worst than racism imagine a Yoruba parent telling they’re child not to marry a ibo child cuz of tribe or ibo parent telling they’re child not to marry a Yoruba child cuz of tribe hypocrite everywhere make dem racism us more I don’t care the white are still better than we blacks 💯 times

You are correct 💯. Africans are actually worse when it comes to racism

Azazyel:



You are correct 💯. Africans are actually worse when it comes to racism

I DON’T RECALL AFRICANS CHASING WHITE PEOPLE TO LYNCH THEM, HANG THEM FROM TREES AND BURN THEM AS HAPPENED ON A DAILY BASIS TO BLACKS IN AMERICA TILL VERY RECENTLY.

I DON’T RECALL AFRICANS DROPPING NUCLEAR BOMBS ON HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI AND MURDERING 120,000 PEOPLE IN TWO SECONDS.

ARE YOU AWARE THAT KING LEOPOLD OF BELGIUM MURDERED 2O MILLION CONGOLESE IN ORDER TO STEAL THEIR MINERAL RESOURCES?

ARE YOU AWARE THAT IN 1897 THE BRITISH INVADED, BURNED DOWN, BOMBED AND LOOTED BENIN CITY, WHICH WAS DESCRIBED AS ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CITIES IN THE WORLD?

YOU DEMON.

WHAT DID BLACKS DO TO WHITES THAT COMES CLOSE TO THAT, AND MUCH MUCH MORE ATROCITIES THEY HAVE COMMITTED ALL OVER THE WORLD?

dsocioemmy:
These racists think everything should be under their control. To them, blacks should always take lesser roles

yeye people

Shut up! Is the character Juliet from the classic tale Romeo and Juliet black? Why should the cast be a black woman for a role that’s historically white?

positivelord:


So we cant have a different version of the same story line

Why don’t you create yours? Are blacks intellectually bankrupt to create their own stories?

Tellmeastory:


Self hating slave.

REPULSIVE, IGNORANT LOW IQ PEA BRAIN.

English parents also object to their wards marrying Russians, Italians, French and blacks, and vice versa, so they are not strangers to discrimination among themselves either.

Stupid air head.

ogun kill u papa 👴 I don’t know why we black hate to hear d truth I’m a fans of d white cuz if they do to our fore’s father many years ago steal our resource even till now they’re still stealing indirectly through our government but let’s say d truth we Africans we don’t love ourselves South Africa 🇿🇦 don’t want to see a Nigerian any little thing we kill each other they send us back to our country and kill our people same as our Ghanaian people let me ask u a question have u ever see a Canadian citizen do that to American b4 no but it’s we d black African always even here in our own Nigeria Hausa don’t want to see ibo a little thing Hausa kill ibo or ibo kill Hausa same as Yoruba in d same country o have u ever hear someone from Pennsylvania in USA do that or kill someone from West Virginia USA b4 no but it will only be we d black people but we complain alot when it comes to d white people

Tellmeastory:


SHUT UP.

THERE ARE MILLIONS MORE WHITES AND ASIANS IN AFRICA THAN AFRICANS IN EUROPE AND ASIA.

REPULSIVE PEOPLE SWIMMING IN SELF HATE AND COMPLEX.

This is a big LIE. You are shameless to spew such ignorance online

jamesversion:
The whites have every right to protest such vain revisionism.

Na Which day wey Shakespeare Juliet turn black.

Juliet is a fictional character and can be played by any body and anywhere.

Besides, if whites have problem with the revisionist propaganda ongoing in Hollywood, they should attack the movie companies OWNED BY WHITES casting these roles as black and leave black actors alone.

Some of u blacks no just get sense. Is it the girl that forced the role on herself. What should she have done when given the role? Reject it as in wetin happen.

That was how they ganged up against Halle Bailey when she played Ariel in Little mermaid. They claimed the movie will suffer poor revenue because they played a black girl as the mermaid. The movie went on to make 564 million dollars in box office.

I don't care if liberal woke whites decide to cast Tonto Dike as princess Diana in their next movie. Whites who have a problem with such should attack the right quarters and leave blacks looking for daily bread alone.

Elsueno:
I actually did not like how the whites ganged up on d young girl.

But to be fair, let's be honest, Juliet should not be black just as much as black panther cannot be white.

its much better to look for or create an original story that requires a young black actress.


It's a shame really, I perfectly understand how she's feeling sha

Romeo and Juliet is fiction and nothing says it must be white.people.!
Romeo and juliet is a love story and it has nothing to do with race.

Avedonn:


Tarzan is also a white man story about white couples dying and living their infant baby in the jungle.

Then explain how Jesus became white in all Hollywood movies.
Because last time I checked, there's no blue eye, blond hair white character in the bible.

Goddyrichie:
ogun kill u papa 👴 I don’t know why we black hate to hear d truth I’m a fans of d white cuz if they do to our fore’s father many years ago steal our resource even till now they’re still stealing indirectly through our government but let’s say d truth we Africans we don’t love ourselves South Africa 🇿🇦 don’t want to see a Nigerian any little thing we kill each other they send us back to our country and kill our people same as our Ghanaian people let me ask u a question have u ever see a Canadian citizen do that to American b4 no but it’s we d black African always even here in our own Nigeria Hausa don’t want to see ibo a little thing Hausa kill ibo or ibo kill Hausa same as Yoruba in d same country o have u ever hear someone from Pennsylvania in USA do that or kill someone from West Virginia USA b4 no but it will only be we d black people but we complain alot when it comes to d white people

VILLAGE ILLITERATE, WHITE PEOPLE SLAUGHTERED OVER 120 MILLION OF THEIR OWN PEOPLE IN JUST THIS LAST CENTURY!

THEY FOUGHT TWO TRIBAL WARS WHICH THEY DECEPTIVELY TERMED “WORLD WARS”.

ONE MAN ALONE CALLED ADOLF HITLER LINED UP 6 MILLION OF HIS FELLOW WHITE COUNTRYMEN AND FORCED THEM INTO GAS CHAMBERS WHERE THEY CHOKED TO DEATH.

STALIN KILLED OVER 10 MILLION RUSSIANS.

EVEN IN AMERICA THEY SLAUGHTER OVER 30,000 OF THEMSELVES EACH YEAR.

IT’S A COUNTRY WHERE COMMON ARGUMENTS ON THE STREET ARE ROUTINELY SETTLED BY GUNFIRE.

GET OFF CNN AND HOLLYWOOD FAIRYTALES AND GO AND STUDY THE WORLD AS IT REALLY IS, NOT AS YOU HAVE BEEN BRAINWASHED TO SEE IT.

BLASTED AIR HEAD.

1Sharon:
They should stop black washing historically white characters though

Sharon don't fall for these micro aggressive racist attacks.
Whites have been playing ancient Egyptians as far as I can remember when we all know ancient Egyptians are not white and possibly black.


If real people who were definitely coloured black can be made white on TV. Then what's the noise about fictional character.

Maxcollins042:


The characters shouldn't be black-washed. That's what they are simply agitating for. Blacks won't be happy if Black Panther or any black-centric film character is portrayed by a white. We cried foul when Cleopatra was whitewashed and they are doing same for theirs.

Do unto others what you want done to you. It's as simple as ABC.

Then explain why ancient Egyptian are played as whites in movies.