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I found the ok on you in the stream today a british actress playing an iconic american abolitionist while people saying hash tag not my how it dont forget to tweet us and send us your comments on you tube during the live conversation but before we get started take a look at this. Stuff. Was. Easy. For you. Thats part of the trailer for how yet an upcoming biographical film about american abolitionist how it helped him and cynthia evo landed the title pop but many people are now upset that a revote who is a british nigerian was casting stead of an African American actress theyve been voicing their opinions online using the hash tags not my how it how it deserves better and adolf short for american descendants of slavery so why was this particular casting decision so controversial and what does the debate say about black identity in the u. S. But joining us to discuss these questions in Los Angeles Antonio moore is a cofounder of american descendants of slavery in Johannesburg South Afri
Is representing a very iconic character and i know through reading that it has been said i can just read the page he didnt say this but i can just read the script and i can connect to it in my way without the baggage and things like that what i sense from the tweets accent or a is that africanamericans want someone who understands Harriet Tubman from an intimate level and from. A lyrical and painful ancestral memory not just im going to take that heart i can i can interpret this part they want almost someone that is being driven i want them to have a resume that says even beyond a resume into their marriage they want someone who actually feels the ancestrial presence of a Harriet Tubman put in the job heres something that i saw. And tony i hear you there but i want to bring in this person i think would agree and i saw you nodding your head. As well so this is actual on twitter who says the problem isnt so much that shes british but that she has said and supported things in the past tha
Since the beginning of the year the Trump Reelection Campaign has posted more than 2000 immigration themed ads on facebook using the term invasion university of texas el paso scholar daniel check on says words like that are packed with negative meaning to invade a. Country or region is to take it over to dominate it to be invaded by you know by another army is basically what youre saying they want to come in they want to take over they want to take whats ours but the El Paso Republican Party chairman says trumps words are not racist and that he is welcome to you know pass i think the president coming here to show that hes got concern i think is outstanding theres a lot of people in this community that support him certainly many in this city will welcome from with courtesy others however they feel it is he who is invading them rob reynolds Al Jazeera El paso. The nobel literature prize winner Toni Morrison has died aged 88 in new york roslyn jordan expect the authors life and her legacy