Backlash emerges behind Cynthia Erivo’s role in ‘Harriet’ | ABC News Live Prime

1. Gtfoh!!!!! Liberians were slaves in America!!!!!

2. Funny how the African Americans acted African roles in blank Panther. They even used our sacred culture but nobody made noise about it

3. I'm Ghanian🇬🇭🇬🇭

4. This is just a movie all movies are not accurate.Just because she is british they are making a lot of fuss…is just a movie if people are so worry about history go read the real history not watching a movie.And to be honest they are talking about experience?the real slaves are dead they had the real experience what is to be slave so if we wasting our times with this there are no movies.

5. They ain't no Ados.

6. This is a shame! Did Africans come out against Freedman playing Mandela or Washington playing Steve Biko? The black struggle is not confined only to America. It is unintellectual. 15 million Congolese were murdered by King Leopold so stolen African resources could prop up western civilization. Did African resources stop to benefit Western powers to this day? Over 5 million Congolese have been killed so we can have cheap coltan to fuel our digital age.

7. … "descendants of ENSLAVED people"… 09:40 … 09:50 …10:43 … NOTE: There is a huge connotation between the terms 'slaves' and 'enslaved people.' Let's "elevate" and bestow the true dignity onto these people, my ancestors … Thank you!

8. I like Cynthia and the fact you’re getting mad that she was casted to be Harriet Tubman you’re proving all of the white people right

9. This is NOT identity politics. Cynthia has made disparaging comments about African Americans. She wouldn't apologize. She is not fit to play Harriet.

10. These foreigners should not be playing Black Americans roles. Hell, even in my life experience, the police used to call us the "N" word to our face without a problem in the 70s and 80s. How many of these foreigners know about that? They don't because they were not here to live that.

11. People People, allow me to say this. Why do So Called black movie producers/ actors, do the the same O same O… every producer wants to tell their story about everything UNDER THE SUN ABOUT “” black experience “” in this country & around the world. The sad thing is, their always tracing our history back to being only slaves… has anyone asked the

    1.QUESTION: WHERE DID WE COME FROM BEFORE GOING INTO SLAVERY ? PLEASE DON’T SAY AFRICA…. IT WAS JERUSALEM!

    2. HOW DID WE IDENTIFY OURSELVES, AS A NATION OF PEOPLE? PLEASE DON’T SAY “”WE ARE AFRICANS, AFRICAN AMERICAN “”. STOP!

    3. IT IS OBVIOUS THAT SO-CALLED BLACKS ARE NOT AFRICANS…. SAME COLOR, BUT. A DIFFERENT NATION OF PEOPLE!

    4. WITH ALL THE TALENT, MONEY, THE SO- CALLED LEADERSHIP WE HAVE IN THE “”BLACK COMMUNITIES “” SO- CALLED SHEPHERDS OF OUR COMMUNITIES, THEY CAN”T LOOK INTO THE PAGES OF THE BIBLE AND IDENTIFY WHO WE ARE BACK THEN AND NOW?

    4. ALL THE OTHER NATIONS OF THE EARTH KNOW WHO WE ARE … EXCEPT US… YOU BLIND LEADERS.

    5 TO ALL THE “BLACKS IN THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY, FIND ANOTHER WAY TO START TELLING OUR PLIGHT IN THIS COUNTRY & AROUND THE WORLD , START FROM PIONT (A) TO THIS VERY DAY

    6. … BUT YOU WILL NOT, YOUR TOO AFRAID TO SPEAK UP, SO BUT AWAY YOUR SAME O SAME O PLAYED OUT HISTORY MOVIES, MY OPINION, ITS GETTING OLD, THERE IS NOTHING KNEW ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE DOING. . AS WE WATCH THESE MOVIES, WE CAN TELL WHATS GOING TO HAPPEN 30 MINUTES BEFORE EACH SCENE.. BLA , BLA, BLA, GET REAL INFO IF YOU CONTINUE TO TELL OUR HISTORY… Lol BROTHA, SISTA IM TALKING ABOUT ALL YOU MAJOR HITTERS, FROM THE SAME O SAME O MALCOM X MOVIES, MARTIN LUTHIER KING MOVIES., ECT.

    7 READ DEUTERONOMY 28 START FROM THERE… FOOD FOR YOUR THOUGHTS .

    8 I WOULD NOT WATCH THESE MOVIES IF YOU PAID ME, UNTIL YOU TELL THE WHOLE TRUTH & NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH

12. I think this is more of a cultural conversation than a racial issue (although the statistics about the discrepancies in African American vs African immigrant earnings is very important and based in racial bias). The cultural identity of a black American is different than someone who is a descendant of immigrants.I think it's an interesting conversation that should be had though.

13. She is still Black

14. Just because she is british doesn't mean anything. Y'all need to chill. She did awesome in that movie, if you have a problem with her then don't watch the movie otherwise shut up

15. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud0EH1eNA8s

16. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaNcxKOD2_o

17. They do not hire black Americans to play these roles because if we found out who we sre (The true Hebrews) we would no longer need them- and we never did!!

18. Media bias is disgusting…and poor journalism…

19. The point is…Racism and Reparations are not the same. We are talking specifically about Reparations. Pay the debt and the monies owed goes to ADOS. The end. That's it in a nutshell. # ADOS for life!

20. oh for fucks sake …. she was amazing in the role . .she IS an actress …. since when do actors or actresses need to be politically correct for a role ..
    she was beautiful in the role and brought the story to millions touching their hearts white and black .. this is bullshit ..
    she has done more for the awareness of black victims of slavery than people whining about their ancestory .. and self importance .. .
    I cried my eyes out at the movie … it made me once again realise how much suffering Black Americans went through .. thats what is important.
    For gods sake.

21. She suffers the same American racism. Case closed. When America says NIGGER trust me they mean her too. Her blood is African and we were African before we were AMERICAN. The problem is not Cynthia. Its white America, and its centuries, of RACISM. HeLL will be full of Racist, Americans from hundreds of years . So be careful.😇😇

22. I will never watch a movie where they replace us with Africans

23. 0:47 I am pissed. "Take my people with me. She is African, she is NOT my people a descendant of black Americans here before the Civil War.

24. There is a simple clarification here…when the Japenes recieved reperations they did not give it to the Chinese, the Koreans or the Vietnamese…they acknlodeged the Japanese and repaired what they had done to them during WWiI internment. Native Black Americans have never received the justice or respect deserved and other groups use our identity to benefit from a society that they did not create from the ground up. I have gone to Africa and the Caribean and frankly they can be more racist twords native black ADOS than whites once the arrive here. Itilians are not Irish, Japenese are not Chinese and Germans are not Jewish people. It's about heritage and legacy that us ADOS are arguing which is not anti-African Americans..but pro our 400+ years of oppression that has never been addressed. We are not "Anti" anyone who is from the African Diaspora…we are just Pro the acknolgement of our heritage just like Africans are rather they are from Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia ECT. Obama proved that an African American will not fight for native black rights because as long as he got access and was able to move his career forward there was no need to put a line in the sand to address native black ADOS issues….never again will ADOS fall for that!! NEVER AGAIN!!

25. No… not because she's British… but because she used white supremacist rhetoric against Black Americans. I can forgive that though. Because she just craves white accpetance and realized in order to get the glory and riches of a white person's world, specifically America, she must show proof of vitriol against Foundational Black Americans.

26. White people hate Black , black people hate other blacks. Now wtf do we really want? Pick one can’t have it both ways. Y’all over here treating your own people like this. What’s the difference between y’all and white supremacy. Man Imma head out

27. Did she apologize yet for her comments?

28. These folks are not stupid! They are cunningly disingenuous. Most are well aware that their personal experiences of prejudice, i.e., trying to get a cab is not the same as ADOS folks position as the multi-generational, “bottom caste” of America and world imperialism. They were in the same position in Europe, but chose to immigrate. They didn’t stay to struggle and die for their “just dues” from Europe. But chose to come here to USA. Here they sat back “in the cut”, often misrepresenting themselves on the path made by our ADOS struggle and sacrifices via Civil Right legislation. They understand very well as they continue to exploit the economic and social reasons they are preferred by USA White Supremacy. The likes of Osumsame and Erivo to me are dishonest, cunning ingrates! They didn’t come here looking to “integrate” with ADOS in any way as many ADOS folks sought to embrace them and their culture. I’m not hating it’s true! For instance, y’all know there are and always have been all sorts “high and low” churches on every corner in da hood. Tell me, how many “African born Africans” are members of any of them? They have their own churches and they don’t usually live among us. Heck! White undertakers even bury their dead!

29. Africans dont like creole people, they think they are better than us. We are brothers no doubt but there is a difference ,when you are 400 years out of your continent and everything been taken of you, from your name to your religion everything, if you dont see that like this guys than you are part of the problem like every white person that says get over slavery etc cause its been a while since it was abolished

30. This should and can only be played by an african American period. With all do respect Africans never experienced slavery.

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