tragically colored

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"So many people had pointed out to me that as black girl in Canada it was great just to see my face..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 01:50:17 -0400

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So many people had pointed out to me that as black girl in Canada it was great just to see my face on the screen and so I continued on.

Recently I had a conversation with a filmmaker in Canada who had worked with me while I was on Degrassi and he unfortunately confirmed to me the feelings that I had always had but never wanted to admit to. Degrassi had an issue with my race. He told me how the writers and producers had no intentions of developing the story lines of a black female character unless it was to enhance the story of one of their other white characters. They had some plans for some of the other black characters on the show but their ideas were only to cover the usual stereotypes that we see of people of color on television - teen pregnancy, petty theft, basketball, broken family homes etc and he usually had to fight with them to think out of the box with those characters to not have them go down the road of the usual cliches. He told me to get them to do the one major story line that my character had was like pulling teeth and after a few more years of working on the show he had to leave because of the blatant hierarchy system that they had in place and he couldn’t work with people who didn’t share the same beliefs.

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- - A REAL conversation about Degrassi, Andrea Lewis (Hazel)

A lot of truth there guys.

I recommend reading her entire post here:

http://missandrealewis.com/2013/03/28/new-post-a-real-conversation-about-degrassi-tbt/

If I wasn’t before, I’m now officially done watching this show.

(via suburrrbanwaste)

havent watched it since andrea and her peers were on. good riddance. (via native-detroiter)

Welp…..

(via kyssthis16)

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muchadoaboutmusicals: The Original Broadway Cast of Disney’s...

Fri, 24 May 2013 00:28:59 -0400

muchadoaboutmusicals:

The Original Broadway Cast of Disney’s The Lion King

Mufasa :: Sarabi :: Young Nala and Simba :: Simba :: Nala:: Rafiki :: Pumba and Timon :: Zazu :: Scar :: The Hyenas (Ed, Shenzi, and Banzai)

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Alain Delon, 1963

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Alain Delon, 1963

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Diaspora Hypertext: NEWS: Harvard to Digitize 18th and 19th Century Anti-Slavery Petitions

Thu, 23 May 2013 22:00:14 -0400

Diaspora Hypertext: NEWS: Harvard to Digitize 18th and 19th Century Anti-Slavery Petitions:

jmjohnso:

Reblogged from African Diaspora, Ph.D.:

The Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University is digitizing eighteenth and nineteenth-century anti-slavery petitions:

“…Included in the thousands of petitions are first-person accounts of former slaves and…

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friend: there's a life outside the internet

Thu, 23 May 2013 19:58:44 -0400

friend: there's a life outside the internet
me: send me the link

lovelyandbrown: soul glow.

Thu, 23 May 2013 18:58:45 -0400

lovelyandbrown:

soul glow.

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People wild the fuck out on that site. I think I’m mostly on it now for the thirst of these...

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:48:46 -0400

People wild the fuck out on that site. I think I’m mostly on it now for the thirst of these white men and the comic relief it brings to my otherwise boring ass summer

I’ve had worse. This other one sent me a really bad poem. Everybody else asks for naked...

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:47:00 -0400

I’ve had worse. This other one sent me a really bad poem. Everybody else asks for naked picture.

This is the struggle that is my life. T.T

RIGHT?! that’s okcupid for you. He’s probably looking for somebody to have a...

Wed, 22 May 2013 23:27:13 -0400

RIGHT?!

that’s okcupid for you. He’s probably looking for somebody to have a threesome with him and his wife.

I’m good.