OT:Potential Black Bond Girl:Actress Naomie Harris

 Thought, I'd share, as I posted this in another forum i belong to....

I hope she gets it, she's a great actress. Grace Jones was a joke, Halle Berry was good, but Naomie Harris as a Bond, not being light skinned or bi-racial would be speaking volumes to the world about the "other shades darker than a paper bag".

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Bad pic of her, but she was in that Ninja Assasins, 28 days later & Pirates of the Carribbean 2

Not a bond fan but I would love to see a worthy sister get the roll.  I liked he in pirates.  Fingers crossed. 

I have been watching 007 since I was a teenager and still am a fan.  Since I am paper bag brown I never thought about the impact darker shades could make in the bond watching world.  I come from varied shades of darker black, not bi-racial so we love it all.  However the non-black population have different ideas and need darker exposure.  Just as a side point.  I do have bi-racial grandchildren that I love. 

I  watch them on  occassion & if she gets the part,  I will definately watch this installment.   On my maternal side,  both her parents  were light skinned &t so is she & most of her siblings.  my dad is dark, so one of my sisters is a few shades darker then the rest of us.  The stigma of being dark skinned is not only in the non black population, but in our own as well, especially if you are femaile.  

Do you know there are black people that still adhere to the "paper bag" test for  their children's potential mates ?  

Color struck black folks is the 800 lb gorilla in the room we don't talk about.  Protecting your kids from it is a ***** on wheels.  We should have left this crap behind in the 50's. 

In school some kids told my daughter I could not be her mom because she passes the bag test but I don't.  Or how about how the dark skinned child may be the prettiest baby in the room yet no one singles this little one out as the beauty. 

Its as though ignorance and self loathing are on the rise.  In the 21st century and we still can't get past the brown bag test. 

Thanks for calling out that black/brown/yellow/red/half-white-half black elephant in the room MSW!!  You'd think that we as a people would have evolved enough by now to appreciate someone of "color" irregardless of their origin.  Who amongst us is "pure" in our origin anyway?  Somewhere down the line, we're all mixed in with something.  She's talented no matter where her roots branch from!  I hope she get the role.

Just my mixed .02 cents worth of thoughts!

J

i love james bond movies and the music!!!! they could have given grace jones a better part but hopefully this young lady will set the stage! she was great in the movies shes been in!

Grace had color, but she was over the top- out there- like Eartha Kitt.  Speaking of which, this girl's face reminds me of Eartha.

I love Bond (and most spy/action movies).  I hope this girl brings it and represents..

It just came back to me, that my sister was tripping about a year ago, saying that she seriously wished my niece was darker (she is currently a little lighter than me).   Ain't that a twist???   Reasoning behind this is because her hubby & son are dark skinned & she felt bad that her son wasn't light!  My sister who I referred to earlier jumped on her about that & I co-signed, as with parent's of great differences in skin tones, a child is bound to favor in color each different end of the spectrum,  as it did my parents & with her family. So my other sister, reminded her of what she went through w/her issues  & she should thank God, that it was her son that came out dark, as boys don't have the complexion issues that girls have.    Even my dark skinned sister, who's husband is light skinned ( & who's parental pairing & offspring are similar to mine)  has2 boys, that favor ea*****omplexion.


Amazingly, There are several non-white cultures that have this same issues w/skin complexion.   

Now thats sad.  It can really mess a kid up. 

Western culture worked hard to villify and dehumanize Black people to gain support for kidnapping and enslavement.  They took this sentiment with them with colonialism.  The stigma runs deep and crosses cultures.  

People can cut themselves loose one mind at a time.  We have to actively love ourselves and dispense with the self loathing that permits us to value our children based on our battle scars over color.  

I agree we can be any shade in the spectrum.  In have yet to meet an extended Black family without both light and dark folks in the mix.  I have cousins one very light, one very dark, with two brown parents.  Each is the shade of a grand parent.  

High school buddies and I traveled frequently with our kids.  In spite of kids that look esactly like us, even Black folks would decide all the dark skinned kids were mine and my daughter belonged to another. 

Will we ever get a clue?  I won't even go into the hair...