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From The Huffington Post
Another really big reason “Black Panther” is going to be an emotional roller coaster is the number of dark-skinned black women who were cast front and center for this film.
It doesn’t seem like it would be a big deal, but it is, especially considering the uncomfortable relationship that we — black people both here and abroad, even in the motherland — have with the insidious force known as colorism.
Colorism is defined as the discrimination, bias or prejudice leveled against folks with darker skin tones. And that phenomenon usually occurs among folks of the same racial or ethnic background. Even brown-skinned people, who fall somewhere in the middle of the spectrum from light-skinned and dark-skinned, are not spared from colorism.
This is why “Black Panther” is sort of an anomaly. Based on everything we know about colorism, who it affects, and what exactly feeds into it, we wouldn’t expect that many (or really any) dark-skinned and brown-skinned actresses would appear in “Black Panther.”
And yet there are. And here’s why it matters:
‘Black Panther’ goes out of its way to cast dark-skinned women in every single role that calls for a woman — including the love interest.
Dark-skinned and brown-skinned black women are abundant in the movie. You can see it in the background characters, the promotional material and in the much talked about Dora Milaje - an elite team of female bodyguards that defer to our good King T'Challa played by Chadwick Boseman. And every single significant speaking role has been cast with a dark-skinned or brown skinned actress...
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/black-panther-is-ready-to-take-dark-skinned-actresses-and-colorism-seriously_us_5a7a090ce4b0d0ef3c0a2049
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