Children of Blood and Bone Casting Controversy - Colorism? No Nigerians in the Cast? WHAT?! [bWMa8XbjCER]
The casting for Tomi Adeyemi's Best Selling 2018 young adult novel Children of Blood and Bone came out this week and people have thoughts and feelings, per usual. The casting was met with criticism that ran the gamut from accusations of colorism when it comes to the erasure of dark skinned Black women to concern over terrible "African" accents right to there being no "real" Nigerians in the cast. Some of this feedback is warranted, some of it is not and that's what we'll be talking about in today's video. #colorism #childrenofbloodandbone #hollywood 0:00 intro 1:00 ‼️SPOILER ALERT‼️ 1:52 why are people mad? 1:59 colorism 3:04 my thoughts as a Nigerian... American 4:48 themes in Children of Blood and Bone 9:16 location of the filming 12:13 colorism in casting versus characters in the book 13:22 history of Amandla Stenberg casting controversies 16:01 honest thoughts about colorism in casting in this movie 19:24 horribly offensive African accents 22:39 can we give them the benefit of the doubt 23:47 lack of "real" Nigerians in casting 31:43 keep having these conversations 32:33 erasure of monracial dark skinned Black women is REAL 33:44 in closing