When I searched, I found these.
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When I searched, I found these.
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Alfred is the representation of a white person from a western nation and an Afro Brazilian having a child. That is why he is a good real life example. Again as a stated Black people across all ethnic groups have a variety of skin tones and hair texture varitaitons. In my family alone, we all are different complexions with all different hair textures.
When Monet 1st appeared, shw was light brown with full features & curlier hair. Starting GenX, she was tan eith smaller features before they made her darker.
So in GenX, she flip-flopped between caramel, brown, and chocolate. Despite the hair straightening, 97% of the time she was darker with more black features. But there were a few exceptions. Her father, brother, and sisters also had dark complexions.
Due to being on my phone, I can't really do images like I want. But I got into Monet's depiction in her thread. Post 21
https://community.cbr.com/showthread...ighlight=Monet
Actually he is very accurate when he says he didn't want Roberto to look African-American because slavered tribes sent to US and the ones sent to Brazil where not exactly the same.
Brazilian population is way more mixed too. So phenotype manifestation is not so easily predicted.
A genetic study of brazilian population shows how tricky a phenotype judgement in Brazil is:
96.7% African
2.1% European
1.1% Indigenous
67.1% European
31.5% African
1.4% Indigenous
So you can't take Harry Potter actor as a perfect example of a Brazilian mixed-race person, because it's very wide for definition.
When it was announced Fox was looking for a Brazilian actor for New Mutants, Micael Borges was indicated, because he looked like Roberto. So once again, Mcleod was not wrong:
And finally, Brazil is so big that we have huge diferences between regions.
We have states like Bahia where 78% of population is not white (black, brown and others) and others like Santa Catarina where 84% of population is white.
So the definition of what is considered black or how prejudice (that is huge problem in Brazil) manifests is very wide too.
Roberto being harassed in a elite club (100% white usually) for having a darker skin or for have a black father reflects very well the Brazilian reality.
It's sad that a artist like Bob McLeod who put so much effort to give distinctive and unique looking for each of the New Mutants is now suffering petty accusations.
Its not petty. Its asking him to do better. My thing is this.. The Black disapora is a thing. Black people are connected via chattel slavery from Africa to the Caribbean to both North and South America. Black people globally are connected regardless of what a white man thinks. And while Brazil has an unqiue history and people with very interesting looks. Lets not act like everyone African American looks exactly the same in the US. We also come in a variety of shades,colors, body types and hair textures. Thats all I am trying to say that there is not one uniform "African American" look. Hell the singer Ginuwine looks what I imagined an adult roberto would look like.. I also think it's telling that people would say Alfred enoch who has a Brazilian mother and speaks Portuguese is not Brazilian enough. Makes me wonder is it due to his coarse and beautifully kinky hair. And trust me, Black folk in America are aware of the antiblack racism in Brazil. We are in solidarity with Marielle Franco.
nah i wasn't saying that sorry for clunky sentence....just disappointed McLeod thought Bobby didn't look African American despite his "wavy hair"
buuut Dark skin and "wavy hair" isn't solely a mixed Brazilian feature. I shudder to think what he woulda came up had Bobby started out explicitly Black Brazilian
Duuuude my lil brother and I were so confused/excited when we saw Elisa's brother...we were like "Ohhhh Goliath is down with the interspecies/racial(?)! swirl!!!??!
lol
*weird we assigned Goliath a race.... untill that one episode they turned human *
all this and everything
Last edited by BroHomo; 08-17-2019 at 02:51 AM.
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