in the same category whereas if you get take a caucasian actress you have the ones who are the teens in their NUMBER_TOKENs NUMBER_TOKENs NUMBER_TOKENs NUMBER_TOKENs and they're all different even while reading the explained edition of tom's coons mulatto's mammies and books by donald bogle while many of her contemporaries like nia long taraji p henson and megan good are indexed in the book she is notably and glaringly absent which makes no sense because literally daddy's little girls is in the index so clearly he is familiar with gabrielle union's ubra none of this is to say that gabrielle uden shouldn't be proud of her career and the amazing look she has served she has worked to be an ally in the lgbt community she has a great sense of dignity she has been in iconic works but in my opinion she has also not been allowed to show off her full potential because we don't have a lot of room for these personalities in black hollywood yet and when we do get room for those personalities and for that talent it goes to let her skin black women first that needs to change and we need to stop being cowards and to put gabrielle unions in the same kind of roles that we would give talented sexy mischievous women she could absolutely do that caliber of work and while we're addressing this in just big old hollywood let's just talk about black hollywood as well because it has its own issues with not allowing multiple dark-skinned women to be in a project and not being inherently competitive PROFANITY_TOKEN okay every girl's got a little bit of hoe in them but connie she's a different kind of hoe i never the system loves to rotate just a handful of black folks at once we are asking women of color to be trail blazers for others without being able to actually bask in the glow of their own career without being allowed to be fully comfortable in their own lives of having to wear multiple hats direct right and not just be an actress this is such a different kind of video than what i usually do so you might be asking why why gabriel union why this topic and as yara so eloquently put it in the first part of this video she was part of a moment a part of a tangible moment of this girl this woman has something special that's why she was put in so many movies she catches your eye she's inviting she's charming she's she's evocative still there was this inability to allow her to fully go beyond those small moments gabrielle union like i said before should absolutely be proud of all the work she has done but it's also deeply worth acknowledging how despite being so popular in the cultural nexus she was still smothered and underserved by an industry that knew she was special what's more is that ultimately that hasn't changed we have seen countless black women especially darker skinned one be mistreated be marginalized and actively undervalued all the praise for nicole buhari but where are her leading lady roles post miss june teen kiki lane was ungodly amazing and if bale street could talk and carry that movie on her back but since
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