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    Default Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman

    Harriet Tubman Descendant Reacts to News That Julia Roberts Was Suggested for Role

    A relative of Harriet Tubman reacted to the story shared by Harriet screenwriter Gregory Allen Howard in which a Hollywood executive in the '90s suggested casting Julia Roberts as the woman who freed countless slaves. Tubman's great-great-great-grandniece Tina Wyatt told TMZ that the mere suggestion that a white woman play Tubman is incredibly disrespectful and went on to say that the black community would not stand for a whitewashed version of Tubman's story.

    "What do you think would have happened?" Wyatt said. "You would have had a boycott." See her full response below:

    News of that long-ago meeting and the bad ideas Howard deftly avoided in the long process of getting Harriet made came to light in a piece Q&A with Howard for Focus Features. The writer behind Remember the Titans and Ali said that “the climate in Hollywood…was very different” when he first began pitching Tubman's story. He said the executive doubled down on the choice of Roberts, saying the public wouldn't know Tubman was not white because the story was about 150 years in the past.

    “I was told how one studio head said in a meeting, ‘This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman,'” Allen said. “When someone pointed out that Roberts couldn’t be Harriet, the executive responded, ‘It was so long ago. No one is going to know the difference.'”

    Another typical white racist mofo who think Blacks don't know their history.

    I posted this because of sailor's comment. He thinks Blacks are too stupid to know their history as well. The racist bitch said BLACKS OWNED SLAVES IN WHITE AMERICA. Only racist fools such as himself, believes that.

    When you vote republican, this is what you support.

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    "One of the most vexing questions in African-American history is whether free African Americans themselves owned slaves. The short answer to this question, as you might suspect, is yes, of course; some free black people in this country bought and sold other black people, and did so at least since 1654, continuing to do so right through the Civil War. For me, the really fascinating questions about black slave-owning are how many black "masters" were involved, how many slaves did they own and why did they own slaves?"
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    Quote Originally Posted by TTQ64 View Post
    Harriet Tubman Descendant Reacts to News That Julia Roberts Was Suggested for Role

    A relative of Harriet Tubman reacted to the story shared by Harriet screenwriter Gregory Allen Howard in which a Hollywood executive in the '90s suggested casting Julia Roberts as the woman who freed countless slaves. Tubman's great-great-great-grandniece Tina Wyatt told TMZ that the mere suggestion that a white woman play Tubman is incredibly disrespectful and went on to say that the black community would not stand for a whitewashed version of Tubman's story.

    "What do you think would have happened?" Wyatt said. "You would have had a boycott." See her full response below:

    News of that long-ago meeting and the bad ideas Howard deftly avoided in the long process of getting Harriet made came to light in a piece Q&A with Howard for Focus Features. The writer behind Remember the Titans and Ali said that “the climate in Hollywood…was very different” when he first began pitching Tubman's story. He said the executive doubled down on the choice of Roberts, saying the public wouldn't know Tubman was not white because the story was about 150 years in the past.

    “I was told how one studio head said in a meeting, ‘This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman,'” Allen said. “When someone pointed out that Roberts couldn’t be Harriet, the executive responded, ‘It was so long ago. No one is going to know the difference.'”

    Another typical white racist mofo who think Blacks don't know their history.

    I posted this because of sailor's comment. He thinks Blacks are too stupid to know their history as well. The racist bitch said BLACKS OWNED SLAVES IN WHITE AMERICA. Only racist fools such as himself, believes that.

    When you vote republican, this is what you support.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TTQ64 View Post
    Harriet Tubman Descendant Reacts to News That Julia Roberts Was Suggested for Role

    A relative of Harriet Tubman reacted to the story shared by Harriet screenwriter Gregory Allen Howard in which a Hollywood executive in the '90s suggested casting Julia Roberts as the woman who freed countless slaves. Tubman's great-great-great-grandniece Tina Wyatt told TMZ that the mere suggestion that a white woman play Tubman is incredibly disrespectful and went on to say that the black community would not stand for a whitewashed version of Tubman's story.

    "What do you think would have happened?" Wyatt said. "You would have had a boycott." See her full response below:

    News of that long-ago meeting and the bad ideas Howard deftly avoided in the long process of getting Harriet made came to light in a piece Q&A with Howard for Focus Features. The writer behind Remember the Titans and Ali said that “the climate in Hollywood…was very different” when he first began pitching Tubman's story. He said the executive doubled down on the choice of Roberts, saying the public wouldn't know Tubman was not white because the story was about 150 years in the past.

    “I was told how one studio head said in a meeting, ‘This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman,'” Allen said. “When someone pointed out that Roberts couldn’t be Harriet, the executive responded, ‘It was so long ago. No one is going to know the difference.'”

    Another typical white racist mofo who think Blacks don't know their history.

    I posted this because of sailor's comment. He thinks Blacks are too stupid to know their history as well. The racist bitch said BLACKS OWNED SLAVES IN WHITE AMERICA. Only racist fools such as himself, believes that.

    When you vote republican, this is what you support.
    Feel free to prove me wrong TTQ. Feel free to prove that blacks in this country were not slave owners. Until then, wannabe African, shut the fuck up. And stop making black people look stupid. Just because you and relatively small group of blacks in this country are ignorant, it certainly does not mean a majority of the other are.

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    "In a fascinating essay reviewing this controversy, R. Halliburton shows that free black people have owned slaves "in each of the thirteen original states and later in every state that countenanced slavery," at least since Anthony Johnson and his wife Mary went to court in Virginia in 1654 to obtain the services of their indentured servant, a black man, John Castor, for life."

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    Quote Originally Posted by TTQ64 View Post
    Harriet Tubman Descendant Reacts to News That Julia Roberts Was Suggested for Role

    A relative of Harriet Tubman reacted to the story shared by Harriet screenwriter Gregory Allen Howard in which a Hollywood executive in the '90s suggested casting Julia Roberts as the woman who freed countless slaves. Tubman's great-great-great-grandniece Tina Wyatt told TMZ that the mere suggestion that a white woman play Tubman is incredibly disrespectful and went on to say that the black community would not stand for a whitewashed version of Tubman's story.

    "What do you think would have happened?" Wyatt said. "You would have had a boycott." See her full response below:

    News of that long-ago meeting and the bad ideas Howard deftly avoided in the long process of getting Harriet made came to light in a piece Q&A with Howard for Focus Features. The writer behind Remember the Titans and Ali said that “the climate in Hollywood…was very different” when he first began pitching Tubman's story. He said the executive doubled down on the choice of Roberts, saying the public wouldn't know Tubman was not white because the story was about 150 years in the past.

    “I was told how one studio head said in a meeting, ‘This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman,'” Allen said. “When someone pointed out that Roberts couldn’t be Harriet, the executive responded, ‘It was so long ago. No one is going to know the difference.'”

    Another typical white racist mofo who think Blacks don't know their history.

    I posted this because of sailor's comment. He thinks Blacks are too stupid to know their history as well. The racist bitch said BLACKS OWNED SLAVES IN WHITE AMERICA. Only racist fools such as himself, believes that.

    When you vote republican, this is what you support.
    A did you know moment.
    Did you know that the person that made the above suggestion for aJulia Roberts is a black liberal? Just view his tweets.

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    didn't a black guy play Aaron Burr?......
    Isaiah 6:5
    “Woe to me!” I cried. “I am ruined! For I am a man of unclean lips, and I live among a people of unclean lips, and my eyes have seen the King, the Lord Almighty.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sailor View Post
    Feel free to prove me wrong TTQ. Feel free to prove that blacks in this country were not slave owners. Until then, wannabe African, shut the fuck up. And stop making black people look stupid. Just because you and relatively small group of blacks in this country are ignorant, it certainly does not mean a majority of the other are.
    I'm afraid TTQ was brought up on a cotton plantation in Downtown L.A., separate drinking fountains, forced to ride in the back of the bus, and of course, wasn't allowed to eat with white people at McDonalds.

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    Quote Originally Posted by PostmodernProphet View Post
    didn't a black guy play Aaron Burr?......
    Lol

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    Quote Originally Posted by TTQ64 View Post
    Harriet Tubman Descendant Reacts to News That Julia Roberts Was Suggested for Role

    A relative of Harriet Tubman reacted to the story shared by Harriet screenwriter Gregory Allen Howard in which a Hollywood executive in the '90s suggested casting Julia Roberts as the woman who freed countless slaves. Tubman's great-great-great-grandniece Tina Wyatt told TMZ that the mere suggestion that a white woman play Tubman is incredibly disrespectful and went on to say that the black community would not stand for a whitewashed version of Tubman's story.

    "What do you think would have happened?" Wyatt said. "You would have had a boycott." See her full response below:

    News of that long-ago meeting and the bad ideas Howard deftly avoided in the long process of getting Harriet made came to light in a piece Q&A with Howard for Focus Features. The writer behind Remember the Titans and Ali said that “the climate in Hollywood…was very different” when he first began pitching Tubman's story. He said the executive doubled down on the choice of Roberts, saying the public wouldn't know Tubman was not white because the story was about 150 years in the past.

    “I was told how one studio head said in a meeting, ‘This script is fantastic. Let’s get Julia Roberts to play Harriet Tubman,'” Allen said. “When someone pointed out that Roberts couldn’t be Harriet, the executive responded, ‘It was so long ago. No one is going to know the difference.'”

    Another typical white racist mofo who think Blacks don't know their history.

    I posted this because of sailor's comment. He thinks Blacks are too stupid to know their history as well. The racist bitch said BLACKS OWNED SLAVES IN WHITE AMERICA. Only racist fools such as himself, believes that.

    When you vote republican, this is what you support.
    The story about Julia Roberts was fake.
    Yes, Sailor is a retard, but he's right about this. Free Blacks did own black slaves in White America. So did Jews and Native Americans.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jack View Post
    "One of the most vexing questions in African-American history is whether free African Americans themselves owned slaves. The short answer to this question, as you might suspect, is yes, of course; some free black people in this country bought and sold other black people, and did so at least since 1654, continuing to do so right through the Civil War. For me, the really fascinating questions about black slave-owning are how many black "masters" were involved, how many slaves did they own and why did they own slaves?"
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    "(The Root) — 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro No. 21: Did black people own slaves? If so, why?"

    The Root?

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    Quote Originally Posted by StoneByStone View Post
    The story about Julia Roberts was fake.
    Yes, Sailor is a retard, but he's right about this. Free Blacks did own black slaves in White America. So did Jews and Native Americans.
    Blow it out your ass mental midget. And find a damn job.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TTQ64 View Post
    The Root?
    If anyone posts anything more than a cartoon or something in crayon, you obviously could not understand it.

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    A bunch of pasty mouth-breathers using the strawman “Blacks owned slaves in white america” immediately invalidates any argument he has, as far as I’m concerned, but that seems to be the second most popular false narrative that gets tossed around after “But you SHOULD be protesting black on black crime in Chicago instead of blocking my traffic or disturbing my peace!”.


    The Root? Gates thought he was exempt because he voted republican and spews their hate. But they got his ass.



    Just like Gates......none of you racist fucks are credible.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Southern Chicken View Post
    A did you know moment.
    Did you know that the person that made the above suggestion for aJulia Roberts is a black liberal? Just view his tweets.

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    The President and the Pervert, the dead pervert. The Democrats should be having a field day with this—they're not. Why? Dems fight using Marquess of Queensbury Rules. Trump is a cage fighter. Dems need to get nasty to win.
    Nope, he was a white movie executive.....the writer of the script was Black.

    You mofo's always trying to weasel your way out of shit.

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