Bad mouthing Halle

Often in many pro black blogs, Halle Berry and Alicia Keys will get bad mouthed. Usually its because white society looks at them as if they should be the ideal black beauty. Mostly biracials tend to be looked at as the Hollywood black representation along with light skinned black women.

In many of these pro-black websites, it seems like it is their duty to try to downgrade and insult these women as much as possible.

In fact it gets so downright hateful that one can't help but ask if their hostility is so great because of jealousy and that tearing these girls down with people of like minded opinions about them makes them feel better about themselves.

Some of the most contradictory stuff I have seen is many saying Halle isn't black and saying she is loved because she is half white, while also saying she is a black person but insulting her for the fact that they feel she isn't pretty...because of her skin color.

According to the bad mouthers white see Halle as exoctic and "safe" because she is light skinned. Its obvious what blacks, especially dark skinned blacks, think of Halle, most think she is less than.

They discredit her for being light skinned and then they discredit her by one-dropping her (even if Halle considers herself black, the way blacks one-drop her is more out of hate than anything else).

Halle bashing can also be found in the form of Beyonce bashing, and etc. I don't care much for Halle's acting or Beyonce's singing (I prefer her Destiny's Child ways), but it is irritating how they get bashed for simply not being dark enough. They use that as an excuse to rail on her for everything.

Its a sad way to uplift yourself. But what is sad is that the bashers try to guise it as them criticizing Hollywood for using light skinned blacks. Should we forget that the very first black woman to ever win an Oscar for anything, happened to be dark skinned?

I've always looked at it like this, as long as they had a positive type of black woman on the show, what difference did it make if she was biracial, light skinned black, or dark skinned black?

But the way many blacks (men and women) bad mouth Halle gets so venomous. It goes from just being about her lack of talent in acting, to rumors about her being crazy, to her beauty being so horrible and that dark skinned blacks are better than her in terms of acting and beauty. No doubt that there are some, but to say it as if she is the ugliest on earth. It truly does make one think they either have problems with her skin tone only or they are just flat out jealous.

I don't know if the colorism issue is just in some peoples heads or not. But using it and Hollywood as an excuse to bash someone for something she had no control over is no more right than white people bashing the entire black race for the actions of a few.

One user who was sick of seeing the teardown defended both women by saying they are successful which is more than any of critic can say. That alone makes us all jealous and prone to bashing celebrities, especially when they have money and still foul up (and get let off the hook because of it). One user had even got sexist, castigating Halle for sleeping around, giving no fault to the men (its typical that guys do the whole "blame the women for what the men should be blamed for too"). She showed how unreasonable and hateful people are being by insulting her for perceived reasons that they cannot prove.

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