were the kids white?
i was lookin at fred williamson's character as well as his accountants character when they were still children. were they blackened to fit the role?
shareThey seemed black to me.
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This is the most ignorant thread starter I've seen on here yet.
I'm pretty sure that the kids were black, but that their voices were dubbed in with those of white actors.
shareOh come on. The younger versions of the Fred and friend were played by real life brothers. And they were not suppose to be mixed. Newsflash a lot of us black folks are light skinned and not mixed. Light skin and mixed are not synonymous. Fred''s characters father was played by Julius Harris and his mother was clearly a black woman too.
shareMany so called white features are apparent in african americans due to the systematic rape and mixture of lineage on plantations. Everyone is much more mixed in america than anyone wants to believe. Strom Thurmond?
shareVery true. All of a sudden some white people have come down with a serious case of selective memory and now they want to claim us and hijack us into the white race. But only the light skinned black people who are successful, smart and good looking. The rest of us are still n*gg*rs and the 2% rule still stand, no matter how light skinned you are.
shareWell the young Fred did look like someone of mixed race to me. I wouldn't be suprised if the actor was in fact half white.
"Why... so... serious?"
Because as a light skin BLACK person I am sick and tired of white folks and uninformed black folks trying to hijack black people into the white race. If you were olive skin and both of your parents were white and people started to say that you had to be half black you would be sick of it too, because that is not what you are. It is arrogant to assume a person something they are not and then insists they are if they tell you they are not. That is why so serious.
shareFirst of all, I AM NOT White, but of course not all light skinned people are mixed, being a person of color like myself who has many family members who are even lighter than the kid in this movie, I know better than that. However, I am still sticking to my opinion about the young Fred in the movie. I am usually good with guessing people's ethnicity. I'd say i'm right about this sort of thing 99% of the time. Now, unless the actor of himself has refuted this or there is some or there is some type of proof that both of his parents are black, I am sticking to my belief that he is half white or mixed with something other than black.
"Why... so... serious?"
Never said you were white. In the movie we know who the parents are and they are both black, Why even mention the kid looked like he had white in him. He looked like a black person to me. Why is there a assumption that every time a black person is lighter then Kunta Kinte they have to mixed with white? I am sick and tired of it. No one makes assumptions that white folks must have black in them if they are darker then Heidi Klum . It is a double standard and you have fed right into it. You want another reason why I'm so serious?
sharehahaha, okay let me give you a hand here, “why so serious” is Storm23S’s signature, a signature is a little quote or saying that people put at the end of ALL their posts, it has no relevance to the actual conversation, if you’re curious it’s The Joker’s catchphrase in The Dark Knight and that is why it’s in quotation marks, so basically Storm23S is NOT asking you why you’re being serious
shareTY for clearing that up. Ok I have to admit that even though I can get through Black Cesar and its sequel I could not get past the first 20 minutes of The Dark Knight. Believe me I have tried but every time I a fall asleep and it is over when I wake up. So perhaps I might be the only person in America who never saw the movie. Even though I am a Heath Ledger fan, and a Batman fan but I just could not get into this movie.
shareThe kid looked mixed to me.
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The actor who played "young Tommy" is Omer Jeffrey. He is in fact a biracial man. He's still very handsome and works as a Christian missionary.
I thought he did a great job in the role.
The young Tommy seemed to be played by a lighter skinned, maybe Black/Puerto-Rican mix. his lawyer friend (with the glasses) was definitely played by a black kid. The casting of the young Tommy didn't bother me because the actor was super good looking and charismatic, which makes the audience even angrier at the way he is beaten by that pig of a honky cop!
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