Anyone familiar with the brilliant rising star Yara Shahidi knows that she is both proud of her Iranian and Black heritage and a champion of #BlackGirlMagic. So when a Twitter troll made a below-the-belt comment about her “racial ambiguity”, Yara did the Grown-ish thing by pivoting this negative moment towards the bigger issue of colorism in entertainment.
A Twitter user by the name of Chick Norris tweeted her reason for not watching the Black-ish spinoff Grown-ish, which follows Zoey (played by Yara) on her journey through college. “Ima pass on grown-ish like i passed on black-ish,” she writes. “How is it that a spinoff only occurs when the oldest daughter is racially ambiguous?”
ima pass on grown-ish like i passed on black-ish.
how is it that a spinoff only occurs when the oldest daughter is racially ambiguous?