Never forget absolutely as heartbreaking disturbing and tragic as it is, we must never forget...💜🙏🏾😔

Absolutely Beautiful, Powerful, WORK OF ART.

What good is never forgetting what happened if we never know and understand Why it happened.

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@Umbuko DaJuko Even if that's true, what's that got to do with anything? That's just hate speach!

we don't mind south africans playing us.....we have common culture.....almost same social issues.

@@kametwodaabe471 Yeah, I agree. And we don't mind African Americans playing us either.

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@🦋✨Pretty Kayladoll✨🦋 why not a South African since we also went through oppression?

@🦋✨Pretty Kayladoll✨🦋 Why not cast an American since it was shot in Georgia of all places, in the heart of slavery country.

What does Thuso Mbedu mean?

@@starter47990 Mbedu is a surname. You will have to find someone who speaks ancient undiluted swahili for that . Thuso is Sesotho language meaning Help (Rescue) .

How ironic her name means rescue and she does not even know it .

*_“The Underground Railroad” has been shut out of the 2021 Emmy Awards. After receiving seven nominations, including recognition for showrunner Barry Jenkins (Outstanding Directing for a Limited Series) and the series overall (Outstanding Limited Series), the Amazon Prime Video original lost all seven categories over two weekends of Emmy presentations."_*

For setting us back another 100 years

Thxs for fabricating fake history.

But Americans have been telling all our historic stories like for ever and even when they butcher our languages we try to look only for positives . I think it's only fair that people learn to share hey

I think shes doing remarkable,but no doubt if an African American had portrayed this character it would have come from a different place a place of familiarity. I'll still give props where they are due!

@@ladydiaspora807 Maybe maybe not. There didn't seem to be anything lacking in her ability to portray the character. The Artist behind the work saw the character in her. Familiarity doesn't mean the person more "familiar" can be the character needing to be poryrayed. Ideally, and ideologically, I agree. But the Reality is what matters.

@Londiwe Princess, I'm going to recharacterize your statement to not characterize "All Americans" but to say ' All you Americans who have a problem with a person from South Africa portraying the story of a person or people living an historically American experience.' I see people as the people or person they are. People are not continents, countries, colors, to me e.g., African -American, African, South African, Nigerian, Black. Although I do recognize and respect where a person is from, as part of their cultural identity. People are Who they are as a person more so than where they are from. This was a beautiful and powerful piece of story telling art. It takes all kinds of people to tell "Our" collective and individual stories. Thuso played her part in our story splendidly and powerfully. May Yah watch over and protect her as she sojourns with us in this land.

Because she is South African, the South Africans commenting here think that Black Americans have a specific problem with Thuso Mbedu playing the lead role in The Underground Railroad. But that isn't accurate. Nobody hates little Thuso. We don't even know anything about her, or South African actors in general, except for Charlize Theron. Rather the pushback is over the practice of casting almost all of the major roles in Black American stories with foreigners, some of whom are rude and dismissive about the very people they are portraying. In The Underground Railroad, ALL of the major roles are cast with foreign actors, even the white ones, with the exception of William Jackson Harper and the child actor Chase Dillon. One wonders why they bothered to shoot it in the US at all. While the acting may be good on an intellectual level, and white people neither care nor can tell the difference, Black Americans do feel the lack of authenticity deeply. Africans and African immigrants tend to be very naive about the depth and complexity of white American racism. They don't understand that undermining Black Americans is a deliberate strategy, and that many of the perpetrators are Black themselves. Attacking Black Americans as being "xenophobic" plays right into their hands.

My thought right there. Our history is not only made up of Slavery.

Feel ya cuz poor some salt in

Yet Biden wrote the 94 Crime Bill that mass incarcerated black people however Trump's First Step act released alot of black people out of Prison but 🍊 man bad

​@@Christ_warrior707 but we can agree that the miniseries is great though

@@carljcreighton off course

you play the zombie....

Yikes.. omg that would be scary

What would you title that one?

I liked underground,however this show artistically and visually is stunning.

@@ladydiaspora807 that is really good. it would have been nice if that artistically and visually storytelling been on a topic that wasnt recently covered. understand? we JUST had a great show about the underground railroad. did we really need another one? all that artistry would have been directed towards a story we havent had on screen. since they're so obsessed with black traumas they could have easily chosen another story of freedom, redemption, sacrifice, struggle, martyrdom, etc.

@Record Lock Box It’s more than a trend, it’s an erasure, as if we not ALL HERE. They filmed this in Georgia, yet the You could only cast ONE Black American lead?

How many Americans have played roles of African heros?

@@lindodludla2383 LOUDER!!!!!!!

Jennifer Hudson played Winnie Mandela Mandela too was played bu black American but we never complained. Go Thuso , you did a great job baby girl.

@@sandisiwemtsha4163 And NO ONE is saying that’s okay, I’m just saying we have a country full of Black Americans. Yet they are filming in Georgia, and the cast is mostly Continental African Brits? This is not simply about casting Black people for particular roles, this is also about the industry outsourcing Black folks to tell particular stories for particular reasons.

But.. But... Your actors have played our icons and we don't complain. Nelson Mandela was played by Morgan Freeman, Steven Biko was played by Denzel Washington, Winnie Mandela was played by Jennifer Hudson and the list goes on and on. In fact, our heros are always payed by black Americans. You are xenophobic and it's disgusting.

From witch Continent came your ancestors???😴

@@africanandproud6792 What paved the way for who Black Americans is the ones that paved the way for all Africans and All of African descent ppl

2 migrate 2 America(USA) we fought and die for y’all and in return y’all turn y’all nose up at us so have us that xenophobic L.A.C.

@@TheClaudiaa11 Our Ancestors did came from a place y’all help sell y’all own ppl WE ARE FOUNDATIONAL BLACK AMERICANS DOACS B1

Agreed. Jenkins' ancestors were not British or South African. How does this productions honor them?

“We are Africans in America” Now tell me why would they take black Americans?

@@snayemdubu2988 The characters in The Underground Railroad are Black Americans, not Africans. White Americans NEVER refer to themselves as Europeans in America, even the children of first generation immigrants like Donald Trump. (Excuse me for invoking his cursed name, but I hope you get my point.)

Our South African Icons are always played Black Americans and we don't complain. Nelson Mandela, Steve Biko, Winnie Mandela. At the end of the day we are all Africans. Xenophobic much ????

Fabricating fake history to make entertainers become millionaires.

It’s getting better

No, don't boycott this movie or others like it. The history needs to be told to be remembered in order to effect change for the better. Yes, the history of how the Native Americans, Chinese, Japanese, and all other people who have been marginalized, discriminated against, persecuted, and abused should be told and needs to be told as well, for the exact same reasons. It's best when the story is told by someone of the same culture so the truth doesn't get watered down. Hopefully Mr Jenkins' film will inspire others to create those stories you, I and other people of color want to see.

@Gisselle ST A great historical fiction movie is 'Black Robe'. It takes place in Canada (1634), and has Algonquin and Iroquois native Americans as central to the story. There are all types of historical fiction movies regarding indigenous American tribes (even as recent as 'Hostiles' with Wesley Studi/Cherokee lineage). Remember this gem that no on ever seems to mention, however. EVERYTHING (to some degree or another) ever perpetuated against Native Americans had been done by European colonizers to African lands, tribes, and peoples, before, during, and after the first European ever killed or enslaved a indigenous/native American. Africa is at least three times the landmass of the continental contiguous U.S., and everything European powers & colonizers did throughout the Americas to subjugate, take from, and annihilate Native Americans, the same type of attrocities were perputated by Europeans vying for control of resources throughout continental Africa. Most just have no knowledge of that or were never taught, nor looked into, that European colonial history as it pertains to Africa. Anyway, definitely check out 'Black Robe' if you're seriously interested in a great historical fiction movie regarding Native Americans.

I wanna see a movie how the US government forced white people to fight & die for the republicans to free the slaves.

Who is stopping Chinese and Indians from telling their own stories???