Out of context Iyanla

@NeeNeeNichelle @Manspiration @YallLuvCris I brought Winnie up before you did and brought it back because you asked me to rehash the same point I opened with. Bringing up sales is similar to studios arguing for paying non-Americans less or casting for the European market—commercial logic doesn’t make it right.

@iyanlanocontext @Manspiration @YallLuvCris -I literally said Winnie and Nelson 🙄 -Last King of Scotland Was a British/Scottish production from 20 years ago FOR SALES! What high profile Black actors could have pulled those numbers in 2006?? - Hotel Rwanda 🇺🇸 - Invictus 🇺🇸 Both over 15 years ago, so where's the trend?

Saying this after you literally played a Tuskegee airman and Martin Luther King is wild lol

@NeeNeeNichelle @Manspiration @YallLuvCris So you’re telling stories about my people, casting your people in those roles, and somehow you don’t think that’s just as bad (or worse) than what you accuse them of doing to your people?

@iyanlanocontext @Manspiration @YallLuvCris So AMERICAN actors in AMERICAN films? Groundbreaking! Show me where YOU'RE COUNTRIES outsourced YOUR STORIES to us please. And the trend bc like I said once or twice is different from this clear trend

@NeeNeeNichelle @Manspiration @YallLuvCris Denzel as Steve Biko in Cry Freedom, Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland, Viola Davis in The Woman King, Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela in Invictus

@iyanlanocontext @Manspiration @YallLuvCris Which African stories? I recently learned of Terrance Howard and I think Jennifer Hudson as Winnie& Nelson Mandela, that was pretty whack. What else?

@Hosang @I_am_Fred1 @chunhang7 Link me to it.

@iyanlanocontext @I_am_Fred1 @chunhang7 FotMob

Are people for real saying Gordon has more ability than Rashford? I get the work rate, and pressing. Never was Rashford's strengths. But technical ability, Rashford is a unicorn of a player. You won't see Gordon bang in knuckleball freekicks that's for sure.

@NeeNeeNichelle @Manspiration @YallLuvCris You didn’t bring up any of these. This thread started from me bringing these up, TF?

@iyanlanocontext @Manspiration @YallLuvCris You still aren't showing me this ongoing trend. You haven't even showed me one. The only film mentioned is the one EYE brought up. So what are you arguing?

@ssXFrosty @Tokyo_pi1 Why didn’t you go pro?

@Tokyo_pi1 Soccer was my first sport, knew nothing about it other than basic rules and was the best on the team at 5/6 years old at all aspects of the game. Raise in South Texas btw so I was playing with 90% Hispanics.

Stephen A. Smith thinks American footballers or athletes can’t match soccer players outside of America conditioning. Host: If America’s best athletes grew up playing soccer instead of basketball or football, would they dominate the world? Stephen Smith: Not so fast. Host: Why not? Stephen Smith: Because talent isn’t the issue. The conditioning gap is in soccer, you can’t hide. Everyone is running constantly. You can pace yourself in other sports, but not on a soccer pitch. Host: So what’s missing? Stephen Smith: Training. Coaching. Humility. Greatness is emulated. If you want to be great, study the best. Learn from Ronaldo’s training, diet and recovery. We’ve had a superiority complex for too long thinking we’re automatically the best. But greatness exists outside America, and if we want to compete, we have to learn from it. Look at Kobe Bryant. When his knee needed treatment, he didn’t stay in America. He went to Germany for the best stem cell and PRP options available.

@Squawka Gordon does nothing better than Rashford and Rashford has more big tournament experience

COMPARED: Anthony Gordon vs. Marcus Rashford per 90 in the league in 2025/26. 🕶️ Who should start on the left wing for England? 🤔

@NeeNeeNichelle @Manspiration @YallLuvCris I agree that they’re doing you dirty and I’m saying that while they do that to you, they cast Americans in my people’s stories and do the exact same thing to us while having some of you benefit more from it than we do.

@iyanlanocontext @Manspiration @YallLuvCris 1 That US companies do this, specifically abt imptnt BA historical figures 2 Taking these roles WE fought for WHILE/THEN disrespecting our ethnicity 3 No investment in the ppl they exploited 4 ZERO push for Black advancemen US NOR UK MEDIA! Complacency WE'RE still fighting 🤷🏽‍♀

@Hosang @I_am_Fred1 @chunhang7 Source?

@I_am_Fred1 @iyanlanocontext @chunhang7 Salah had was in 94 percentile for possession won in final 3rd when at Roma. 🤫

@NeeNeeNichelle @Manspiration @YallLuvCris I’m not talking you guys replacing Brits I’m talking about replacing Africans in African stories, my examples made that very clear.

@iyanlanocontext @Manspiration @YallLuvCris In whose productions are they playing those roles in? What BA is replacing Black Brits in BRITISH PRODUCTIONS of BLACK BRITISH STORIES? And not just 1 or 2 times, continuously as a trend? That's the problem to me. Point them out & drag them please. Lemme know when you find em

@Priceless_MCI What kind of free kicks did Botswana take in the World Cup today?

What kind of freekick is this 😭😭

@GokulB61245420 @Laudrupszn Lampard had nothing to do with the fact that everyone in that squad hated each other.

@Laudrupszn Frank Lampard ruined everything.

It's still crazy he doesn't have any iconic moment at intl tournaments. This type of player was supposed to put England in the WC final with a long shot.

@Hosang @chunhang7 Was Henderson pressing before Klopp got there? Did Salah press at Fiorentina and Roma? Don’t be dense.

@iyanlanocontext @chunhang7 Klopp bought players who would press.

@NeeNeeNichelle @Manspiration @YallLuvCris Is the issue that it’s American production companies doing this or that non-Americans are chosen to play roles that black Americans should be getting or both?

@iyanlanocontext @Manspiration @YallLuvCris In our own productions? Yes of course

@NeeNeeNichelle @Manspiration @YallLuvCris The same complaint about black British actors applies to black Americans. They often play the roles of black non-American historical figures in stories that aren’t their own.

@iyanlanocontext @Manspiration @YallLuvCris What is it we do? Please, explain it to me like I'm 5 bc I must be missing something

@NeeNeeNichelle @Manspiration @YallLuvCris I’m not the one silencing you nor am I telling you to remain silent, I’m pointing out that black Americans do it to other people too, particularly Africans in my examples

@iyanlanocontext @Manspiration @YallLuvCris So why silence us when we say something If you feel the same? Why should we shut up? When has shutting up EVER benefitted BA? That's the issue, WE DON'T SHUT UP, WE GET SHIT DONE while y'all chime in basically calling us uppity 😂 For daring to speak up But reap benefits later

@NeeNeeNichelle @Manspiration @YallLuvCris I’m saying you guys tell our stories and produce them over AND cast your people in them. That’s crazy.

@iyanlanocontext @Manspiration @YallLuvCris I agree for the films produced by /European/African countries but you can't expect American actors to be excluded from American films. Its absurd & that's only expected of us. I'm not telling other countries they MUST have a Black american for any BA depictions. Such hubris 😬

@Hosang @chunhang7 We watched Klopp make pressing and work rate a prerequisite for Liverpool players in real time, you’re lying through your teeth, who has more ability Rashford or Gordon?

@iyanlanocontext @chunhang7 No. You can’t teach that

@Hosang @chunhang7 Things that can be taught, who has more natural ability of the two?

@chunhang7 Work rate and pressing IS modern football

@SavannahDevils @chunhang7 And Gordon does what exactly?

@chunhang7 Rash often kicks the ball ahead and runs into defenders, frequently losing possession in the process. He gets lucky with a dribble once in a while, but most of his dribbling attempts result in him losing the ball. His decision making is average. You guys overrate him so much.