Meryl Streep sparks uproar over 'We're all Africans' remarks

I understand what she is saying....somewhat. If all humankind started in Africa then migrated, like some say, then she is correct.

I don't understand . Is my english that poor?

She's probably christian and when she says we all come from Africa then she's going by we all came from Adam and Eve from the garden of Eden which is somewhere in Africa

She's going by DNA evidence, probably.

But she's been through Hollywood. She ought to know better than to step on someone's privilege.

Better read up on Afrocentricity guys .

Actually this a dodge. She is dodging the fact that the Berlin film festival was largely lilly white and that Hollywood lacks diversity.

Hollywood could use some diversity. Lilly white movies out of Hollywood are absolute junk for the most part.

“The thing that I notice is that there is a core of humanity that travels right through every culture,” she said. “And after all, we’re all from Africa originally, you know. We’re all Berliners; we’re all Africans, really.”

A perfectly understandable and coherent statement.

Anyways, don't believe the hype. The 'backlash' is few and far between and met with equal backlash.

Here's the bottom line folks: most politically active blacks care much more about things like Flint, and Michael Brown than #Oscarssowhite.

What she says and is perfectly correct with is that we are all the same. We should behave accordingly.

The humans who stayed in Africa did not interbreed with the Neanderthals so technically, we are not the same.

She knows her anthropology well.

They followed an uproar over the all-white Oscar acting nominee selection for a second straight year

What's the big deal?? The "all-Black" BET Awards feature nearly all black actors / entertainers.

Who's griping about that?

Kabukilover - Hollywood could use some diversity. Lilly white movies out of Hollywood are absolute junk for the most part.

Aren't those the movies with the highest box office returns?

What she's saying is basically the exact same thing former President Bill Clinton just said the other day in Tennessee while campaigning for Hillary:

"Playing off Congressman Steve Cohen’s introduction that claimed Bill Clinton was just a “stand-in for the first black president,” Clinton told an audience in Memphis, “You know what we learned from the human genome? We learned that unless your ancestors — everyone of you — are 100 percent, 100 percent from sub-Saharan Africa, we are all mixed race people.”

So really, Obama wasn't the "first" black President, Clinton is clearly insinuating here (in a political campaign speech for Hillary) since "we're ALL mixed race people," Obama included.

Anyway, everything is all the fault of White People, don't you know? People of Color have nothing to fix, they're perfect as is, naturally: all their problems come from Whites, as evidenced in this "Black History Month" propaganda piece promoting "White Guilt" (and produced to be shown in American elementary classrooms to encourage acceptance of "White Guilt" and Affirmative Action, aka institutionalized discrimination, in education, by the way.)

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/anger-after-students-shown-white-guilt-cartoon-for-black-history-month-a6869796.html

Well this is not news at all. Whoever has studied the exact history of humans but not Neanderthals would have got it right. Let me sip a tea.

She ain't wrong.

Just another Hollywood has-been tossing her lagging career onto the passing coattails of trendiness. Perhaps she should take a flight to the motherland with Jolie, Bullock, Theron and Hanoi Jane to import some more endangered species.

Liberalism is truly a mental illness.

Just another Hollywood has-been

She was good in "The Deer Hunter." But she was a witch n' Devil wears Prada-

I love seeing the PC crowd eating their own.