Oscar winner engages in heated debate about a lack of black women in his new Sky series

[hewontgo]

An emotional John Ridley engaged in a heated debate about race at last night's premiere of his new series #Guerrilla https://t.co/LTsxmdh9Pv pic.twitter.com/S0wpZc9hbE
- Screen International (@Screendaily) 7 avril 2017
John Ridley (12 Years A Slave) faced some tough audience questioning at last night’s premiere of his new Sky Atlantic series

Comments

[blumeii]

are they fucking serious? every single person trying to defend this shit is out of their godforsaken mind.

you mean to tell me a movement mostly pushed and supported by black women is going to portrayed by not nary a black woman in sight? not even a few supporting roles? because your wife isn't black?

you know what, fuck all these people. and fuck freida too.

I feel bad for the journalist whose parents were a part of the black power movement having to even mention how fucked up this is.

[vanouria]

MTE, freida being a lead in this makes me really uncomfortable

[britneyspears]

i was getting more and more aggravated by his responses, and then:
part of why I chose to have a mixed race couple at the centre of this is that I’m in a mixed race relationship.

and now it all makes sense. smh i thought this series sounded intriguing, but this erasure of black women is nagl.

[vasculitis_x]

MTE. When I read that, I was like "well, of course".

Black women not having a voice in movies/TV in general is one thing, but not having one in a series about a black movement is fucking ridiculous. There's no defending that nonsense. Gtfo of here with that shit.

[numara]

“What I understood after speaking to John [Ridley] was that black was not just the colour of the skin. It was political blackness"

this is truly some rachel dolezal levels of fuckshit

[cassiopeiaah]

Mte....

[flowerboymalik]

Even by this logic, I can't think of a group that is more "politically black" (I'll assume this means disenfranchised) than...black women, whom are nowhere to be found in this series about black political activism.

[itsme_eloise]

m f t e

[holyfrijoles_2]

i don't even know where to start but this in particular, “What I understood after speaking to John [Ridley] was that black was not just the colour of the skin. It was political blackness" is just....

[britneyspears]

lmao these quotes are truly horrific, but to be fair (eh) she said it at the premiere when someone asked about her character being asian, not during this debate about black women

* from how i'm understanding the article, at least

[hazypink]

OT but I love your muna icon, I saw them a few months ago without knowing much about them and it was life changing

[britneyspears]

ty! and im so jealous!