I listen to a podcast called “Denzel Washington is the Greatest Actor of All Time, Period,” hosted by W. Kamau Bell & Kevin Avery (both black comics; the former has a show on CNN, the latter writes for Last Week Tonight). They talk about Denzel movies but they also talk a lot about diversity in the entertainment…

“She is essential to our American history. As a woman first, and only then as everything else.”

That’s not my point, she insinuated that there was no one else stepping up to do it so if she had ideas or thoughts about who else would be good for the roll why not speak up instead of pretending like she was doing everyone a service by “making it happen”

1) Sure Zoe, if you identify as Black of course you’re Black. Moving on.