Yeah, he treats Black women like garbage in his shows. I wish I lived in alternate universe where Lucious on Empire was killed off, Cookie took over and that one of their kids was actually a daughter.
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Sooooo much this. People are so freaked out about Atheists not having any morals, but that hasn’t stopped religious people from being assholes for over a millennium!
The biggest bullies towards my sister and me in school were the Jesus-iest girls ever. They attended all church services, youth activities, retreats, etc. And these girls made damn sure to let us know, especially when adults weren’t around, that our entire family would rot in hell for all eternity. Another girl told…
No, but Daniels shouldn’t act as if casting a young white woman as the lead was some deeply considered, slavish act of humanity, as opposed to an attempt to broaden his audience or simply experiment with different character dynamics, both reasonable rationales. He’s sounding a bit, um, Precious.
I used to go to these Bible retreats and camps all the time and this sounds about right. I will say that summer Bible camps for teenagers are the most sexual places on the face of the Earth.
In September, 32 girls in Chicago went on a religious retreat together. By November, their text message chain was riddled with racial slurs that got five of them suspended or expelled from their high school
This is Sparta, yuh trick!
Pitch is so good. But Fox has been treating it like they’d planned on it failing all along. Then they can shrug with a “Well, we tried.”
I’m gonna take this moment to be a little bitter because I cannot turn on my freaking TV or phone without seeing an promo for this show; meanwhile, Pitch, which is not Empire 2.0 and is actually pretty good and has a protagonist who is a woman of color, got practically nothing.
Googling “dumb shit lee daniels says” brings up quite a few results, lol!
And I hope they give the sidekick some of the adorably quaint mannerisms all those ethnic people seem to have. Maybe a catchphrase, too.
I see I missed all the decades and decades of white leads and all the healing that it created. Got damn Shondaland and all her POCS that one night a week was practically a Trump factory
So true. Finally, white people are getting their due - on tv & in politics.
situating a diverse ensemble around a white character will help make the show more palatable to viewers across color lines,
Lee Daniels is not very bright and not very fond of Black women. I mostly ignore his dumb ass.
What I think of is Gone Girl. In one scene Ben Affleck’s character is supposed to wear a Yankees cap. Affleck doesn’t like the Yankees. He refused. Production shut down for four days while the director got on the phone with Affleck’s lawyers and agents and whatnot trying to get an actor to wear a hat. And that…
This is disgusting. I’m so sorry Schneider never got any kind of justice — or even got to see that she wasn’t alone, that people were horrified on her behalf — before she died.
Adding: She tells people what happened for years, no one pays attention. He speaks up and everyone finally listens.
If she objects in the moment, she’s called unprofessional and is still pressured into doing it.
It’s strange to me that this is news now. I mean I’m glad it’s being talked about. But she said this FOREVER. Now people believe it because they heard men verify it?