Ok but when did she say this?

Ok but here’s the thing...she never said its black people’s faults. These comments are clearly directed at the industry and not at the audience. Come on yall! Yall are twisting her words big time. And these quotes are kinda old and nobody was mad about them then. And these things were mentioned on Solange’s little…

Can’t. be. real.

Yes there is something you’re missing. and Damon said it in the article. they framed the message of the ad about “hair hate” when being marginialized/antagonized/discriminated against because of your texture hair is specific to afro textured/black women not blond girls who just cant find a cute style.

Your comment made me think of something in the writing that was lacking overall. Deborah’s life in general. Most of what we see is her time with Skloot and the trauma she’s carrying. We didn’t really get to see her life, her relationships with the people in her family. I would have loved to see more of that. And in…

Ok I will.

Yeah I haven’t read the book so I thought I was getting the story, not the story about how the story was written. I really would have loved for it to be about the actual Henrietta Lacks, set in her time. Other than that though I don’t have many critiques. I think Rose Byrne and Oprah did great as actors and did the…

Wow the most important part of the critique was missed in article. That theme is about “hair hate” and really nobody is hating a white woman’s hair. In the ad everyone was talking about, it was framed initially with the light skinned woman (with very loose and not afro/kinky textured hair might I add) about having…

That immigrants are paid such low wages and less likely to report labor violations (wages being stolen, sexual assault harassment, etc.) because they are fearful of their residency status. Not diminishing the truth or horror of this statement but...not slavery.

Wasn’t deciding if it was or wasn’t. Was asking for someone to explain the context.

Wow. You are absolutely right. Thats a great point! This is what I’m going to use when this comes up again. I’d send you royalties but I aint got no money.

I haven’t gone down all the responses but so far I see two. One from a nice person (you) and another nice person so I’m grateful. Thank you so much for taking the time to respond. =)

Loved the movie. Didn’t read the book but will try as I heard it is good. Will of course add Medical Apartheid to my list. But the thing that stuck out to me about the film is that it still did not tell the story of Henrietta Lacks. It was about the journey with Deborah to uncover this information and though I enjoyed…

Thx for that context and thx for the link.

That was my takeaway because that was the point of the episode. The show was not about her depression which is the critique others have made here too. (Yes I understand the character was suffering from depression.) The show (as evident through title and structure) is about the people that did her wrong and how she is…

Its weird for me as an African American to see people immediately condemn any comparison to the Holocaust but haven’t seen any type of similar reaction from media regarding the constant comparison of immigration to slavery. When people make slavery comparisons nobody blinks an eye. Over the past few weeks seeing…

Not getting the racist part. Not in a “I see how it could be offensive but I disagree with your opinion so I’m being willfully ignorant” kind of way but in a “I genuinely don’t understand the comment and hope someone will explain” kind of way. Whenever this happens I never know how to ask for clarification without…

Yeah I see that point but the problem is on the show they are legitimizing it. In the show we are supposed to hate the guy that balled up her note and blame him for her death. I don’t think thats sending a good message at all. Again, when I watched it I felt like they were validating this revenge/over dramatic suicide…

Yes at using the girl. The fact that the “protagonist” is your standard 2 dimensional “good guy” was the laziest writing I’ve ever seen and I struggled to watch it. I stayed solely for the mystery of what the big secret was but I hated Clay. A lot of the characters were poorly written but Clay was the worst and we had…

It kind of glamorizes a suicide as revenge type of element that I really hated. Her leaving the tapes incriminating people in her own death over such minor grievances as: throwing away her note, was wild to me. I think the element of actual sexual assault and harassment should have been the focus. The show leaves it…