{"id":1447100,"date":"2022-04-20T07:47:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T11:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1447100"},"modified":"2022-04-20T07:51:25","modified_gmt":"2022-04-20T11:51:25","slug":"viola-davis-you-either-have-to-be-a-black-female-version-of-a-white-ideal-or-you-have-to-be-white-to-succeed-in-hollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/viola-davis-you-either-have-to-be-a-black-female-version-of-a-white-ideal-or-you-have-to-be-white-to-succeed-in-hollywood\/","title":{"rendered":"Viola Davis: \u201cYou Either Have to Be a Black Female Version of a White Ideal or You Have to Be White\u201d to Succeed in Hollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">50<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fviola-davis-you-either-have-to-be-a-black-female-version-of-a-white-ideal-or-you-have-to-be-white-to-succeed-in-hollywood%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1447100&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Suicide Squad actress Viola Davis recently claimed in an interview promoting her recent Showtime series, The First Lady, that in order to succeed in Hollywood \u201cyou either have to be a black female version of a white ideal, or you have to be white.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_158531\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-158531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Viola Davis speaks at the LA Guild Screening of \u201cFences\u201d at the Regency Village Theatre in Los Angeles, CA on November 5, 2016\u2026(Photo: Alex J. Berliner \/ ABImages)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Davis\u2019 comments came in an interview with The Guardian\u2019s Diana Evans where it appears Davis was speaking about her time in the 1990s when she started her career in acting.<\/p>\n<p>Evans describes it thus, \u201cAs a Black woman entering the profession in the 1990s, her chances of success were even slimmer, and she quickly became aware of the double affront of racism and colourism, the scenario that in order to succeed \u2018you either have to be a Black female version of a white ideal, or you have to be white\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_127878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-127878\" class=\"size-full wp-image-127878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2021.08.09-10.18-boundingintocomics-611100f0bee4d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2021.08.09-10.18-boundingintocomics-611100f0bee4d.jpg 750w, https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/2021.08.09-10.18-boundingintocomics-611100f0bee4d-300x160.jpg 300w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-127878\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: The Suicide Squad (2021), Warner Bros. Pictures<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"cb-post-title\"><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/2022\/03\/21\/west-side-story-actress-rita-moreno-claims-film-is-a-sacred-text-encourages-hollywood-to-continue-preaching-radical-left-wing-politics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Side Story Actress Rita Moreno Claims Film Is A \u201cSacred Text,\u201d Encourages Hollywood To Continue Preaching Radical Left Wing Politics<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From there Evans goes on to recount how Davis talked to her about her time at the Juilliard School and that the school and its faculty wanted to create the \u201cperfect white actor\u201d that is \u201csomething devoid of joy but steeped in technique.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Davis specifically told Evans, \u201cThere is no set rule to how a character should be played. That was my issue with Juilliard. Whatever character I play, I\u2019m not gonna play with the same palette as my white counterparts, because I\u2019m different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy voice is different. Who I am is different,\u201d Davis elaborated. \u201cIt was like, \u2018Your voice is too deep, you\u2019re too hard. So you have to be light, but you have to be light like a 90lb white girl, you can\u2019t be <em>your<\/em> light.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_158529\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-158529\" class=\"size-full wp-image-158529\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.18-boundingintocomics-625eeed3039e4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.18-boundingintocomics-625eeed3039e4.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.18-boundingintocomics-625eeed3039e4-300x200-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.18-boundingintocomics-625eeed3039e4-1340x893-1.jpg 1340w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.18-boundingintocomics-625eeed3039e4-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.18-boundingintocomics-625eeed3039e4-360x240-1.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.18-boundingintocomics-625eeed3039e4-600x400-1.jpg 600w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-158529\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u2013 New York, NY \u2013 11\/17\/16 \u2013 Denzel Washington and Viola Davis Attend a Fences Special Screening at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York. Fences is directed by Denzel Washington from a screenplay by August Wilson. \u2026 .- Pictured: Denzel Washington and Viola Davis .- Photo by: Dave Allocca\/Starpix.-Location: Walter Reade<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Suicide Squad actress went on to state, \u201cI think that sometimes, everything that you are can crumble under the weight of Eurocentric and white-centric notions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s nowhere for someone like me to go \u2013 nowhere,\u201d she explained. \u201cI got a wide nose, big lips, dark skin \u2013 I mean, where do I go? Look at me \u2013 I might as well walk through the doors of Juilliard and walk my ass out!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Davis clearly didn\u2019t walk her butt out of Julliard as she graduated from the school in 1993. In fact, just six years later she would receive an Obie Award for her role as Ruby McCollum in the off-Broadway play Everybody\u2019s Ruby<i>.<\/i> In 2001 she won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her role as Tonya in the Broadway production of King Hedley II.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_158536\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-158536\" class=\"size-full wp-image-158536\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.23-boundingintocomics-625ef025362d0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.23-boundingintocomics-625ef025362d0.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.23-boundingintocomics-625ef025362d0-300x200-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.23-boundingintocomics-625ef025362d0-1340x893-1.jpg 1340w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.23-boundingintocomics-625ef025362d0-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.23-boundingintocomics-625ef025362d0-360x240-1.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.23-boundingintocomics-625ef025362d0-600x400-1.jpg 600w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-158536\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ma Rainey\u2019s Black Bottom (2020): Viola Davis as Ma Rainey. Cr. David Lee \/ Netflix<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"cb-post-title\"><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/2022\/03\/03\/samuel-l-jackson-lashes-out-at-the-oscars-claims-black-actors-only-win-academy-awards-when-doing-despicable-s-t-on-screen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Samuel L. Jackson Lashes Out At The Oscars, Claims Black Actors Only Win Academy Awards When \u201cDoing Despicable S\u2014t On Screen\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Davis will go into further detail on much of this in her upcoming memoir titled Finding Me. The Guardian would publish an excerpt of it where Davis details, \u201cAttending Juilliard in the late 80s, it was arduous listening and watching white guest actors perform, white playwrights coming in to speak, white projects, white characters, a European approach to the work, speech, voice, movement. Everyone was geared toward moulding and shaping you into a perfect white actor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe unspoken language was that they set the standard. That they\u2019re better. I\u2019m a dark-skinned Black actress with a deep voice. No matter how much I adhere to the training, when I walk out into the world I will be seen as a dark-skinned Black woman with a deep voice,\u201d Davis continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHell, when I got out there in the world, I would be called for jobs based on \u2026 me. I had to make peace with that,\u201d she wrote. \u201cAnd I admit, there are some classical playwrights that I never want to perform anyway!\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_158541\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-158541\" class=\"size-full wp-image-158541\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.26-boundingintocomics-625ef0c0a44df.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1218\" height=\"604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.26-boundingintocomics-625ef0c0a44df.jpg 1218w, https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.26-boundingintocomics-625ef0c0a44df-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.26-boundingintocomics-625ef0c0a44df-768x381-1.jpg 768w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-158541\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: The First Lady via Showtime YouTube<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Davis would go on to claim at Julliard she \u201cfelt racially and individually neutered by a philosophy built on forgetting about ourselves and birthing someone artistically acceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJuilliard forced me to understand the power of my Blackness. I spent so much of my childhood defending it, being ridiculed for it. Then in college proving I was good enough. I had compartmentalised me. At Juilliard, I was mad,\u201d she recalled.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_158537\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-158537\" class=\"size-full wp-image-158537\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.24-boundingintocomics-625ef036d4b10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.24-boundingintocomics-625ef036d4b10.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.24-boundingintocomics-625ef036d4b10-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.24-boundingintocomics-625ef036d4b10-1340x754-1.jpg 1340w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.24-boundingintocomics-625ef036d4b10-768x432-1.jpg 768w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-158537\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">MA RAINEY\u2019S BLACK BOTTOM(2020)<br \/>Chadwick Boseman as Levee, Colman Domingo as Cutler, Viola Davis as Ma Rainey, Michael Potts as Slow Drag and Glynn Turman as Toledo.<br \/>Cr. David Lee\/NETFLIX<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"cb-post-title\"><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/2022\/03\/02\/the-verges-ash-parrish-claims-elden-rings-lack-of-black-hair-options-fails-its-black-players-and-reinforces-a-culture-of-exclusion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Verge\u2019s Ash Parrish Claims Elden Ring\u2019s Lack Of Black Hair Options \u201cFails Its Black Players\u201d And \u201cReinforces A Culture of Exclusion\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>After recalling a speech she gave for the school\u2019s Martin Luther King celebration, Davis detailed, \u201cThere was silence. I was speaking my truth. It was a truth fraught with the pain of everything that had ever been dumped on me consciously or unconsciously. Suddenly, like an elephant who is being slayed for its tusk, I was fighting back, fighting for my space.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery year, I would try to squeeze myself into every project and every character. I thought I had to,\u201d she relayed. \u201cCorsets and huge European wigs that never fit over my braids. Listening to classmates \u2018ooh\u2019 and \u2018aah\u2019 over the beautiful costumes, and imagining how awesome life would be back in the 1780s. I kept wanting to scream it. \u2018Shit!!! I\u2019m different than you!! If we went back to 1780, we couldn\u2019t exist in the same world! I\u2019m not white!&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The excerpt concludes, \u201cThe absolute shameful objective of this training was clear\u2013 \u2013 make every aspect of your Blackness disappear. How the hell do I do that? And more importantly, WHY??!!! None of my counterparts had to perfect Jamaican, southern, urban dialect to be considered excellent. \u2018I am BLACK!!! I\u2019m dark with big lips and a wide nose and thighs. I\u2019m Viola!!\u2019<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_158543\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-158543\" class=\"size-full wp-image-158543\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.26-boundingintocomics-625ef0cd0163a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1217\" height=\"593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.26-boundingintocomics-625ef0cd0163a.jpg 1217w, https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.26-boundingintocomics-625ef0cd0163a-300x146.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.26-boundingintocomics-625ef0cd0163a-768x374-1.jpg 768w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-158543\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: The First Lady via Showtime YouTube<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Davis\u2019 career in film and TV would eventually pick up as well. She would win a Screen Actors Guild Award and be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in The Help in 2011. Eventually she landed the lead role in How to Get Away with Murder, which she won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to The Guardian, Davis revealed that she insisted her character Annalise Keating would remove her wig in the show\u2019s first season claiming that it would be \u201cshowing an image that isn\u2019t palatable to the oppressor.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unclear what Davis is even talking about here. It comes off as the ramblings of a mad woman given the show was set in 2014 when it first aired on ABC and her character is married to a white man albeit the show\u2019s pilot ends with her character questioning her husband on why a naked photo of him is on a dead girl\u2019s phone.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-block full\">\n<div class=\"video-player youtube\">[embedded content]<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"cb-post-title\"><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/2022\/02\/25\/in-living-color-actor-david-alan-grier-ponders-how-white-people-will-blame-black-people-for-russian-invasion-of-ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u2018In Living Color\u2019 Actor David Alan Grier Ponders How White People Will Blame Black People For Russian Invasion Of Ukraine<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, earlier in the interview Davis did admit she had lost her mind during the pandemic. She told Evans, \u201cI lost my mind during the pandemic.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She detailed, \u201cI just wandered around this house like Mary Tyrone in Long Day\u2019s Journey Into Night.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_158540\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-158540\" class=\"size-full wp-image-158540\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.24-boundingintocomics-625ef0543a14e.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1281\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.24-boundingintocomics-625ef0543a14e.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.24-boundingintocomics-625ef0543a14e-300x200-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.24-boundingintocomics-625ef0543a14e-1340x894-1.jpg 1340w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.24-boundingintocomics-625ef0543a14e-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.24-boundingintocomics-625ef0543a14e-360x240-1.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.24-boundingintocomics-625ef0543a14e-600x400-1.jpg 600w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-158540\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Denzel Washington plays Troy Maxson and Viola Davis plays Rose Maxson in Fences from Paramount Pictures. Directed by Denzel Washington from a screenplay by August Wilson.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Regardless, despite claiming that removing the wig is \u201cshowing an image that isn\u2019t palatable to the oppressor,\u201d Davis then asserted that she hopes Hollywood and society at large will end up in a place \u201cwhere the show is just the human being and the human event. It\u2019s not you being a metaphor for a larger social issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She continued, \u201cIt\u2019s not you going to a movie theatre and walking out going, \u2018What did it mean for that Black man to be in that role? What do you think they were ultimately saying?&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel that as soon as we move away from metaphoric land and get into the land where people put their butts in the seat and their only investment is to follow you through your story, that\u2019s when we will have really changed,\u201d she asserted. \u00a0\u201cYou don\u2019t have to be crying over your dead son\u2019s body that\u2019s just been killed in a drive-by shooting for your emotions to be valuable.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_158542\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-158542\" class=\"size-full wp-image-158542\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.26-boundingintocomics-625ef0c80e1ce.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1223\" height=\"602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.26-boundingintocomics-625ef0c80e1ce.jpg 1223w, https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.26-boundingintocomics-625ef0c80e1ce-300x148.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.26-boundingintocomics-625ef0c80e1ce-768x378-1.jpg 768w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-158542\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: The First Lady via Showtime YouTube<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"cb-post-title\"><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/2022\/02\/09\/underworld-creator-kevin-grevioux-calls-out-dc-comics-tokenization-for-not-promoting-more-truly-original-black-characters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Underworld Creator Kevin Grevioux Calls Out DC Comics\u2019 Tokenization For Not Promoting More \u201cTruly ORIGINAL Black Characters\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While she claims that is the goal she wants, just last year she shared a quote from Malcolm X and a meme criticizing making Juneteenth a federal holiday instead of a number of other bullet points that includes reparations, stop police violence, voting rights, and talking about race in schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_158523\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-158523\" class=\"size-full wp-image-158523\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.08-boundingintocomics-625eeca498a26.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"605\" height=\"689\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.08-boundingintocomics-625eeca498a26.jpg 605w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.08-boundingintocomics-625eeca498a26-263x300-1.jpg 263w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-158523\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Viola Davis Twitter<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s also not lost on me that Davis\u2019 cry of racism seems completely unfounded given she\u2019s probably one of the most recognized actors today. Clearly you don\u2019t have to be white or a black female version of a white ideal whatever that even means to succeed.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_158544\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-158544\" class=\"size-full wp-image-158544\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.28-boundingintocomics-625ef14fe4714.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.28-boundingintocomics-625ef14fe4714.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.28-boundingintocomics-625ef14fe4714-300x200-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.28-boundingintocomics-625ef14fe4714-1340x893-1.jpg 1340w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.28-boundingintocomics-625ef14fe4714-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.28-boundingintocomics-625ef14fe4714-360x240-1.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/2022.04.19-05.28-boundingintocomics-625ef14fe4714-600x400-1.jpg 600w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-158544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Viola Davis speaking at the 2016 San Diego Comic Con International, for \u201cSuicide Squad\u201d, at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California. Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https: \/>, via Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>What do you make of Davis\u2019 commentary and accusations of racism?<\/p>\n<p><strong>NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/2022\/01\/19\/hulus-woke-reportedly-replaced-black-female-showrunner-with-antiracist-white-man-after-she-refused-to-only-punch-down-at-white-men\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hulu\u2019s Woke Reportedly Replaced Black Female Showrunner With Antiracist White Man After She Refused To \u201cOnly Punch Down\u201d At White Men<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suicide Squad actress Viola Davis recently claimed in an interview promoting her recent Showtime series, The First Lady, that in order to succeed in Hollywood \u201cyou either have to be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":489,"featured_media":1447180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1447100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1447100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1447180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}