Folks stay getting it right & walking it back. #ADOS built the richest country in the world & are still experiencing multigenerational oppression in the belly of the beast @WendellPierce.
That’s more than just a different “manifestation”. We’re unlike any other group.
That’s more than just a different “manifestation”. We’re unlike any other group.
It’s insane how @WendellPierce created a thread to explain how #ADOS is different from this Moroccan/ white actor who grew up in the suburbs of London, then ended by saying we all the same. Wtf?! No we aren’t.
There is a SPECIFICITY here, and no one should be shamed into ignoring who we are as #ADOS, what we have experienced *in* America & contributed *to* America. No other group can claim that. Not one.
Stop shaming ur ancestors by cowering to this idea of sameness.
Stop shaming ur ancestors by cowering to this idea of sameness.
As American Descendants of Slavery we paid the cost, fought for our rights in this country, now we should eat the fruit.
How do u grow a harvest & gladly give it away while u & ur family starve? That’s what this idea of sameness does; it starves us out. We are a unique group.
How do u grow a harvest & gladly give it away while u & ur family starve? That’s what this idea of sameness does; it starves us out. We are a unique group.
The fact that this person spent their life globetrotting is a tip off that we’re not alike at all.
Most #ADOS never travel bc of our wealth level. And this person thinks they’re the same as us?! It’s a vicious lie.
Most #ADOS never travel bc of our wealth level. And this person thinks they’re the same as us?! It’s a vicious lie.
#ADOS better start drawing a line in the sand abt what we deserve.
Bc White America prefers the Black & Brown folk w/ accents, who ain’t us, who can’t trace their line to American slavery, & who don’t have an ancestor who picked cotton or experienced the terror of the KKK.
Bc White America prefers the Black & Brown folk w/ accents, who ain’t us, who can’t trace their line to American slavery, & who don’t have an ancestor who picked cotton or experienced the terror of the KKK.
We are not the same.
I don’t know why #ADOS actors won’t just tell Black Brits the truth:
Your Shakespearean training doesn’t help ur performance in the roles u generally take—playing Black Americans. What matters is giving that character the heartbeat of a lived (& inherited) ADOS experience.
Your Shakespearean training doesn’t help ur performance in the roles u generally take—playing Black Americans. What matters is giving that character the heartbeat of a lived (& inherited) ADOS experience.
And it rarely works, no matter how much time Black Brit actors spend in barbershops 💈 or hanging out w/ rappers to figure us out & get our accent down.
The characters nearly always end up flat & one dimensional, like Cynthia Erivo weirdly bucking her eyes 👀 in ‘Harriet’.
The characters nearly always end up flat & one dimensional, like Cynthia Erivo weirdly bucking her eyes 👀 in ‘Harriet’.
