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Rebecca Carroll @rebel19
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Honestly @jes_chastain as an outspoken voice for equality how do you pose for a photo like this and not feel absolutely mortified by the blatant exclusion? How is it possible to not understand the msg this photo sends?
It is literally the antithesis of "a shift in focus" -- this is literally The Same Focus on White Women in Hollywood.
To present these women collectively worth millions of dollars as change agents when black women with like regular jobs just saved an entire Southern state from a racist pedophile getting seat in the US senate is just beyond.
It's not just abt assigning editors or photographers or the very obvious and well-known whiteness of Hollywood. It's abt individual accountability. These are smart, outspoken, savvy women who are demonstrating a lack of self awareness or willful obtusity or both.
I cannot help but to think of the young black girls and girls of color who see an image like this whether aspiring actresses or not and instantaneously getting the message that there is no place for them in mainstream, valued America.
How do you work w an iconic actress like Viola Davis, who has been treated horribly by media re her appearance, and who herself is raising a young daughter, and not immediately issue some sort of corrective for an image like this?
Obviously structural change takes time but the collective power in this image -- the platform, the agency, the privilege -- could at least recognize the way in which the optics here double down resolutely on willful exclusion of people of color.
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