(photo: AP/John Shearer)
Mia McKenzie, founder of the feminist blog Black Girl Dangerous, breaks down the inexplicable attacks on Oscar-nominated young actress Quvenzhane Wallis as she sat beaming with innocent joy at the Oscars:
The thing about being a little black girl in the world is that even when you are the youngest person ever to be nominated for an Academy Award, many people will use the occasion not to hold you up for all of the amazing things you obviously are, but to tear you down for the ways you don’t look like them, the ways your name isn’t their kind of right, the ways you don’t remind them of themselves, the ways you are not blonde or blue-eyed, as if those things could possibly matter when set against the otherworldly talent and beauty and brilliance you possess.
Read the full piece here.
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