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Call me hyper-sensitive, but I’m a bit raw. After all, during the past couple of years, First Lady Michelle Obama has been vilified … for being married to one of the most reviled Black men on the planet these days. And one of the highest–grossing Hollywood films of 2011, The Help, featured two of the best Black actors who are working today — relegated to play maids. But my side-eye to this weekend’s events is centered around the lack of respect that were given to Houston and Rihanna, and how as Black female entertainers, their main role was simply that: to entertain. Their lives as human beings off the stage are not as important.
—Chris Brown and Whitney Houston: The Entertainment Industry Fails Black Women, by Laina Dawes (via stfusexists)

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02/19/12 at 12:49am
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