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Black CNN Correspondent Calls Mo'Nique's Oscar Win . . . A SET BACK For Black People!!!
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NNPA columnist Julianne Malveaux doesn't begrudge comedienne, talk show host and actress Mo'Nique's victory at the 82nd Oscars this month.  But Mo'Nique and other African-American women's characters in films rile her. She writes in her current column that "Mo'Nique's victory is her laudable personal success, but a Black community setback."

The 44-year-old Mo'Nique grabbed the Best Supporting Actress Award, for her portrayal of Mary Jones whom Malveaux describes as "a revolting and depraved mother" in the movie "Precious."

"She took the material she was given and she worked it," Malveaux writes.  "She made Mary Jones a repulsive character with absolutely no redeeming social value.  I am simply frustrated that these are the only kinds of roles that Hollywood offers African-American women, the only kinds of roles that Oscar chooses to lift up. I am frustrated that some may consider Mary Jones' bestiality as typical, not atypical of African-American women."

Malveaux ticks off the negative roles other African-American women Oscar winners played to support her concern: Hattie McDaniel won for a role as a maid; Halle Berry played a sex-starved fool; Whoopi Goldberg played a medium in "Ghost" and Jennifer Hudson was cast as an angry singer.

"I would love to see someone green light the story of Madame C.J. Walker, our nations first Black woman millionaire," she writes. "There is some glamour there, and some drama!

"In a contemporary context, why not tell the story of Cathy Liggins Hughes, the millionaire owner of Radio One who slept in her studio because she couldn't afford rent and the cost of station operations. These are dramatic stories, but they fly in the face of the stereotypes that were replete in 'Precious.'"

But Malveaux is hardly the only one angry about the roles, which have won Oscars for African- American women. "I don't think it was a movie that needed to be made," said 24-year-old Destiny Graham, a cashier at a DC-area Giant Food Store. "It made Black people look worse than we are depicted in the media and I refuse to support that."

Nicole Brown, 36, is equally disturbed that African-American women win an Oscar, one of the most coveted awards in Hollywood, only when cast in demeaning roles.

"Every role that past Black Oscar winners and now Mo'Nique have won make Black women look weak or angry; it's never a part that you are proud of," said Brown a homemaker and mother of four.

Donald Bogle, film historian and author of six books concerning African-Americans in film and on television is equally unhappy with the demeaning roles Black women play in films. "I still feel conflicted about the roles African-American actors and actresses play in the movies," said Bogle, whose books include the 1973 "Toms, Coons, Mulattoes Mammies, & Bucks."

While Malveaux is glad for Mo'Nique's victory, she said she "did not relish the "Precious" story of welfare pathology making it to the screen. "Why not more positive roles for African-American women?" she asks.

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hmm a same so denzil washington played so many good roles but u realise wen him win him oscar? he won it for playing a corrupt cop in training day racism is alive n well pity

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A true star, Tyler Perry write some good positive story bout black ppl and not even a mention

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hmm a same so denzil washington played so many good roles but u realise wen him win him oscar? he won it for playing a corrupt cop in training day racism is alive n well pity


that true , only when they play  corrupt & ungreatful/abusive mother

 them win award and bullshyt nope its not easy for a black person



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showsky wrote:

hmm a same so denzil washington played so many good roles but u realise wen him win him oscar? he won it for playing a corrupt cop in training day racism is alive n well pity


that true , only when they play  corrupt & ungreatful/abusive mother

them win award and bullshyt nope its not easy for a black person

 


mi agree sad

 



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