March 12, 2014
Who Gets To Love Lupita Nyong’o?
It’s official: Oscar-winning actress and Hollywood newcomer Lupita Nyong’o is a fan-favorite — but whether her popularity is a fetishization is up for heated debate. Is white America tokenizing her, or just in-tune with varied standards of beauty?
Originally aired on March 12, 2014
Hosted by:
- Marc Lamont Hill
Guests:
- Christelyn Karazin @Christelyn (Temecula, CA) Blogger for BeyondBlackWhite.com
- Gina McCauley @thablogmother (Austin, TX) Founder of WhatAboutOurDaughters.com
- Dr. Yaba Blay @fiyawata (Philadelphia, PA) Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Drexel University
Enough already
Wow…that was enlightening and educational. I’m a huge Marc Lamont Hill fan, and at first I felt sorry for him and thought Gina McCauley was out of line. But slowly, I began to see where she was coming from. When she said, “Black men have NO moral authority to comment on Black women’s beauty in the public space. They have given it away with the absolute destruction of the black woman’s image over the past 30 years,” it hit me. Even a well-intentioned gent like Dr. Hill has become part of the problem. The interview he unwittingly did with Kamau Bell, a black comedian married to a white woman, who has included harsh criticism of black women in his act, became part of the assault…and he didn’t even realize it. War has been declared and these sistas are NOT playin’…I gotta give it to them.