'She did not clap, nor did she weep. Instead a small sad smile flickered briefly,' writes Mikki Kendall (Karnythia)
that circulate before the awards as Academy voters glibly acknowledge that they didn’t bother to watch the performances of Black actors., the first Black person to win an Oscar, being seated at a segregated table the year that she won for Best Supporting Actress. Progress has removed segregation in seating but not much else. After all, since awards were first handed out in 1929,, though many more including Bassett have been nominated over the decades.
To be Black in America is to be told early and often that you must work twice as hard to get half as far. For a Black American woman in the arts, that metric is closer to four times as it’s hard to simply stay afloat, never mind to succeed. This makes Ruth Carter’s history-making second win for costume design all the more noteworthy.It must have taken a Herculean effort for Bassett to carve out this space, to hold it and try to expand the road that McDaniel opened all those years ago.
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