Jenifer Lewis, Danielle Brooks, Vivica A. Fox, Yvette Nicole Brown, and more stars discuss their support for the Vice President’s campaign
star and Broadway veteran Jenifer Lewis did what she does best: put her emotions into performance. Sitting at a piano, Lewis belted“It’s an unprecedented day,” she began. “And let me tell you what Auntie’s got to say. I got something I want to yell. My dream team is Kamala and Michelle! Ring the bell, ring the bell! Kamala and Michelle, if you don’t want this country to go to hell!”
“As a Black woman, it is imperative that sees that support, because we don’t often get that in a lot of our roles, whether it’s your regular nine-to-five job or running for president,” Robin Thede, creator and co-star of HBO’s. “Women need support and Black women in particular need support. It beyond historic for her to enter that White House. It just feels like Obama again, times ten.”
“We have rich traditions, especially in the Black community, from Muhammad Ali to Sidney Poitier to Oprah and beyond, where Black people have leveraged their celebrity to make radical change, from voting rights to breaking barriers for women to now electing the first Black woman president,” says Thede.she used to be hesitant to speak publicly about politics because she was afraid of “saying the wrong thing or not feeling like I knew enough.
“I don’t know where to begin with how offensive it was for a white man to question a Black woman’s Blackness,” Prince-Bythewood, who directed. “The fact that he’s calling her a DEI candidate is wrong but he doesn’t believe it’s wrong. He does not believe a Black woman or a Black man is more qualified than him. He will never allow that to seep into his consciousness. That’s how deep his racism goes. Hopefully, though, there are others who finally see that and see his racism and sexism.
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