Op-Ed: Andre Leon Talley’s Interview on BBC HardTalk + 5 Reasons We Should Celebrate and not Denigrate Andre Leon Talley
My colleague from London sent me a Facebook message a few days ago, telling me that former Vogue Creative DirectorHe literally shouts the entire 30 minutes. The Host is like, ‘Shouldn’t you have done more to help black people earlier in your career?’ and sparks fly!”As per the name of the show, the interviewer asks Mr. Talley hard questions like, “I
n the late 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s the fashion business was a business that found it very difficult to accept black people in senior positions. You had all these great friends, but were you not aware that there was a systematic discrimination problem?”Did you not have to suffer humiliation to keep your position at Vogue?”
While Andre’s defensive responses are a bit off-putting , what the interviewer and many of us in this generation fail to realize is that Andre was in a unique position in a unique time. His ability to simply survive at his perch was a defiant symbol of activism in itself. Could he have pushed harder? Perhaps. And we really don’t know what he did or did not do behind the scenes. It’s a very sensitive situation as the ‘only one’ in such a precarious position, and I have seen from personal experience, how quickly one is cast out for bringing others in .
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