Actress Halle Berry recently made an appearance at the
Essence Festival to promote her movie Kidnap. And while she was there she made
several disingenuous statements about how she was so concerned about the issues
of Black actresses, the lack of opportunities for Black actresses, and the low
pay Black actresses receive in Hollywood. This chick is full of shit a toilet
bowl gets jealous.
I find it funny how Halle Berry is so concerned about the
issues of Black actresses now that her star has faded with White Hollywood. She
wasn’t worried about the issues of Black actresses back in 2001 when Lee
Daniels was paying her $1 million for starring in Monster’s Ball, the film that
destroyed the image of the Black woman. Nor was she concerned about the low pay
or lack of opportunities for other Black actresses when she was being paid
$10-$15 million a picture for films like Gothika, Die Another Day, and Catwoman
by White Hollywood.
I wonder how concerned Halle was about the issues of Black
actresses and Black people when she threw the Black community under the bus by bashing
up Eric Benet in her divorce, saying things like she “Tried” Black men in the
pages of Ebony Magazine, and flaunted White men like Gabriel Aubry and Oliver
Martinez in the faces of Black people. Back then she didn’t seem too concerned
about the struggles talented Black actresses like Tia Mowry, Salli Richardson
Whitfield, Kimberly Elise, and many other sistas who could have gotten a boost
from playing a supporting role in one of her films. Nor was she concerned about
Black directors like Ava Duvernay who were trying to uplift the image of the
Black woman. Halle could have easily used her A-list star power to help any of
those sistas take their projects or their careers to the next level.
But she didn’t. After Halle won her Oscar it was all About
TEH HALLE. How many doors did that Oscar open for you and other Black women Halle?
The same amount you closed in the faces of all those sistas
behind you once you got yours. Now that you can’t play the role of the Jezebel
for White men anymore and you’re too light to play Mammies, you’re so concerned
about the struggles of Black actresses.
Fuck You Halle. Fuck You.
You only want to be “Black” and be around Black people when
it benefits you, not when you can do something for other Black people. Piss
off.
If Halle Berry had reached back for a single Black actress,
worked with an indie Black director like Ava Duvernay, or a helped Black
screenwriter like myself get their script greenlit after that 2002 Oscar win
her appearance at the Essence festival would mean something and her words would
have resonance with Black people. As they stand right now they’re just
bullshit. Now that she’s a washed up 50-year-old single mother with two kids by
two different White fathers, she’s not worried about the lack of opportunities
for Black actresses, she’s worried about the lack of opportunities for herself.
In her old age she sees that her Oscar has no value to White people anymore.
And now, she’s looking to go back to the Black community to get a few slices of
bread from Black people’s tables.
And because many Black men are a bunch of dumbass SIMPS she
thinks she can get it from them. Broken down old Halle Berry knows that because
many Negro men are thirsty and have ABSOLUTELY NO STANDARDS they’ll accept a
50-year Bustdown baby momma with two kids by two different White fathers just
because they think she’s light skinned and pretty like in her old magazine
pictures from the 1990’s.
And because Black women have absolutely no moral position they’ll
accept Halle Berry back in their community as a fellow Sista because they want to
keep getting a pass to continue getting away with all the irresponsible, reckless,
and immoral behavior Halle legitimized as social norms over the last 15 years.
If they let Halle come Back and be a Black woman in the Black community, then
they can cement whoredom as a social standard for Black women and not make any
efforts to raise the bar for moral standards out of the dirt Halle dropped it
in.
Thanks to Halle Berry participating in Monster’s Ball the that
bar for Black women’s moral standards is buried so deep beneath the earth’s
crust it’s right at the molten core right next to the self-esteem of the Black
woman. All those ass models in magazines like King and Smooth and pointing
their butts up for a camera on Instagram? All those Twerk videos on YouTube?
All those fight videos in fast food restaurants between Black women? Those porn
websites like Ghetto Gaggers where White men humiliate Black women and call
them the N-Word? All those reality shows like Love & Hip-Hop, Basketball
wives and Real Housewives? All those TV shows like Scandal where Black women
play the role of a side piece to a White man? All those Swirlers online praising
White, Asian, Hispanic and Arab men as better than Black men?
You can thank Halle Berry for all that. That’s her legacy.
That’s what she’ll be remembered for years from now. Driving the image of the
Black woman straight into the GUTTER and corrupting the minds of a generation
of young sistas to devalue and degrade themselves and hate their own men.
However, Essence Magazine celebrates this woman as some sort
of hero at their Festival. Showing us how much the moral position of Black
women has declined over the last 15 years. An unrepentant sellout betrays the
Black community. And Black women embrace this harlot without holding her accountable
for anything she’s done.
Damn. Just Damn.
The old African Proverb says “A Race can rise no higher than
the moral position of its women.” And I see how low the moral position of Black
women is when they accept someone who is as disgraceful as Halle Berry back
into their community. In any other community a traitor like Halle Berry would
be shown the door. But because Black people have no standards for anything,
they accept her with open arms. Showing the world the reason why no one needs
to respect Black people. Because Black people have no respect for themselves.
I totally understand your frustration. There's a lot of blacks who leave us high and dry to rub elbows with whites, and soon as their "massa" wants nothing to do them anymore, they want to come running back to us. I say to them, "Stay your a**es over there with them." We're good.
ReplyDeleteHalle Berry isn't black, she's biracial as are most of the women you mentioned in your article. To be black both of your parents have to be authentically black. That means dark-brown to jet-black in complexion!!
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