It’s not that I want the Comment on appelle une fille parfaite stephenie shirt But I will love this man to pass, to de-Black himself in some ambient way to succeed, but could he have one night of achievement without his Blackness being a non-positive talking point? I know this all comes with the territory for nonwhites who occupy predominantly white spaces. (And there are so few places where success isn’t synonymous with white cis male straightness; don’t get me started on the White House or Downing Street.) Kaluuya’s particular seat at the Hollywood table comes with a side order of questioning and of the lazy insinuation that he’s interchangeable with the other Black actors in the business. I do think the visibility of a Black man winning an Oscar is important—of course it’s important. But the much-coveted golden statuette was slightly tarnished when Daniel Kaluuya became just another Black man. It minimized his personal accomplishment and diminished Black success as a whole. In his acceptance speech, Kaluuya thanked his mother for letting him stand at “fullest height.” I wish Hollywood could do the same.
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