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Mycheckoutshirts - Under the stars not all steep salute those who defend our freedom shirt

What’s really wound me up is that this whole episode takes something away from Kaluuya. I’m gutted that the Under the stars not all steep salute those who defend our freedom shirt in contrast I will get this aftermath of his Oscar, an incredible moment at the most esteemed awards ceremony on the planet, has been countered by yet another difficult conversation about (his) race. It’s disappointing that despite dexterous management in the moment—may God grant us all the grace to politely ask for a racially insensitive question to be rethought and repeated rather than simply tell the poser of the question to fuck off—Kaluuya will wake up to his award and a plague of tweets and he’ll have to decide how, if at all, to respond. A pithy tweet? A mediation with the journalist? A dignified silence? None of these are him celebrating. The conversation has slid from “congratulations” to “congratulations, but…”



Mycheckoutshirts - Under the stars not all steep salute those who defend our freedom shirt
Mycheckoutshirts - Under the stars not all steep salute those who defend our freedom shirt

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