{"id":1375,"date":"2016-01-12T07:16:29","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T07:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/?p=1375"},"modified":"2016-01-12T07:16:29","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T07:16:29","slug":"taraji-p-hensons-acceptance-speech-sends-subliminal-message-to-hollywood-about-black-roles-in-film-television","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/taraji-p-hensons-acceptance-speech-sends-subliminal-message-to-hollywood-about-black-roles-in-film-television\/","title":{"rendered":"Taraji P. Henson Sends Subliminal Message To Hollywood About Black Roles In Film & Television"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TARAJI<\/a><\/p>\n

Author: Amy Nicole<\/p>\n

The Golden Globe Awards aired on Sunday night and everyone is still discussing Taraji P. Henson\u2019s acceptance speech. Henson won an award for best actress in a tv series drama for her role in Empire<\/em>. Although her speech was humorous, it also revealed a subliminal message behind the types of roles that black actors are recognized for in Hollywood.<\/p>\n

In her speech she said, \u201cWho knew that playing an ex-convict would take me all around the globe, I thought I would have won for Queenie<\/em> (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button<\/em>) or my character in Karate Kid but it\u2019s for Cookie, who spent 17 years in prison for selling crack. Okay so the world loves real!\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n

Many speculate that the actress was referring to film industry executives who have been accused of primarily awarding black actors for stereotypical roles like criminals or domestic roles.<\/p>\n

This same discussion was brought up several years ago when Halle Berry and Denzel Washington both won Oscars for their roles in the movies Monster\u2019s Ball<\/em> and Training Day<\/em>. In Monster\u2019s Ball, Berry portrayed a single, poor mom who became a widow after her husband was executed in prison.\u00a0 Denzel Washington received an award for his character in the movie Training Day<\/em> in which he portrayed a corrupt cop and drug dealer. Both Washington and Berry have a plethora of amazing films which left many people wondering why they awarded for the portrayal of characters depicted in a negative light.<\/p>\n

Not sure if the awarding to black actors for stereotypical roles is intentional or not but there is definitely a correlation between how black people are perceived in society and how we are portrayed in films.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Author: Amy Nicole The Golden Globe Awards aired on Sunday night and everyone is still discussing Taraji P. Henson\u2019s acceptance speech. Henson won an award for best actress in a tv series drama for her role in Empire. Although her speech was humorous, it also revealed a subliminal message behind the types of roles that … Continue reading “Taraji P. Henson Sends Subliminal Message To Hollywood About Black Roles In Film & Television”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thedoublescoop2.com\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}