Viola Speaks Up Agianst Alessandra Stanley Disgusting Article

Academy Award nominated actress Viola Davis has a few things to say about Alessandra Stanely nasty article about Shonda Rhimes shows, and being labeled angry. P.S.  “How To Get Away With Murder” is slowly becoming the new “IT” show !!! While Viola is winning is in these networks streets, there always that one hater. This hater is called Alessandra Stanely and she wrote an aritcle with the New York Times, which called the Oscar-nominated actress “less classically beautiful.” She tried it. See what Viola has to say below.

On NY Times critic Alessandra Stanley’s “angry black woman” article:

Davis says she finds the term “angry” as a descriptor for African-American women to be “very offensive, as is ‘sassy,’ as is ‘soulful.’ We’ve used them enough. It’s time to bury them in the racial-history graveyard,” she says, chuckling. “My feeling about the article is it’s a reflection of how we view women of color, what adjectives we use to describe them—as scary, as angry, as unattractive. I think that people are tired of it.”

On being compared to Kerry Washington:
“There is no one who would compare Glenn Close to Julianna Margulies, Zooey Deschanel to Lena Dunham. They just wouldn’t. They do that with me and Kerry because we’re both African-Americans and we’re both in Shonda Rhimes shows.”

Viola, also did an interview with Vulture magazine where she discussed the “angry black woman” comment, described how she sees Shonda Rhimes and how black women are described in the media.

On Alessandra Stanley’s “angry black woman” quote:
“Shonda is not an ‘angry black woman.’ I don’t think that Annalise is just an ‘angry black woman.’ There is a depth to Shonda that can’t be minimized by using just the word angry, and we use that too often to describe women of color because we don’t want to look any deeper. I see Shonda as quirky, I see her as intelligent, I see her as beautiful, I see her as feminine, I see her as a businesswoman in the juggernaut of television and a mother of three children, and a woman living in 2014. I wouldn’t reduce her to ‘angry black woman.’ Or her characters, for that matter.”

On describing black women in media:
“We need to use the same adjectives as we use for any woman. Which could be dangerous, too, but I’ll accept that. Any day.”