Blacktress is watching her favorite Sunday night TV shows, (all of which she hopes to appear on one day) when suddenly it hits her, that not one of these shows has ever featured a blacktress in a major or recurring role. I hate America, she thinks. Ordinarily she might call Nirvana to complain about this. But just that morning the girls agreed to begin The 21 day No Complaining Challenge, recommended by Oprah.com. So she calls Iyanla instead.
May 28, 2012
Now Showing: WHITE FRIENDS
Posted by Blacktress World under weekly column | Tags: actor's journey, black friends, blacktress, blogs about actors, blogs for actors, blogs for women, diversity in the media, Friends, lack of diversity on television, los angeles, no black friends, no white friends, race relations, sociology and race, the adventures of blacktress, white friends |[5] Comments
May 20, 2012
Now Showing: THE CONVERT
Posted by Blacktress World under weekly column | Tags: actor's journey, actors in los angeles, assimilation, black actresses, blacktress world, blogs for actors, blogs for black women, blogs for women, culver city, kirk douglas theater, life in los angeles, los angeles culture, native foods, rush street, the adventures of blacktress, the convert |[3] Comments
Blacktress and her friend Iyanla are walking out of the Kirk Douglas Theater in Culver City after just taking in a matinee performance of a play: The Convert, about a young girl in colonial Africa who falls hook line and sinker for Jesus and abandons her African culture for Christianity and Western ideals.
Spoiler alert: The whole thing ends in a bloody mess.
“Damn that chick really drank the Kool-Aid didn’t she?” Iyanla says lighting the American Spirit she bummed from a sort of cute guy standing on the corner.
Iyanla doesn’t normally smoke, but after three plus hours in the theater, the girls have gobbled up every near -edible thing in the bottom of their purses and she’s desperate for anything that might keep hunger pains at bay.
“I know. Assimilation is a motherfucker.” Blacktress says, “Now please let’s eat.”