Da'Vine Joy Randolph: Another Sassy Fat Black Woman role??

Why is America obsessed with seeing black women as obese, sassy and playing maids? I thought we were past this until my friend Helen and I watched The Holdovers. How is this winning Da'Vine Joy Randolph best supporting actress? I see nothing unique about her performance other then she could play Octavia Spencer’s sister in The Help.

It’s too bad that Hollywood only will vote for black women in roles where they basically play slaves. Black men are allowed to be conventional, but with a few exceptions - it seems the Sassy Black Woman has to always take the podium. As if this is a character where people are still getting used to, or finding so authentic. I grew up on the south side of Chicago and went to school with hundreds of Da'Vine Joy Randolphs. My aunty is black herself. And even she’s sick of roles like these winning Oscars.

The film is quite good, but I am insulted that a performance this simple is once again being singled out as fresh and unique 🤷🏻‍♂️. We’ve seen it before so many times.

I blame the voters. They just won’t open their minds to black people playing anything else but what fits in the box. I wish a movie like Love Jones (1997) would have earned Nia Long and Larenz Tate nominations for playing middle class African Americans who are dating and having fun. Why can’t Hollywood nominate those types of characters??

Da'Vine Joy Randolph‘s role seems hand crafted to fit the Disney/Netflix image of what an obese jolly black woman should act like. It’s too bad we haven’t progressed after all these decades!