A Celebration of Octavia Spencer’s Oscar Win
You Go Girl! Octavia Spenser won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Despite only 2% of Academy Award members are people of color and the “controversy” of playing a Black maid in a feature film, she won for us all. In the 1960’s many African American women cleaned homes for a living under the racist practices of the era. Our people stepped up despite sitting in the back of buses and banned from sharing a meal or toilet with their white employers fortified by faith and hope for advancement of the next generation. We should be able to look at our history with an unflinching eye. The critics of the film should acknowledge how the film industry operates. Any controversy around the film is a factor positive or negative at the box office. The commenter’s should take responsibility for the outcome and objectives of their criticism. Octavia Spencer is a talented actress for hire. Now Octavia’s Oscar Best Supporting Actress win combined with the box office success of “