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Unless you’ve been living under a rock or doing your best to avoid Black Twitter (Black X…?), The Deliverance by Lee Daniels is the new film that everyone is talking about on social media at the moment.
In addition to a chillingly-good haunted house plot, the presence of Mo’Nique following her and Daniels’ reconciliation back in 2022 and an award-worthy lead performance by Golden Globe-winning singer/actress Andra Day, the masses have been in a chokehold over Hollywood living legend Glenn Close playing a role that no one could’ve expected: a hood white woman named Alberta.
Close, who’s just one award away from EGOT status, does an outstanding job at recreating herself into a religious cancer patient with a penchant for Black men and wigs that Tyler Perry could (and should!) take notes from; there’s no argument there. However, what has many scratching their heads is a tweet that Daniels sent out recently in promotion of the film that really rubbed our community the wrong way.
Take a look below and judge for yourselves:
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Like we stated earlier, the performance by Glenn Close isn’t what lead to the digital pitchforks. There’s even an argument that can be made about the Alberta’s out there that you’ll certainly find in the many hoods of America and beyond. What alarmed us though, in addition to many of the same people on social media who’ve made the movie go viral, is the notion of their presence being some sort of pillar to the inner city Black experience. In all actuality, you can find any race cohabitating alongside Black people on the block — the struggle isn’t only synonymous with us!
When we think of a fabric, words like “bond,” “structure” and “unity” usually come to mind; that white lady in apartment 4B struggling right next door to Aunt Bernice doesn’t quite bring to mind any of those. You tell us, though.
Do you agree with Lee Daniels saying that ‘hood’ white women like the one Glenn Close plays in The Deliverance are “part of the fabric” in Black communities? Let us know your thoughts, and see what others are saying below:
1. “Every Black person knows an Alberta. She’s part of the fabric of our community, but we’ve never seen her on screen before.” — Lee Daniels (2024)
via @itsKARY_
2. The fabric of our community. Wow.
via @AmandaDannielle
3. I, in fact, do not know a white woman who was strung out on cr*ck & prostituted her children for drug money. and am confused on how she’s the fabric of the community—
via @niccoyat
4. Y’all really got to learn how to compliment white people without making it so weird. No white person, fictional or real, is part of the fabric of the Black community. Just saying “Thank you Glenn Close you played Alberta magnificently” would have sufficed.
via @FoxxyGlamKitty
5. This nigga added a white woman to a true story that did not involve a white woman then said it’s because white women like her are part of the FABRIC OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY. he is objectively worse than Tyler Perry I’m sorry 😭 he is like if Tyler Perry & Kenya Barris had a baby
via @thisiskashmir
6. “Every Black person knows an Awkwafina. She’s part of the fabric of our community, but we’ve never seen her on screen before.”
via @KevOnStage
7. Something about Lee Daniels saying white women who have mixed children being the fabric of our community is very darksided. Very sinister.
via @luh_scoot
8. The real mother in #TheDeliverance was unambiguously Black. Lee Daniels made her mixed race with a white mother then called that White mother the fabric of the Black community. I no longer want to be associated with you kneegrows anymore…
via @ToldbyTeagan
9. I LOVE Glenn Close. The issue is Lee Daniel’s using her character (a white culture vulture that moves her proximity to blackness by having kids with a black man) for such a foolish statement. The character is NOT the fabric of the black community. It has been on screen before. ⬇️
via @imissportmore
10. Glenn Close is an amazing actress, and always has been, but calling a white woman the fabric of the Black community is crazy
via @haulyuhass__
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