Don’t get it twisted: The community is mostly proud whenever an African American walks away with the golden trophy. But the roles that some of the actors win for give the community pause.
Take a look at the black actors who won Oscars but had horrible roles.
1. Mo’Nique — the comedian and former BET talk show host won for playing the vile, perverted, mean-spirited, nasty, welfare-cheating child abuser in Precious, Mary Lee Johnson, who all but destroyed the illiterate, incest-victimized, HIV-positive, “dark-skinned” daughter. Notice also that Mo’Nique is wearing a handkerchief that resembles the one that Hattie McDaniel wore in her subservient role in the 1939 classic Gone With the Wind.
