Viola Davis is an amazingly talented lady that is facing three Oscar nominations. She is also black and it seems that very much in reponse to last year’s #OscarSoWhite outrage the Academy has brought black actors and Industry workers into the fold for this years ceremony and awards and nominations. However, is this just a reactionary trend, or is this to stay? Viola addressed this after she won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role for “Fences” on Sunday night.

She spoke to Variety and said:

“Is it just going to be a trend to talk about inclusion — and I’d rather say inclusion than diversity — or is it going to be a norm that we’re all part of the narrative, that all of our stories deserve to be told, and that art indeed has to reflect life and our culture,”

“We’re not ‘The Brady Bunch’ anymore. We’re ‘Black-ish.’ We’re ‘Fresh Off the Boat.’ We’re ‘Jane the Virgin.’ We’re ‘Stranger Things.’ We’re a hodgepodge of races and sexes and sexualities.”

“Sometimes we don’t have to shake the world and move the world and create anything that is going to be in the history book,” she said. “The fact that we breathe and live a life and was a god to our children. Just that means that we have a story and it deserves to be told.”

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