According to reviews this memoir is vastly different from Cicely Tyson’s, but a look at a life many didn’t know existed.
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Cicely Tyson was not a ADOS nor was Sidney Poitier, Viola Davis is descendant of the Africans brought to American and made slaves. Her experience is going to be vastly different from Ms Tyson, although Ms. Tyson was born here her family was not. Immigrants don’t face the mean, harsh discrimination here that African Americans do. It’s not say they do not face discrimination because they do, but the Islanders and Africans who come here after slavery do not face a fiery discrimination breathing down their necks at all times. This is what Ms. Davis is talking about.
No foreigners face what African Americans face, our own country give foreigners a bigger success than its own Native-born sons and daughters. It’s not that they are smarter than African Americans, it’s that their opportunities have been greater. No one is working diligently to keep them down.
American Descendants of Slavery
American Descendants of Slavery is a term referring to descendants of enslaved Africans in the area that would become the United States, and to the political movement of the same name. Both the concept and the movement grew out of the hashtag #ADOS created by Yvette Carnell and Antonio Moore.
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Thank you for your input. You are right. Without the hindrance of selected discrimination who knows how far a person may be able to rise.
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I respect Ms. Tyson and her struggles. She opened the door for many others, but Viola’s life resounds more with modern life. And as for those bad boys, I would have had a pile of rocks waiting for them every day.
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Everyone has a predecessor. 🙂
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I loved how open she was with her life story. I didn’t know she was once a model.
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I don’t think her career started out as a model. I’m not sure. In 1996 Davis made her Broadway debut in August Wilson’s Seven Guitars of a musician recently released from prison, a performance that earned her a Tony Award nomination. She made her film debut the same year with a bit part in the drama The Substance of Fire. She has lots of accredits to her name.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_Davis
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