The verdict is in and the fans have voted. Shonda Rimes latest addition to the ABC Thursday night lineup, How to Get Away with Murder, has officially set a ratings record with its debut pilot premiere last week. Series star and veteran Hollywood actress, Viola Davis, read the New York Times remarks about her being "classically not beautiful" and she doesn't care. Just as strong willed as she is talented, Davis told the ladies of the View that the time for letting a racist culture inform your self-worth is over for her and every other black woman--"traditional beauty" be damned.
Hard as it might be in this day and age to beleive, there are still plenty of folks among us that aren't as culturally enlightened as the rest of polite society might like, and just seems to be the case with New York Times declaration that How to Get Away with Murder's lead, Viola Davis, wasn't "classically" beautiful.
During a recent sit-down with Rosie Perez and Whoppi Goldberg on The View, that award winning actress let the critics at the New York Times know exactly what they thought of their standards of beauty as well their passive aggressive oppression (via Atlanta Daily World):
"I think that beauty is subjective. I've heard that statement (less classically beautiful) my entire life.
"Being a dark skinned Black woman, you heard it from the womb.
"And 'classically not beautiful' is a fancy term for saying ugly. And denouncing you. And erasing you.
"Now...it worked when I was younger. It no longer works for me now.
"It's about teaching a culture how to treat you. Because at the end of the day, you define you."
It would appear that whomever, the New York Times thought it was speaking for, it clearly wasn't the actual Thursday night viewers camped out in front of their television sets by the tens-of-millions to watch Shonda Rimes new network drama.
According to the trustworthy folks over at Movie Fone, by the time all the DVR views were counted and calculated, Shondaland's newest comer had actually set a new ratings record:
"After bowing to big numbers last Thursday, freshman series How to Get Away with Murder is continuing its hot streak by adding 6 million more viewers to its total ratings haul-- and breaking DVR records.
"The Shonda Rhimes produced drama scored 14 million sets of eyeballs last week, but when live plus three data was accounted for, its new total settled around 20.3 million."
So...put that in your pipe and smoke it, New York Times.
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