The London premiere of writer John Ridley’s new miniseries “Guerilla” grew tense after audience members questioned why he chose a South Asian woman to be the protagonist. According to Screen Daily, one audience member asked Ridley:“Why are there no black women at the forefront of the struggle? That doesn’t necessarily accurately reflect what happened in the ‘70s in the U.K.”Ceesay, also present at the Q&A, responded with: “Wow, really? You know because you were there?”To which the audience member replied, “No, we know this because our parents were a part of it.”Another audience member described the series as “the erasure of black women” in the anti-racism movement. Ridley, who won an Oscar for writing “12 Years A Slave,” pushed back against the criticism.
Source: Huffington Post April 07, 2017 20:30 UTC