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Elon Musk Thinks Lupita Nyong’o Isn’t Beautiful Enough to Play Helen of Troy. Ha!

Tuesday, May 19, 2026 at 8:38 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

Elon Musk and Matt Walsh claim Christopher Nolan is pandering by casting Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy. But this uproar has little to do with Homer and everything to do with Black beauty entering a mythic space White grievance still thinks it owns. iPINIONS argues that Nolan didn’t invent Lupita’s beauty. He merely cast… Read more.

White Guilt Behind Acclaim of ‘12 Years A Slave’ and Lupita Nyong’o

Wednesday, June 4, 2014 at 6:34 AM
Written by Anthony L. Hall

[Tokenism in Hollywood] remains such that members of the Academy seem racially averse to nominating more than one Black movie in any given year, let alone awarding Oscars to more than one. Only this explains why they completely shut out Lee Daniels’ The Butler and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom… This slight against Mandela (or… Read more.