Martha Manning, Ph.D.
1 min readOct 5, 2021

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I'm just a plain White woman who stopped watching GA in the first season because I found found pompeo's acting distractingly bad. I can't say Iv'e followed her. But Denzel is another story.

That long defiant tear in Glory was the beginning of an embrace of his work that spanned so many characters, with incredible range.

The depressed psychiatrist in Antwone, that smile in Fences, the tormented body guard in Man on Fire etc. His stature that preceded him should have had her deep respect and closed mouth.It's one thing to do something reprehensible some time. Its another when you brag about it years later in a public forum. Would it have happened with a White director. I don't know how far and wide her hubris stretches. But to take on Denzel and then to brag about it years later is to disrepect an actor/director who, even then, was and is eons beyond her contricted experience and ability of talent. Im not sure an apology works because I wouldnt believe it. Best to shame her and then ingnore her.

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Martha Manning, Ph.D.
Martha Manning, Ph.D.

Written by Martha Manning, Ph.D.

Dr. Martha Manning is a writer and clinical psychologist, author of Undercurrents and Chasing Grace. Depression sufferer. Mother. Growing older under protest.

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