Sheryl Underwood defends Nate Parker: What about Woody Allen?
Sheryl Underwood is a rape victim herself, but she is coming to the defense of Nate Parker.
Sheryl Underwood is a rape victim herself, but she is coming to the defense of Nate Parker.
She isn’t excusing the 17-year-old rape accusations against him, but instead, she has called into question why Parker is being subjected to so much scrutiny with other actors and people in the film industry have faced similar charges without nearly the same consequences.
“I think this is an odd time for this to be the time that they judge this man on this,” Underwood said during a segment of “The Talk.”
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“Now it’s being brought up when he makes the most iconic film, the most thought-provoking film for some of us who believe Nat Turner was a revolutionary.”
She then continued, “Why is it that Roman Polanski can do whatever he wants, Woody Allen — I guess my feeling about this, from a person who has been raped, one thing we need to understand is the long-lasting, devastating effect of rape to everyone involved. The young lady who could not move forward in her life, that she felt the only way to end that pain was to take her life. So when you’re talking about a movie that seems to artistically portray the violation of a people who were considered property, then you’re talking about a political devastation, not just a sexual devastation that was supposed to motivate Nat Turner to doing what he did.
“So for everybody that does not understand, at the end of the day [Nate’s] life has been changed, but he has evolved. He’s given his to Christ. He’s become a better person. If you want to hold him to that then you need to hold everybody else that’s done something to the exact same standard.”
