David Oyelowo on Why He’s Working With Director Nate Parker: ohnotheydidnt

David Oyelowo on Why He’s Working With Director Nate Parker

David Oyelowo defends decision to work with director Nate Parker: "I have a pretty good discernment when it comes to good people. He is a good person beyond his fallibility, beyond the mistakes he made" https://t.co/VwaSA2r3kk
— Variety (@Variety) September 15, 2020

Nate Parker is directing David Oyelowo’s film “Sweet Thunder,” a biopic about boxing great Sugar Ray Robinson.
Oyelowo defended his decision to work with the filmmaker.

“I have a pretty good discernment when it comes to good people. He is a good person beyond his fallibility, beyond the mistakes he made. And I believe in redemption. I believe in forgiveness and he is someone I have been around enough to know that in my opinion he is worthy of that.”

“He made mistakes in the middle of that whole controversy. He lacked a certain contrition that he now has as a human being. I believe that the man that is going to re-emerge when he does come back into the public consciousness is going to be someone who people are going to see his regret, see his compassion, see his maturation, see his growth, see his deserving of redemption,”

“As it says in the Bible, all have sinned and fallen short — all of us. Therefore, let us have the compassion to recognize that and see where there are people who are truly contrite, truly desirous to be better going forward. What I would say about Nate is his handling of it when it happened was wrong and it lacked the compassion that needed to be seen.”

“I believe that with time the tide will turn and me working with him is part of an offering to him of my desire to see him redeemed,”

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fernandocolunga

September 15 2020, 19:44:31 UTC 3 days ago

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~he has made mistakes~

Lmao a woman killed herself because of those mistakes you idiot

neuers

September 15 2020, 19:44:53 UTC 3 days ago

Oh, so raping someone and basicaally driving them to suicide is just "a mistake" now??!

I hate everything.

demented_21

September 15 2020, 19:44:58 UTC 3 days ago

jfc

sunshinefun27

September 15 2020, 19:46:45 UTC 3 days ago Edited: September 15 2020, 19:50:22 UTC

OP I love your icon!

Also there's no excuse to work with a known rapist. And you can't have redemption without even being sorry about it

hewontgo

September 15 2020, 23:50:20 UTC 2 days ago

Your icon 🧡

flyfingers7

September 15 2020, 19:46:47 UTC 3 days ago

so the man who produced the Nina Simone Blackface biopic is continuing to make bad decisions? Wild. Crazy.

pikapika217

September 15 2020, 20:18:39 UTC 3 days ago

IKR

futile_devices

September 15 2020, 19:47:47 UTC 3 days ago

Garbage

gottasecret101

September 15 2020, 19:48:07 UTC 3 days ago

I for one and shocked that a black man is willing to look past a horrific rape and harassment of a woman who is no longer alive in order to make a movie with their abuser because they have a ~feeling~ they are good people and deserve to thrive after being a giant piece of shit. This same tale keeps happening and I for one am fucking over it.

gloeden

September 15 2020, 19:50:01 UTC 3 days ago

Wait...are you saying that this is a "black man" thing that keeps happening?
Because what I'm seeing is an ACTOR thing that keeps happening.
Did you not see the whole Kate Winslet dust-up just a couple of days ago?
Or Timothee Chalamet last year?

beesknees7

September 15 2020, 19:48:08 UTC 3 days ago

I believe in forgiveness

Who gives a flying fuck what you believe?

And he's been on this stomach-turning bullshit for months.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/how-im-living-now-david-oyelowo-1293986

September 15 2020, 19:48:29 UTC 3 days ago

It's a choice.
And now, he'll get to live with it and have it come up, likely for the rest of his career.
This isn't going away. He's just put himself in the club with Kate Winslet and Timothee Chalamet and others who just can't say "no" to working with rapists.

simplychristina

September 15 2020, 19:49:35 UTC 3 days ago

I'm so tired.

Why are men?

Rape is not...whoops. Whoops is not a thing that gives someone PTSD and leads to a breakdown (my experience). Whoops is 'I forgot your birthday" or "I was an asshole to you this weekend but actively doing better" Whoops is "I rear-ended your car and cracked your light and am going to replace it."

I really liked David's work but this will forever be there and I can't.

vulcan_rhapsody

September 15 2020, 19:49:54 UTC 3 days ago

Cause he doesn't care about men who rape women.

I hate when rape is labelled something as trivial a mistake. "Whooopsie! I raped someone! My gosh, how did that happen! My bad! Won't happen again!"

mwffj

September 15 2020, 19:51:27 UTC 3 days ago

Do non-Catholics have venial and mortal sins? Because it seems like some people could benefit from learning the difference between minor things like lying to your mom and major things fucking rape.

eveofrevolution

September 15 2020, 20:05:23 UTC 3 days ago

Protestants, especially the more hardcore/evangelicals, are taught all sins are equal in god's eyes lmao. And yet, they study the 10 commandments which kind of outlines which ones he supposedly cares about the most, soooo idk. Logic and consistency isn't exactly their strong suit.

irajaxon

September 15 2020, 20:39:53 UTC 3 days ago

for real. the incosistency of their practice of christianity is maddening. and i hate their interpretation of forgiveness & judgement. if only god can pass judgement than ultimately only he can forgive. if i can't judge that doesn't mean i'm obligated to forgive/overlook another's offense, it means i'm equally unqualified to do so.

mingemonster

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xtinkerbellax

September 15 2020, 19:52:22 UTC 3 days ago

Rape isn't a mistake, and while good people can do bad things, there is a line and rape is on the other side. There is no such thing as a good person who is also a rapist.

marzipanism

September 15 2020, 19:53:03 UTC 3 days ago Edited: September 15 2020, 19:54:12 UTC

Everybody makes mistakes

Everybody has those days

No..

It's Fucking wild that I made it to 29 years without raping or assaulting anyone. Crazy how I (and so many other people) managed not to make that mistake.

threestories

September 15 2020, 19:53:53 UTC 3 days ago

I will never understand what drives people to volunteer insane opinions like this to the public. Like, even if you think this privately, why wouldn't you just keep this bullshit to yourself??

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