{"id":279539,"date":"2018-10-27T08:23:04","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T08:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/10\/27\/denisvileneuve-there-is-a-reason-this-is-the\/"},"modified":"2018-10-27T08:23:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T08:23:04","slug":"denisvileneuve-there-is-a-reason-this-is-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/10\/27\/denisvileneuve-there-is-a-reason-this-is-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/denisvileneuve.tumblr.com\/post\/173685185942\/there-is-a-reason-this-is-the-last-scene-in-which\" class=\"tumblr_blog\" target=\"_blank\">denisvileneuve<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><small>There is a reason this is the last scene in which Okoye appears before the credits roll. It speaks volumes about the power black women possess. Seeing anyone, let alone a black man, submit to a black woman on screen in this way is a rarity.<\/small><\/p>\n<p><small>Gurira thinks the message in that scene is vital for everyone, especially women and girls.<\/small><\/p>\n<p><small>\u201cYou expect to use your love for me and our love for each other to actually get me to betray my nation, and I would kill you first. I love that,\u201d she said. \u201cI think women don\u2019t often get to portray that sort of nobility and that sort of integrity, especially [choosing that] over their love.\u201d \u2013 <b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com.au\/entry\/danai-gurira-the-dora-milaje-reflect-real-black-women-except-theyre-respected_us_5a8add8be4b00bc49f46be9f\" target=\"_blank\">Danai Gurira on The Scene\u2122<\/a><\/b><\/small><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>denisvileneuve: There is a reason this is the last scene in which Okoye appears before the credits roll. It speaks volumes about the power black women possess. Seeing anyone, let alone a black man, submit to a black woman on screen in this way is a rarity. Gurira thinks the message in that scene is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2018\/10\/27\/denisvileneuve-there-is-a-reason-this-is-the\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[48,254,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}