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Was Russia’s decision to cut off natural gas exports a mistake?

<p>Last week Russia announced it would cut off natural gas deliveries to Poland and Bulgaria after both countries refused to comply with its request to perform export payments in rubles, Russia’s national currency. It is the latest maneuver off the battlefield to hit back against Western efforts to weaken the country even as its armed forces <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/world/2022/04/30/russian-troops-slowed-down-ukrainian-defense-donbas-region/9598036002/">continue to be slowed</a> by Ukrainian troops in the embattled eastern territory of Donbas.</p>
<p>Russia has largely been able to maintain diplomatic relationships in the Asia-Pacific region with China and India, its biggest allies, despite Western sanctions. But Its decision to cut off energy exports has strengthened Europe’s alliance with the US, particularly as Europe continues deliberations over added sanctions against Russia.</p>
<p>The Kremlin <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/04/28/1095113387/what-russia-cutting-off-energy-to-poland-and-bulgaria-means-for-the-world">defended</a> the move as a necessary measure to protect Russia’s financial reserves following heavy sanctions.</p>
<p>“They blocked our accounts, or — to put in Russian — they ‘stole’ a significant portion of our reserves,” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told the media during a press call.</p>
<p>Europe imports a third of its oil and gas from Russia but that has not deterred it from using sanctions as a tool to stop the country’s aggression in Ukraine. The European Union has already put out five rounds of economic sanctions against Russia and is expected to introduce more penalties in the upcoming weeks.</p>
<p>Russia’s decision to cut off gas exports to Poland and Bulgaria — the latter of which had remained undecided in its stance regarding Russia up until the recent ban — is a risky move meant to act as a warning to other European countries. But some experts have written off the move as a miscalculation.</p>
<p>According to Yoshiko Herrera, a professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison specializing in Eurasian politics, it may have the opposite intended effect.</p>
<p>“One of the key arguments for people who are for the additional energy sanctions is to say, Russia is an untrustworthy partner, that they’re using energy as a political tool,” said Herrera. “So by cutting off gas to Poland and Bulgaria, they’re kind of making the case that they are an unreliable partner.”</p>
<p>Although no formal proposals have been put forth, Bloomberg <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-30/eu-to-propose-phasing-out-russian-oil-by-the-end-of-the-year">reports</a> the EU will likely introduce a ban on Russian oil by the end of the year, gradually limiting its imports until then.</p>
<p>“Full European energy sanctions would really hurt [Russia’s] economy and hurt their ability to wage war because they will run out of money. So that, I think, is something Russia has to be worried about,” Herrera said. “Their continued bad behavior in Ukraine, the atrocities are what is I think pushing Europe to quite radically change positions on things, on energy.”</p>
<h3>Russia has maintained allies since its invasion of Ukraine</h3>
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<figcaption><span class="e-image__meta">Screens show passage of the UN’s resolution to remove Russia from the UN Human Rights Council following a vote by the General Assembly on April 7, 2022.</span></figcaption>
<span class="e-image__meta"><cite>Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images</cite></span></figure>
<p>Despite Western powers’ broad condemnation of and efforts to isolate Russia, the country has managed to maintain allies. In April, the UN General Assembly voted on a resolution to suspend Russia from the Human Rights Council over its invasion of Ukraine. The resolution succeeded after it <a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2022/04/1115782">received</a> a two-thirds majority of votes from member states with 93 nations voting in favor of Russia’s suspension from the body. But 24 of the body’s members voted against the action while 58 members abstained from the vote altogether.</p>
<p>Results of the UN vote signify the complexities of real-world diplomacy even in the face of war. Countries in Africa, South America, and Asia have increasingly sought to resist taking sides as the Russia-Ukraine war threatens to shape the world into political factions. But the West’s waning influence in other parts of the globe, combined with economic and political interests at stake, has resulted in many nations <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/24/world/asia/cold-war-ukraine.html">opting to maintain their independence</a> when it comes to relations with Russia.</p>
<p>In Asia, where growing vigilance over China’s increasing influence is shared across borders, nations in the southeast and the south of the continent have <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/ukraine-response-asia-us-russia-china-rcna17976">expressed</a> their intentions to remain on good terms with Russia in spite of the situation with Ukraine. Among Russia’s most loyal allies is India, with whom it has maintained a strong alliance since the Soviet Union’s backing of India during the 1971 war with Pakistan.</p>
<p>Another factor behind their continued friendship is India’s <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/6c52b083-d38a-40c9-9e23-2747c913065f">reliance</a> on Russia as a military arms supplier — from the 1950s to now the country has received <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/6c52b083-d38a-40c9-9e23-2747c913065f">an estimated 65 percent</a> of firearms exports from the Soviet Union or Russia, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. India’s border disputes in the Himalayas with China, which triggered a <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/18/world/asia/china-india-border-conflict.html">bloody clash</a> in 2020, is another motivating factor for India as Russia has functioned as an important mediator in the conflict with China.</p>
<p>The close ties between India and Russia pose challenges for Western powers since India is viewed as a <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/01/russia-and-the-west-battle-to-get-china-and-india-on-side-in-the-war.html">vital partner</a> in restricting Russian influence in the region.</p>
<p>China, another key Russian ally, has refrained from condemning Russia outright, instead asking for the warring countries to reach a peaceful resolution. In a March virtual meeting with France and Germany, President Xi Jinping <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/9/chinas-xi-beijing-supports-peace-talks-between-russia-ukraine">called</a> for “maximum restraint” on the issue and expressed concerns over the broader impact of sanctions on Russia. But some, like Herrera, doubt how far China will continue to toe the line if the situation worsens.</p>
<p>“China has not said they would not abide by the sanctions and they are so far going along with the sanctions against Russia,” Herrera said. A potential turning point, she said, could be Europe’s next sanctions, particularly any secondary sanctions it puts out, which will be “a big crossroads for China to decide whether to participate with those.”</p>
<p>But its ties with Russia could still end up serving China economically. President Vladimir Putin has <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/60571253">stated</a> Russia will “redirect” its energy exports to “rapidly growing markets” elsewhere to help buttress against sanctions, perhaps an effort to maintain support from its key ally.</p>
<h3>Russian forces continue to face military hurdles in Ukraine</h3>
<p>After two months of conflict, tensions on the war front between Russia and Ukraine have shown no signs of de-escalating. Russian armed forces have shifted focus in recent weeks to <a href="https://www.dw.com/en/ukraine-kyiv-police-find-bound-men-in-bucha-as-russia-continues-eastern-assault-as-it-happened/a-61643081">take control of eastern Ukraine</a>, referred to as the Donbas territory, where fighting between Ukraine troops and Russia-backed separatists had been ongoing since 2014.</p>
<p>Russia has also continued its advance on Kyiv, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/29/russia-carries-out-airstrike-on-kyiv-during-un-chief-visit-ukraine-antonio-guterres">launching an airstrike</a> on the capital city last week during a diplomatic visit by UN Secretary-General António Guterres. The attack drew wide condemnation as an unnecessary act of aggression by Russian forces.</p>
<p>Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who met with Guterres during his capital visit, accused Russia of deliberately trying to humiliate the UN.</p>
<p>“It says a lot about Russia’s true attitude to global institutions, about the efforts of the Russian leadership to humiliate the UN and everything that the organization represents. It requires a strong response,” Zelenskyy <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/29/russia-carries-out-airstrike-on-kyiv-during-un-chief-visit-ukraine-antonio-guterres">stated</a> in a public address following the airstrike.</p>
<p>Former UN Deputy Secretary-General Mark Malloch-Brown said the international community “will recognize they cannot have their UN secretary-general treated in this disrespectful, casual and frankly, dangerous way, by Putin.”</p>
<p>As the conflict shows no signs of relenting, last week US President Joe Biden <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/28/politics/biden-ukraine-congress/index.html">asked</a> Congress to send another $33 billion in military aid to support Ukraine’s military defenses. Biden’s proposal, which includes strategies to potentially use seized funds from Russian oligarchs to fund Ukraine’s military operations, is more than twice as much as the $13.6 billion worth of military and humanitarian aid already approved by Congress last month.</p>
<p>Herrera believes that extra boost could be extremely helpful to Ukraine, both strategically and physically, even this far into the war. Combined with energy sanctions by Europe, she said Russia could be looking at significant roadblocks to achieving its objectives since “that would make a big difference in Russia’s ability to fight the war.”</p>
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What happens when The Real World turns you into an “Angry Black Woman”

<p>“I just want you to know that I don’t like you. We’re not friends, because I find you to be very dishonest,” <a href="https://www.instagram.com/melissabeckrwno/">Melissa Beck</a> (née Howard) said to Julie Stoffer the last time the two were on TV together on MTV’s <em>Battle of the Sexes</em> in 2003. “You got your smug little smile and think it’s all cute — you’re a backstabber and you’re a liar.”</p>
<p>Then, in a separate confessional, Melissa uttered a phrase that’s become a part of MTV canon: “You go messing with my money, you go messing with my emotions.”</p>
<p>Melissa and Julie had left their season of <em>The Real World: New Orleans</em> as best friends. Two years later, they were onscreen enemies, and Melissa was pigeonholed as “The Angry Black Woman.”</p>
<p><em>The Real World</em> will go down as one of the more progressive shows in television history for documenting the lives of gay people, people of color, and other underrepresented groups. But in its 33-season run, it could also lean on stereotypes — like the Angry Black Woman — to tell those stories. <em>Real World: Homecoming,</em> a new weekly Paramount+ series starring Melissa and the rest of her <em>New Orleans</em> housemates, is trying to right those wrongs and allow the cast to reassess their experiences.</p>
<p>“Listen, there were abs and there was comedy — it’s iconic,” <a href="https://melissabeck.merchdirect.com/categories/accessories">Melissa</a>, now a 44-year-old mom of three living on Long Island, told Vox in a recent interview. Reflecting on her fight with Julie, she said, “My arm is so thin. My stomach is so flat. I had a great tan. And I was cussing somebody out. I have no apologies about that.”</p>
<p>Being able to laugh at yourself is a gift, but getting to this point wasn’t easy for Melissa. Looking back, it’s clear how <em>The Real World</em> failed Melissa and other Black women: Kameelah Phillips, who was on the show’s Boston edition, Arissa Hill on <em>Las Vegas</em>, Coral Smith on <em>Back to</em> <em>New York</em>. All were portrayed as versions of <a href="https://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/news/jimcrow/antiblack/sapphire.htm">the Angry Black Woman,</a> a stereotype rooted in the false and racist idea that anger is ingrained within a Black woman’s nature rather than a normal human response to a frustrating situation.</p>
<p>It’s not that <em>The Real World</em> and other reality programs can’t show Black women and women of color having angry moments. The problem is how that anger is so often presented.</p>
<p>Going back on the show is an opportunity for Melissa to tell her story and make sure viewers know she was more than the Black woman who cussed out the white girl.</p>
<p>“I also figured,” she said, “what’s the worst that could happen?”</p>
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<p><strong>In Melissa’s original season</strong>, she and her housemates took a swamp boat tour during which the white guide called one of the bird species by a name that included the n-word. Melissa was disturbed by the guide’s casual use of the word and upset with her castmate Jamie’s reaction. He made excuses for the guide, saying that he wasn’t purposely using the word in a hurtful way. Melissa tried in vain to explain that there is no way for white people to use that word and not have it be malicious.</p>
<p>She knew she had the right to be angry, but the editing questioned that and in turn emboldened fans. After the show aired, she was hounded by viewers. Social media didn’t exist at the time, but people sent their attacks by email.</p>
<p>“For months, I was called racist, that I’m race-obsessed, that I’m race-baiting,” she said. “Every racist thing that could be hurled toward me was, and I don’t think that as a cast — because we hadn’t kept in touch with each other over the years — they understood that perspective or the impact that had on my life.”</p>
<p>After the season aired, Melissa and some <a href="https://pagesix.com/2022/04/20/real-world-star-danny-roberts-on-julies-alleged-homophobic-letter/">former</a> <em>Real World</em> <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/MtvChallenge/comments/7rl8ef/reality_bytes_coral_smith_podcast_havent_seen/">castmates</a> alleged that Julie stole their opportunities on the lucrative (at the time) college speaker circuit. They claimed Julie would offer to speak at the schools for a smaller fee than her castmates, and the colleges — looking to save money — would book Julie instead. Because <em>Battle of the Sexes</em> producers didn’t offer viewers this context, the Melissa/Julie fight appeared to come out of left field.</p>
<p>“It’s the first time viewers had seen Melissa and Julie from <em>The Real World</em>, who left the show frolicking through a bed of roses. They came back, and now Melissa is screaming her head off,” Melissa said. “Instead of it being like, ‘Melissa was genuinely hurt by a friend who went behind her back and fucked with her money,’ it was, ‘Wow, Melissa’s really petty, I can’t believe she voted her off — Melissa’s a terrible person.’”</p>
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<figcaption><span class="e-image__meta">Melissa Beck and Danny Roberts on The Real World Homecoming: New Orleans</span></figcaption>
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<p>Because she was seen as inherently rage-filled — an Angry Black Woman — anything she criticized became easy to dismiss, whether it was a situation that’s plainly racist like the one on the boat or her business dispute with Julie.</p>
<p>Critics and <a href="https://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/news/jimcrow/antiblack/sapphire.htm">scholars</a> note that while the Angry Black Woman caricature has roots in minstrel shows of the early 1900s, the radio show <em>Amos ’n’ Andy</em> — which debuted in 1928 — is what led to its <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/299859537_Sapphire_Exploring_The_Power_Of_A_Popular_Stereotype">popularization</a>. <em>Amos ’n’ Andy</em>, a show about Black characters that was created and voiced by two white men, features <a href="https://vawnet.org/events/unpacking-sapphire-stereotype-protect-black-girls">Sapphire</a>, an aggressive scold; “the Sapphire,” in fact, became shorthand for the Angry Black Woman caricature. The stereotype began to appear as an <a href="https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/stories/popular-and-pervasive-stereotypes-african-americans">onscreen trope</a> as the film industry took hold in the <a href="https://www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/news/jimcrow/antiblack/sapphire.htm">1930s</a> and carried over into the television age (<em>Amos ’n’ Andy</em> itself became a TV show in 1951).</p>
<p>Sustained, harmful pop culture portrayals like these generate <a href="https://scholars.org/contribution/how-racial-stereotypes-popular-media-affect-people-and-what-hollywood-can-do-become">real-world bias</a> with real-world effects. Studies have shown that the Angry Black Woman stereotype has led to Black women receiving <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33793257/">negative performance evaluations at work</a>, <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24188294/">less effective mental health treatment</a>, and <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31112918/">discrimination during maternity care</a>.</p>
<p><em>The Real World</em> premiered in 1992, more than 60 years after the premiere of <em>Amos ’n’ Andy</em>. It was an era when tabloid talk shows like <em>The Jerry Springer Show</em>, <em>The Maury Povich Show</em>, and <em>The Jenny Jones Show</em> were wildly popular — and heavily reliant on the Angry Black Woman and <a href="https://slate.com/culture/2018/08/the-racial-dynamics-in-maury-make-my-stomach-churn.html">other</a> <a href="https://www.complex.com/music/2019/11/chuck-d-accuses-maury-povich-jerry-springer-exploiting-black-people">racist tropes</a>.</p>
<p><em>The Real World</em> purported to be more thoughtful. It promised to show real-life young people dealing with real-life issues like sexuality, religion, and gender — and for some of its audience, the show was the first time they would get to “know” people that they might not encounter in their own lives.</p>
<p>It’s that last part that bothers some of the show’s Black female alums who spoke to Vox: In many ways, <em>The Real World</em> was progressive, educational, and <a href="https://www.theringer.com/tv/2020/4/29/21240341/the-real-world-cultural-influence-chappelles-show-parodies">highly influential</a>, but it still relied on tropes and dynamics that privileged white people’s point of view at the expense of others.</p>
<p>First-season cast member Julie Gentry’s storyline was that she was a sheltered, small-town white girl from Alabama. In the final stretch of the season, Julie accused her Black roommate Kevin Powell of threatening her after she interrupted one of his personal phone calls. He refuted her telling of the story and explained to her and the other castmates that accusing a Black person of violence is a serious matter, citing the Rodney King trial (which coincided with the taping of the show). Julie called Kevin <a href="https://www.mtv.com/video-clips/erba2g/the-real-world-kevin-and-julie-argue-over-cultural-differences">racist, psychotic, and capable of violence</a> and said she didn’t want to be alone in the house with him. The roommates largely took her side. Julie and Kevin reconciled on their season of <a href="https://www.avclub.com/the-real-worlds-kevin-julie-and-andre-on-racism-and-t-1846411168"><em>Homecoming</em></a>, and Julie has talked in <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2021-03-08/julie-oliver-gentry-the-real-world-new-york-reunion">interviews</a> about how her views on race have changed since her experience on the show.</p>
<p>“If we look at the storytelling of the original <em>The Real World</em>,” Melissa said, “the viewpoint that has always been the most important perspective was the doe-eyed white girl that walks into the house.”</p>
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<p><strong>Three seasons prior to</strong> <em><strong>New Orleans</strong></em>, on <em>The Real World: Boston</em>, Kameelah Phillips experienced something similar to Melissa. <a href="https://www.instagram.com/drkameelahsays/?hl=en">Kameelah</a>, 44, <a href="https://www.callawomenshealth.com/">is now an obstetrician</a> based in New York City.</p>
<p>On the show, Kameelah was 19, taking a break from Stanford. She clashed with Sean Duffy, then 25, who went on to serve as a Republican Congress member from 2011 through 2019. In one of their final fights on the show, Kameelah told him that she was exhausted from having to teach him about Blackness and Black culture. In response, Sean compared her to Hitler.</p>
<p>“I definitely think I got a bit of the Angry Black Woman stereotype,” Kameelah said.</p>
<p>She theorized that because she butted heads with a white man whose storyline was about how he was sheltered and conservative, she came off as mad and aggressive. She says she was also portrayed at times as the <a href="https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/mcnairsymposium/2020/presentations/12/">“lonely” and “bitter” Black woman</a>, as the show implied that she was hostile to her fellow Black castmate Syrus Yarbrough because he dated white women.</p>
<p>“That was a storyline I felt was created to run that narrative of Black women being alone and or being just so grumpy that they can’t get along, when that wasn’t the case at all,” Kameelah said. Like Melissa, she received a stream of racist abuse when the show aired.</p>
<p>“I remember checking DOS or some basic email and I had hate mail there. I was like, <em>‘</em>Why? What is going on?’ I definitely experienced a negative backlash from strangers,” she said. “People called me horrible names, so I got to a point where I had very negative emotions about this show.”</p>
<p>Arissa Hill, who was on <em>The Real World: Las Vegas</em>, hasn’t watched her run on the show, which aired in 2002. Still, she’s heard plenty about how fans believe her season ruined the franchise. While <a href="https://ew.com/recap/reunited-real-world-vegas-grown-pains/"><em>Las Vegas</em> was a ratings monster</a>, producers were criticized by <a href="https://stopbeingpolite.com/2018/12/18/game-changers-the-real-world-las-vegas/">viewers</a> and <a href="https://www.theringer.com/tv/2020/4/29/21240376/the-real-world-mtv-best-25-seasons">critics</a> for turning the show into something overly argumentative and overtly sexual rather than the more introspective seasons of prior <em>Real World</em>s.</p>
<p>What strikes Arissa most about how her season was edited is that she and her roommates spent a lot of time having fun together and lovingly teasing each other. Most of that good-natured ribbing was left on the cutting room floor. “I believe we were fucking hilarious,” she said.</p>
<p>That the cast’s lighter moments didn’t make the cut didn’t necessarily surprise her, since she quickly understood the narrative producers were attempting to create. The season that made it to air featured love triangles, a pregnancy scare, and plenty of shouting and scolding. Arissa was often at the center of the confrontations, frequently fighting with her white castmate Frank Roessler, whom MTV described as “wide-eyed” and someone who “makes friends easily.”</p>
<p>Their dynamic wasn’t unlike that of Kameelah and Sean, or Melissa and Julie. The Angry Black Woman and Wide-Eyed Young White Person are stereotypes that simultaneously shortchange both of the people they supposedly portray, but it’s inherently more damaging to be portrayed as angry — which is seen as a permanent character flaw — than being sheltered, which one will presumably grow out of.</p>
<p>“Do we have the Angry Black Woman or somebody who is just trying to assert themselves or assert a boundary that has been crossed?” Arissa asked.</p>
<p>Arissa is working on a docuseries that’s inspired by her experience after <em>The Real World</em> stopped filming. Like Melissa, Arissa didn’t know how to navigate her image post-show. Every single time her season re-aired during a marathon or in syndication, there was a new round of people who knew Arissa only as that person — the villain, the scold, the fight-starter — on <em>Las Vegas</em>.</p>
<p>“I want the opportunity to reclaim my likeness and rebrand myself, and tell stories the way that I’d like to tell them,” she said. “I am not the only person that feels this way. There’s a space for a story like this, and it’s been a long time coming.”</p>
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<p><strong>After deciding to reenter</strong> <em>The Real World</em> fold, Melissa stressed to producers that she was concerned that the emotional labor of explaining and teaching people about race was going to fall on her shoulders yet again. She was also worried that the show wouldn’t explore the other aspects of her life. “I wanted to be able to be a whole and full person outside of who I am as my race,” she said.</p>
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<figcaption><span class="e-image__meta">Melissa Beck from <em>The Real World: New Orleans.</em></span></figcaption>
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<p><em>Homecoming</em> executive producer and showrunner James Knox said he fully understood Melissa’s worries. Knox didn’t work on the original season, and he has no qualms discussing how the 2000 series and <em>Battle of the Sexes</em> fell short. Knox, a queer Black man, noted that Julie was the main character, with Melissa and Danny (Danny came out on the show as gay) used as accessories to her story.</p>
<p>“That season was all through Julie’s perspective,” he said of <em>Real World: New Orleans.</em> “I needed to allow for Melissa and Danny to lead their own stories independent of Julie being naive.”</p>
<p>The centering of the white experience and the use of the Angry Black Woman trope was, and continues to be, a problem in reality television. Following <em>The Real World</em>, it was perpetuated in series from <em>Survivor</em> to <em>The Apprentice</em> to the various <em>Real Housewives</em> franchises. What’s changed over the last decade or so is that we’re less inclined to buy into them. Audiences, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/interactive/2021/black-women-reality-tv/">reality show participants themselves</a>, and even the people who make reality television now, are all more aware and ready to call out these lazy portrayals.</p>
<p>“Back then, we didn’t have the language to describe what was going on. We didn’t have ‘diversity and inclusion.’ We didn’t use the word ‘equity.,” Kameelah said. “We’ve, in the past 20 years, developed the tools to call things out when we see injustices — not just on TV.”</p>
<p>Knox told Melissa that <em>Homecoming</em> wasn’t about any kind of redemption narrative for her; this also wouldn’t be a sympathy edit to make up for what happened in 2000. What he and his team wanted to do is tell the story of seven strangers picked to live in a house — and how their lives had changed once the cameras moved on.</p>
<p>Part of what convinced Melissa to sign on was the fact that, in addition to Knox, there were many people of color involved in making <em>Homecoming.</em> With a more diverse crew and an audience that’s fluent in topics of identity like race and class, Knox said, there’s now a way to tell fuller stories that — while not perfect — do not have the same blind spots as the show did before.</p>
<p>The first episode of <em>Homecoming</em> revisits the Melissa and Julie fight. This time around, Melissa was given space to talk about the situation and the hurt it caused. The episode also included a moment in which Melissa’s castmates discussed the damage that can be done when a white person calls a person of color a liar.</p>
<p>“Melissa has had to have this conversation a lot, and that’s tiring — that’s a burden and it shouldn’t be her burden,” Melissa’s castmate Kelley Wolf told Vox. Kelley said that living with Melissa again, and reliving those moments, made Kelley more empathetic to Melissa and brought the two closer than when the show first aired.</p>
<p>Melissa said that, in her first run on MTV, she didn’t have the language to easily express what she knew to be true about race, identity, and the way her castmates were treating her back in 2000.</p>
<p>“I was a messy, vulnerable 22-year-old girl from the South, who was awkward, biracial, with bad teeth, who had a lot of feelings, and who was coming into her own in terms of identity,” Melissa said. She has unapologetic affection for that version of herself, someone who approached the experiment earnestly, if naively. Melissa kept all that in mind as she filmed this reunion.</p>
<p>“Did it hinder the process of me being able to be real? I don’t think so.”</p>
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<p><strong>Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie paid a visit to Ukraine for a photo-op without wearing combat gear, suggesting the war in Ukraine is not all it’s portrayed to be by the corporate media.</strong></p>
<p>Jolie, who serves as an envoy for the United Nation’s Refugee Agency (UNHCR), was seen in a cafe in Lviv on Saturday waving at onlookers and signing autographs — notably without wearing body armor despite <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/18293791/russian-missile-strike-lviv-barbaric/" target="_blank">regular reports of shelling in the area</a>.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Angelina Jolie is in Ukraine. She is the second Hollywood celebrity after Sean Penn to visit the country since the start of the Russian military operation. <a href="https://t.co/8du80FtBBi">pic.twitter.com/8du80FtBBi</a></p>
— Wittgenstein (@backtolife_2022) <a href="https://twitter.com/backtolife_2022/status/1520406331831824389?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 30, 2022</a></blockquote>
<p>“Ms Jolie was in the country to meet the children affected by the war and visited hospitals and local organisations helping the injured and displaced,” the BBC <a href="http://ms%20jolie%20was%20in%20the%20country%20to%20meet%20the%20children%20affected%20by%20the%20war%20and%20visited%20hospitals%20and%20local%20organisations%20helping%20the%20injured%20and%20displaced./" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">reported</a>.</p>
<p>The 46-year-old actress is frequently deployed to war-torn areas to advocate for refugees displaced by conflict, such as her <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/angelina-jolie-united-nations-yemen_n_622501f5e4b012a2628c45db" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">recent visit</a> to Yemen.</p>
<p>But given the <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://www.fox5dc.com/news/russian-strikes-kill-at-least-7-in-lviv-ukraine-mayor-says" target="_blank">reporting</a> of increased military shelling and engagements in the area, some on social media questioned the legitimacy of that reporting given Jolie’s casual visit.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">What a dangerous war this is…</p>
— Novum (@NovNovum) <a href="https://twitter.com/NovNovum/status/1520411546052141058?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 30, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Such a brutal war</p>
— Derek Mulcahy (@DerekMul) <a href="https://twitter.com/DerekMul/status/1520415297215344642?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 30, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Lol. Bit the country is in war<br />
You would think it is a hollywood war with all these stars doing PR, starting with the president 🙄😒</p>
— Elliot (@Elliot88052525) <a href="https://twitter.com/Elliot88052525/status/1520408233848025089?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 30, 2022</a></blockquote>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Kinda interesting that Sean Penn just happened to be there at start of war…filming🤔</p>
— JuJu (@Judy57926923) <a href="https://twitter.com/Judy57926923/status/1520419597886889986?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 30, 2022</a></blockquote>
<p>Jolie is the second Hollywood celebrity to pay a visit to Ukraine after Sean Penn, who <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://outsider.com/entertainment/sean-penn-meeting-ukrainian-president-volodymyr-zelensky-born-for-this/" target="_blank">met</a> with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last month and called for nuclear retaliation against Russia.</p>
<p>“Even countries that have nuclear weapons can remain intimidated to use them, and we are seeing that now with our own country. And I fear what that legacy is going to be,” Penn opined on “Hannity” earlier this month.</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr" xml:lang="en">Actor <a href="https://twitter.com/SeanPenn?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SeanPenn</a> suggests America is too circumspect about deploying its nuclear arsenal:</p>
<p>“Even countries that have nuclear weapons can remain intimidated to use them, and we are seeing that now with our own country. And I fear what that legacy is going to be." <a href="https://t.co/jL3Zk0m9Rh">pic.twitter.com/jL3Zk0m9Rh</a></p>
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1511660488068767755?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2022</a></blockquote>
<p>At least Penn had the presence of mind to don <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10218437/Sean-Penn-dons-combat-gear-arrives-Ukraine-film-documentary-Russian-aggression.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">combat gear</a> while filming his documentary to appear as if his life was in danger.</p>
<p>Ukraine is becoming a hot go-to destination for the Hollywood elite! Who knew?</p>
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