Eboni K. Williams lashes out at the "boring" label that has come with her Real Housewives of New York stint

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Vulture's Brian Moylan accused Williams, the show's first Black housewife, of being "boring" and too preachy when she's used her position to have a discourse on race. (Moylan later apologized after Williams pushed back.) The New York Post blamed Williams for declining ratings, saying she is "killing the show" by making it go "woke" turning it into a "televised diversity and inclusion seminar." But Williams sees something sinister in being labeled boring. “I'll tell you, this boredom-gate or whatever it is, it’s a dog whistle,” Williams tells Vice. “To say that what people are really articulating with the euphemism of boredom is really a complete resistance. They're hostile. It’s a hostility to being, in their perception, force-fed exposure to the Black American experience. That's what that is.” Williams added: “There’s plenty of Black people and other people of color that also rely upon their proximity to a white-dominant status quo. This is why some of the feedback I'm getting from even my own Black community is ‘lighten up, sis,’ ‘it's too much. sis,’ ‘we want to just watch pulling wigs and cussing each other out and white people shenanigans.’ So that's been made clear to me. I simply refuse to occupy a platform of this magnitude and be complicit and damaging in my own rights.”