Ncuti Gatwa, who plays the 15th Doctor in Doctor Who, asserted that “white mediocrity” gets celebrated while black people have to be flawless to get even half of the celebration that white people do.
Picture Shows: The Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) and Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) Credit: James Pardon/Bad Wolf/BBC Studios
Gatwa’s comments came in an interview with Attitude while discussing his recent performance at the Oscars, a new relationship he had formed, and some personal growth he was going through.
After discussing how nervous he was at the Oscars and sharing how he does not date people in the acting industry, and noting that he’s trying to have more perspective regarding the blessings in his life, Gatwa was asked, “Did you feel you were ready to open yourself up to that relationship because of the work you had been doing with yourself? That perhaps you wouldn’t have allowed them in before?”
He answered, “Yes. I was very, very emotionally avoidant. I strictly emotionally avoided everything my whole twenties. I was catching up with my sister the other day, and I was like, ‘I think from the way that we were raised, I think we were taught that we have to earn love.’ Instead of it being an unconditional thing or that being an unconditional entity. I’m not saying it is that.”
“I don’t know whether that comes from that African upbringing, that strict upbringing: get your grades, get into a good uni, become a doctor, become a lawyer. Start overachieving. It was like you have to prove why you’re lovable. We’re trained to be like, ‘If I’m not exceptional, I won’t be loved.’ Certainly, I think that was my thing. So, yeah, I think I’m just learning now like, ‘Oh, you are allowed to be loved,'” he continued.
Ncuti Gatwa as the 15th Doctor in Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Special “The Giggle” (2023), BBC
Next, he made it racial, “You don’t have to be excellent or aspire to that term, ‘black excellence’. What the hell? There’s so much white mediocrity that gets celebrated, and black people, we have to be absolutely flawless to get half of [that] anyway.”
“So, I’m slowly training myself out of that and being like, ‘No s**t. You deserve love just for existing.’ And that has taught me to be a lot more loving as well, in a weird way,” he concluded.
Ncuti Gatwa as the 15th Doctor in Doctor Who Christmas Special “The Church on Ruby Road” (2023), BBC
Not only did Gatwa claim white mediocrity is celebrated while black people have to be flawless to achieve half of the celebration that he believes white mediocrity gets, but he also claimed that “microaggressions exist everywhere” when asked about the last time he experienced racism or homophobia.
Gatwa claimed, “I’d say that is a daily thing. You pick and choose what things you’ll allow to stick with you, to affect you, or to say something about. Homophobia, I don’t know — other than my own internalised homophobia that I’m working through in therapy — not for a little while.”
He elaborated on this “internalized homophobia” saying, “I didn’t really realise I had any internalised phobia until I came into the public eye. I always thought that I was the most free-spirited person. No one could tell me what to do. I do whatever I want. Until I came into the public eye [and] I was like, ‘Oh, I don’t know.’ It is an ever-evolving journey. ”
Ncuti Gatwa as the 15th Doctor in Doctor Who Christmas Special “The Church on Ruby Road” (2023), BBC
Gatwa was also asked about the push to normalize disordered lifestyles such as gender diversity and transgender ideololgy and the righteous pushback against this normalization.
He said, “Everything trickles down from the top, and when you see politicians openly attacking marginalised communities, when you see our politicians openly attacking trans people, it makes it OK for everyone else.”
“And it is scary to see that we’ve got to a point where it is fine to attack vulnerable people because that’s essentially what’s happening. People who are the most vulnerable, the most disenfranchised, most disconnected from everyone else are being told that they are the threats. It’s sick because it’s a hiding away of your own ineptitude,” he continued.
Gatwa went on, “You’re going to put the blame on immigrants, black and brown people, trans people, queer people, to hide the fact that you are not doing anything for people? It’s easier to just create discord amongst people. It’s divide and conquer, isn’t it?”
Ncuti Gatwa as the 15th Doctor and Millie Gibson as Ruby Sunday in Doctor Who Christmas Special “The Church on Ruby Road” (2023), BBC
Ironically, Gatwa does not realize that he and his allies are the ones creating discord given they are rejecting God through the embrace of their disordered lifestyles.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church is clear, “Basing itself on Sacred Scripture, which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity, tradition has always declared that ‘homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered.’ They are contrary to the natural law. They close the sexual act to the gift of life. They do not proceed from a genuine affective and sexual complementarity. Under no circumstances can they be approved.”
Image of the Consecracion of Ecuador to the Sacred Heart of Jesus by President Garcia Moreno in 1873, propagated by Father Mateo. Photo Credit: open domain, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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As for transgender ideology, Archbishop Sample of the Archdiocese of Portland recalled a conversation he had with Pope Francis while speaking with Catholic Answers, “He said, ‘This is a direct assault on God Himself. It’s the ultimate rejection of God. That we don’t need God, we don’t need to accept God, we don’t need to accept our individuality, we don’t need to accept how God has made us. We just cast God aside and I will define myself.’”
He later added, “This ideology that’s in the culture today, now, that there’s no such thing as a binary gender, there’s multiple genders that we can define, nobody’s one or the other, we’re just in this gender fluidity. So that young people growing up are indoctrinated into this ideology. And this is what Pope Francis goes off after. It’s a terrible thing what’s happening.”
Furthermore Archbishop Sample explained in his A Catholic Response to Gender Identity Theory how the ideology is dangerous, “To some, supporting aspects of social transition may seem benign, even humane, such as using someone’s preferred pronouns and actively affirming his or her perceived gender. However, while well-intentioned, this kind of endorsement may help shepherd a young person on a path of unnecessary medicalization.”
His Excellency continues, “Social transition is often the first step towards hormones and surgery. A 2020 survey of transgender and nonbinary youth found that 64% of respondents were either already receiving cross-sex hormones or desired to do so. Danish researchers who first used puberty blockers on gender dysphoric children found that social transition increased the likelihood that dysphoria would persist and result in medicalization.”
“Social transition can also include practices such as breast-binding and genital tucking, both of which have been shown to have averse effects on physical health, like testicular torsion and reduced fertility in males, and abnormal lung function and back pain in females,” he notes. “Moreover, a 2020 study on the effects of social transition found that family and peer relations, but not social transition status, predicted psychological functioning.”
Archbishop Alexander Sample via Archbishop Sample YouTube
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