In an interview with Jezebel, Lynn Whitfield, who stars in the OWN series Greenleaf and in Sanaa Lathan’s upcoming Netflix film Nappily Ever After, talked about the performative lengths awards shows go to in order to highlight perceived diversity. Case in point: Monday night’s Emmy Awards, where Regina King broke the streak of white winners when she won for best lead actress in a limited series for her role in Seven Seconds. “It is her third Emmy, and for that I am just so happy for her,” Whitfield told Jezebel. “The awards shows are becoming more diverse, but my prayer is that none of the diversity is gratuitous, [that] none of the diversity is patronizing, that the diversity isn’t just sort of dangling little bits to satisfy groups of people.”