nancy lee grahn becomes the first white woman with 1/88 african ancestry to win an emmy.

The first white woman with 1/88 African ancestry has finally won an Emmy for Best Actress in a Drama Series, and her name is Nancy Lee Grahn. This one's for the history books, guys.

Despite no one recognizing the actress unless they happened to be sitting in a dentist's waiting room on anesthesia watching General Hospital reruns at 2:00 in the afternoon, and there were no magazines available, and their phone was completely dead, the Notorious NLG was awarded a prestigious accolade last Sunday to a crowd of inspired and enthusiastic peers. After starring in the Clint Eastwood biopic series What About Me?, Grahn was praised for her performance as Karen, a white woman who refused to stay silent and mind her own damn business, attending the Ferguson Protests with only a megaphone, an All Lives Matter T-shirt, and a dream.

The actress was surprised by the win however, as well as the discourse around her African ancestry, firmly believing that as a woman, her deep African roots held no bearing or correlation with her or anyone else's opportunities within Hollywood, stating "I've been acting in the same role since 1996. I've been in this business so long I've had seven kidney stones and have passed four of them. So trust me when I say that playing a lawyer in a soap opera for nearly two decades has fully allowed me the proper knowledge and insight to comment on the racial inequality, or lack thereof, within the film industry. Here's how I see it. Black women and I, we both have boobs, which makes us unequivocally the same. And society looks at our boobies the same exact way -- with disgust and limited acting roles. That's right. None of us get the respect or opportunity we deserve. Equal amount of disrespect across the board. In fact, black women have never been discriminated against. And although the Emmys is definitely not a platform to spread awareness and challenge systematic oppression, I've decided to use this spotlight to champion my firm stance on my 'all women belittled' movement." In line with these personal beliefs, she delivered this powerful speech on diversity within Hollywood --

" 'In my mind, I see a line. And over that line, I see green fields and lovely flowers and beautiful white women with their arms stretched out to me, over that line. But I can't seem to get there no how. Because those women are my estranged family telling me to stay away, screaming to warn me that the line is a barbed wire fence.' Those were Harriet Tubman's words as she hid in an underground train station, escaping a really awkward conversation with her former boss about quitting her job without two weeks notice. And let me tell you something -- the only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is absolutely nothing. You cannot win an Emmy for roles that are simply not there, like ghost roles where you have to be invisible and very, very quiet. So here’s to all the writers of What About Me?, to the incredible producers, Meghan McCain, Megyn Kelly, the ghost of Paula Deen, who breathed life into Karen and her incredible story, to the people who have redefined what it means to be out of touch, out of order, and out of their everloving mind. And to the Taraji P. Hensons, the Kerry Washingtons, the Halle Berrys, the Nicole Beharies, the Meagan Goods: Thank you for showing how easy and effortless it is to be a black woman in this world. Thank you for giving a fellow sista like me the opportunity to be a Karen. Thank you to the Television Academy. Thank you."

The speech was followed by thundering applause from fellow black actresses, fellow nominees, as well as a swarm of undying praise on social media. And despite some outliers who simply cannot grasp the undeniable fact that racism does not exist, Nancy Lee Grahn's recent win proves television's progression into a new age of media that truly matches America's melting pot of pure oblivion. As the first woman of color to win in this new "urban" category, things are certainly staying exactly the same, the faces of television becoming increasingly just as diverse as they always were, with even more amazing, utopian programming coming to the small screen.