Good news, America! Your favorite angry black woman, Olivia Pope, returns tonight on ABC's Scandal. As the New York Times pointed out last week, black women aren't allowed to have emotions other than anger, so we've taken the liberty of compiling Pope's angriest angry black woman moments that fellow angry black woman and show creator Shonda Rhimes has attempted to disguise as other, more universal—dare we say human—feelings. What follows is irrefutable evidence that black women of power are incapable of not being angry, even when they're smiling and/or drinking copious amounts of red wine.
Olivia Pope's 10 Angriest Angry Black Woman Moments, in Gifs
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