--- title: Issa Rae Was Rooting For Everyone Black at the 2017 Emmys description: Issa Rae kept it real on the red carpet, telling a red carpet interviewer that she was "rooting for everyone black" at the 2017 Emmys. canonical: https://time.com/4946219/issa-rae-rooting-for-everyone-black-at-emmys-2017/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-09-18T16:34:10.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:47:21.395Z og:title: Issa Rae Was 'Rooting For Everyone Black' at 2017 Emmys og:description: The star got candid on the red carpet og:url: https://time.com/4946219/issa-rae-rooting-for-everyone-black-at-emmys-2017/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9fcd30e66c4d6492/6988de37096a94d48869fa40/issa-rae-emmy.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: 69th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Issa Rae Was 'Rooting For Everyone Black' at 2017 Emmys twitter:description: The star got candid on the red carpet twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9fcd30e66c4d6492/6988de37096a94d48869fa40/issa-rae-emmy.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # _Insecure's_ Issa Rae Was 'Rooting For Everyone Black' at the 2017 Emmys  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Sep 18, 2017 4:34 PM UTC  LOS ANGELES, CA - SEPTEMBER 17: Actor Issa Rae attends the 69th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 17, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images) LOS ANGELES, CA - SEPTEMBER 17: Actor Issa Rae attends the 69th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 17, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)Frazer Harrison—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Sep 18, 2017 4:34 PM UTC [Issa Rae](http://time.com/collection/firsts/4898603/issa-rae-firsts/)‘s candor and commitment to being herself has helped make her [HBO show _Insecure_](http://time.com/4856245/issa-rae-insecure-hbo/) a success and has even netted her [a new gig as the newest face of Covergirl](http://time.com/4937447/issa-rae-covergirl/), so it should come as no surprise that she kept things refreshingly real even while walking the red carpet at [the 69th annual Emmy Awards.](http://time.com/4945584/emmys-review-stephen-colbert/) Although the _Insecure_ creator and star’s own show was passed over for an Emmy nomination this year, she was more than willing to share who she would be supporting at the show when asked by _Variety_ who she would be rooting for to take home top prizes, ahead of the ceremony. “I’m rooting for everybody black,” Rae said. “I am!” She later elaborated on her excitement at [the increase of nominations for people of color](http://time.com/4939749/emmys-2017-political-moments/), with a [recordbreaking number](http://[12:27] https://www.forbes.com/sites/maddieberg/2017/09/14/the-2017-emmy-nominees-by-the-numbers/#49501e745801) of performers of color being nominated to make this year’s honors more racially diverse than [last year’s](http://time.com/4499172/emmy-awards-2016-winners-diversity/). “You have so many people behind the camera and behind the scenes that are committed to telling authentic, real stories that haven’t been seen on television before and you have audiences embracing it because they’re tired of seeing the same old, same old stories,” she said. “So it’s just a pleasure to be among such great company.” > [](https://twitter.com/Variety/status/909559689871896576) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4946219/issa-rae-rooting-for-everyone-black-at-emmys-2017/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4946219/issa-rae-rooting-for-everyone-black-at-emmys-2017/"},"headline":"Insecure's Issa Rae Was 'Rooting For Everyone Black' at the 2017 Emmys","datePublished":"2017-09-18T16:34:10.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:47:21.395Z","description":"The star got candid on the red carpet","url":"https://time.com/4946219/issa-rae-rooting-for-everyone-black-at-emmys-2017/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","emmys"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9fcd30e66c4d6492/6988de37096a94d48869fa40/issa-rae-emmy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9fcd30e66c4d6492/6988de37096a94d48869fa40/issa-rae-emmy.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"69th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards - Arrivals","caption":"69th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards - Arrivals","creditText":"Frazer Harrison—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4946219/issa-rae-rooting-for-everyone-black-at-emmys-2017/","name":"Insecure's Issa Rae Was 'Rooting For Everyone Black' at the 2017 Emmys"}}]}] ```