It seems that not everyone was happy with Viola Davis's beautiful speech on Sunday night at the Emmy's when she made history as the first African-American woman to win and Emmy for Lead Actress in a Drama Series, and many - such as "General Hospital" actress Nancy Lee Grahn - took to twitter to showcase their rage.

'I wish I loved #ViolaDavis speech, but I thought she should have let @shondarhimes write it.' Grahn's wrote, sparking controversy almost immediately. Soon, as outraged people took to defend Davis on twitter, Grahn countered with a tweet saying "Im a f**king actress for 40 yrs. None of us get respect or opportunity we deserve. Emmys not venue 4 racial opportunity. ALL women belittled". She has since deleted the tweet, but Buzzfeed was able to record it beforehand.

She continued on with the following tweet.

The actress then proceeded to attack Davis for quoting Harriet Tubman - an African American abolitionist and humanitarian.

The Twitter fight raged on for a couple more hours until Grahn finally relented, saying "I apologize 2 anyone who I offended. I'm women advocate since I became one. After reading responses, I hear u and my tweet was badly phrased", to then later add "30 yrs an advocate 4 human rights & now i'm a racist. Color me heartbroken. Twitter can bring out the best & sadly tonight the worst of us".

While she did offer a more lengthier twitter response later, her initial reaction is incredibly telling, and rather troubling. While her intention might have been to say that all women deserve opportunities, her wording, and even her reasoning, are extremely problematic. There is no denying that women of color and women of Hispanic heritage have a much harder time working in the industry than white women such as Grahn. There is also no denying that most of the time both black and Hispanic women are used simply as stereotypes or sexual objects and are rarely given three dimensional characters that would allow them to showcase themselves, and yet the "General Hospital" actress doesn't seem to understand this.

She believes that just because Davis has been able to overcome many of the prejudices placed on African-American actresses, she shouldn't have the right to complain about the Industry's narrow-mindedness or speak on behalf of her community when given the air time. Grahn doesn't acknowledge the fact that women of color have it much harder than white women when it comes to booking a job. She doesn't recognize her own privilege and she feels entitled enough to call out an African-American actress who has every right to talk about how hard it is to be a black woman in Hollywood.

The most troubling part of this issue is that Grahn truly believed she was being unfairly judged by non-whites who took offense to her tweets, and it's even more troubling to know that she is not the only woman out there that thought the same thing. This proves, yet again, that we are still a long way from racial equality, and that many privileged people continue to refuse to see this.