Posted on 09/08/2018 10:33:45 PM PDT by EdnaMode
Comedy’s “it” girl, Tiffany Haddish, winning Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for hosting Saturday Night Live, set the tone for what became a historic night at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Saturday. All four guest acting categories went to Black actors, Haddish, Ron Cephas Jones (This Is Us), Samira Wiley (The Handmaid’s Tale) and Katt Williams (Atlanta)
This blows past previous high water marks — in the past two decades, there have been only two instances of multiple wins for black guest actors — in 2003 and 2014. Both times two of the four winners were people of color.
The breakthrough is a result of a concerted effort on part of networks, writers and producers to embrace more diverse storytelling and put on series featuring complex black characters, something that had been a rarity in the past.
(Excerpt) Read more at deadline.com ...
Cameron Britton or Matthew Goode should have won guest actor, but Jones was superb in season 1 of This is Us. Maybe it was a makeup win.
Dianna Rigg probably should have won guest actress but Samira Wiley is fantastic. And people loved her on Orange is the New Black.
So it seems that Buzz and past performances decided the winners, not their race.
It’s not difficult to achieve a milestone in the era of enforced diversity.
There won’t be true ‘diversity’ until all winners are black, or at least none are white.
I’m looking forward to the day when writers can write about the performances that won the awards and not dwell on the skin color of the awardees themselves.
EdnaMode, you did it right. I’m talking about the author of the referenced article.
Sounds like the “diversity” of the cast of “Hamilton” where white actors were told not to apply.
I am getting really SICK of the ghettoization of America, the coarsening of our culture continues.
Even the best writing put out by Hollywood is amateur-hour junk - all they really excel at is production, cinematography, and propaganda - leaving us with end products of no real entertainment value.
Black biochem PhD’s, rocket scientists
Mexican hackers, hedge-fund managers
Slim 15 y.o. hot high-school girls who knock-out ex-Spetnaz contractors
Passive, slack-jawed white guys who say dumb stuff and act amazed
No male asian characters ever, if there’s an asian girl she’s in a dragon dress
50% of characters are gay
The murderer always turns out to be a priest or businessman
I hate 90% of movies I TRY to watch these days
Shortly after "Hamilton", a ridiculous musical version of Tolstoy's War and Peace was staged on Broadway with a Negress cast as a Russian Princess in Czarist Russia. LOL.
It’s still Radical Chic. Remember that?
How about treating everyone like everyone else no matter the color? My boss is black and I do not care. I like him for who he is and what he does. His color has absolutely nothing to do with it.
I do not care what race people are. I wish everyone felt the same.
The headline writer is oblivious to irony. How is one race winning all the major awards “diversity”?
This is like the BET awards.
What about next year’s awards?
The best need not apply.
Warner Bros, HBO, DC entertainment rolls out diversity and inclusion policy
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3686053/posts
So, the awards were given as a case of affirmative action.
The DS is in “full desperation” mode-
TV is the last tool they have to keep the black population voting “D”
And on the cable shows and movies, they all have to have the obligatory ( often graphic) sex scene. That is why I never watch anything live. That way I can fast forward it.
Wow, what a coincidence. After BLM and other radical organizations launching threats at the entertainment industry (#OscarsSoWhite) - a plethora of affirmative action awards nominations favoring blacks suddenly comes to fruition. Amazing! And you all thought the gay black movie Moonlighting just happened to beat La La Land at the Oscars two years ago because it was a better movie?
“I do not care what race people are.”
If someone set you down in a large swath of certain Chicago real estate, you most assuredly would care.
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