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Academy President Cheryl Boone Isaacs Speaks Out About Lack of Oscars Diversity [Affirmative Action]
NBCNews ^ | January 17, 2015

Posted on 01/17/2015 10:37:10 AM PST by Steelfish

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To: Steelfish

What you’ll never hear: “They just weren’t good enough this year. That’s why the votes weren’t there. Remember “The Color Purple”, or “Roots”. You don’t get that every year.”


21 posted on 01/17/2015 10:59:48 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: mulligan

Maybe they can give out an ebony color Oscar to the winners.


22 posted on 01/17/2015 11:01:15 AM PST by Sasparilla (Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum)
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To: Steelfish
Ironically, the Academy could have nominated the two leads from Selma for Best Actor and Best Actress and still not have any African-American nominees, since they are both Nigerian-Britons.

It's comical that the media are having this argument one year after 12 Years a Slave won for Best Picture.

Part of the problem may be the reliance on big high-minded Oprah-esque features intended to guilt the Academy into a medal.

Make the best movies you can about what you actually know and let the chips fall where they may.

23 posted on 01/17/2015 11:03:01 AM PST by x
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To: Steelfish

Now the blacks think they are “entitled” to win every year, or they will riot, burn and destroy that which is not theirs.

This black lady does not have the moral courage to say “hey, we won last year, so chill.”


24 posted on 01/17/2015 11:07:19 AM PST by truth_seeker
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25 posted on 01/17/2015 11:14:10 AM PST by Dallas59
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To: Steelfish

No similar whine about the lack of diversity in NFL running backs, I reckon.


26 posted on 01/17/2015 11:15:37 AM PST by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: Steelfish

Take some of your own idealistic medicine, now all of the white actors and and actresses no matter how well deserved will take a back seat to a possible undeserving film or actor because of the color of thier skin, funny! enjoy self pompuos a## holes in tinsel town. Good for us but not good for you, becareful what you wish for


27 posted on 01/17/2015 11:17:44 AM PST by ronnie raygun (Empty head empty suit = arrogant little bastard)
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To: ronnie raygun

Can we cover the white actors and actress with black paint. After all Hollywood is all about make-believe.


28 posted on 01/17/2015 11:19:46 AM PST by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

In the future we can look for a quota system so that every category is diverse.


29 posted on 01/17/2015 11:21:21 AM PST by TomGuy
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Blacks are so overrepresented in movies and TV.

Absolutely true. But when I bought the DVDs "Band of Brothers" I was pleased to see they were historically accurate. Blacks were not in combat roles in the early stages of the war, other than the Red Tail pilots, and certainly weren't in combat roles in the 101st. I'm surprised al pimpton didn't raise a fuss with that other liberal, tom hanks.

Concerning the dearth of blackness at the oscars, maybe America is waking up to the extortion we've suffered. Maybe Americans are becoming aware of the scam of affirmative action, minority business loans, welfare, minority hiring quotas, minority scholarships, ad nauseum.

Maybe America just doesn't want to see blacks who actually aren't talented but are there simply to fill a quota.

Works for me.

30 posted on 01/17/2015 11:22:45 AM PST by LouAvul (If government is the answer, you're asking the wrong question.)
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To: JMS

Don’t forget commercials.


31 posted on 01/17/2015 11:26:42 AM PST by aquila48
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To: Steelfish

All those lefties attacking an institution run by a black woman! Those racists!


32 posted on 01/17/2015 11:34:13 AM PST by GeronL
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To: PapaBear3625

or where the kids are smart and the parents are stupid


33 posted on 01/17/2015 11:35:47 AM PST by GeronL
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To: Steelfish
Next will come the Dodo Bird Verdict right out of Lewis Carroll “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland:”
"Everybody has won, and all must have prizes!”
34 posted on 01/17/2015 11:45:26 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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folks like here and Sharpton are twisting MLK’s famous quotation into: Let us be known for the color of our skins, not the content of our character.


35 posted on 01/17/2015 11:45:46 AM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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For some idiotic reason LIBERALS work over time at trying to elevate the image of blacks with psuedo stories and images, yet blacks as a whole spend little time actually elevating it themselves.

Whorlywood paints a picture, the black stands beside it and assumes we all see him or her as the picture was painted by the movie money mongers.

By the way.. IMO, Cheryl Boone Isaacs looks like Spike Lee in drag.

36 posted on 01/17/2015 12:02:24 PM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: Dallas59

Been there, done that. Most don’t even get that they’re patronizing and profiling. Why the heck would I, a 58 y/o black Tea Partier, care about some cobbled together ‘rap’?
I don’t know most of those performers and don’t wish to know them. All aside, with a good friend, you just let it go, because you know they only have good intentions. I’ve made the same mistake profiling in reverse. “What do you mean, you don’t like Van Halen, Whitesnake or Jimi Hendrix??”


37 posted on 01/17/2015 12:32:14 PM PST by lee martell
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To: Steelfish

Other than Selma and Annie, what was there last year? Putting all their eggs in one basket, as it were?

I’m asking. I saw two movies all year, and both had Marvel in the title.


38 posted on 01/17/2015 12:35:44 PM PST by Tanniker Smith (Rome didn't fall in a day, either.)
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To: Tanniker Smith

Denzel Washington in The Equalizer.


39 posted on 01/17/2015 12:38:06 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Steelfish
"committed to seeking out diversity of voice and opinion" and that outreach to women and artists of color is a major focus.

I thought the Oscars were supposed to be about quality, not skin color.

40 posted on 01/17/2015 2:49:18 PM PST by JoeFromSidney (Book RESISTANCE TO TYRANNY, available from Amazon.)
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