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Here's what the academy may do about the #OscarsSoWhite boycott
latimes.com ^ | 1/21/2016 | rebecca keegan

Posted on 01/22/2016 5:40:21 AM PST by rktman

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To: arthurus

If you peel off the gold it’s chocolate underneath.


41 posted on 01/22/2016 9:26:20 AM PST by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: T-Bone Texan

I can’t wait for that meteor.


42 posted on 01/22/2016 9:27:58 AM PST by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: rktman

I really don’t care what they do. I haven’t watched the Oscars for 20 years. This just makes me want to avoid Oscar more than ever. Anyone named Oscar, Oscar Meyer wieners, Oscar de la Renta are now off my list.


43 posted on 01/22/2016 9:31:37 AM PST by albie
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If ‘quality’ isn't the issue the Academy has many options.

Here's one that's fair to all blacks in the industry.

On years no blacks are nominated a dart board with names of black actors, directors, etc could be put on the wall. One Academy member would be designated as the person who ‘throws darts across the room’. Then whoever’s name is hit becomes a nominee.

That way blacks who don't win on merit can still be nominated.

Spike Lee and Michael Moore should tell the Academy how many blacks MUST 'win' every year - that number of darts would be used from this point forward...

44 posted on 01/22/2016 9:47:21 AM PST by GOPJ (It's more important to have a gun in your hand than a cop on the phone- Florida Sheriff Grady Judd)
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Then you get into the “who picked the dart thrower” line of thought. Face it, there just ain’t no winnin’ this ridiculous crap. Those not nominated, slink off into the corner and count your money.


45 posted on 01/22/2016 10:07:04 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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Michael Moore or Spike Lee could throw the darts... and why just ‘a few’... Maybe 15% of all nominees should be black.

In for a penny in for a pound...


46 posted on 01/22/2016 10:20:28 AM PST by GOPJ (It's more important to have a gun in your hand than a cop on the phone- Florida Sheriff Grady Judd)
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To: GOPJ

In keeping with the overall race numbers in the U.S. Oooops. Dang, now we’ll have the “latino” segment up in arms. How many Vietnamese have you seen at the oscars? Oh, you don’t waste your time either huh? LOL! So why are we wasting time on it?


47 posted on 01/22/2016 10:30:10 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: rktman

Give award
5 white actors
3 asians
1 black
4 misc, gays, transgenders, bi....etc


48 posted on 01/22/2016 11:19:38 AM PST by minnesota_bound
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How about most abused victim category... (not real abuse like rape - or anything Clinton or Cosby would do) but classic liberal victim-hood... something really whiny and not connected in any way to the real world...

That would be fun to watch.

And it could be open to all races... whites, blacks, asians etc... only requirement would be 'liberal'... put upon...

49 posted on 01/22/2016 11:38:47 AM PST by GOPJ (It's more important to have a gun in your hand than a cop on the phone- Florida Sheriff Grady Judd)
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