'Django Unchained' Producer on 'Selma' Oscar Snubs: Did Voters Have "Racial Fatigue"? (Guest Column)

Hollywoodreporter.com ^ | January 21, 2015 | Reginald Hudlin

[MeshugeMikey]

I hate whining.

Ironically, when I was asked to write about the Oscar "whiteout," I was in a planning meeting for the NAACP Image Awards. For those who don't know, the NAACP created the Image Awards almost 50 years ago in response to the lack of recognition of black talent in front of and behind the camera in mainstream (white) awards shows. You'd think this show wouldn't be needed by now, but that's clearly not the case.

[bray]

That isn’t very Marxist of you. We need Affirmative Academy Awards or Al Stepnfetch will start a riot on you.

[Hugin]

I have a fresh bout of it every time I see a gratuitous negro inserted into an advertisement or TV show out of proportion to the population at large.

Speaking of which, does McDonalds make any attempt to sell it's products to white people anymore? It seems like ever since they hired a black CEO every commercial is aimed at blacks.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Here’s an idea, maybe people are just sick and tired of seeing movies about slavery in North America.

You could make a movie about slavery in general, worldwide, throughout history. To do that would be a challenge, though. Because nobody anywhere ever rejected the institution of slavery imposed on other people. Until the Christians did so - not in the First Century AD, but only really in the Nineteenth Century. Slavery existed in the Roman Empire, you could look up the book of Philemon in the New Testament. And St. Paul’s letter to a slaveowner made no attempt to delegitimate the institution, but only to intercede on behalf of one individual runaway slave.

But of course the prime movers in the slave trade, enslaving not only black Africans but also Europeans, was Islam. To the extent that slavery was abolished, it was done primarily due to the great worldwide influence of the British Empire - and, of course, by the Union Army . . .

The Emancipation Proclamation did not free a single slave, at least not immediately, but it accomplished its objective of making it politically impossible for the British to recognize and support the Confederate States of America. That would of course have been disastrous to the Union cause, but it became impossible when Lincoln made the war explicitly about freeing the slaves in the CSA. Because, under the influence of William Wilberforce, Britain had become vehemently antislavery.

Black Rednecks and White Liberals - Thomas Sowell

[HiTech RedNeck]

Real rednecks are not raunchy, sorry to Sowell.

The New Testament idea of slave was either a POW or indentured servant. While the antebellum North American slaves were technically POWs, that really pushed the concept beyond biblical recognition because (1) it extended to progeny and (2) those who took the slaves as prisoners did so from rival tribes at the incitement of the slave traders, and probably would not otherwise have bothered.

[driftless2]

"gratuitous negro"

Ha ha..at the moment the Kenny Rogers poker party commercial for Geico is on with his racial "mix" of buddies including a black guy. I'm sure all poker parties have racial mixes like that. (snicker) My question: where are the Hispanics, Asians, and American Indians. Eventually we'll get to that point.

[driftless2]

From reading columns by people who purport to speak for black Americans, I don't think they'll ever get tired of the "evil whitey" theme.

Since I was a teen fifty years ago, I've read numerous articles by black "journalists" whining about how because some white in one part of the country did something bad to some black person, it's almost impossible for black people in general to succeed.

Liberals need the "evil whitey" ogre for their own sanity. If "evil whitey" did not exist, then they'd have to face reality.

[wardaddy]

Wardaddy:

living with acute Racial Fatigue since 1957

A lifetime of this little seed which destroyed the West

[GeronL]

lol

[sergeantdave]

Reginald Hudlin. Normal people, of whose ranks you don’t belong, have stopped caring about racist black folk whining. Maybe you can start up a racist-black-whining-academy award show. You can dress as alley cats, sit on a fence and howl that life screws black fascist racists.

Maybe you can pay the klan to march around and hurl insults toward the black racists. Oh, wait. The black hip-hop racists already hurl insults toward blacks, calling mothers, sisters and daughters whores. Don’t need no white racists to belittle the black race.

[MeshugeMikey]

perhaps he can become a fashion icon ....like this guy wearing BVDS under his hat....?

look for this look at a protest hopefully Not near you...soon

[sergeantdave]

“perhaps he can become a fashion icon ....like this guy wearing BVDS under his hat....? “

LOL!! Your humor is really good.

[MeshugeMikey]

Thank you!

I live in a area that twice voted 90 percent for Obie...so I have to work at the humor Overtime just to remain somewhat sane!

[POWERSBOOTHEFAN]

‘Django Unchained’ was a POS. Terrible movie and another lame performance from the insanely overrated Leo DiCaprio.

[MeshugeMikey]

I messed that one..

[POWERSBOOTHEFAN]

The hype surrounding the movie made it sound like it was one of the best films ever made.

Not even close.

[MeshugeMikey]

Hype is REALLY the name of the Game these days......

[Dqban22]

The real history of the Democratic terrorist arm

What the Hollywood radical left and the lame media will not tell.

KKK Terrorist Arm of the Democratic Party

"Those who ignore history are damned to repeat it" George Santayana

An Open Letter to the Democratic Party (From Black Republican Woman)

Lincoln Heritage Institute ^ | 3-18-08 | Lt. Colonel Frances Rice,

"We, African American citizens of the United States, declare and assert:

Whereas in the early 1600's 20 African men and women were landed in Virginia from a Dutch ship as slaves and from that tiny seed grew the poisoned fruit of plantation slavery which shaped the course of American development,

Whereas reconciliation and healing always begin with an apology and an effort to repay those who have been wronged,

Whereas the Democratic Party has never apologized for their horrific atrocities and racist practices committed against African Americans during the past two hundred years, nor for the residual impact that those atrocities and practices and current soft bigotry of low expectations are having on us today,

Whereas the Democratic Party fought to expand slavery and, after the Civil War, established Jim Crow Laws, Black Codes and other repressive legislation that were designed to disenfranchise African Americans,

Whereas the Ku Klux Klan was the terrorist arm of the Democratic Party, and their primary goal was to intimidate and terrorize African American voters, Republicans who moved South to protect African Americans and any other whites who supported them,

Whereas, according to leading historians (both black and white), the horrific atrocities committed against African Americans during slavery and Reconstruction were financed, sponsored, and promoted by the Democratic Party and their Ku Klux Klan supporters,

Whereas from 1870 to 1930, in an effort to deny African Americans their civil rights and to keep African Americans from voting Republican, thousands of African Americans were shot, beaten, lynched, mutilated, and burned to death by Ku Klux Klan terrorists from the Democratic Party,

Whereas Democratic Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry Truman rejected anti-lynching laws and efforts to establish a permanent Civil Rights Commission,

Whereas the Democratic party has used racist demagoguery to deceive African Americans about the history of the Republican Party that:

(a) started as the anti-slavery party in 1854,

(b) fought to free African Americans from slavery,

(c) designed Reconstruction, a ten-year period of unprecedented political power for African Americans,

(d) passed the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution granting African Americans freedom, citizenship, and the right to vote,

(e) passed the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875 granting African Americans protection from the Black Codes and prohibiting racial discrimination in public accommodations,

(f) passed the Civil Rights Act of 1957 and the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965 granting African Americans protection from the Jim Crow laws,

(g) established Affirmative Action programs to help African Americans proper with Republican President Richard Nixon's 1969 Philadelphia Plan that set the first goals and timetables and his 1972 Equal Employment Opportunity Act that made Affirmative Action Programs the law of our nation, and

(h) never sponsored or launched a program, passed laws, or engaged in practices that resulted in the death of millions of African Americans,

Whereas Brown vs. the Board of Education of Topeka (a 1954 decision by Chief Justice Earl Warren who was appointed by Republican President Dwight Eisenhower) was a landmark civil rights case that was designed to overturn the racist practices that were established by the Democratic Party,

Whereas after Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt received the vote of African Americans, he banned African American newspapers from the military shortly after taking office because he was convinced the newspapers were communists,

Whereas Democratic President John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil Rights Law, opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and was later criticized by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for ignoring civil rights issues.

Whereas Democratic President John F. Kennedy authorized the FBI (supervised by his brother, Attorney General Robert Kennedy) to investigate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on suspicion of being a communist,

Whereas Democratic Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia, a former member of the Ku Klux Klan, made a 14-hour filibuster speech in the Senate in June 1964 in an unsuccessful effort to block passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and was heralded in April 2004 by Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd as a senator who would have been a great leader during the Civil War, Whereas when the 1964 Civil Rights Act came up for vote, Senator Al Gore, Sr. and the rest of the Southern Democrats voted against the bill,

Whereas Democrats voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act as compared to 80 percent of Republicans, and in the Senate only 69 percent of the Democrats voted for the 1964 Civil Rights Act, compared to 82 percent of the Republicans,

Whereas Democratic President Bill Clinton sent troops to Europe to protect the citizens of Bosnia and Kosovo while allowing an estimated 800,000 black Rwandans to be massacred in Africa, vetoed the welfare reform law twice before signing it, and refused to comply with a court order to have shipping companies develop an Affirmative Action Plan,

Whereas Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore created harmful racial division when he falsely claimed that the 2000 presidential election was "stolen" from him and that African Americans in Florida were disenfranchised, even though a second recount of Florida votes by the "Miami Herald" and a consortium of major news organizations confirmed that he lost the election, and a ruling by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission declared that African Americans were not denied the right to vote,

Whereas the Democratic Party's soft bigotry of low expectations and social promotions have consigned African Americans to economic bondage and created a culture of dependency on government social programs,

Whereas the Democratic Party's use of deception and fear to block welfare reform, the faith-based initiative and school choice that would help African Americans prosper is consistent with the Democratic Party's heritage of racism that included sanctioning of slavery and kukluxery, a perversion of moral sentiment among leaders of the Democratic Party whose racist legacy bode ill until this generation of African Americans,

Now, therefore, for the above and other documented atrocities and accumulated wrongs inflicted upon African Americans, we demand a formal written apology and other appropriate remuneration from the leadership of the Democratic party.

[MeshugeMikey]

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