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Jesse Jackson: ‘Star Wars’ Record-Breaking Box Office Success Due to Racially Diverse Cast
Breitbart.com ^ | feb 1 2016 | Kipp Jones

Posted on 02/01/2016 2:30:47 PM PST by drewh

Rev. Jesse Jackson partially credits the casting of black British actor John Boyega for the financial success of Star Wars: the Force Awakens in an op-ed piece about “Hollywood apartheid.”

“For the second year in a row, no actor or actress of color has been nominated for an Academy Award. That is a shameful streak,” Jackson wrote in USA TODAY on Monday. “But the growing outcry over the whitewashing of the prestigious golden statue and the industry it celebrates is a sign of at least some progress.” Jackson wrote that minority performers are the future of the industry.

“By midcentury, America will be a majority minority country. But it is already clear that diversity is good for business,”Jackson stated. “Films with diverse casts, according to the Bunche Center report, enjoyed the highest median global box-office receipts and the highest median return on investment.”

He added: “Indeed, the movie that broke box office records around the world in 2015, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, stars a white woman and a black man.”

To date, The Force Awakens has grossed nearly $2 billion.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: afroturf; astroturf; blackkk; blackliesmatter; blacklivesmatter; blackracist; california; hollywood; jessejackson; johnboyega; redistribution; reparations; starwars; theforceawakens; whiteprivilege
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1 posted on 02/01/2016 2:30:47 PM PST by drewh
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linked http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2016/02/01/jesse-jackson-star-wars-successful-diversity/


2 posted on 02/01/2016 2:31:32 PM PST by drewh
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Jesse Jackass.


3 posted on 02/01/2016 2:31:59 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: drewh
Rev. Jesse Jackson partially credits the casting of black British actor John Boyega for the financial success of Star Wars: the Force Awakens in an op-ed piece about “Hollywood apartheid.”

Oh, so an "African-American" wasn't good enough, huh? They had to get a British guy.

4 posted on 02/01/2016 2:32:15 PM PST by dfwgator
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Jesse Jackson: STFU


5 posted on 02/01/2016 2:32:29 PM PST by Zarro (Ben Carson 2016)
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To: drewh

He’s a dumb ass. It was a great script, a great franchise with good acting.
Nothing about diversity made the movie a success.


6 posted on 02/01/2016 2:32:31 PM PST by A CA Guy ( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: drewh

Well, Jessie ... Perhaps you can lick your own butt hole for an encore performance


7 posted on 02/01/2016 2:32:52 PM PST by WTFOVR (I find myself exclaiming that expression quite often these days!)
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To: drewh

Well it can’t be because of the story. Retread crap


8 posted on 02/01/2016 2:33:20 PM PST by Sybeck1 (Winners Win! Losers Cruise!)
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Cedric the Entertainer has some words for Jesse (Language)

https://youtu.be/GmeJa1hlTpk?t=17


9 posted on 02/01/2016 2:34:02 PM PST by dfwgator
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Star Wars: The force awakens would have been uber successful if the entire cast were white conservative Christian Americans.


10 posted on 02/01/2016 2:34:31 PM PST by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: drewh

Oh please, it’s star wars. It will make tons of money. Put those two in a different film without classic star wars characters and see how much it makes.


11 posted on 02/01/2016 2:34:36 PM PST by SWAMP-C1PHER (HOMO, OECONOMIA, ET CIVITAS.)
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Yeah, that’s why everyone I know went to see it, racial diversity. The success of the franchise has nothing to with it.


12 posted on 02/01/2016 2:35:07 PM PST by Blue Collar Christian (Ready for Teddy, Cruz that is.)
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Yeah, just like the first one. Broke all the records back than due to all the minorities in the cast. /s


13 posted on 02/01/2016 2:35:36 PM PST by Hugin ("First thing--get yourself a firearm!" Sheriff Ed Galt, Last Man St anding.)
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To: drewh

And the Feminists will claim that it was because the lead was a chick.


14 posted on 02/01/2016 2:35:43 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: Hugin

At least Billy Dee Williams is an American.


15 posted on 02/01/2016 2:36:02 PM PST by dfwgator
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To: drewh
Sad, very Sad

Racially Myopic Vision

16 posted on 02/01/2016 2:36:24 PM PST by HangnJudge (Cthulhu for President, why vote for a lesser Evil)
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I must be a racist because I was focused on a good story and not the flavors of the cast. I've even got an original VHS of Disney's Song of the South>/i> where all but one of the stars in the cast were Black and Jesse Jackson got it banned. But they still sell it in Japan with subtitles!
17 posted on 02/01/2016 2:36:57 PM PST by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: drewh

Big Daddy Jackson is brilliant, such that he should be a member of the Academy. Blahhhhhh


18 posted on 02/01/2016 2:37:25 PM PST by WyCoKsRepublican
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To: drewh

Three words: Jar Jar Binks.


19 posted on 02/01/2016 2:37:25 PM PST by snarkpup (My goal in life is to die of old age before the country does.)
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To: dfwgator

But he wasn’t in the first one. Well, there was the voice of James Earl Jones. Do black voices matter?


20 posted on 02/01/2016 2:37:26 PM PST by Hugin ("First thing--get yourself a firearm!" Sheriff Ed Galt, Last Man St anding.)
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