Posted on 01/14/2016 11:51:26 AM PST by C19fan
Last year to open the Academy Awards, host Neil Patrick Harris joked, "Welcome to the 87th Oscars. Tonight we honor Hollywood's best and whitest." Then, after a beat: "Sorryâ¦brightest."
It was a tongue-in-cheek acknowledgement of one of the biggest scandals to plague the Oscars in more than a decade: every single acting nominee was white. Worse, in a year when Selma, a film about Martin Luther King Jr., was the best reviewed film of the yearâbut shut out in every race but Best Picture.
This year the joke is no longer funny.
(Excerpt) Read more at thedailybeast.com ...
Yes, Kevin, and the Party that you and all your Hollywood peers support tosses you blacks aside too. Even your “black” President cares not about blacks.
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