Is this bad? The acceptance speech that annoyed me the most was Halle Barry's. I know that it's a wonderful achievement to win an Oscar, and she obviously had a lot of "emotional dollars" invested in being a racial barrier-breaker. I couldn't help thinking, however, of Walter Williams or Thomas Sowell standing up there in her place, saying:
"You know, I didn't win this award because I am black, I won it because I'm that good. And if you gave it to me because I'm black, you can have it back."
And then I felt kind of bad for raining on her parade, so to speak.
What do you think?
What do you think?
I think you must a hugely better person than I am! I think she made an spectacle of herself. I took a bathroom break right then.