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'#BAFTAsSoWhite' trends as race row explodes over all-white acting nominations... and even Academy boss admits she's 'very disappointed with the lack of diversity'
UK Daily Mail ^ | January 7, 2020 | Eve Buckland

Posted on 01/07/2020 6:38:04 AM PST by C19fan

#BAFTAsSoWhite is trending on Twitter after a race row erupted over the all-white acting nominations.

Academy boss, Amanda Berry, admitted she was 'very disappointed' over the lack of diversity following Tuesday morning's announcement, which saw not a single actor of colour honoured in the major acting categories.

BAFTA was heavily criticised after the nominations were revealed, with movie fans taking to social media with the hashtag to call out Lupita Nyong'o's snub for Us, while Margot Robbie was nominated twice in the Supporting Actress category.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: race
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To: dsrtsage

‘Why don’t they just create a separate but equal token awards?”

Show it on BET.


41 posted on 01/07/2020 7:39:07 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Cloward-Piven.)
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To: KevinB
Of course if anyone in the school system says that certain "gifted and talented" kids are not "gifted or talented", that speaker shall be deemed a "hater" and a "bigot" and a "white nationalist".

"In a time of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." George Orwell, 1984

They are destroying the language as well as the school system.

They are training the students to be obedient slaves to their totalitarian masters.
42 posted on 01/07/2020 7:46:56 AM PST by cgbg (The Democratic Party is morphing into the Donner Party)
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To: cgbg
Of course if anyone in the school system says that certain "gifted and talented" kids are not "gifted or talented", that speaker shall be deemed a "hater" and a "bigot" and a "white nationalist".

Yep. My wife tells me that teachers are also no longer able to talk about IQ.

43 posted on 01/07/2020 8:05:56 AM PST by KevinB ("Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." - Charles Darwin)
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To: Sans-Culotte

Affirmative action nominees whether there was a major big money highly rated minority movie or not. If there wasn’t, maybe an elementary school can find a video to submit of their end of school party.


44 posted on 01/07/2020 8:24:37 AM PST by bgill
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To: C19fan
I can't wait until the trannies start winning and bumping out the real men and women ... and watching the bumped out real men and women expressing fake joy as the trannies collect the trophy that should have gone to one of their own.

THAT is when you'll see real acting.

45 posted on 01/07/2020 9:50:02 AM PST by Lizavetta
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To: C19fan

Bet they think that 1917 and the Judy Garland biopic should have featured non white casts.


46 posted on 01/07/2020 11:55:38 AM PST by EdnaMode
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To: napscoordinator

Yup. Plenty of non white actors have won major acting awards since the #OscarsSoWhite hashtags including:

Oscars: Mahershala Ali (twice), Viola Davis, Rami Malek and Regina King

Emmys: Davis, Malek and King, Billy Porter, Thandie Newton, Jharrel Jerome, Sterling K. Brown, Courney B. Vance, Donald Glover, Riz Ahmed, Dave Chappelle, Ron Cephas Jones Samira Wiley, Katt Williams, Tiffany Haddish

Plus tons of actors at the Tonys (3 Hamilton actors, etc).

Several people at the Emmys (Uzo Aduba, King, Viola Davis, Donald Glover, Samira Wiley and many more). Sandra Oh won a couple of awards for Killing Eve.

Black actors also swept the Tony musical categories in 2016 (three cast members from Hamilton and the actress from The Color Purple).


47 posted on 01/07/2020 12:21:11 PM PST by EdnaMode
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To: C19fan

#SoRacist!


48 posted on 01/07/2020 12:25:39 PM PST by Vision (Obama corrupted, sought to weaken and fundamentally change America; he didn't plan on being stopped.)
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To: KevinB
My wife tells me that teachers are also no longer able to talk about IQ.

The "progressives" are using a nasty form of brainwashing, where obvious facts are denied and the speakers punished.

This crushes all morale and productivity.
49 posted on 01/08/2020 9:22:49 AM PST by cgbg (The Democratic Party is morphing into the Donner Party)
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