Posted on 01/15/2020 3:27:13 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
The inclusion of Spanish actor Antonio Banderas as one of the few “coloured” Oscar nominees by some U.S. media has sparked controversy and an immediate reaction from social networks, which have been quick to point out that he is European and white.
Hollywood publications such as Deadline and Vanity Fair mentioned Banderas as one of the few cases of “people of colour”” nominated for Oscars, after Monday’s official announcement of the candidates for the Hollywood Academy Awards.
Both newspapers cited Banderas along with African-American actress Cynthia Erivo as the only “black” actors nominated for this year’s Oscars, in the face of comments on social networks that the Spanish actor is European and white.
(Excerpt) Read more at euroweeklynews.com ...
Ohhhh, what a tragedy this is....HAWHAWHAWHAW, sorry, couldn’t type this with a straight face.
Most Mexicans and Central Americans have Spanish ancestry so I guess that makes all of them White now!
White Hispanic, ala George Zimmerman?
Isn’t he Latino? I thought that counted as something.
Fortunately, America is a colorblind meritocracy, where such antiquated notions of race were left behind in the 1860s.
There is only one race here, Americans.
Tan counts then, just like whatever myth you hear from your paw-paw.
White/pink is a color.
Eddie Fisher - “Lady Of Spain” https://youtu.be/wUpnHKmgRWw
Al Martino - “Spanish Eyes” (1967) https://youtu.be/enIdTGckjKs
I remember when Hispanics were White.
I don't even need to know, but what the heck does this headline even mean? It looks British due to the misspelling of one word but that's no excuse for cryptic drivel.
Yep, when you’re all about labeling people and the prejudices attached to those labels, you have to get it right. The leftists apparently need a finer grained program...nah...broad assumptions and labels work for them.
The truth is that he doesn’t want to be associated with an African American,
OIOW, his arrogant racist side is showing.
Banderas joins the list of great black actors such as Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz.
No one cares.
EuroWeekly is a Spanish newspaper geared towards English experts, who normally ignore American drivel such as yours. I live in Spain, not far from Malaga so it’s big news around here.
Kiss me, the Oscars just classified me as Negro* !
(Who found out in that NatGeo DNA genealogy thingie that I’m 30% *Iberian)
Red hair, green eyes. A pale complexion whiter than mine. No kinky hair or anything. And, no, I know what you are thinking. There was no funny business.
So, if some day my grandson becomes and actor, or runs for president, he can truthfully say he is a person of color. I hope he does just to piss everyone off.
What about Portuguese, Italians (Northern or Southern), Greeks, etc. ?
These race mongers need to provide a color palette wheel for determining when ‘racism’ occurs.
Communists do. “Divide and conquer”.
Same $hit they tried all through the years...especially in the 60’s and 70’s.
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