What am I missing? Whoopi won in 1990. The NYT listed the black actors who won prior to 2002. They did not mention her. The NYT seems to feel that the report was accurate. I don’t see how it could be.
I agree with you. NYT should have mentioned her.
They did not “list” those prior to 2002, they mentioned a couple and then listed those who won after 2002 and said a total of seven had one prior to 2002 without listing them.
At least according to the article. I didn’t go to the Times itself.
From the comments:
“Wow, I’m surprised by how many of you missed the point of this article, do Americans read anymore?
The article was talking about how things seemed to be progressing and then you reach this year where the Oscars are “whiter” than they have been in years, and the year itself in movies is whiter than it’s been in years.
The article is questioning whether things are in a backwards momentum or if this year there’s just an Academy. My biggest problem with Whoopi’s outrage, and the thing that she should feel most foolish about, is the fact that the article only mentioned 2 of the pre-2002 7 black Oscar winners.
She’s so self aggrandizing that she couldn’t recognize that she wasn’t the only black Oscar winner not mentioned.
And jmcg: to list all of the winners wouldn’t have served the purpose of the article. There’s no reason why people can’t do the research on their own rather than having all the facts handed to them on a silver platter.”
You're reading things backwards. All of the actors named won theirs after 2002 as was clearly stated in the article. Since Whoopi won hers before 2002, she's lumped in with the other unnamed recipients of the prior 73 years.