Posted on 01/15/2015 3:33:50 PM PST by Impala64ssa
MSNBC host and civil rights activist Al Sharpton is calling for an emergency meeting of his eight-member diversity task force to discuss action against the Academy Awards after the movie Selma received only one Oscars nomination.
The movie industry is like the Rocky Mountains, the higher you get, the whiter it gets, Sharpton said with usual flair in a statement released Thursday after the announcement of Oscar nominations.
Many, including Sharpton, were outraged that none of the actors in Selma, a movie about the 1965 Voting Rights Act, were nominated for the golden statues.
David Oyelowo, who portrayed Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the movie, did not receive a nomination. Nor did director Ava DuVernay.
This was the second time since 2000 that no black actors or actresses were nominated for an Oscar.
The lack of diversity in todays Oscar nominations is appalling and while it is good that Selma was nominated for Best Picture, its ironic that they nominated a story about the racial shutout around voting while there is a racial shutout around the Oscar nominations, Sharpton continued in his statement.
I have called an emergency meeting early next week in Hollywood with the task force to discuss possible action around the Academy Awards.
I have called an emergency meeting early next week in Hollywood with the task force to discuss possible action around the Academy Awards.
Sharpton formed the task force last month after the hack and release of racially-themed emails sent between Sony Pictures executives. Sharpton called on Sony head Amy Pascal to address the issue of Hollywoods lack of diversity.
In the time of Staten Island and Ferguson, to have one of the most shutout Oscar nights in recent memory is something that is incongruous, Sharpton told The New York Daily News on Thursday.
Sharptons outrage comes a year after the success of 12 Years a Slave, which was based on the autobiography of Solomon Northup, a free black man who was captured and sold into slavery in the 1840s. The movie won Best Picture, and actress Lupita Nyongo won the award for Best Supporting Actress. Steve McQueen and Chiwetel Ejiofor were nominated for Best Director and Best Actor, respectively.
The only mountains Al Sharpton ever climbed were those of his piles of extortion money and those on his “wife”.
Otherwise, he’s just another lowlander extortionist and fraud, and, oh, one of the top White House visitors. Wonder whose mountains he climbed there?
Being nasty sometimes is justified and this is one of them.
If I offended any leftists, tough shit. If I offended any decent women, you were not the target of my slings and arrows.
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AL SHARPTON DISMAYED TO FIND OUT THAT LAST MONTH’S NOBEL LAUREATES IN PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY DID NOT INCLUDE ANY BLACKS! Mr. Sharpton now plans a million-yute march on Sweden and Norway to demand diversity in Nobel Prize recipients.
Yeah, and last year members of the “Academy” said off the record that they felt pressured to vote for “12 Years a Slave” or else be considered racist. Pendulum swinging....
Blacks don,t pay enough taxes....
He gets zero credit, $harpton's way too stupid to come up with something like that.
"The movie industry is like the Rocky Mountains, the higher you get, the whiter it gets," Sharpton quipped in a statement released later in the afternoon. That would be from John Favreau, Obama's speech writer and Hollyweird stooge.
Courtesy of "blackdog".
black activists to Hollywood elites: “How does ya likes us now?”
The fun aspect in all of this is that all of the movies were picked by white liberals in Hollywood. Oh man you’ve already heard the condemnation by the liberal drive by’s in the media. The minute Al and his race hustlers get to Hollywood the execs will grovel and give in to his demands for more diversity in films. Al is what he is but he knows that White liberals are his personal patsies and he’ll shake em down for a whole lot of ***t.
About time they reaped a little of what they have sown.
I don’t get it! Does this mean I will not be able to flee Massachusetts and come your way?
What is a “diversity emergency”?
Only twice in 15 years? With blacks making up only 13% of the entire US population? Doesn't seem out of line to me. And this warrants an EMERGENCY meeting of Sharpton's extortion task force? My, oh my. Al sees an opportunity to stick a gun in the ribs of the Academy Awards to relieve them of their wallets.
Cry me frickin' river, race-hustler Al!!
I for one enjoyed No Good Deed. Well acted and entertaining. As for Sharpton, I think he is ill. Thin and getting thinner. Doesn’t seem to have affected his reasoning ability though.
Blacks must always win everything. Reparations.
Give The Artist a try.
It will make you feel very happy!
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