Could Chris Rock drop out as Oscars host over increasing calls to boycott Academy Awards?

New York Daily News ^ | January 18,2016 | BY JOE DZIEMIANOWICZ, ETHAN SACKS

[Hojczyk]

upcoming Academy Awards telecast may be caught between Chris Rock and a hard place.

The comic actor is facing pressure to bow out as host of the 88th annual Oscars — with less than six weeks to go before the Feb. 28 telecast — over the mounting calls for boycotting the awards in response to the lack of diversity among the Oscar nominees.

On Monday’s holiday celebrating Martin Luther King Jr., both Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith announced they would not be attending the Academy Awards to protest a second straight year without a black actor receiving a single nomination.

I don't think Chris would bail — if anything, this gives him the world's biggest platform and an excellent area for jokes that only he can do,” Dave Boone, who wrote nine Oscar telecasts and was the head writer for the 2015 edition, told the Daily News.

“Years ago when Whoopi was hosting, (scandal-scarred director Eli) Kazan was getting the lifetime achievement award. I gave her a line, ‘I though the blacklist was me and Hattie McDaniel.’ At the time, it was a joke that only Whoopi could do.”

[Hojczyk]

Who cares

[dfwgator]

Oh please....Oh please.....

[ChildOfThe60s]

Wake me when it’s over

[a fool in paradise]

Eli Kazan wasn’t scandalous. Hollyweird’s continued love for naked Communists remains strong. Those who found it distasteful have been wrongly shunned.

[FlingWingFlyer]

I hope he does. Unfunny, racist bigots shouldn’t be hosting anything.

[Billthedrill]

Man, if the Academy Awards show were impacted I...I just don't think I could bear it.

"Show biz kids making movies of themselves..."

[MamaB]

I knew someone would post that. Thanks. Who cares and who watches that?

[ronnie raygun]

I just like “they eat thier own”

[a fool in paradise]

On Monday's holiday celebrating Martin Luther King Jr., both Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith announced they would not be attending the Academy Awards to protest a second straight year without a black actor receiving a single nomination.

They did this in sheer rejection of Reverend King's stated dream of a colorblind society where a man or woman is not judged based on the color of his or her skin.

Will Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett likewise denounce the BET Awards?P

[euram]

Funny how Hollywood so stridently pushes “dieversity” on everyone, but lives in gated communities, and then cluster around and pat themselves on the back and gives themselves awards, and exempts themselves from having to deal with dieversity.

Hollywood is load with hypocrites and liars who have deliberately fed poison to us disguised as entertainment.

[raybbr]

They can always get the fag in his underwear back...

[Feckless]

The real question is: Could I care any less?

[TexasCajun]

[PGR88]

My only thought regarding the Oscars is - where is Al Qaeda the one time they could be useful?

[vpintheak]

Who cares, and black racists go home!
If someone is judged on the content of their character, then they are judged on the contect of their character and not skin color.
Racist leftists got is all bass ackwards!

[Mastador1]

Drop out? And give up a big payday and the opportunity to slam Whitey at his own party, I don’t think so!

[heights]

Who met Cares.

[Cheerio]

Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith announced they would not be attending the Academy Awards

AND why am I supposed to car? I haven't watch this orgy for at least a decade.

[Fiddlstix]

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