Posted on 01/20/2016 4:42:04 AM PST by Kaslin
Because the crime rate is zero, the potholes are all fixed and homelessness has been completely eradicated, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio now has time to focus on what really matters to Big Apple taxpayers:
Racial quotas in Hollywood.
Social justice warrior de Blasio took to Twitter last week to lambaste the 2016 Academy Awards nominations, which did not include any black actors or actresses.
"#OscarsSoWhite says it all," de Blasio carped. "(Wife) @Chirlane and I are sick of only one kind of America being celebrated."
Radical race-hustling director Spike Lee is leading a boycott of the awards ceremony scheduled next month in Los Angeles. Actress Jada Pinkett Smith, whose actor/director husband Will Smith was snubbed for his performance in the NFL drama "Concussion," took to Facebook this week to rally "people of color" not to watch or attend the gala event. Director Michael Moore hitched himself to the whiny wagon of 1 percenters. Pressure is mounting on host and comedian Chris Rock to bow out in solidarity.
A panicked Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (who is black), is promising expedited "change" to mollify the grievance mob led by shakedown artist Al Sharpton.
They'll never admit it, but for the guardians of the Academy, "change" means inevitable quota-based admissions to their elite club, where new candidates must traditionally be sponsored by two current members and demonstrate "exceptional achievement in the field of theatrical motion pictures."
The transformation is "not coming as fast as we would like," Isaacs bleated as she vowed to take more aggressive steps to "diversify" as part of the Academy's "A2020" plan.
Is this what "people of color" in the performing arts really want?
Fealty based first and foremost on skin tone and not on talent and ability?
Specially appointed members of the Academy chosen solely because of their race, gender or oppressed status who will be beholden to vote only for fellow tokens from their respective tribes?
What exactly will make the likes of Spike Lee and company happy if not de facto or de jure Oscars quotas and affirmative action points for minority entertainers?
Do they think ghettoized new categories for "Best Black Actor" and "Best Black Actress" constitute progress and equality?
Do they honestly believe that casting doubt on the achievements of all non-white thespians who earn nominations as a result of this politically correct hectoring is good for the profession?
Now, let's call de Blasio and his bean-counting wife out on the red carpet.
If this "diversity"-driven duo is truly "sick" of Hollywood's white cis-hetero-patriarchal oppressors, are they ready to boycott the billions that the entertainment industry pours into New York City until their utopian ideals of manufactured racial parity are achieved?
In an open love letter to Tinseltown in 2014, de Blasio boasted that since 2004, "Hollywood's financial imprint on our city has grown from $5 billion to $7.1 billion." The self-proclaimed warrior against income inequality enthusiastically doubled down on government subsidy programs to the Hollywood elite, vowing to "maintain the policies and practices that spurred this expansion while strategically investing in new projects to grow and diversify the industry."
"Investing," of course, means using the power of government to redistribute the hard-earned tax dollars of lower- and middle-income workers to millionaire and billionaire studio owners in the TV and film industry. On top of the city's subsidies, New York State offers myriad special tax breaks, credits, and rebates worth an estimated $420 million to lure Hollywood to the East Coast.
De Blasio's bowing and scraping bordered on an R-rating. "In New York City, the TV and film industry has a true partner," he gushed, "not to mention a mayor who will always be slightly in awe of the work you do."
Hooked on Hollywood cash, de Blasio's outrage about #OscarsSoWhite is so contrived it bounces like a fake check.
As usual, the left's hashtag warriors are all show and no go.
DeBlasio, Coumo, Bloomberg Sharpton, Schumer,
New York Values
This is exactly what Ted Cruz was referring to, and everyone knows it.
Endorsed by the most conservative man who ever lived. Sarah Palin loves de Blasio.
huh?
Very well said.
Hollyweird - hoisted by its own petard.
If this moron gets reelected, New York city is more gone than I thought.
Trump endorsed de Blasio. Palin endorsed Trump.
Moe, Larry and Curly. The thing about a liberal politician is you don’t have to be all that smart, as long as you are smarter than the dumb liberals who voted for you.
Maybe Trump won’t endorse the Marxist again?
Racial inequality in New York:
Recall: of 8.3 million people, New York City is 33.3 percent white, 28.6 percent Hispanic, and 25.5 percent black.
In 2014, the record indicates 1.1 percent of those arrested for shooting incidents (gun crime) were white; that same year, 74.6 percent of arrested suspects were black, with 22.9 percent of the suspects arrested classified as Hispanic.
A staggering 97.5 percent of those arrested for shootings in New York City in 2014 were black or Hispanic.
How about murder victims/those arrested for murder?
In 2014:
Blacks were 62.4 percent of murder victims and 61.8 percent of those arrested for murder.
Hispanics were 25.2 percent of murder victims and 31.8 percent of those arrested for murder.
Whites were 7.5 percent of murder victims and 2.9 percent of those arrested for murder.
In short: in 2014, blacks and Hispanics were 93.6 percent of those arrested for murder in New York City.
How about rape victims/those arrested for rape in 2014?
Blacks were 39.7 percent of rape victims and 43.2 percent of those arrested for rape.
Hispanics were 36.5 percent of rape victims and 45.8 percent of those arrested for rape.
Whites were 17.9 percent of rape victims and 4.7 percent of those arrested for rape.
In short: in 2014 blacks and Hispanics were 89 percent of those arrested for rape in New York City.
Robbery victims/those arrested for robbery?
Blacks were 33.7 percent of robbery victims and 61.5 percent of those arrested for robbery.
Hispanics were 37.3 percent of robbery victims and 29.6 percent of those arrested for robbery.
Whites were 15.4 percent of robbery victims and 6.1 percent of those arrested for robbery.
In short: in 2014, blacks and Hispanics were 91.1 percent of those arrested for robbery in New York City.
Crime and Enforcement Activity in New York City report produced yearly by the NYPD
Yep, that kills it for me and Trump. F him. The guy endorses a hardcore communist? Is he kidding me? For his OWN city he endorses a COMMUNIST? So if he’s POTUS is he going to put commies in his cabinet?
If Sarah Palin had endorsed Ted Cruz, than she she would have endorsed the most conservative candidate. Trump endorsing De Blasio says a lot about him, especially that he is not conservative
Yes he will. He already said he wants Warren Buffet in his cabinet. He also wants his hardcore infanticide sister in SCOTUS.
Last I looked there wasn’t a lot of racial equality in the NBA.
DeBlasio and Michael Moore are loaded. Why don’t they produce a minority Academy Awards?
Instead she went with the billionaire. I wonder if she stands to gain anything out of this....
M/M De Blobbio
THE ODD COUPLE---BLOBBIO DESCRIBES HER AS HIS "NUMBER ONE ADVISOR" Insider buzz is that Blobbio is ruled by his wife---that the two work hand in hand to make public policy decisions.----Earlier news reports say Police Commissioner Bratton cautioned DeBlob not to bring his wife to the crucial meeting held to redress grievances of five cop unions Blobbio had slandered.
RESUME ENHANCEMENT PROGRESSIVE-STYLE During DeBlobbio's campaign, his wife Chirlane I. McCray was billed as a writer, poet, editor, communications professional, and political figure who published poetry and worked in politics for the Clintons.
THE REAL STORY Mrs DeBlobbio loudly declared her lesbianism in a magazine article---she was in a black feminist lesbian group and wrote poetry about being a lesbian. Politicker noted her husband's campaign website doesn't reference her background as an avowed lesbian and a lesbian activist or lesbian poet: It notes her affiliation with the Combahee River Collective, omitting mention of the group’s lesbian roots, referencing it as "a pioneering black feminist collective."
The two met while both worked for the Dinkins campaign. She says she had a nose ring and wore African garb when he spotted her and was completely smitten. She never told him she was a lesbian. And later said after their marriage she was still attracted to women. During the mayoral campaign, she was asked about her lesbian lifestyle----she retorted she "didn't understand the question." The Blobbio's honeymooned in Communist Cuba and picked coffee beans w/ Sandinistas (then America's arch-enemies).
The New York Post ran a cartoon depicting the couple in bed, McCray on the phone telling someone, "I used to be a lesbian, but my husband, Bill de Blasio, won me over," while her husband lay beside her clad in sexy lingerie.
GOTHAM GAZETTE---2/23/15----Cuomo and Blobbio have been close friends dating back to when de Blasio worked under Cuomo at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in the 1990s, and later on Hillary Clinton's 2000 Senate campaign
SOURCE http://www.gothamgazette.com/index.php/government/5580-as-de-blasio-heads-to-albany-policy-rifts-with-cuomo-are-clear
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Blobbio sucks-up bigtime to Reverend Al "Ebonics" Sharpton.
"Al, you wanna do some lines?"
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