"Black Lives Matter" - Except in Tinseltown

The Hollywood liberals who give Academy Awards to their friends got called out for their lack of diversity this week.

It seems this year the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences couldn't find a single actor of color worthy of an Oscar nomination for a lead or supporting role.

Its 6,000-odd members went 0 for 20 in their search. For the second straight year.

Have Denzel Washington, Jamie Foxx, Will Smith, Morgan Freeman, Don Cheadle, Laurence Fishburne, Cuba Gooding Jr., Djimon Hounsou, Forest Whitaker, Octavia Spencer, Samuel L. Jackson, Jennifer Hudson, Angela Bassett, Halle Berry and Queen Latifah taken the last two years off?

Spike Lee said because black actors were snubbed again he was boycotting the Academy Awards gala next month.

He's been supported by Jada Pinkett Smith, who is understandably miffed that her husband Will wasn't honored for his role in "Concussion."

And Snoop Dog, leftie documentary-maker Michael Moore and a few others who don't care if they ever eat lunch in Beverly Hills again are joining the boycott of the White Actors Matter Awards.

Being accused of insufficient diversity by black artists couldn't have happened to a rottener bunch of liberal hypocrites.

Hollywood is the most liberal town on the planet. The left controls it and tries to make every anti-American, anti-conservative, anti-business movie it can.

Black actors love Hollywood - or they did until they started to notice that its creative community shows its true colors when it comes time to hand out best-actor awards.

Since Sidney Poitier won in 1963 for "Lilies of the Field," only Denzel Washington, Jamie Foxx and Forest Whitaker have won for best actor.

Halle Berry's Oscar in 2001 for "Monster's Ball" remains the first and only time a black won for best actress.

Maybe Spike Lee and his celebrity allies have finally learned how liberals work.

Maybe they've figured out what millions of ordinary blacks around the country need to start figuring out about the Democrat Party.

The liberal left in Washington pretends to support blacks, but they only use them to get reelected or maintain power. The rest of the time they take them for granted.

Hollywood liberals do the same thing. They usually use black actors to prove how liberal they are.

That's why a movie like "12 Years a Slave" gets made and why it won so big at the Oscars in 2014 -- it was a political twofer.

It proved how liberal Hollywood was, plus it showed how rotten and racist America was.

"The Butler" delivered the same message. Then, for good measure, it unfairly made my father out to be a racist. It was so awful it was snubbed by the Academy.

Some say blacks are shortchanged at Oscar time because the voting Academy is not as diverse as the acting academy. An L.A. Times story reported that Academy members are 94 percent white, 77 percent male and 2 percent black.

That's pathetic, and it's good that the Academy has been shamed by this year's all-white nominations into promising to fix that imbalance.

But Spike Lee says it's not the Academy that's the problem. It's the whole film industry.

He says there aren't enough good movies about blacks or for black actors because there aren't any black executives at the studios who can make the decision to green light them.

To fix that injustice, Lee has basically called for an affirmative-action plan for the movie business. He wants someone to force Hollywood to meet a quota of minority films.

A quota wouldn't produce more Oscars for black actors. But it'd be a lot of fun to see how Hollywood liberals like being forced to abide by one of the bad laws they think everyone else in America should be forced to follow.

Meh. The idea that there could ever be a “best movie” or “best actor” or “best song” for that matter is just plain ignorant. These are entirely subjective opinions. Myself, I thought that “Team America” was the best movie the year it came out. A lot of people would disagree. So what? This entire slanging match about the Oscars is meaningless.

A lot of actors put a lot of stock in the Oscars. However if you’ve ever met actors you’d know that far too many are, well to use an overused word, stupid. Far too many are illiterate and couldn’t even comprehend a newspaper or a People magazine. In the world of Hollywood someone like Alec Baldwin is an intellectual. Really, he is. I think he read a book or two once.

This is an interesting/inflammatory story. Here is why. Who does the media, and the black community want to respond to this issue? Everyone I have talked to about it, say that blacks are really not interested in what the white, or for that matter, any non-black community has to say on the subject. Which is sad, because, answers often come from such places, at the very least, insights. So with that in mindâ€¦we had a coffee confab this afternoon to toss the idea around, and see what each other had to say. I will state outright that this was a group of white, over 50, republicans and democrats, with an Independent tossed in, with one 60â€™s hippie, that has never seemed to leave the peace movement of Haight-Ashbury, and the Grateful Dead eraâ€¦but a smart, and nice guy most of the time.
Here is what we came up with, now it might not be PC, but itâ€™s as honest, as this group gets. Most agree that films like â€œStraight outta Comptonâ€, â€œSelmaâ€, and many other highly touted Black movies, are not something we would go to, the subject matter is not interesting to us, we are not into Rap, or Hip Hop, and the advertised stars, or directors, are not ones we are familiar with. In these genre itâ€™s in your face, black power, and screw you if you donâ€™t accept it. In fact, we see black youth targeting whites, and seriously hurting or killing people who were not bothering them in any way. You cannot provoke a potential audience and expect them to support your efforts. Just our take on what we see out there.
Next, we looked at the black actors that we did know something about. Denzel Washington, Jamie Foxx, Will Smith, Morgan Freeman, Laurence Fishburne, Cuba Gooding Jr., Forest Whitaker, Samuel L. Jackson, Jennifer Hudson, Angela Bassett, Halle Berry and Queen Latifah , each of us had seen and liked movies from all these Actors. Shawshank Redemption is my all time favorite, and I bought the DVD. It not that we donâ€™t like black actors, it that we want to feel included in the movie, rather than be an outsider, looking in.
Finally, we all object to what WE perceive as reverse-racism of BET(Black Entertainment Television), none of us like Michael Moore, We liked the Butler, but find out that itâ€™s not good enough for the black community, you see, we canâ€™t win. There is no acceptable answer to the black community for what they see as wrongs committed against them, except what they perceive as acceptable. Racism as a word and a philosophy has no punch anymore to the people I know, we see angry black people attacking people who did nothing to them, and are just working class people. We no longer choose to be victimized by their philosophy, rhetoric, or distortions. Their actions dictate how we react to them, and lately, their actions have not been good. Martin Luther King, Jr. said I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. Since we have just celebrated MLK day, I wonder what he would have said about all of this. Somewhere along the line, things have gone off the railsâ€¦.

I’m the kind of guy that wants a movie to keep me on the edge of my seat. If it does that the acting was good. If it doesn’t it wasn’t. In my uneducated opinion, of course. I don’t care about the nuances of who has the most realistic laugh or cry or reaction. If they keep me intrigued moment by moment, then they’re well done, and I couldn’t care less about the nuances.

That standard means that the movies drive the awards, and the black actors/actresses I follow manage to keep me involved the same as anyone else.

But the Hollywood standard is always something ‘meaningful’. Forget that. I’ll take a Patton over a Gandhi once a day and twice on Sundays.

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