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Danny DeVito On Oscars Diversity Controversy: "We Are A Bunch Of Racists"
Deadline ^ | January 23, 2016 | Ross A. Lincoln

Posted on 01/24/2016 9:20:12 AM PST by EveningStar

While on the scene at the Sundance Film Festival this weekend, Danny DeVito took a moment to comment on the tinderbox subject diversity in the entertainment industry, and the actor-producer didn't mince words at all. Bluntly attributing the lack of diversity in Hollywood and subsequently in awards-recognized films to systemic racism, he said that "it's unfortunate that the entire country is a racist country."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: africa; dannydevito; devito; hollywood; italy; oscars; roots; same
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To: Polynikes

Years ago MAD magazine did a spoof on the movie THE PROFESSIONALS with Lee Marvin, in which Woodie Strode complains of being the Token Black in the movie, and they better not ask him to tap dance or anything!

Meanwhile everyone is laughing at the Robert Ryan character who complains “Don’t hurt the Horses!” One of the characters in the spoof busts a fly with the butt of his rifle and Ryan “DON’T HURT THE HORSES!”
The killer of the fly says.. “It was only a fly!”
Ryan yells It was a “HORSE FLY!”


81 posted on 01/24/2016 10:45:52 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: EveningStar

Odd how much one can enjoy an actor as long as they confine their speech to the silver screen. But once they open their yappers without a cue card to reflect what is going on in the attic of their mind, they are thoroughly unappealing.I guess that is why I enjoy hearing from Louie the taxi cab dispatcher but not Danny Devito.


82 posted on 01/24/2016 10:55:51 AM PST by chuckee
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To: EveningStar

From they guy who has to stand on TWO soapboxes to say it.


83 posted on 01/24/2016 10:59:10 AM PST by disndat
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To: EveningStar

Get Shorty!


84 posted on 01/24/2016 11:00:05 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: EveningStar
Actually, he is brilliantly correct. We are all racist. 100% of us so that includes every color in the rainbow. So if we are all racist can we please all move on from the subject?

Thank you Danny for clearing this all up.

85 posted on 01/24/2016 11:01:26 AM PST by corkoman
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To: EveningStar
Danny...simple question....

Did the people nominated deserve to get nominated?

Was there someone black that deserves to get nominated that did not?

Tokenism and Patronization is also racist

86 posted on 01/24/2016 11:04:45 AM PST by tophat9000 (King G(OP)eorge III has no idea why the Americans Patriot%s are in rebellion... teach him why)
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To: RummyChick

“How many blacks are on his show?”

It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, let me see here...checking IMBd.com....and the number of ANY KIND of minority Actors would be NONE. But we all know Philadelphia is a lily white town way out in the suburbs.

Then again the butt ugly little munchkin did say HE WAS a racist.


87 posted on 01/24/2016 11:07:41 AM PST by DAC21 (.z)
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To: SpaceBar
dwarf.

Ahem! He's "vertically challenged".

88 posted on 01/24/2016 11:13:11 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: EveningStar
Danny DeVito On Oscars Diversity Controversy: "We Are A Bunch Of Morons Racists"

There fixed it for that despicable little turd

89 posted on 01/24/2016 11:15:00 AM PST by clamper1797 (Repeat after me ... there is no such thing as a "moderate" muslim)
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To: EveningStar

We might be racist, but at least we are not midgets.


90 posted on 01/24/2016 11:16:57 AM PST by Carnac the Magnificent
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To: EveningStar

cranking out the token nominations just benefits mediocrity


91 posted on 01/24/2016 11:27:16 AM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: EveningStar
I have THE solution.

Everyone who participates in the film industry MUST receive an Oscar..

Anything less is total racism.

Oscar Statues will be handed out like diplomas at a College graduations: A person's name is called out, they walk on stage and are handed an Oscar. Simple. Fair.

Hollywood Oscar Parties MUST be handled the same way with invitations going out to ALL members of the film community in a random fashion. That way NO ONE'S FEELINGS are hurt.

To show favoritism is racist, xenophobic, and anti-gay. It also insults transgeners and liberal elites who want to appear 'above it all' - - more liberal than thou types.

92 posted on 01/24/2016 11:40:42 AM PST by GOPJ (It's more important to have a gun in your hand than a cop on the phone- Florida Sheriff Grady Judd)
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To: EveningStar

Oh Danny...if we are all a bunch of racists then nobody is racist.


93 posted on 01/24/2016 11:48:55 AM PST by LottieDah (If only those who speak so eloquently on behalf of animals would do so on behalf of the unborn.)
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To: EveningStar

Balderdash.......I AM becoming a heightist though the more the little fellow speaks.


94 posted on 01/24/2016 2:00:35 PM PST by ALASKA (Disgusted.....)
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To: EveningStar

Poor little Danny. Besides the character he did in Taxi, nothing else he ever did has amounting to anything. Maybe he too is just feeling “like a victim”. What does he want, Oscars allocated by race”?


95 posted on 01/24/2016 2:33:51 PM PST by Wuli
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To: EveningStar

I’m not Racist. I love The Indy 500.


96 posted on 01/24/2016 2:37:20 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Get the CDS and TDS Vaccines before it's too late.)
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To: EveningStar

This guy is high on my list of actors I once loved whom I will never voluntarily watch again.


97 posted on 01/24/2016 4:00:48 PM PST by Albion Wilde (Who can actually defeat the Democrats in 2016? -- the most important thing about all candidates.)
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