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Sidney Poitier, Oscar-winning Bahamian-American actor, dies at 94
Fox 29 ^ | 1/7/22 | Kelly Hayers

Posted on 01/07/2022 7:32:35 AM PST by Borges

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1 posted on 01/07/2022 7:32:35 AM PST by Borges
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Just damn...


2 posted on 01/07/2022 7:33:44 AM PST by Demiurge2 (Define your terms!)
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That’s sad. The Lilies of the Field is one of my favorite movies. As well as Sneakers.


3 posted on 01/07/2022 7:33:47 AM PST by cotton1706
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They call me MR. TIBBS.


4 posted on 01/07/2022 7:34:35 AM PST by GeorgiaDawg32
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im not big on hollywood worship...but Poitier was a terrific actor...


5 posted on 01/07/2022 7:35:06 AM PST by basalt (exas)
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My mom thought Sidney was just totally da bomb in Lilies of the Field.

I didn't really understand at the time.

"We all stands up. We all sits down." :)

6 posted on 01/07/2022 7:35:48 AM PST by OKSooner (All thinking people should read "The Real Anthony Fauci" by RFK Jr.)
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the first Black man to win the Academy Award for Best Actor for the 1963 film

Watching these awards spectacles today you would think that a Black person never won an award or nominated for one..

7 posted on 01/07/2022 7:36:23 AM PST by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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An enormous fan of his.

The 1967 troika of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, To Sir, With Love and In The Heat Of The Night were fantastic roles and great Civil Rights examples of the period.

He deserves a LOT more credit for pushing racial equality than he gets. Each of those three roles were classic conservative roles.


8 posted on 01/07/2022 7:36:27 AM PST by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business )
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RIP


9 posted on 01/07/2022 7:37:12 AM PST by xp38
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I have long assumed he was already dead. I’m sorry for his passing.


10 posted on 01/07/2022 7:37:54 AM PST by Artemis Webb (Be kind to each other, unless the other guy is a dumbass.)
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Edge of the City...A Raisin in the Sun....great films...


11 posted on 01/07/2022 7:38:02 AM PST by basalt (exas)
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It seems to me he was obsessed with his skin color…50 % black film crew..

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12 posted on 01/07/2022 7:38:04 AM PST by Mears
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He deserves a LOT more credit for pushing racial equality than he gets. Each of those three roles were classic conservative roles.

He deserves credit for his great talent and the recognition of his talent. He's someone other Blacks should look up to and understand that he was recognized for his talent, not his color.

13 posted on 01/07/2022 7:38:09 AM PST by 1Old Pro (Let's make crime illegal again!)
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I sincerely enjoyed his acting.

It’s good he had so many years.


14 posted on 01/07/2022 7:38:34 AM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Borges

man with incredible charisma or “presence”. There will be much mourning in the Bahamas where he is a huge hero.


15 posted on 01/07/2022 7:38:59 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (If It Aint Woke Don't Fix It.)
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He won the Best Actor award because he was simply THE BEST ACTOR of all that year. Not because he was the “Best black actor.”

Not like today’s black whiners.


16 posted on 01/07/2022 7:39:27 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (BACK IN FACEBOOK JAIL, again for making fun (he called it "HATE")of Biden's tranny.)
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To Sir with Love was awesome. Great actor and person.


17 posted on 01/07/2022 7:40:08 AM PST by BiglyCommentary
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Sad to hear. Wife and I just night before last watched re-watched Lillies of the Field.


18 posted on 01/07/2022 7:40:25 AM PST by Chengdu54
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To: cotton1706

I was awfully found of “In the Heat of the Night”.


19 posted on 01/07/2022 7:40:44 AM PST by traderrob6
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“It seems to me he was obsessed with his skin color…50 % black film crew..”

Relax, he didn’t Burn, Loot, Murder. He was a positive force.


20 posted on 01/07/2022 7:41:19 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (If It Aint Woke Don't Fix It.)
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