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Why the hell did she have to make it a racial issue!!!???? Sidney did it earlier and I can guarantee should Denzel win, we will hear it again and again and again. It's growing a bit thin and a complete turn off

Don't you know the script by now? They have been complaining for years about first not getting nominated for an award , then not winning the award. Now they win it they tell us that the door was closed all these years and that they should have won awards long ago. They built this country. We just used them... They will never be happy. Next year it will be a black director that doesn't get award and they will complain and will go on and on and on and on and on and on..it's like having a cancer...

Actually Denzel Washington went out of his way to downplay the "race" issue. He was shooting the guilty-white-liberal questions back at them. I heard him answer questions with questions, i.e When he was asked "What does it mean to be the first black actor to win leading actor since Sidney blah blah blah..." and Denzel asks them "What do think it SHOULD mean?" He said he was going to put this Oscar next to HIS OTHER OSCAR or wherever his kids wanted to put it--I loved when he said that.. And that since he has been nominated 5 times and won twice he seemed to say he wasn't interested in playing the "oppressed black actor" bit like Halle was.