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Al Sharpton Calls For Emergency Meeting To Address 'Appalling' All-White Oscar Nominees
Business Insider ^ | 01/15/2015 | Colin Campbell

Posted on 01/15/2015 2:24:52 PM PST by Responsibility2nd

The Rev. Al Sharpton was left fuming mad after the Oscars revealed its all-white list of nominees for this year's Oscar awards on Thursday.

"The movie industry is like the Rocky Mountains, the higher you get, the whiter it gets," Sharpton quipped in a statement released later in the afternoon.

Sharpton, a critic of the lack of diversity in Hollywood, also announced he was holding an "emergency meeting" next week to address the issue.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alsharpton; blackkk; cbc; hollywood; oscars; sharpton
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To: Mears

bfl


21 posted on 01/15/2015 2:31:21 PM PST by Mears
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To: Responsibility2nd

Please tell me this is the Onion?!


22 posted on 01/15/2015 2:31:31 PM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Graybeard58
"The movie industry is like the Rocky Mountains, the higher you get, the whiter it gets," Sharpton quipped in a statement released later in the afternoon.

That would be from John Favreau, Obama's speech writer and Hollyweird stooge.

24 posted on 01/15/2015 2:33:07 PM PST by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: Servant of the Cross

I’ll take a swing at this. White America is done with blacks?


25 posted on 01/15/2015 2:33:24 PM PST by refermech
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To: Responsibility2nd

He’s going to get the liberal crackers for not being suckers to the “Black Privilege”.


26 posted on 01/15/2015 2:33:27 PM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Irenic

Al Sharpton Hollywood “minder”.


27 posted on 01/15/2015 2:33:30 PM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: MtnMan101

 

Paying Taxes?

That's for White People.

28 posted on 01/15/2015 2:33:39 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (See Ya On The Road; Al Baby's Mom!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Wouldn’t the top 10:

Basketball Players-Football Players-Rappers

be predominantly African American?


29 posted on 01/15/2015 2:33:44 PM PST by cicero2k
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To: Responsibility2nd

Sidney Potier was nominated for and won an Oscar back in 1964 during turbulent racial times. The difference being Sidney Potier was actually a talented actor.


30 posted on 01/15/2015 2:33:48 PM PST by jersey117
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To: Responsibility2nd

No one gives a shi...er...smelly Obamathing about the oscars anymore.

Give it up, Sharpdork.

You have managed to be even more stupid than your dorky president.


31 posted on 01/15/2015 2:34:01 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: Responsibility2nd
The movie industry is like the Rocky Mountains, the higher you get, the whiter it gets,"

And Al Sharpton is like an old four seater privy, well used, worn out, out dated and full of .....

32 posted on 01/15/2015 2:34:08 PM PST by Michael.SF. (It takes a gun to feed a village (and an AK 47 to defend it).)
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To: All

Hollyweird and the mind of Al Sharpton-—both no-go zones.


33 posted on 01/15/2015 2:34:55 PM PST by Liz (Pres Reagan on govt shutdown: "Let's close it down and see if anyone notices.")
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To: Responsibility2nd

The Oscar must be changed to the “Oshantel”. Diversity in force here.


34 posted on 01/15/2015 2:35:04 PM PST by blackdog (There is no such thing as healing, only a balance between destructive and constructive forces.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

If producers made a movie where there’s no historical inaccuracy then perhaps maybe .... what’s his problem? They made a black “Annie” and there’s talk about a black James Bond ... they’ve already had a black actor in Wild Wild West and a black Carter in McHale’s Navy ... what else do they want? George Clooney playing Barrack Obama?


35 posted on 01/15/2015 2:35:32 PM PST by SkyDancer
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To: Responsibility2nd

Go to Boston and stand in traffic. I think the crowd has been warmed up for you.


36 posted on 01/15/2015 2:35:58 PM PST by Vermont Lt (Ebola: Death is a lagging indicator.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

And the nominees for Heisman were comprised entirely of Black dudes, save one white guy.


37 posted on 01/15/2015 2:37:03 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: PapaNew

Not to be too picky, but black cars outnumber white cars by at least three to one, in my experience.


38 posted on 01/15/2015 2:37:05 PM PST by Misterioso (The essence of life is the achievement of joy, not the escape from pain. - Ayn Rand)
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To: Da Coyote

The Oscars are still one of the highest rated TV shows of the year.


39 posted on 01/15/2015 2:37:30 PM PST by Borges
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To: Responsibility2nd

I was watching a show that involved many interviews with a lot Theoretical Physics types and in spots it looked like a reunion of The Harlem Globetrotters. No trouble finding black Doctors of Physics but “America is racist” and is “holding the black man down”. Whatever.


40 posted on 01/15/2015 2:37:31 PM PST by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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