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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: Responsibility2nd

he is not stupid....he makes money shaking down (threatening) innocent people with his racist/racial attacks

note he’s trying to go after SillyCon Valley, too...

common denominator...? there’s money in both places...

remember Willy Sutton’s famous explanation of why he robbed banks....”because there’s money there....”

Now you understand Sharpton. Just substitute the more modern “you a racist” threats for Sutton’s firearm...


61 posted on 01/15/2015 2:44:41 PM PST by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..)
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To: Responsibility2nd

What’s appalling was that every winner of the BET 2014 awards was black. This needs an investigation also, right?


62 posted on 01/15/2015 2:45:15 PM PST by IllumiNaughtyByNature ($1.84 - The price of a gallon of gas on Jan. 20th, 2009.)
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To: jersey117

And a man with an abundance of integrity. And he was a guy who literally started from the street, he use to sleep on a roof in New York city while he worked as a dishwasher and a Jewish waiter taught him how to speak properly. Today he would have been given a taxpayer funded apartment with a monthly EBT card and told all his problems were the fault of rich white Jews.


63 posted on 01/15/2015 2:45:37 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Obama: 7 acts of blatant treason and counting.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

The nominee for the most crime stories in a single newspaper goes too....


64 posted on 01/15/2015 2:46:20 PM PST by mowowie (`)
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To: Responsibility2nd
He's looking for a CONTRIBUTION from the Oscar folks in return for NOT showing up and creating a hub-bub on Oscar night.

The A$$HOLE race baiter continues his tactics.

66 posted on 01/15/2015 2:47:31 PM PST by VideoDoctor
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To: Responsibility2nd

I suggest that the Academy give a lifetime award posthumously to Billie Thomas Jr., the actor who played Buckwheat in the Little Rascals series. That should make Al Sharpton happy. That plus $4 million dollars payable Al will make this whole kerfluffel go away.


67 posted on 01/15/2015 2:47:34 PM PST by forgotten man
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To: Responsibility2nd

Then start your own Mutual Friendship Society and award your own Oscars. You can call them ‘Boscars’..................


69 posted on 01/15/2015 2:47:39 PM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Has it ever occurred to the Master race - baiter that maybe people are sick to death of movies dealing with racism? Every year it’s another movie on slavery or civil rights.


70 posted on 01/15/2015 2:48:10 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Obama: 7 acts of blatant treason and counting.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Selma? was there nothing oscar worthy (like sponge worthy but different) about selma?

shouldn’t selma be mandatory for schools?


71 posted on 01/15/2015 2:48:49 PM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Must be satire.


72 posted on 01/15/2015 2:50:00 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

we really must move beyond this Affirmative Action complex. It is time blacks become color blind, as, I believe, much of white America has.


73 posted on 01/15/2015 2:50:41 PM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

This is satire, right? Tell me this is satire.


74 posted on 01/15/2015 2:51:17 PM PST by Disambiguator
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To: molson209

Anyone who likes movies is stupid? lol


75 posted on 01/15/2015 2:52:29 PM PST by Borges
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To: VideoDoctor

I use to be friends with a black guy who use to work with Sharpton when I lived in New York city. I even met Sharpton twice. He said money is Sharptons ONLY goal, that’s all all all he cares about. He could give a rats ass about racism. That’s why he will ignore street shootings, street killings because there’s nobody to shake down. But if a black gets killed in gated community like the Trayvon/Zimmerman case, then the dollar signs start flashing because there could be a lawsuit against the landlords or whoever was organizing that neighborhood watch. He does EVERYTHING for money. I mean how many gangstas kill blacks every year he don’t say shet, but the second a cop kills one there is Sharpton screaming his head off even if the evidence show a cop was defending himself.


76 posted on 01/15/2015 2:54:35 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Obama: 7 acts of blatant treason and counting.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
This isn't an article from The Onion online web site, right?
77 posted on 01/15/2015 2:54:40 PM PST by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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To: Responsibility2nd

That was my first thought. I was checking if this was from the Onion.


78 posted on 01/15/2015 2:56:32 PM PST by bigdaddy45
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Yeah, there should be an Oscar category for best performance by a race-baiting victimologist — wouldn’t be fair to the other candidates though.


79 posted on 01/15/2015 2:56:55 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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Sharpton is going to make a joke of blacks who win Oscars, people will start to think blacks get an award just because their black. It will diminish any achievement for the black actors. Sharpton is doing them no favor with this non-sense. I guess Hollywood can ensure all black actors are awarded gold plated Kewpie dolls.


80 posted on 01/15/2015 2:57:41 PM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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