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.
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Everything whitey has was taken from Sharpton’s group.
Those companies pay him to keep him away. And JJackson, too.
Shakedown.
They have been doing it for decades.
Even more so!
Funny you say that: on my street, there is ONE black vehicle (owned by a former Texan), a couple of blue cars, one red, three brown, and TWENTY-SIX white ones, 4 of which are mine! Oh, I think there is a yellow one, but it might be a regular visitor’s...
Sharpton: Lack of diversity in Oscar nominations `insulting' - NY Daily News
Sharpton: 'Emergency Meeting' for Oscars - The Daily Beast
Al Sharpton Blasts Oscar Selma Snub in Time of Ferguson | Mediaite
George Clooney playing Barrack Obama? —
George does seem to have married a muslim.
The blacks in Hollywood are between a rock and hard place. If they join Sharpton, they get blacklisted. I don’t see Denzel on Sharpton’s side. The problem is people won’t want to hire black actors for fear of being called a racist if they don’t get Oscars.
I’m upset about the lack of Blacks in the traditional morality and conservative political movements. Does that count?
FU Al... Hey how about we bench some NBA players so we can get some white diversity on the floor. /s
Unbelievable!
This man has delusions of being the reincarnation of Martin Luther King.
Has the Motion Picture Academy confirmed that a black actress is next on the list?
As I recall they have some sort of straw poll for the first phase - directors vote for best director (picture?), leading actresses vote for leading actress, supporting actresses vote for supporting actresses, etc.
No Oscars No Peace...No Oscars ..NO PEACE!!
Honestly I never could have dreamed it would come to this!
I can barely wait to hear Sharptons Press Confruntz!!
Stupid? STUPID?! This guy has made millions by doing nothing but being a whiny black. That’s it. He’s done nothing with his entire life other than to show up and have money thrown at him. That might be a lot of things, but it’s not stupid.
Then get a second/third job bum. There are budding rap stars turning their lives around counting on you. I feel they are entitled to some white privilege. After all, clearly it’s your fault their great great great grandfather sold their great grandfather to a Muslim Barbary Pirate first.
Have you no decency?
Much of the overseas income for films is now from Asia, and there is a lot of racial prejudice in Asia against others, especially blacks (but also against Chinese in the Philippines, against Japanese in China, against Koreans in Japan etc)
And, given Hollywood's repeated portrayal of blacks as criminals in numerous films and TV shows, that impression is not being corrected here.
True, black superstars who play in a mixed movie will be accepted, because they are “white”, but not a “black” film...and most of the black “high profile” films (e.g. Selma) seem to be propaganda to make Americans feel guilty about their “whiteness” (remember, in progressive land, Asians are white too).
The down side of this propaganda is that overseas folks don't want to watch such films because they are boring.
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