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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: Norm Lenhart

Everything whitey has was taken from Sharpton’s group.


81 posted on 01/15/2015 2:59:45 PM PST by SkyDancer
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To: Liz

Those companies pay him to keep him away. And JJackson, too.

Shakedown.

They have been doing it for decades.


82 posted on 01/15/2015 3:00:19 PM PST by TomGuy
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To: elpadre
There are so many much better role models for America.



He was born into slavery yet ended up living with the family that owned him after the end of slavery and they educated him along with their own kids. He felt no animosity over slavery and sought only to be accepted as an American.
83 posted on 01/15/2015 3:01:07 PM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: Irenic
just because their*they're black
84 posted on 01/15/2015 3:01:24 PM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheelbarrow)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Even more so!


85 posted on 01/15/2015 3:05:31 PM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else need s said?)
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To: Misterioso

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...


86 posted on 01/15/2015 3:06:51 PM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: Night Hides Not
I dunno - there are a few other purveyors of the story ...

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

87 posted on 01/15/2015 3:06:55 PM PST by Cboldt
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To: SkyDancer

George Clooney playing Barrack Obama? —

George does seem to have married a muslim.


88 posted on 01/15/2015 3:08:12 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (/s /s /s /s /s, my replies are "liberally" sprinkled with them behind every word and letter.!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

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.


89 posted on 01/15/2015 3:08:21 PM PST by VerySadAmerican (Obama voters are my enemy. And so are republican voters.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
ah...yes...he can.

hes a satire of his former self....




90 posted on 01/15/2015 3:10:02 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Responsibility2nd

I’m upset about the lack of Blacks in the traditional morality and conservative political movements. Does that count?


91 posted on 01/15/2015 3:10:23 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Throne and Altar! [In Jerusalem!!!])
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To: Responsibility2nd

FU Al... Hey how about we bench some NBA players so we can get some white diversity on the floor. /s


92 posted on 01/15/2015 3:11:36 PM PST by catfish1957 (Everything I needed to know about Islam was written on 11 Sep 2001)
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To: MeshugeMikey

93 posted on 01/15/2015 3:11:59 PM PST by cripplecreek ("For by wise guidance you can wage your war")
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To: F15Eagle

94 posted on 01/15/2015 3:13:23 PM PST by SandRat (Duty - Honor - Country! What else need s said?)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Unbelievable!
This man has delusions of being the reincarnation of Martin Luther King.


95 posted on 01/15/2015 3:15:02 PM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Toespi

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.


96 posted on 01/15/2015 3:20:03 PM PST by scrabblehack
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To: cripplecreek

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!!


97 posted on 01/15/2015 3:20:26 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Responsibility2nd

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.


98 posted on 01/15/2015 3:21:00 PM PST by LouAvul (If government is the answer, you're asking the wrong question.)
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To: SkyDancer

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?


99 posted on 01/15/2015 3:24:00 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: Responsibility2nd
I don't know about the Oscars (I didn't see any films this year) but a lot of the failure of “black” movies is actually racism: But not the one you imagine.

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.

100 posted on 01/15/2015 3:24:15 PM PST by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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