Posted on 01/15/2015 4:00:49 PM PST by tcrlaf
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.
"I have called an emergency meeting early next week in Hollywood with the task force to discuss possible action around the Academy Awards," he said.
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Did anyone, and I mean anyone at all, complain those times when the US Men’s Olympic Basketball team - supposed to represent the WHOLE country - assembled a squad that had zero white players on it?
And honkeys only make up 3/4 of the country ....
Oh wait, this is actually real.
Oh, no! Sharpton must have read my earlier post suggesting they take over and block Hollywood blvd screaming “Black artists matter”. But I didn’t use the /s after my post.
Can I hold an emergency summit to discuss the relative lack of Asian, Caucasian and Hispanic NBA All-Stars?
Just re-read The Pillars of the Earth. The last little bit sort of indicates that Tommy Becket was something of a jerk.
Sure Val, I can go to Hollywood for ya.
Oh Al, give it a REST.
Al’tard wants to see his name up in lights.....
You mean Rat, don’t you?
“I have called an emergency meeting early next week in Hollywood with the “....task force...”
what Task Force? Jesse jacksome and Louis Farraklown??
I guess Morgan Freeman wasn’t casted as God or a president this year.
The nominations and winners are selected by the Academy members — essentially all of the film industry stars. So how is protesting the movie studios going to stop the employees from submitting their secret ballots? This is a peer vote, and last I checked, that included all of the “actors of color”.
Maybe they can start some nice rioting in front of the big self-aggrandizing celebration.
Pretty soon they will; they’ll give out awards just for making a movie regardless how accurate or how lousy the acting.
I predict an all-black cast of Oscar nominees next year.
He can get his good buddy in Washington to issue an executive order that all winners must be black.
OK, fine. Let’s pass a law that says that every year, no matter what, some blacks are nominated for something. God knows the poor dears need lowered standards in every other way ... let’s just pass out a token Oscar every year to some black person in the industry.
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