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Oscars Slammed After Toto’s ‘Africa’ Plays as Daniel Kaluuya, H.E.R. Take Stage
breitbart.com ^ | 3/28/2022 | Simon Kent

Posted on 03/28/2022 9:48:17 AM PDT by rktman

The producers behind the 94th Annual Academy Awards on Sunday night have drawn fire from critics who called it “insensitive” to accompany two black presenters as they took the stage at the Dolby Theater in Los Angeles with Toto’s “Africa.”

Toto’s “Africa” played as British actor Daniel Kaluuya and singer H.E.R., both of whom claimed Oscars in 2021, strolled into the spotlights to present best supporting actress.

Some argued the 1982 song was a less than stellar choice to introduce two black presenters, the Hollywood Reporter pointed out and others agreed on social media.

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To: Dr. Sivana

Yabba Dabba Honeymoon would be my pick.


41 posted on 03/28/2022 10:11:12 AM PDT by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: rktman

Don’t they know that Africa is offensive to African Americans? And so is America.


42 posted on 03/28/2022 10:11:13 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder (Democracy is two dead Democrats and a Republican voting whose brains are for dinner.)
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To: NohSpinZone

I was formulating a way to word that, but you did it just fine!

Well done, FRiend...:)


43 posted on 03/28/2022 10:11:20 AM PDT by rlmorel (The concept of a "cashless society" is simply a vector for the exercise of tyranny.)
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To: God luvs America

Hmmmm. “Jungle Love”? Oh wee oh we oh!


44 posted on 03/28/2022 10:11:22 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Dr. Sivana

“Bum bum budda bum, baaaa bum bum...”


45 posted on 03/28/2022 10:13:36 AM PDT by rlmorel (The concept of a "cashless society" is simply a vector for the exercise of tyranny.)
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To: rktman

“Little Black Sambo” would have been over the top. But seriously, what are they mad at? It was their party. Their woke industry. It was their quarter put into the juke box.

Now dance.


46 posted on 03/28/2022 10:15:04 AM PDT by Salvavida
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To: rktman
How about 'Zulu Warrior', the infamous rugby song? THAT would have gone over BIGLY!
47 posted on 03/28/2022 10:16:08 AM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian ( Ceterum autem censeo Justinius True-dope-us esse delendam)
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To: rktman

They should have played “car wash”.


48 posted on 03/28/2022 10:16:48 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: rktman

This was the original plan on the entrance of the presenters- unfortunately the plan was nixed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQLF37csfhI


49 posted on 03/28/2022 10:19:21 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: rktman

By a white band


50 posted on 03/28/2022 10:22:30 AM PDT by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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To: 1Old Pro

How about the theme from Sanford & Son?


51 posted on 03/28/2022 10:23:39 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: laweeks

Anything to take the focus off what a cluster f this administration is.


52 posted on 03/28/2022 10:24:31 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken.)
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To: rktman

“singer H.E.R”

Must also be a trained biologist.


53 posted on 03/28/2022 10:25:55 AM PDT by LouieFisk
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To: God luvs America

😂😂😂


54 posted on 03/28/2022 10:28:47 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: Whatever Works

That’s right. When any action can trigger feigned offense, just throw up your hands and do what you want.


55 posted on 03/28/2022 10:43:45 AM PDT by I-ambush (We watched the moment of defeat, played back over on the video screen. )
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To: rktman

“Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah”


56 posted on 03/28/2022 10:44:10 AM PDT by cwa78
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To: cwa78

this would have been better: https://youtu.be/r5tvnyKuBKM Barbershop


57 posted on 03/28/2022 10:46:01 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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There is much less biological differences between whites and blacks than there are between men and women, so how does anybody even know what a black person is anyway?


58 posted on 03/28/2022 10:52:19 AM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: dfwgator

John F. Kerry’s wife called herself an African American.


59 posted on 03/28/2022 10:53:17 AM PDT by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Or Otis Day and the Knights’ “Shamma Lamma Ding Dong”.


60 posted on 03/28/2022 10:55:20 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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