Free at Last!!

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[VinnyTex]

		h, my God! Oh, my God! Oh, my God! I'm doing my Halle Berry impersonation, folks. I just had to comment on her acceptance speech last night, because she talked about all this racism that exists in Hollywood - a place that is supposedly the bastion of liberal open-mindedness. America is out there buying the tickets to see the movies of Ms. Berry. America has made Oprah and Bill Cosby historically successful, yet we're the ones said to be racist.

		Well, based on last night's speech by Halle Berry, I think there's probably less racism in Selma, Alabama, than there is in Hollywood. If we are to take her at her word, then there's less racism in the Deep South than there is, even today, in Hollywood. This poor woman suffered in silence for 12 long years at the hands of the whitest, most leftist place in America, perhaps excepting Berkeley, and Boston. This is Henry "Nostrilitis" Waxman's district, after all. This is where Barbara Boxer goes to get a lot of her campaign cash. This is where Bill Clinton's support runs deepest. Look at the spectacle of Julia Roberts. This is quite telling, too, because we're talking about a true dunce here. We can be honest. We're talking about a black hole of intelligence here. But she is arguably the most powerful woman in Hollywood, box office-wise. When was the last time she was in a movie where a black had a major role? It was the Pelican Brief waaaay back when, and one black guy playing Sammy's part in Oceans 11. She has the clout to determine who her leading men are going to be, so why doesn't she use it?

		It was the same thing with AIDS. These people get away with making it look like what they're doing is somebody else's fault. Meanwhile, when that disease hit, gays in Hollywood who were in the closet stayed there, because they feared never getting work. No straight actor wanted to kiss a gay actor, didn't want to run "the risk." They were the biggest homophobes in the country. Oh, but they put on those red ribbons, man, and just erased all that. They got credit for having all of the progressive compassion in the world. I can't get past this. I think it's funny. I can't get over it. This was a spectacle, folks. White millionaires by the thousands applauding a millionaire black actress who is condemning them. She wasn't condemning us in the movie-going audience. She was condemning them for decades of racism while she's fondling the Oscar.

[Keith in Iowa]

While watching it on TV, I thought she soiled her dress in shock when they called her name...

[nhoward14]

Most of those same observations were made on the live Oscar-watching thread last night. Way to go, Rush!

[Ron in Acreage]

How did Halle and Denzel get their roles if Hollyweird is so racist? Did Jesse pull a "Shakedown" on the Hollyweird elite liberals? Looks like a duck.....

[sneakypete]

And the funny part about it is that she looks like a white woman with a light tan. Maybe somebody should ask her how prejudiced against black men her mother was?

[TheLion]

The only racism I noted last night were comments made by blacks. When are these people going to grow up and become just people like the rest of us? Sidney Poitier had a line in Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, when talking to his dad he said, "Dad, you think of yourself as a black man and I think of myself as a man". (something close to that). How ironic that it didn't even sink in.

[nhoward14]

I suppose all that is left to do know is to diversify the facial features of the Oscar statue itself. I can't believe the most progessive, open-minded people in America, the Hollywood elite, would even dare give an African-American an Oscar statue with Anglo-Saxon White American features! I'll be outside the Kodak Theatre tomorrow morning protesting this injustice until the Academy reverses this horrible practice!

[Protest canceled if temperatures are outside the range of 70-71 degrees, winds exceed 5 mph, it is not perfectly sunny, and there is a line at the nearest Starbucks.]

[Great Dane]

Turns out she is just another nutbar.

[isthisnickcool]

Maybe somebody should ask her how prejudiced against black men her mother was?

Not very I'd imagine. Here mother is white and her father (I think she said she does not speak to him on the Baba Wawa show) is black.

To see Halle at her "best", see the movie BAPS (Black American Princesses). Her and another black actress basically reprise the roles of Amos & Andy:

Berry plays what's basically a stupid black girl with bad clothes, bad hair, bad teeth and bad diction. The role was awful and racist. The supporting cast included a couple of young black men that were characterized as just a stupid and shuffling. The screenplay could have been written by David Duke.

But, she is an "actress" so I suppose she can play a black female. Maybe being half-black helps?

[BluesDuke]

I thought of Guess Who's Coming To Dinner and that line throughout Sidney Poitier's speech. He still thinks of himself as a man first. (Indeed, he offered his first props to a passel of white people who took the chance, rolled the dice, and opened the door through which he strode so magnificently all those years ago, a point that seems to have been lost on the encephalophonic Ms. Berry.) He puts me in mind of the late Louis Lomax, a titan among the earlier black men who did in journalism as Poitier did in film: Lomax was once asked if he preferred to call himself a Negro. He said, "No." Do you call yourself a black man? "No." Do you call yourself an African-American? "No." Then, his questioner finally asked, what do you call yourself. "Louis Lomax," was Lomax's answer.

A-men, brother!

[Ron in Acreage]

It's amazing how little it took for the so called racism to be forgiven (door now open). A chunk of gold colored metal, molded in the shape of a man. If we only knew they could be bought off so easily. I suggest all blacks in this country get a chunk of gold colored metal to end the reparations debate once and for all.

[isthisnickcool]

She and another....Duh!

[Ron in Acreage]

The steel industry could be saved at the same time.

[astudent]

Wouldn't it be nice if the first Black Woman to win an Oscar had maturity, dignity, self-control and modesty ---- like a true pro. She reminded me of a woman who knew she had received something she didn't deserve. Perhaps her award was Hollywood's way of offering affirmative action.

[Fred Mertz]

Is that Henry "Nostrilitus" Waxman as the Oscar? I don't get it.

[nhoward14]

Hollywood is Waxman's Congressional district... that is why he is on there

[harpo11]

After many years of not viewing the predictable Oscar Award Night narcissism I wished that I had passed this one up as well. Unfortunately, I was enormously intrigued over the communal Hollywood quilt that prevaded what appeared to be a rather large group therapy session with all sorts of megalomaniacs parading about in one room dressed in the finest jewels and gowns that could hardly keep certain body parts from tipping out.

I had looked forward with eagerness to confirm my initial perceptions and I was not disappointed in the least. This was very interesting to see 74 years of guilt aired out like laundry blowing in the Santa Ana winds.

And the best female actress really delivered the final triumphant salvo as the crowd found their release and gleefully cried and cheered and felt so deeply and were once again made whole.

P.S. I don't understand why the leading actor for the best motion picture, the best screenscript, the best supporting actess, and the best director didn't receive the best actor award. Seems awfully strange, but I guess that's Hollywood.

[TheLion]

Blacks will never be "free at last" as long as they sit at the table with the liberal democrats. They have taken a wealth of opportunity and re-enslaved themselves on the Democrat plantation.

[ValerieUSA]

Halle Berry isn't dark enough to suit her chosen identity and her black brothers and sisters in the industry, so publishers often do her a favor by darkening her photos (exactly the thing they got in trouble with when they pulled that trick on OJ's mug shot.) Dark Halle