[antaresequity]

I am so glad someone wrote this....

[Consort]

Whoopi and her ilk are trying to make racism cool.

[antaresequity]

Dont forget the endless chorus of the media all day long....I am so sick of this crap.

When will idiots like Whoopi consider themselves Americans first?

[wardaddy]

Very well written ....by an East Indian I assume.....a Dinesh D'Souza type of writer.....jolly good.

Why are we all expected to be so damn colorblind yet laud every little piece of blackness as somehow "special". It doesn't fit....."and if it doesn't fit...one must not SUBMIT!!!"

[Bella_Bru]

Did Halle win for Monster's Ball? If so, that was a good choice. It was an excellent movie. As was Training Day. But, of course, someone's gotta find something to bitch about.....

[Bella_Bru]

besides, if Hollywood is sooooooooooo PC, then why didn't they "give it away" before this year?

[alcuin]

Good post.

[hove]

Halle Berry and Denzel were awesome! They were deserving of their awards.

[Bullish]

It would be so wrong of white Americans to single themselves out for special treatment like the other races do.

Don't flame me till' you think about it.

[NYCVirago]

But surely Mr. Poitier was an inspiration not just to black actors. Could they not have had a selection of white ones too, paying homage to the great old man?

But didn't Whoopi Goldberg herself point that out during the awards?

[Russell Scott]

Two words of advice for Halle Berry: forgive your abusive Dad, and good actors don't need to take off their clothes in front of the camera. As for your skin color, I could care less. Maybe Hollywood can't since they "look on the outward, while God looks on the heart".

[bvw]

Jesse Jacksonization. Extortion by exploiting race bias claims.

[wingnuts'nbolts]

It is all liberal democrat inspired. They must keep the drum beat up that there is a huge animosity between the races which if fact, is not there. Maybe in Hollywood it is they certainly are liberal democrats. In the real world however, we seem to be getting along ok. Only JJ and Al scream race all the time. There is another reason they just don't seem to understand for prople to detest them. They are both crooks, liars and thiefs.

[Uncle George]

The Clinton stench will extend for years to come.

[TaRaRaBoomDeAyGoreLostToday!]

Halley whatever her name was acted like she was allowed to enter a bus and sit on it for the first time.Blacks are not discriminated against nowadays thank God, why did she act like she wasn't making a trillion dollars? Look at the show MY WIFE and KIDS, they don't freak because it is an all black family.It is of norm.

[Ohioan]

I have no problem with giving awards to Denzel Washington or Halle Berry. I did not see the movies for which they won their awards, but have seen each of them in other movies, where they did a competent job. If some want to make this into a racial triumph sort of thing, I have no problem with that, either.

On the other hand, Whoopi Goldberg is an absurdity. She has been decent in some movies, ridiculous in others. But she is hardly the best MC they could find, and her vulgarity detracts from the event as family entertainment. As one who can remember all the years that Bob Hope lent real class to the affair, I found her unfortunate, to say the least.

But my real pique was with all of the mentioned hyperbole about Sidney Poitier. He was not in my opinion, the quality of actor that is Washington. The reason, to be very blunt, is that in every movie I ever saw him in, he projected a definite attitude. That attitude was still there, when he accepted the award. It is a racial chip on the shoulder attitude, and it does him no credit.

As for him being a pioneer? That just isn't so, unless you ignore some incredibly strong performances by Negro actors and actresses, long before Poitier. Didn't, for example, Hattie McDowell get an Oscar for her supporting role in Gone With The Wind? (Yes that was only a supporting role; but a very powerful supporting role in the 3 hour and forty minute classic, that is clearly one of the great movies of all time, is more than the equivalent of many a starring role in a much shorter, less powerful picture.) Of course, that Poitier attitude is too full of racial hostility to even realize that Mammie in Gone With The Wind was not a type cast domestic, but a sustaining force in the multi-generation history of an important family. Perhaps if he lost the attitude, he could have been an equally gifted performer. But with the attitude, Hattie projected ten times his power on the screen.

She understood how to create a real character. In Gone With The Wind, she projected more of a real sense of history, drama and human interaction, just by herself, than Poitier, O'Connor and the whole cast, together in In The Heat Of The Night. But then, Poitier was more into expressing his own pique. Sunday night was no exception.

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[Old Professer]

This is what we end up with after 15 years of pitching "Industrial-strength" sunscreen.