Al Sharpton calls 'emergency meeting' over Hollywood's all-white Oscar list
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He is a piece of shit. Selma has been getting great reviews. 12 years a slave crushed it last year. The imagination game had a closeted gay leading character. Plenty of diversity.
Sharpton should worry more about inner city joblessness, lack of father's and gun violence being the number one killer of young, black males.
No extortion checks to be had from any of those problems.
"This just in, Oscars undertaking new affirmative action policies."
In all seriousness, Sharpton is looking at it from a top down perspective rather making an attempt to steer more URM's into acting and the arts. But I guess making speeches at local high schools doesn't attract enough publicity.
^ This
Unfortunately, this is not an Onion article. The guy is a race hustling buffoon. He should be ashamed of himself.
These people seem to conveniently forget that "Twelve Years a Slave" won Best Picture last year, that Denzel Washington and Halle Berry won Best acting oscars in the same year, and that this is only the 2nd time in 20 years that all the acting nominees are white.
I saw "Selma" and thought Oyelowo's acting was superb. I'm definitely surprised that he wasn't nominated, but is that due to racism? BULLSHIT.
As for "Selma" as a movie, I thought it was decent but overrated. The movie was very clunky and didn't flow well. The portrayal of many of the characters was awfully one-dimensional, bordering on the cartoonish. It did do a good job of showing the sheer brutality towards and dehumanization of blacks during the Jim Crow Era, but for me the film as a whole was not on par with "Boyhood" or "American Sniper." (I thought "Imitation Game" was VERY hyped and was a subpar movie).
Sharpton is absolute scum. Isn't Hollywood - by far - the most liberal group in America? Yet now its awards need affirmative action? Like does this guy just sit on the couch jerking himself searching through any newsworthy information that doesn't include some sort of black presence? He is the Josh Smith of race relations.
Bhahaha Josh Smith of race relation....
This guy is doing almost as much work to set black people back as Obama
HOT TAKES! GET YOUR HOT TAKES HEREEE!
"black movies" lol
Sharpton represents everything that is wrong with this county. Everything
Well, to be honest, the Oscars represent a large amount of what's wrong with this country as well.
And let's not forget the corn lobby and orange cheese.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20150117/us--oscars-diversity-50cd32c75…
I feel like these people just sit around and say, "Hm, it's been kinda boring lately. Lets think of a story we can run with for the next couple weeks. How long as it been since the last race issue? 3 weeks? Do it".
Popular media in a nutshell.
lol
the oscars is a giant hipster smug convention anyways.
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