Too White! Let's Boycott!
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I don't think the academy awards are racist.
You aren't entitled to it because you're black, you gotta be good no matter what your race is.
There's been tons of black academy award winners. It's sad how much racial tensions seem to be growing everywhere.
I don't think the academy awards are racist.
You aren't entitled to it because you're black, you gotta be good no matter what your race is.
There's been tons of black academy award winners. It's sad how much racial tensions seem to be growing everywhere.
Saying that you need to include mediocre movies into the oscar talks because they happened to star or be written by or directed by black people is rather demeaning isn't it? Black people still don't seem to get that Affirmitive action (because that's what this would be) is harmful to them. It propagates the notion that mediocrity is exceptional for black people. Black mediocrity isn't exceptional. Black Exceptionalism is exceptional.
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In all honesty, one of my biggest fears is that most Americans will be caught with their pants down, by being totally engrossed by bullshit like this, when the Islamist start blowing themselves up on our soil. Doesn't the free world have bigger fish to fry without everyone losing their shit over some Hollywood awards show? People need to get their priorities straight.
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In all honesty, one of my biggest fears is that most Americans will be caught with their pants down, by being totally engrossed by bullshit like this, when the Islamist start blowing themselves up on our soil. Doesn't the free world have bigger fish to fry without everyone losing their shit over some Hollywood awards show? People need to get their priorities straight.
In all honesty, one of my biggest fears is that most Americans will be caught with their pants down, by being totally engrossed by bullshit like this, when the Islamist start blowing themselves up on our soil. Doesn't the free world have bigger fish to fry without everyone losing their shit over some Hollywood awards show? People need to get their priorities straight.
I think of it this way. We really don't have much to worry about and life is amazingly good here in America. Our citizens living in what we call poverty receive benefits that would be luxurious to the real poor people of the world.
Do you think anybody Somalia gives a ship about the Academy Awards?
So we obsess over minutiae.
WSS
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In all honesty, one of my biggest fears is that most Americans will be caught with their pants down, by being totally engrossed by bullshit like this, when the Islamist start blowing themselves up on our soil. Doesn't the free world have bigger fish to fry without everyone losing their shit over some Hollywood awards show? People need to get their priorities straight.
I think of it this way. We really don't have much to worry about and life is amazingly good here in America. Our citizens living in what we call poverty receive benefits that would be luxurious to the real poor people of the world.
Do you think anybody Somalia gives a ship about the Academy Awards?
So we obsess over minutiae.
WSS
I think of it this way. We really don't have much to worry about and life is amazingly good here in America. Our citizens living in what we call poverty receive benefits that would be luxurious to the real poor people of the world.
Agreed. Which is why it disappoints and worries me that our citizens seem to be more focused on what's going on with the Kardashians, DWTS, Duck Dynasty, and whether or not the Oscars are racist (they're not, btw), while they fail to give the same amount of attention to things that really do matter, such as the Islamist threat to the world.
Do you think anybody Somalia gives a ship about the Academy Awards?
I don't know if this was an accidental typo or a sly reference to Somali piracy, but if it's the latter, bravo sir.
So we obsess over minutiae.
WSS
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I think a lot of black people really don't give a fuck. Only affluent Hollywood blacks like Jada Pinkett think black people are being purposefully snubbed. What they're not acknowledging is how many white actors get snubbed every year. The Oscars are stupid anyway, who cares? Next black person that gets nomm'd should do a no show then. If people like your work and pay to go see your movie, why do you care about a stupid little gold statue handed out by insufferable rich white people who live in a fantasy world anyway.
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No gay actor has ever won an oscar, fwiw. Think about that for a moment. Meanwhile, straight actors playing gay men have won oscars.
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No gay actor has ever won an oscar, fwiw. Think about that for a moment. Meanwhile, straight actors playing gay men have won oscars.
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My bad. I was going off a piece written by Sir Ian McKellen about it.
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