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2016-02-05 Home Front: Culture Wars

There's talk about bringing back the Black Oscars

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Posted by Besoeker 2016-02-05 07:19|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 But wait! You want to be represented in the established Hollywood Oscar programme, and a separate, non-integrated 'black only' Oscar system as well ?

I'm sure some accommodation can be made. Separate criteria, standards, and systems are already widely accepted.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-02-05 07:31|| 2016-02-05 07:31|| Front Page Top

#2 Another 'safe place'?

The re-segregation of America driven by one community. Because it's really about Power not Integration.

[no one has mentioned the legion of other actors, producers, writers, et al who were passed over who coulda, shoulda have been nominated even through they weren't of the aggrieved community]

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-02-05 08:16|| 2016-02-05 08:16|| Front Page Top

#3 To hell with Hollywood.. Don't patronize their trash. The Oscars are just a trade show.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2016-02-05 10:22|| 2016-02-05 10:22|| Front Page Top

#4 The affirmative action Oscars?

Posted by Albert Ebbeamble1562 2016-02-05 12:28|| 2016-02-05 12:28|| Front Page Top

#5 The same laws that would prevent a "whites only Oscars" would prevent a "blacks only Oscars". They would have to include token Asian and white nominees.

Is that really what anybody wants?

Posted by Sven the pelter 2016-02-05 12:33|| 2016-02-05 12:33|| Front Page Top

#6 A valet scratched my Cadillac
With whitey on the screen
I bet did it cuz I'm black
And whitey's on the screen

I've cultivated urban tics
While whitey's on the screen
For half a century, no new tricks
But whitey's on the screen

Unlikely doc, or geek, or God
With whitey on the screen
My audience is deeply awed
Yet whitey's on the screen

I play myself so expertly
But whitey's on the screen
And all his roles were meant for me
Not whitey on the screen

Taxes takin' my living wage
The haters make me ess my aitch
Obama's way back in the rough
And if all that crap wasn't enough

The valet scratched my Cadillac
With whitey on the screen
And Hollywood don't got my back
Cause whitey's on the screen

With all that money I made last year
For whitey on the screen
I guess I'm still a millionaire
Thanks, whitey on the screen

But still, I've really had my fill
Of whitey on the screen
I'll send this reparations bill
Western Union
To whitey on the screen

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2016-02-05 14:12|| 2016-02-05 14:12|| Front Page Top

#7 He, even.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2016-02-05 14:13|| 2016-02-05 14:13|| Front Page Top

#8 Why not develop a black studio? Certainly there are enough black multi-millionaires to put something together.

Posted by rjschwarz 2016-02-05 14:55|| 2016-02-05 14:55|| Front Page Top

#9 :)

Posted by Shipman 2016-02-05 14:56|| 2016-02-05 14:56|| Front Page Top

#10 Well, Will Smith is not a good actor anymore, if he ever was, and NWA wasn't as cool as the grown up white suburbanites remembered. What does that leave for black actors/actresses?

Admittedly, I think Fifty Shades of Black should get some recognition for simply attempting the parody, though I have not seen either film.

Posted by swksvolFF 2016-02-05 19:30|| 2016-02-05 19:30|| Front Page Top

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