Spike Lee sees no problem when the athletes dribbling basketballs on his precious hardwood are entirely black, with the one lone red-headed white back-up center waving a towel all game, but he gets apoplectic if there are no black Oscar winners.
Tell ya what Spike. We’ll have a red-headed black guy cheerlead from a bench while the white people walk up and down the red carpet. Okay?
- Do the Right Thing director went on GMA to discuss the lack of diversity on this year’s nominee list
- He and his wife Tanya will spend the evening of the Oscars at Madison Square Garden watching the Knicks
- He is following Jada Pinkett Smith who has publicly called for the Academy Awards to be boycotted
- Several stars have now weighed in on the issue with Oscar winner Lupita Nyong’o the latest critic
- ‘It has me thinking about unconscious prejudice and what merits prestige in our culture,’ Nyong’o said of the absence of non-white acting nominees
- George Clooney, Steve McQueen, Idris Elba, Michael Moore, Don Cheadle and David Oyelowo have also criticized the Academy
- Meanwhile Fresh Prince of Bel Air actress Janet Hubert and Alexis Arquette have taken issue with Pinkett Smith’s call to boycott the ceremony
ht/ just the tip
Perhaps this would be a good time to give
‘The Birth of a Nation’ an honorary Oscar?
We need to deseg. Basketball now.
Brilliant observation (as usual), Thx
Professional sports teams should be no more that 14% black. And while we’re at it….tax them like the businesses they are.
They don’t pay tax. Your shitting me
Man I’m not getting this. Black population is 12% half of which are in prison. So now we’re down to 6 %. More than half are women. 2.5 percent have entered into the military and are bad ass Americans. From what’s left only .0001 percent are shorter than 5’4″. This asshole and Mugsy Whatever the basket ball player. So we got a one off midget freak everyone’s paying attention too. How’s my math?
This is what we get now that affirmative action has reached the highest office in the land.
And people used to beeyotch about Fred Reed opining that races ALWAYS self-segregate when given the chance!
Give everyone a trophy. That should solve the problem
We don’t baulk that they can play sports with a greatness…Why do they feel the need to baulk at our acting greatness?
What could be fairer than drawing lots for the Oscars? Put every actors name in a giant jar and have half naked, pretty girls draw them out!
They don’t seem to have a problem with the BET Awards, the NAACP Spirit Awards or any other race exclusive awards that exclude whites and Asians.
Such hypocrites.
Want a mainstream award? Do a better job.
The Academy Awards are an incest-fest, as it is.
Give the negroes Oscars based on their relative proportions to the non-negro actors, directors, &c. – just publicize the fact.
“And since a white dude, Bozo Blovartnik, got a Best Director award for some shithead movie only the French watched, we’re also proud to give one to Tyrone Shoelace, just cuz he’s a negro!”
*music swells; standing ovation*