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  1. Not fair. Justin Timberlake and Robin Thicke need a venue to receive accolades–cause apparently they are the only two white people who semm to get awards at these shows

    While we’re at it add the “other prestigious black award shows”–The Trumpet awards, the NAACP Image AWards and the horrible Stellar Awards.

    Ugh

  2. Excellent point, Fur. I listened to a woman named April Rain (couldn’t figure out if she was a black porn star or what, exactly) on talk radio this week. She’s spearheading the fight against the Academy of Arts and Sciences (boy, they had humble beginnings) on this issue. Her org is called “Oscars So White”.

    She kept saying that it wasn’t about being black but that Hollywood doesn’t produce enough films that reflect what she called the “diversity” of American audiences. As the interview wore on she made it more clear that she meant that films don’t have enough black people. I can’t remember who interviewed her, but he pointed out the number of recent films made by, about and for blacks, gays, and every other kind of non-white. He named Oscar winning actors, filmmakers, writers and so on but she insisted it wasn’t enough because the majority of ticket purchasers are black per capita.

    I wonder how Hollywood is going to deal with this. I wonder how far they will let the activists go.

  3. Not far, because we’re talking about serious, serious money, and no one is going to sink money into movies that may lose money because of social justice.

    Anyone can pick up a placard and create a hashtag. That costs nothing.
    Put a movie together that doesn’t have wide appeal to white people and you might be tossing away millions.

  4. why would someone give anyone a forum when they spout nonsense like ‘the majority of ticket purchasers are black per capita.’?
    if that were true then ‘black’ movies would be produced ad infinitum … if nothing more then the demand from ‘black per capita’.
    …it’s all about the Benjamins

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