{"id":57850,"date":"2016-02-29T11:01:47","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T17:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57850"},"modified":"2016-02-29T11:01:47","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T17:01:47","slug":"oscarsoproportional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=57850","title":{"rendered":"#OscarSoProportional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For roughly the everyeth year in my life in a row, I skipped the Oscars last night. \u00a0But I did catch a little bit of Chris Rock&#8217;s opening monologue. \u00a0And he had a couple good ones:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>For most of Oscar history, black people had much bigger things to worry about than Oscars.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Jada Pinkett-Smith boycotting the Oscars is like me boycotting Rihanna&#8217;s panties. Neither of us were invited!&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But Alan West <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allenbwest.com\/2016\/01\/this-chart-destroys-oscarsowhite-premise\/\">notes another inconvenient truth<\/a>; while this year was a slow one for black nominees,\u00a0African Americans over the past 20 years have actually won &#8220;Actor\/Actress&#8221; and &#8220;Supporting Actor\/Actress&#8221; statues exactly in proportion to their share of the population:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.allenbwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Slide17.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"434\" height=\"315\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The problem isn&#8217;t that black people are underrepresented at the Oscars. \u00a0The problem is that the narrative needed a chanting point for February.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For roughly the everyeth year in my life in a row, I skipped the Oscars last night. \u00a0But I did catch a little bit of Chris Rock&#8217;s opening monologue. \u00a0And he had a couple good ones: For most of Oscar history, black people had much bigger things to worry about than Oscars. &#8220;Jada Pinkett-Smith boycotting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,54,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e","category-ebony-and-ivory","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57851,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57850\/revisions\/57851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}