#OscarSoProportional
By Mitch Berg
For roughly the everyeth year in my life in a row, I skipped the Oscars last night. But I did catch a little bit of Chris Rock’s opening monologue. And he had a couple good ones:
- For most of Oscar history, black people had much bigger things to worry about than Oscars.
- “Jada Pinkett-Smith boycotting the Oscars is like me boycotting Rihanna’s panties. Neither of us were invited!”
But Alan West notes another inconvenient truth; while this year was a slow one for black nominees, African Americans over the past 20 years have actually won “Actor/Actress” and “Supporting Actor/Actress” statues exactly in proportion to their share of the population:
The problem isn’t that black people are underrepresented at the Oscars. The problem is that the narrative needed a chanting point for February.
February 29th, 2016 at 12:06 pm
I’d dare say that the problem is that so few movies are worth recognition these days except in the Razzies.
February 29th, 2016 at 12:06 pm
hAVEN’T WATHED THEM SINCE 1976,WHEN i SAW EVEY BESTG PICTGURE NOMINEE. iT’S A CIRCLE-JERKOF NARCISSISTISM AND EGO-CENTRISM UNEQUALED IN ANY CULTGURE.