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Slate is Complaining that the Grammy's and Oscar's Are TOO WHITE

 
 
Reply Mon 27 Jan, 2014 03:58 pm
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But there appears to be an unspoken quota of how many black films can capture our cultural attention at once. And it seems telling that while Fruitvale and The Butler are Oscar-baity in many ways, neither movie turns its narrative about black history into a heroic moment for white people—like, say, Mississippi Burning, the 22nd-most Oscar-baity movie ever, which was nominated for seven Oscars and took home one.

There’s been much hyperbolic praise heaped on Hollywood after the so-called “banner year” for black films seen over the last 12 months. But the Academy shouldn’t pat itself on the back too much for nominating 12 Years a Slave while ignoring these other films. Steve McQueen could become the first black person to win the Best Director award in the ceremony’s 86-year history, and that would be a well-deserved, historic honor. But, as Mark Harris astutely points out, “2013 may have been, in some ways, ‘the year of the black movie,’ ” but for “the Academy, it turned out to be the year of a black movie.” Harris rightly adds that this “does not mean that the Academy is racist, but it’s certainly a reminder, as if any were needed, that the Academy is white,” and, despite its recent attempts to diversify itself, “still has a long way to go.”


http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/01/16/oscar_nominations_2014_fruitvale_station_and_the_butler_shut_out.html

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I had a moment of alarm during last night’s Grammy Awards when one of the freshest voices in rap, Kendrick Lamar, appeared on stage in a white hoodie surrounded by the also-white-clad semi-rock group Imagine Dragons. It wasn’t just because of the gross injustice of Lamar being forced to perform with one of the most anodyne ensembles of this or any other century, although I did momentarily want to fly to Los Angeles and march around the Staples Center with a “Free Kendrick!” placard. (Miraculously, he crushed it anyway.)

No, it was because the all-white costumes suddenly made me wonder whether the Grammys were openly acknowledging that “White People” was this year’s official theme. The rap categories were swept by the cuddly pale indies Macklemore and Ryan Lewis. (They also won Best New Artist, though even Macklemore said that Lamar should have won.) And not only was Lamar shut out (despite his seven nominations), but the most provocative and influential hip-hop album-maker of the year, Kanye West, got only two nominations and wasn’t invited to perform or present. He apparently wasn’t even on the premises. Given the rest of this year’s ceremonies, I assume his crime was being too exciting


http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/music_box/2014/01/_2014_grammy_winners_daft_punk_macklemore_and_other_white_people_triumph.html

And yet very often I see a political photo op, a commercial, a movie, or a tv show with way too many blacks and women if I were expecting the visuals to match the reality of America ( for illustration look at tv commercials with kids and tell me what percentage of the kids are white males....it will be under 10%) . We should be wondering why white men are shunned if we are going to operate a quota system, correct?

Tell me where I am wrong.
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