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Spike Lee to Boycott Oscars Ceremony, Blames Studios for Lack of Diversity
Charlotte Observer/Los Angeles Times ^ | January 18, 2016 | David Ng

Posted on 01/18/2016 10:59:55 AM PST by Cecily

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To: Cecily

I would vote for Hillary before I would watch one of his movies. PoS.


21 posted on 01/18/2016 11:13:12 AM PST by Resolute Conservative
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To: Cecily
Hey Spike start your own Oscars. You can call It the "Spocars."

5.56mm

22 posted on 01/18/2016 11:13:18 AM PST by M Kehoe
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To: Cecily
Diversity AKA If it is crap and its black you need to recognize it and award it. I'm sure this is all about the compton NWA movie which idolizes the thug life style and the reason why the adults who entertain this is having issues with thier thier little thug offspring. FU spike try producing something worth while
23 posted on 01/18/2016 11:13:36 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: butlerweave

Somehow I get the feeling they would be enraged, if they had awards to best black actor, best black actress, best black director etc. They would claim that was separate but equal. So there’s no satisfying these people.


24 posted on 01/18/2016 11:13:49 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Cecily
Damn Spike...you sure know how to kick folks when they're down!
25 posted on 01/18/2016 11:14:07 AM PST by 4yearlurker (Sodom punished for those who practiced an abominable vice as a religious rite-Henry C. Beck)
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To: Cecily

Will he boycott himself or other directors that exclusively hire black movie staff and actors? His movies are cast with 90% blacks and the token white cast member(s) are typically weak.


26 posted on 01/18/2016 11:15:51 AM PST by Vic S
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Is Danish Girl such a great movie..I doubt it, but since it promotes the lefts transgender agenda it gets nominated


27 posted on 01/18/2016 11:16:02 AM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Cecily

Leo, the Darling of Hollywood, is a white male.

He still hasn’t won an Oscar.


28 posted on 01/18/2016 11:17:43 AM PST by RummyChick
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To: Cecily

Ignorant Hollywood liberals don’t know they are to make decisions based on PC racial basis rather than talent, merit and output. Send them to the re-education camps.


29 posted on 01/18/2016 11:17:56 AM PST by all the best
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To: Cecily
Like I said the other day - do a remake of Dolemite, Spike. History demands it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stmzlKVYncw
30 posted on 01/18/2016 11:20:53 AM PST by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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To: Cecily

Since I doubt anyone watches/cares about that kind of s*** anymore, I don’t see that he will be missed. I don’t know one person who bases movie watching on whether a film got awards from someone-anyone...

I also was not aware that awards shows observed quotas and EEO rules...


31 posted on 01/18/2016 11:29:17 AM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: RummyChick; windcliff

“Messenger of Peace”


32 posted on 01/18/2016 11:29:35 AM PST by onedoug
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To: Cecily

I’m sure Spike will be a viewer of the new,black Nancy Drew show./s

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33 posted on 01/18/2016 11:29:37 AM PST by Mears
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To: Cecily

Maybe if they made movies that were geared to the whole of America instead of being Black centric? And isn’t that why they have their own awards shows, which have seen how many non Blacks nominated?


34 posted on 01/18/2016 11:29:49 AM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: napscoordinator

Uh, that would be zero.

(Oh, my mistake. That was a rhetorical question, correct?)


35 posted on 01/18/2016 11:30:38 AM PST by Roger Kaputnik (Just because I'm paranoid doesn't prove that they aren't out to get me.)
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To: CGASMIA68
plus his black followers cant afford to go to a movie....just like a large % of the remainder of America

"Five dollars? Maybe I'll go to the movies.....by myself!"

36 posted on 01/18/2016 11:30:55 AM PST by dfwgator
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To: Texan5

“I also was not aware that awards shows observed quotas and EEO rules...”


Rules haven’t entered into the diversity issue in years.

Yelling,marching,suing,and protesting have taken place of rules.

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37 posted on 01/18/2016 11:33:56 AM PST by Mears
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To: Sarah Barracuda

You: “... Let’s see, any black person who is in a movie it always ends up being some sort of slave movie or some anti white garbage. Produce something GOOD and people will watch.”

From the movie Bowfinger:

Kit Ramsey: White boys get all the Oscars. It’s a fact.

Agent: We know that, but—

Kit Ramsey: Did I get a nomination? No. ‘Cause I ain’t played none of them slave roles. That’s when you get nominated. Black dude plays a slave role, gets nominated. White boy plays an idiot, gets the Oscar. Find me a script as a retarded slave, then I get the Oscar.

Agent: I’m gonna schmooze. I’ll be right back.

Kit Ramsey: Go find that script. Buck, the Wonder Slave.


38 posted on 01/18/2016 11:34:30 AM PST by BBB333 (Q: Which is grammatically correct? Joe Biden IS or Joe Biden ARE an idiot?)
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To: Cecily
Well, for these sensitive souls who seem to prefer mandatory diversity to talent as the benchmark, perhaps they need to start their own version of the Oscars.

But then again, since the best acting is done by the "mybabydidn'tdonuffin" mommas and their jailbird offspring, it might be hard to find enough candidates with the necessary edjumacation to read a script.

39 posted on 01/18/2016 11:34:45 AM PST by jimbug
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To: BBB333

Funny scene, and a lot of truth to it.


40 posted on 01/18/2016 11:35:58 AM PST by dfwgator
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