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To: GeronL
I think I watched a bit of that movie and turned it off.

That was the movie which allowed us to hear one of the dumbest acceptance speeches in Academy Award history, Halle Berry accepting her award as a victory for all people of color who were denied in the past. She joined the groups of mixed race people (Barack Obama is another) who celebrate the heritage of the parent who abandoned them while ignoring the efforts of the white parent who stuck around to raise them.

18 posted on 11/01/2010 2:48:12 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

She can be nice looking but she and her Hollyweird types are all skankapotomuses to me. :p


20 posted on 11/01/2010 3:01:14 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com <--- My Fiction/ Science Fiction Board)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
"....who celebrate the heritage of the parent who abandoned them while ignoring the efforts of the white parent who stuck around to raise them."

From her acceptance speech-

"I want to thank my mom who's given me the strength to fight every single day, to be who I want to be and given me the courage to dream, that this dream might be happening and possible for me. I love you, Mom, so much. Thank you."

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/halleberryoscarspeech.htm

She thanked many, many people, but her mother, who was sitting next to her in the audience, is the white parent. She never mentioned her father.


23 posted on 11/01/2010 5:22:29 PM PDT by Mila
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