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Al Sharpton Calls For Emergency Meeting To Address 'Appalling' All-White Oscar Nominees
BI ^ | 1-15-2015 | Colin campbell

Posted on 01/15/2015 4:00:49 PM PST by tcrlaf

The Rev. Al Sharpton was left fuming mad after the Oscars revealed its all-white list of nominees for this year's Oscar awards on Thursday.

"The movie industry is like the Rocky Mountains, the higher you get, the whiter it gets," Sharpton quipped in a statement released later in the afternoon.

Sharpton, a critic of the lack of diversity in Hollywood, also announced he was holding an "emergency meeting" next week to address the issue.

"I have called an emergency meeting early next week in Hollywood with the task force to discuss possible action around the Academy Awards," he said.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: extortion; hollywood; racebaiting; sharpton
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To: tcrlaf

Damn, this guy is the ultimate racist


41 posted on 01/15/2015 5:15:56 PM PST by realcleanguy
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To: tcrlaf

this is amusing as heck!

Leftwing hollywood condemned by Sharpton.

It is interesting that leftwing hollywood which supports the NAALCP and affirmative action does not have blacks in every film as the major actors. Hypocrisy?????


42 posted on 01/15/2015 5:20:48 PM PST by RginTN
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To: Max in Utah; Kenny Bunk

I have the solution!

AWESOME

by golux

20th c FOX

INT: WASHINGTON DC ROOM. Bad White People mill about.

BWP 1: “We have to do SOMETHING to further the aims of the Corporation!”

BWP 2: “Yes... Wait! Let’s kill Agent Four!”

AGENT FOUR: “No! I am the only person in this organization fighting for Social Justice!”

BWP 1: “Business is Business!”

BWP 2 DRAWS WEAPON TO KILL AGENT FOUR

EXT: BLACK GUY ENTERS BUILDING

INT: BLACK GUY ENTERS ROOM

BG: “Not if I have anythjing to do about it!”

INT: BLACK GUY shoots BWP 1 and BWP 2

AGENT FOUR: “Thanks Black Guy, I owe you one!”

BLACK GUY: I didn’t do it for you. I did it for America, and for Freedom. These are skills I learned on the plantation back in... The eighties I guess.

AGENT FOUR: Oh. Sorry! I am white.

EXT: MISSISSIPPI - CAMERA PAN OVER COTTON FIELDS

FADE OUT

CREDITS


43 posted on 01/15/2015 5:22:13 PM PST by golux
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To: All

quick, propose old movie remakes with black actors playing the lead..


44 posted on 01/15/2015 5:22:55 PM PST by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: Delta Dawn

Absolutely histerical. Good FReeper.


45 posted on 01/15/2015 5:25:54 PM PST by Tenacious 1 (POPOF. President Of Pants On Fire.)
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To: newnhdad

They did that with the Wild, Wild, West.


46 posted on 01/15/2015 5:30:25 PM PST by NCC-1701 (You have your fear, which might become reality; and you have Godzilla, which IS reality.)
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To: tcrlaf

2000 dead in Nigeria and they are worried about Hollywood? I guess black lives don’t matter unless they are in USA?
Freegards
LEX


47 posted on 01/15/2015 5:30:47 PM PST by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: newnhdad
GONE WITH THE WIND

With

FLAVA FLAV

as

Rhett Butler

CYNTHIA McKINNEY

as

Scarlett O'Hara

and, as Ashley Wilkes in his Silver Screen Debut

LOOTER GUY

48 posted on 01/15/2015 5:33:15 PM PST by golux
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To: tcrlaf
Is this a joke? It's so STUPID I thought the article was from something like Mad Magazine. I can see Sharpton on the cover with the proverbial ice-cream-cone on his forehead. Wish I could photoshop. But here's the general idea:


49 posted on 01/15/2015 5:36:15 PM PST by Veto! (Opinions freely expressed as advice)
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To: Max in Utah

Al, we are all blacked out. Get it?


50 posted on 01/15/2015 5:38:24 PM PST by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: JennysCool

“Sharpton, a critic of the lack of diversity in Hollywood

What movie doesn’t have Morgan Freeman or Samuel L. Jackson.”

How many white guys play in the NBA? Where’s Al on that one?


51 posted on 01/15/2015 5:41:23 PM PST by IMTOFT (At least I'm enjoying the ride...)
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To: tcrlaf

Maybe we need a few token Oscars for the “also rans”, even though none were nominated. Kind of like a consolation prize.


52 posted on 01/15/2015 5:44:57 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: FlingWingFlyer
Look out! Al is getting ready to Viagra Up! He wants money and he wants it now!

Yeah, but Al still can't stand up for more than 4 hours.

53 posted on 01/15/2015 6:08:52 PM PST by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: Max in Utah

Why isn’t he being prosecuted and sent to ]ail for his tax issues?


54 posted on 01/15/2015 6:21:17 PM PST by dandiegirl
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To: RginTN; All

Meanwhile, MSNBC is pimping the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite, and it’s trending worldwide.


55 posted on 01/15/2015 6:33:48 PM PST by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: tcrlaf

I didn’t know Ebert was black.


56 posted on 01/15/2015 6:53:06 PM PST by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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To: BerryDingle

Lollipop Head was none too happy when Oprah Windbag trotted out The Color Purple, with Danny Glover portraying a shiftless Negro. Now he’s backing her against the Hollywood Libs who (even they) are disturbed by the fast and loose with the facts in Selma. Oops.


57 posted on 01/15/2015 7:03:27 PM PST by twister881
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To: tcrlaf

The movie was mis-titled anyway:

S’lame


58 posted on 01/15/2015 7:05:50 PM PST by mikrofon (Thursday BUMP)
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To: tcrlaf

“And the Oscar for Random Brotha or Sistah in Any Hollywood Movie goes to...”


59 posted on 01/15/2015 7:07:25 PM PST by twister881
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To: tcrlaf

As only 13% of the nation is black only 13% of Oscars should go to black performers. Fair is fair!


60 posted on 01/15/2015 7:09:13 PM PST by lostboy61 (Lock and Load and stand your ground!.)
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