[Vendome]

Selma was shorted because the main actors are not American.

I fact, they are British and never benefited from the courageous work of Rosa Parks or exemplary effects of the march on Selma and Martin Luther King Jr, a real American.

Was it a good film? Sure but, it wasn’t a project of revelation, rather, it was a product of an anniversary.

Should it have won? Nope. But, if it had been produced maybe 10 years ago, with Denzel Washington as MLK, then it likely would have won.

[Gaffer]

The movie was a precisely timed anniversary tribute, period. It was entitled to win on that alone. Couple that with the [ooh-ahhhhh] Oprah Winfrey connection and you have a bona fide Oscar/Nobel/Pulitzer all rolled into one.

The problem is that as a racial group you just can't keep bitching about every damn thing in life and call it racism and then go out and expect the ‘masses’ to bill and coo over a tribute piece of mediocre merit. Especially so when it is in a time in this country when blacks are everywhere with their taped mouths, intimidating stand-ins, looting stores, destroying stores and then claiming they've been discriminated against.