Why Don't They Go The Full Hog And Form A Black Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences?

anotheoldgit | 11:51 Sat 23rd Jan 2016 | News

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3412614/Oscar-overhaul-Academy-overhauls-membership-voting-rules-promote-diversity.html

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retrocop

/// Apart from mega world altering events in History there is little else you can shoehorn so many black actors/actresses in to a interesting/entertaining film. ///

Perhaps they could consider re-making some of the old Tarzan films? :0)

sp1814

40 years ago, the Academy made changes to its voting system in order to better reflect what was happening in film. They thought that that 'New Hollywood' was underrepresented, because voters were out of touch.

The current issue has arisen not because Hollywood has a built-in racist agenda...it's because in the past couple of years, there have been very few roles in big bankable vehicles for black people. Hollywood is governed by money, not by race.

Black actors also have to deal with accusations of tokenism (from a minority of people) when they are given high profile roles (cf. John Bodega).

So Hollywood is damned if they do and damned if they don't. Cast a black actor and they're being PC and filling quotas, don't cast a black actor and they're racist.

Togo

Well said sp. The problem is that if say, I had said it, I would have been called glib, or been accused of being an apologist for the racist closed shop mind set.

douglas9401

Now then, how do we know that every storm trooper in the new Star Wars fillum wasn't a black actor?

Now, will someone please complete the set and blame a Jewish conspiracy for the skewed set up?

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Welcome back sp, hope you are well?

You may be interested in the fact that I have just posted a Doreen Lawrence thread?