Al Sharpton Calls For Emergency Meeting To Address 'Appalling' All-White Oscar Nomine

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LegendKiller

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This won't be for 10 or so generations. Most minorities, with the exception of blacks, are from impoverished nations very recently. They understand that some things might be against them here in the US, due to their minority status, but know it is still better than where they came from.

This kind of idiocy won't become a problem until more minorities are "from here" for long enough, they don't really have a home nation outside of the US. And, by that time, there is a very good chance the political climate will change from old, white people running things to younger and more progressive people of all colors.

Yes, that's why we have people clamoring to be identified as "african americans" and adopting a way of life, and attitude, that is counter productive to them ever gaining anything more than a pittance existence in life.

As long as idiots like Sharpton and Jackson are allowed to marginalize the real problem and lionize externalities black culture will have a hard time progressing.
 

Fern

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In the criticism I've seen by Al he doesn't mention any specific black actor or film by a black writer/director that was passed over. Thus, his criticism makes no sense to me.

Fern
 

unokitty

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Filling it all under, "You just can't make this stuff up!"

Uno
 

Ns1

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srsly though, where the hell are all the Asians? White america holding us down again.
 

smackababy

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Asians are only allowed to be minorities when they conform to stereotypes that help further an agenda for all minorities (such as stealing American's jobs!). Otherwise, they are just white people that talk funny, like Europeans!
 

werepossum

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I need to hold an emergency meeting to address this appalling all-black basketball teams all over the NBA.

How unfair.
Since I don't watch sports and haven't seen a single nominated movie, I demand that we bus professional basketball players into Oscar nominee positions and nominated actors into professional basketball slots. I have zero interest in watching "Selma" - but if MLK was 7'-2" and maybe dressed as a Viking, I'm totally there. We've all seen the actual march on Selma - but the raping and burning of Selma? Not so much. And I detest Woody Allen - but if he's attempting to check Yao Ming, I'll give it a go.

Who's with me?

I guess he will be protesting the nomination is Selma as well. This guy is a despicable racist.

Latinos are a bigger minority than blacks but they don't seem to have a popular race pimp like sharpton to scream about silly nonsense.
They probably do, but since they're screaming it in Spanish . . .

"Halley Berry broke down barriers with her oscar win, for unbelievably hot women". - Steve Martin.
lol +1
 

marincounty

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I had a friend asking me about Hollywood, and why is that it is mostly jews in Hollywood?
I said as opposed to when Hollywood was started- by jews.
Anyone could have started Hollywood, just happened to be started by (all)jews.
 

compuwiz1

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Al Sharpton racial slurs deleted . His works and actions speak volumes. He serves nobody, but himself. If you ever wanted to meet the underbelly of our country, he is the exemplary example of why there is racial division in this country. Martin Luther King would be ashamed of this ass hole. Lock him up for tax evasion and inciting riots.



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nickqt

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Al Sharpton is the true definition of racial slurs deleted. His works and actions speak volumes. He serves nobody, but himself. If you ever wanted to meet the underbelly of our country, he is the exemplary example of why there is racial division in this country. Martin Luther King would be ashamed of this ass hole. Lock him up for tax evasion and inciting riots.

Al Sharpton. A has-been. Someone who is all flash, and no substance.

He has nothing on the elected officials on the right, in terms of actual, you know, power, visibility, and ability to cause actual harm.

But hey, pay no attention to the men behind the curtain.

Instead, look at the dancing strawman on the TV machine that gives you the ability to use racist words while at the same time saying you aren't racist.
Brilliant!

Propaganda doesn't work. At all.
 
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boomerang

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The best way to deal with him at this point is to ignore him to the greatest extent possible. When people speak of Al Sharpton, the answer should be Al who? I found a list a while back of the corporations that supported his National Action Network and started researching whom to contact at each to ask them to cease supporting it but it became a bigger task than I was willing to take on. If enough people let these corporations know that they will no longer be supporting them if they support Sharpton his financial position will be undermined to a degree that will relegate him to obscurity.

And if he wants to shake down the movie industry they have the ultimate weapon against him if they grow a pair and use it. A movie about his life with nothing held back. The man has been involved in the periphery in a lot of deaths.
 

corwin

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Al Sharpton. A has-been. Someone who is all flash, and no substance.

He has nothing on the elected officials on the right, in terms of actual, you know, power, visibility, and ability to cause actual harm.

But hey, pay no attention to the men behind the curtain.

Instead, look at the dancing strawman on the TV machine that gives you the ability to use racist words while at the same time saying you aren't racist.
Brilliant!

Propaganda doesn't work. At all.
Ability to cause actual harm? You mean like inciting race riots? Pretty sure he has that power in spades...
 

Angry Irishman

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Al Sharpton. A has-been. Someone who is all flash, and no substance.

He has nothing on the elected officials on the right, in terms of actual, you know, power, visibility, and ability to cause actual harm.

But hey, pay no attention to the men behind the curtain.

Instead, look at the dancing strawman on the TV machine that gives you the ability to use racist words while at the same time saying you aren't racist.
Brilliant!

Propaganda doesn't work. At all.

The partisan hate is strong in this one...
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Jaskalas

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Jun 23, 2004
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Hey Al, maybe you should visit Chicago to stop the violence.
#blacklivesmatter
 

kage69

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Jul 17, 2003
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I've never liked the man, and this doesn't change that opinion.

It's not the Oscars fault if Cheadle, Washington, Freeman, etc didn't put anything out of note this past year.

Earth to Sharpton; the Oscars are a celebration of the art form, not diversity! So take that race card and pound it up your ass.