Monday, February 1, 2016

#oscarsstillsowhite Alexis Williams

        Recently there has been a big debate in the media about the Oscars award show.Many times there has been a lack of diversity in the awards show for a very long time.Last year not a single person of color was nominated in the 4 acting categories. (crazy right!) People even started saying the might as well call the Oscars 50 shades of White.However this year blacks are starting to protest and they're demanding for the diversity by boycotting the Oscars.Will Smith has already shown that he was protesting against it and now they're all wondering if Chris Rock is really going to host the show this year or join the protest.
        This goes back and connects to the Civil Rights movement. So many blacks fought for blacks to be in the place that we are now and we are still so far from equality. It's not fair that blacks aren't included in award shows like this. Great black actors like Will Smith have never gotten an aOscar before and it seems so silly because he's such a great actor. There needs to be some kind of diversity in the show there's no way it's allowed to be strictly just white people.

source: http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/25/opinions/obeidallah-chris-rock-oscars-diversity/index.html

2 comments:

  1. Will Smith is one of my favorite actors and i definitely think that he deserves an oscar. i definitely agree with them that the award show does tend to favor white people. i hope that they get a wake up call to see that what they're doing is not okay.

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  2. I think the award show will at least nominate more black actors, because of all the pressure to do so and because if they don't they will lose viewers. This would still be disappointing though, because it seems like they might do it just for the views/money.
    Maddie Hanratty 8th

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