Racist President and Selma

[Gothampc]

Posted: 1/16/15 at 10:24am

"President Obama is hosting a screening of Selma on Friday, one day after critics said the Academy Awards snubbed the film about Martin Luther King Jr. and the Alabama civil rights march of 1965."

I'm sure the other snubbed artists would like to be invited to the White House as well. But they aren't getting an invite because they aren't black.


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[Showface]

Posted: 1/16/15 at 10:29am

Or he just liked the film, or it is a film he wants to see...

I'm not sure how holding a movie screening makes him "racist"... Updated On: 1/16/15 at 10:29 AM

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 1/16/15 at 10:37am

The film got a Best Picture nod and one other

Many others thought to be sure things got a snub. Let us definitely have a blue ribbon commission formed to study why this is all it got. It is Hollywood guys. They are sympathetic out there in La La land so maybe the others nominated in those categories were better.

Feel much safer now that this is happening with what is going on overseas & here .

[Gothampc]

Posted: 1/16/15 at 10:43am

Obama could have invited Angelina Jolie and screened "Unbroken."

[Gothampc]

Posted: 1/16/15 at 10:46am

"It is Hollywood guys. They are sympathetic out there in La La land so maybe the others nominated in those categories were better."

Considering that last year's Best Picture award went to 12 Years A Slave, I don't think we can blame the Selma snub on racism.

However, I wouldn't say others were better. I didn't think that Cumberbatch or Redmayne deserved to be nominated. I didn't think they were so outstanding.

[Showface]

Posted: 1/16/15 at 10:47am

^^But he didn't...he wanted to screen Selma. I'm not seeing what the issue is here...

Let's say George Bush was still president, and he held a screening and played Unbroken...does that make him racist?



Updated On: 1/16/15 at 10:47 AM

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 1/16/15 at 10:53am

Goth

Disagree. Both parties you mentioned deserved their nods as they were thought to be locks by almost every critic and reviewer as was Keaton. This is 3 out of 5 slots. Feinnes was thought to be a lock and he got snubbed. SH*T happens sometimes.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 1/16/15 at 10:53am

Goth is calling somebody a racist. I hope everyone sees the irony in that.

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 1/16/15 at 10:53am

I"m so glad 12 Years a Slave won so now all racism in Hollywood is over! Maybe this year, if The Imitation Game wins, homophobia in Hollywood will be gone too! The Oscars sure are magic.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 1/16/15 at 11:01am

"The Oscars sure are magic."

But you see what's happening here. If someone who is not straight, white male gets overlooked it's always going to be because of racism/sexism/homophobia.

So it doesn't become about merit, it becomes about giving attention to a splinter group.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 1/16/15 at 11:03am

I can't wait till we have a white president again, so the REAL Americans can have a president.

[haterobics]

Posted: 1/16/15 at 11:03am

But he also screened the Cesar Chavez movie, as well as Up in 3D, so you're going to have to try harder to make Obama racist, Goth...

I mean, Obama screening a movie about MLK (a few days before MLK's holiday) that was produced by Oprah is pretty unsurprising to get screened in the White House.

Updated On: 1/16/15 at 11:03 AM

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 1/16/15 at 11:13am

Who ever said a non-white/straight person getting overlooked automatically is an example of prejudice? That's not the argument anyone is making, and you damn well know it. This conversation is larger than just Selma- it is a sad state of affairs when all 20 actors nominated for an Academy Award this year are white actors. This isn't because people of color are doing lesser work, but it's that their work is consistently overlooked and thus can get no traction like other major players in Hollywood can. Selma was one of the best reviewed movies of the year and got mostly ignored, and a jingoistic and poorly reviewed film like American Sniper gets showered with praise because it's Eastwood, who by virtue of being a white straight man, has so much more opportunity than anyone involved with Selma with the exception of Oprah Winfrey.

I'm aware that studio politics have played a part in all of this, but it's utter bull**** to say that race had nothing to do with any of this.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 1/16/15 at 11:13am

No, he only did it because he's black.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 1/16/15 at 11:14am

I hate you, Goth. I hate you so hard.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 1/16/15 at 11:27am

"I'm aware that studio politics have played a part in all of this, but it's utter bull**** to say that race had nothing to do with any of this."

So the two leads in Annie were also snubbed because they were black?

I personally think David Oyelowo got snubbed for two reasons.

I honestly think voters tended to shy away from awarding a Brit for playing America's leading civil rights leader. I think it made them feel uncomfortable.

And second, I think voters took a look at the number of Brits being nominated and said "Uh oh, three Brits in Leading Male. Can't have that."

[Showface]

Posted: 1/16/15 at 11:32am

Still trying to figure out how watching a movie makes someone racist...

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 1/16/15 at 11:34am

The movie has dark people in it and is being watched by a dark person. What else do you need to know?

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 1/16/15 at 11:34am

From the article BWW's very own resident racist posted:

"The White House has been planning the Selma screening for a while, and the event is designed to kick off the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend."

So this being shown at the White House has nothing to do with the Oscars.

But reading comprehension was never one of Goth's strong points.

[wonderfulwizard11]

Posted: 1/16/15 at 11:37am

Yeah, just like the Academy got so very uncomfortable when the very British Daniel Day-Lewis played the guy on the five dollar bill. What a shame he didn't get any awards attention for that performance.

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 1/16/15 at 11:40am

Showing a movie about Martin Luther King to kick off Martin Luther King Jr. weekend.
Yup that's racist.
The school district in my town is giving away 200 tickets to see the movie for free this weekend.
I wonder if they're mad about the Oscars too?

[Gothampc]

Posted: 1/16/15 at 11:44am

"From the article BWW's very own resident racist posted"

I expected Catalano to be dimwitted. Now I have to add you to the list of BWW dimwits too?

[haterobics]

Posted: 1/16/15 at 11:46am

If everyone who disagrees with you is being put on a list, perhaps you should just make a list of the people who agree with you. Shorter lists are easier to maintain.

[madbrian]

Posted: 1/16/15 at 11:49am

Using Goth's logic, any white president who screened a movie featuring white actors and directed and produced by white people would also be a racist.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 1/16/15 at 11:50am

The Oscars really became irrelevant when John Wayne got an Oscar for True Grit beating out Richard Burton.

Wayne was a movie star. Like Eastwood, he was never a great actor. Burton , like O Toole, never got an acting oscar which is a disgrace. As far as racism, as long as you have guys like Sharpton stoking the fires among others it will never be over.