Racist President and Selma — Page 3

Usually the ones who scream racism at the drop of a hat are the biggest racists of them all. A good example is the good Rev Al Sharpton who sees a racist under every rock.

Amazing that an incident that happened after the Trayvon Martin verdict got zero coverage in the media. Outside of East St Louis, a young white kid was walking along minding his business. A group of African American teens set on him, doused him with gasoline and set him on fire - burning him alive. They were chanting "This is for Trayvon". Was that a hate crime? Why did the main stream media give it no coverage? Why did Rev Al ignore it? Maybe it did not matter to him.

Think about that the next time you want to say racist. Both sides are guilty and not everyone is one. I know Carlos you will now answer this and call me one but I do not care.

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Updated On: 1/20/15 at 02:11 PM

Exactly right

My problem with the President is he is worried about every other fringe issue but is dangerously avoiding the one problem confronting the world. I could care less re his skin color or what movie he screens. I just look at him as a weak president- not black or white.

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Updated On: 1/16/15 at 02:17 PM

"My problem with the President is he is ... dangerously avoiding the one problem confronting the world."

Which is?

I can think of so many problems confronting the world, I was kind of happy to know we had gotten the list down to one.

I just received a screener so I will be watching it again tonight.

Aw. This reminds me of Thanksgiving. The turkey and stuffing, the fire roaring, the drunk racist Uncle...

^ HA!!!

"Say no to fair competition. This is the most important subject facing the world today."

BULLSH*T...if voting is involved the outcome is selective. That is why I prefer sport to any award show.

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To MrRoxy

I figured as much after posting. My bad. This thread is somewhat divisive.

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Somewhat?

Most BWW threads , especially in off topic, are that way.

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Updated On: 1/16/15 at 06:15 PM

If the walls had ears.....

To add to the stupidity on the whole Oscar mess comes this gem from a paragon of racial fairness Spike Lee

Because Selma did not get more nominations he said, and I quote, "I guess we are not free at last". Hey why not have some street demonstrations over this.

The defense rests.

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Updated On: 1/16/15 at 06:21 PM

Finally, the voice of reason

To those on the board who want to silence those they do not agree with, I have one thing to say

" Je Suis Charlie"

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It vilified a President that actually helped the cause. So the film sucks cause it can't get that part of history right. And therefore a bunch of fools will think that President Johnson was like that when he wasn't.

"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."

Uh, do you know how long it's been since last there was an all "white" nominated list as this year? A really, freakin' long time ago. Much ado about NOTHING.

I ignored this film and WILL NOT SEE IT cause of the crappy trailer (not to mention the lie about President Johnson) that used a stupid song. So apparently they were only looking for specific people to see this film about MLK Jr. How...quaint.

And American Sniper isn't poorly reviewed. Maybe you mean by comparison, but considering more people are seeing and reviewing American Sniper than Selma. This isn't the fault of the color of the film's actors, but the fault of the director and the people involved.

Updated On: 1/20/15 at 01:31 AM