I think his point is that black (or any POC) actors should be acknowledged, period, without having to take these big strides. Note that he uses the term "we", essentially saying "white people like myself thinking that bringing on more POC Academy members will cover the votes since we can't/won't acknowledge them ourselves is still racist of us". Which is true.
It IS naive and privileged of him to think there's any other solution since racism will exist as long as it's taught generation after generation, and the only way to fix the problem in Hollywood at this point is to dilute it, but let's not do the most.
He's totally right because if we made the b.e.t awards more white the blacks would cry loudly like normal and would consider that racist .anyways the Oscars this year we're all about blacks black black every 5 seconds. Was boring and not funny Chris should never host again. The blacks totally ruined the Oscars this year making it all about themselves. And blacks have Oscar's.. Oh I'm not interested in a half-assed responses saying stupid or shut up those are dumb in themselves. Go ahead and point me racist biased mod
What about the Hispanics, Asians, etc? Like why is it all about blacks and not other minoroties? It seemed kind of self-centered this whole thing
he's right.
that whole annoying oscar thing is double-edged sword.
everyone calling him white and privileged can stfu cos youre the same and part of the problem.
message that ths thing send is: not your skills matter, but color of your skin.
he's right.
that whole annoying oscar thing is double-edged sword.
everyone calling him white and privileged can stfu cos youre the same and part of the problem.
message that ths thing send is: not your skills matter, but color of your skin.
That's literally not the point. The point is that there are numerous roles that were filled by POC who deserved to be nominated over some of the actual nominees, and that they were overlooked because of their skin color/white dominance in film. That is not the same as giving a pity nomination or nominating people based on the color of their skin. You ignorance is showing.
Let's do logics
In the US 63 % are Non-Hispanic White 12% are Non-Hispanic Black 4,7% are Non-Hispanic Asian 16% are Hispanic or Latino the rest are native americans or others
Every year there are 20 nominees so there should be at least 12 or 13 whites 2 or 3 blacks 1 asian, 3 latinos and maybe 1 native american or others every year.