Hollywood Buffet of Sour Grapes.
Anyone following this whining fit?
First of all Concussion could have been better. And Will Smith could have developed a genuine accent, but he did not. He and the movie were mediocre.
Haven't seen Straight Out of Compton, and not motivated to do so. My bias is Spike Lee. See one or two of his movies, you've seen them all. His freshness date expired twenty years ago. Critics panned it.
For the love of pete, I hope Chris Rock catches the fever and backs out as emcee. Damn, he's like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. Not that I plan to watch anyway; haven't watched Oscars, Emmys, Gimmies, Espys, Tonys, Gold Balls, or any of that crap in years. Really, who gives a crap?
Much ado about nuttin at all.
Spike wants a quota....
miles wrote: Hollywood Buffet of Sour Grapes.
Anyone following this whining fit?
First of all Concussion could have been better. And Will Smith could have developed a genuine accent, but he did not. He and the movie were mediocre.
Haven't seen Straight Out of Compton, and not motivated to do so. My bias is Spike Lee. See one or two of his movies, you've seen them all. His freshness date expired twenty years ago. Critics panned it.
For the love of pete, I hope Chris Rock catches the fever and backs out as emcee. Damn, he's like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. Not that I plan to watch anyway; haven't watched Oscars, Emmys, Gimmies, Espys, Tonys, Gold Balls, or any of that crap in years. Really, who gives a crap?
Much ado about nuttin at all.
Spike wants a quota....
I like this solution. My favorite is "Bring Homie Home" with the Martin.
miles wrote: Hollywood Buffet of Sour Grapes.
Anyone following this whining fit?
First of all Concussion could have been better. And Will Smith could have developed a genuine accent, but he did not. He and the movie were mediocre.
Haven't seen Straight Out of Compton, and not motivated to do so. My bias is Spike Lee. See one or two of his movies, you've seen them all. His freshness date expired twenty years ago. Critics panned it.
For the love of pete, I hope Chris Rock catches the fever and backs out as emcee. Damn, he's like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. Not that I plan to watch anyway; haven't watched Oscars, Emmys, Gimmies, Espys, Tonys, Gold Balls, or any of that crap in years. Really, who gives a crap?
Much ado about nuttin at all.
Spike wants a quota....
First off, I'm not sure why you think Straight Outta Compton is a Spike Lee movie, it's not. Second, the bolded statement doesn't seem to be remotely true.
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Just pointing out that your dumb meme was factually incorrect.
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Just pointing out that your dumb meme was factually incorrect.
maybe you should try out that reading comprehension thing. Have this year's BET awards occurred yet? This "dumb" meme points out the obvious double standard in these dumb black actors bitching about only whites getting Oscar nominations this year while having an entire TV channel and awards ceremony dedicated towards black people. If they want to end racism, BET would be an obvious place to start.
miles wrote: Hollywood Buffet of Sour Grapes.
Anyone following this whining fit?
First of all Concussion could have been better. And Will Smith could have developed a genuine accent, but he did not. He and the movie were mediocre.
Haven't seen Straight Out of Compton, and not motivated to do so. My bias is Spike Lee. See one or two of his movies, you've seen them all. His freshness date expired twenty years ago. Critics panned it.
For the love of pete, I hope Chris Rock catches the fever and backs out as emcee. Damn, he's like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. Not that I plan to watch anyway; haven't watched Oscars, Emmys, Gimmies, Espys, Tonys, Gold Balls, or any of that crap in years. Really, who gives a crap?
Much ado about nuttin at all.
Spike wants a quota....
First off, I'm not sure why you think Straight Outta Compton is a Spike Lee movie, it's not. Second, the bolded statement doesn't seem to be remotely true.
Just pointing out that your dumb meme was factually incorrect.
maybe you should try out that reading comprehension thing. Have this year's BET awards occurred yet? This "dumb" meme points out the obvious double standard in these dumb black actors bitching about only whites getting Oscar nominations this year while having an entire TV channel and awards ceremony dedicated towards black people. If they want to end racism, BET would be an obvious place to start.
Have this year's BET award nominees occurred yet? No? Ok then so I was using the most recent data we had. Also your picture is from the 2015 awards. No matter how you slice it or spin it, your picture and meme was stupid and misleading. And do you think anyone puts a BET award on par with an Oscar? No one cares about the BET awards (just like no one cares about the ESPYs or the MTV Movie Awards or the Teen Choice Awards).
Forum rules: Please be civil. "You do suck and are a terrible human being." - awesome guy "maybe because you're autistic" - USN_Hokie
Seriously... there's only ONE rule.
Just pointing out that your dumb meme was factually incorrect.
maybe you should try out that reading comprehension thing. Have this year's BET awards occurred yet? This "dumb" meme points out the obvious double standard in these dumb black actors bitching about only whites getting Oscar nominations this year while having an entire TV channel and awards ceremony dedicated towards black people. If they want to end racism, BET would be an obvious place to start.
Have this year's BET award nominees occurred yet? No? Ok then so I was using the most recent data we had. Also your picture is from the 2015 awards. No matter how you slice it or spin it, your picture and meme was stupid and misleading. And do you think anyone puts a BET award on par with an Oscar? No one cares about the BET awards (just like no one cares about the ESPYs or the MTV Movie Awards or the Teen Choice Awards).
Don't go breaking Caitlin's heart. That was just mean. Are you homotransgenderphobic? What a bigot!
Have this year's BET award nominees occurred yet? No? Ok then so I was using the most recent data we had. Also your picture is from the 2015 awards. No matter how you slice it or spin it, your picture and meme was stupid and misleading. And do you think anyone puts a BET award on par with an Oscar? No one cares about the BET awards (just like no one cares about the ESPYs or the MTV Movie Awards or the Teen Choice Awards).
Don't go breaking Caitlin's heart. That was just mean. Are you homotransgenderphobic? What a bigot!
Let me know when you have something meaningful to contribute to... well any topic.
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"I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." - Thomas Jefferson
I for one am tired of whiney ass blacks blaming their failures on whites and racism. Especially people like Will Smith that have made crap movies over the last couple years.
JANUARY 26, 2016
1/26/2016 12:01:00 AM - Thomas Sowell
The latest tempest in a teapot controversy is over a lack of black nominees for this year's Academy Awards in Hollywood.
The assumption seems to be that different groups would be proportionally represented if somebody were not doing somebody else wrong. That assumption carries great weight in far more important things than Academy Awards and in places more important than Hollywood, including the Supreme Court of the United States.
In an earlier era, the groupthink assumption was that groups that did not succeed as often, or as well, were genetically inferior. But is our current groupthink assumption based on any more hard evidence?
Having spent decades researching racial and ethnic groups around the world, I have never yet found a country in which all groups -- or even most groups -- are even roughly equally represented in most endeavors.
Nor have I been the only one with that experience. The great French historian Fernand Braudel said, "In no society have all regions and all parts of the population developed equally." A study of military forces around the world failed to find a single one in which in which the ethnic makeup of the military was the same as that of the society.
My own favorite example of unrepresentativeness, however, is right at home. Having watched National Football League games for more than 50 years, I have seen hundreds of black players score touchdowns, but I have never seen one black player kick the extra point.
What are we to conclude from this? Do those who believe in genetics think that blacks are just genetically incapable of kicking a football?
Since there have long been black colleges with football teams, have they had to import white players to do the opening kickoff, so that the games could get underway? Or to kick the extra point after touchdowns? Apparently not.
How about racist discrimination? Are racists so inconsistent that they are somehow able to stifle their racism when it comes to letting black players score touchdowns, but absolutely draw the line when it comes to letting blacks kick the extra point?
With all the heated and bitter debates between those who believe in heredity and those who believe in environment as explanations of group differences in outcomes, both seem to ignore the possibility that some groups just do not want to do the same things as other groups.
I doubt whether any of the guys who grew up in my old neighborhood in Harlem ever went on to become ballet dancers. Nor is it likely that this had anything to do with either genetics or racism. The very thought of becoming a ballet dancer never crossed my mind and it probably never occurred to the other guys either.
If people don't want to do something, chances are they are not going to do it, even if they have all the innate potential in the world, and even if all the doors of opportunity are wide open.
People come from different cultures. They know different things and want different things.
When I arrived in Harlem from the South as a kid, I had no idea what a public library was. An older boy who tried to explain it to me barely succeeded in getting me to get a library card and borrow a couple of books. But it changed the course of my life. Not every kid from a similar background had someone to change the course of his life.
When Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe arrived in New York in the 19th century, they were even poorer than blacks from the South who arrived in Harlem in the 20th century. But the Jews crowded into public libraries because books had been part of their culture for centuries. New York's elite public high schools and outstanding free colleges were practically tailor-made for them.
Groups differ from other groups all over the world, for all sorts of reasons, ranging from geography to demography, history and culture. There is not much we can do about geography and nothing we can do about the past. But we can stop looking for villains every time we see differences.
That is not likely to happen, however, when grievances can be cashed in for goodies -- and polarize a whole society in the process.
Hollywood Buffet of Sour Grapes.
