Al Sharpton Calls For Emergency Meeting To Address 'Appalling' All-White Oscar Nominees

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The Rev. Al Sharpton was left fuming mad after the Oscars revealed its all-white list of nominees for this year's Oscar awards on Thursday.

"The movie industry is like the Rocky Mountains, the higher you get, the whiter it gets," Sharpton quipped in a statement released later in the afternoon.

Sharpton, a critic of the lack of diversity in Hollywood, also announced he was holding an "emergency meeting" next week to address the issue.

"I have called an emergency meeting early next week in Hollywood with the task force to discuss possible action around the Academy Awards," he said.

The prestigious awards ceremony was widely criticized after its nominees for best actor, best actress, and best director were all white. In the past two decades this has happened only one other time, according to The Hollywood Reporter.

Sharpton praised the Oscars for nominating the civil-rights film "Selma" for best picture, but said it was "ironic" because the film is based on Dr. Martin Luther King's marches.

Said Sharpton: "The lack of diversity in today's Oscar nominations is appalling and while it is good that Selma was nominated for 'Best Picture,' it's ironic that they nominated a story about the racial shutout around voting while there is a racial shutout around the Oscar nominations. With all of the talent in Selma and other Black movies this year, it is hard to believe that we have less diversity in the nominations today than in recent history."
 

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HAHAHA

he would give the best actor award to Mike Gentle Giant Brown :ohno:
 

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if the nominees were all black he wouldn't say a thing
 

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what we should do is totally ignore this guy but people can't help themselves and HE KNOWS IT. This is EXACTLY what he hopes for and obviously gets. PUBLICITY!
 

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I'd like to hear which actors/movies he thinks should be removed from the list to add a couple of affirmative action nominees.
 

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I wish someone would kill that stupid, tax dodging, race baiting piece of shit.

Gives black folks a bad name.
 

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I wish someone would kill that stupid, tax dodging, race baiting piece of shit.

Gives black folks a bad name.

If you take out the silly death stuff, most of the Black People I know feel the exact same way. Sharpton's been looked at as a clown in NY since the Tawana Brawley lie.
 

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what we should do is totally ignore this guy but people can't help themselves and HE KNOWS IT. This is EXACTLY what he hopes for and obviously gets. PUBLICITY!


AceBB is the Al Sharpton of therx
 

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Al isnt the only one pissed off. There are plenty of people in CT pissed off that The LEGO Movie got snubbed.

I really think that white people pay more attention to what Sharpton has to say than most black people.
 

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Wonder how much the movie industry is going to pay off Al Sharpton so he doesn't persist, pursue, disrupt, and threaten legal allegations. He sees this as nothing but a money making opportunity with his blackmailing. He could give a shit less about any of the black actors not being nominated.
 

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movies with black casts have gotten tons of love from the academy anyway.

12 years, Django.....and the ultimate in the Oscars recognizing brilliance by a black actor in a dramatic role

ROD TIDWELL

 

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movies with black casts have gotten tons of love from the academy anyway.

12 years, Django.....and the ultimate in the Oscars recognizing brilliance by a black actor in a dramatic role

ROD TIDWELL



Denzel's shout out to Sidney Poitier was better
 

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I vote 4 Ray Rice vs. Roger Clemens
 

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Unbelievable....LMAO

What an idiot this guy is.
 

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