Last Night, amid the call for a Black Boycott and a popular hashtag #OscarsSoWhite, Rock took the stage to open up the Ocsars ...with a talk that was about 87 Academy Awards Shows over due. Rock's talk was however, the most candid celebrity discussion on the topic of "No African Americans being nominated for this year's awards" since Janet Hubert went viral with her critiques.
So here are 5 Things of note I took from last nights opening monologue by Chris Rock.
5. Loved The Opening Shot About Nominations.
The people that nominate for awards do not have to discuss why The Oscars are indeed SO WHITE!
However, he pointed out that the people that answer questions ON THE RECORD about "Oscars So White", have sense enough to hire any negro that will show up....I was surprised Rodney Allen Rippy didn't give out a trophy (I never watch he may have.) So when Rock explained that if the hosting gig was left up to the people that nominate Neil Patrick Harris would be hosting The Oscars...(and for real let's see how long it takes the Oscars to offer the job to Steven Colbert.)
4.Rock Went Hard At The Boycott.
Personally I would not have went as hard at the boycott as Rock did. (In that forum)
However, people had publicly called him out. So it would be unlike Rock to take the high road.
I just hope that I have a video camera and attend the next event that Will Smith and Chris Rock are both at.
3. Rock comes out to FIGHT THE POWER and leans in on Spike Lee....
No other comment...
2. Rock's Talk Was Very Grown Up.
Too many times people try to reduce the discussion of race to sounds bites and clichés.
I don't know enough Black people at the basket ball court that discuss race in terms of "Black people being raped and lynched." To hear Rock discussing lynching and police shootings versus The Oscars being a "whites only and white's first" club during the opening of The Oscars? Chris Rock earned that ABC check right there. He also went on to discuss the idea that acting awards given out based on sex is not the most progressive, 21st Century thinking.
He said a lot last night.
1. He Could Have Gone A Lot Harder.
I was surprised at how hard Chris Rock went.
However, once he started to get cooking...I felt like he should have given us the full course meal.
The discussion I really would have liked to see...is why when Black people do win the Oscar, it is always for playing the lowest forms of live on earth...slaves, prostitutes, thugs? Will Smith was NEVER going to win an award this year for playing a doctor...in the film Concussion...however if wants to win...Smith should find the role of some corrupt Black man of power, that should be gay, uses and or sells drugs, and if he can also find a way to harm Black Women....(wow I got four calls from voting members of the Academy asking me if they can nominate Will Smith for this film next year...I just made it up.)
Love Him Or Hate Him.
Rock did what Rock does last night.
There were other things I wanted to discuss like the crowd reaction and the black people that did show up....But those were the top five.
In closing. If I were a top actor. I would plan a more dedicated and specifically reasoned Boycott or better yet WALK OUT at the 100th Academy Awards.
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