Did Chris Rock Hollywood?
In principle, Oscar night gives Hollywood a chance to
celebrate itself. It’s the time when the movie industry honors the significant achievements of its members. It’s a democratic process. Members of the
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science vote for the nominees, in a primary
election, and then cast another vote for the winners.
What could be wrong with that?
Apparently, some people decided that the members of the Academy
had committed a thought crime: they did not vote for a sufficient number of
African-American nominees.
So Chris Rock got up to emcee the proceedings and spent a
goodly portion of his time chastising and guilt-tripping the assembled artists.
Thus, he was diminishing their achievements by making them feel that they had
earned their plaudits on the backs of excluded black artists. Effectively, Rock
ruined the celebratory atmosphere of the evening. One suspects that he will not
be invited back.
You might think that liberal Hollywood had it coming. Its
denizens have supported every crackpot left wing cause that there is. Thus, it
was hoist on its own petard, as Shakespeare might have put it. If anyone had had a sense of humor he would have been selling hair shirts at the door. It would have been the right fashion statement.
Hollywood moguls and actors and actresses allowed themselves
to be trashed on a very large stage by a stand-up comedian last night. And they
were obliged, by the laws of decorum, to laugh at his lame jokes.
Rock was wildly out of line. Besides, now, every time a
black artist is nominated for an Oscar everyone will be thinking that he did
not earn it but that he was given it to shut up people like Chris Rock.
As for the ratings, the broadcast achieved the lowest ratings
in eight years. They were down 6% over last year’s bad ratings.
Seems like a well-deserved loss or numbers. I read at 8PM that the Oscars would be on and thought "Well, I don't care."
ReplyDeleteChris Rock said something about black grannies swinging from trees in the 60s.
ReplyDelete???
How many old black women were lynched?
Another thing.
Lynchings, while they existed and were terrible, were not that common.
From end of Civil War to 1960s, the number of blacks lynched was below 2,000.
Given that millions were killed in all sorts of horrors in the span of few yrs, all this emphasis on blacks being lynched is ridiculous.
But from the discourse, you'd think lynchings were a daily occurrence as if EVERY family lost someone to lynching. This is total nonsense.
Another exhibition of life in Obama's America.
ReplyDeleteAs someone once stated, "I love all the racial healing in Obama's America." Maybe, if we have no luck Hillary will teach us about all the sexual healing in Hillary's America. I cannot wait for that!
ReplyDeleteThere are times when I wonder whether this country deserves to exist as a free nation since so many are willing to trade almost anything for security and free stuff. It is little wonder that Hollywood represents so many on the left because both live in a fantasy land where unicorns exist and they can feel good instead of doing good. A land of pettifogging popinjays pontificating with little talent except for self promotion.