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Oscars 2015: Whites Only

For only the second time in nearly two decades, the 20 Academy Awards acting nominations went to a group made up entirely of white actors and actresses.

Among the notable snubs was David Oyelowo, who received praise for his turn as the late Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Selma.

In 2011, the 20 nominees also were entirely white. Before that, one has to go back to 1998 for an all-white acting group.

The all-white nominees list comes at time when Hollywood is fielding criticism for not doing enough to promote diversity in filmmaking. And just last month, Sony Pictures co-chairman Amy Pascal and producer Scott Rudin were apologizing for leaked emails that appeared to be racially insensitive. Rudin was nominated this morning for producing best picture nominee The Grand Budapest Hotel.

The Oscar acting nominations are typically a reflection, in some part, of the best roles of the year available to actors and actresses, which makes 2015’s lineup troubling. The two writing categories also were dominated by white men. Not a single woman was nominated in either category.

Though the Academy doesn’t reveal a breakdown of its membership, a 2012 report by the Los Angeles Times found that of the nearly 6,000 members, 94% are white, 77% are male and 86% are age 50 or older.

Idiots. Try running the numbers. I do not know if the numbers of black actors appearing in any year’s films follows the percentage of black people in the population, but for simplicity’s sake assume it does. Let’s call that percentage 15%. Which means that white people (there are no other groups apparently) make up 85%.

So there’s an 85% chance any nominee for any category in any year is going to be white. In two years, 0.85 X 0.85 = 0.723, or a 72.3% chance. And so on ... such that at 20 years, (or 20 categories) the chance is down to 3.9%. Not that great, BUT over 20 years, 20 * 0.039 = 0.7752, which rounds out to a 78% chance. Which means that the odds are a bit better than 3 in 4 that a list of all white nominees is going to come up at least once every 20 years. It’s going to happen more often than not. And over a 26 year period, it’s a guarantee.

Talk to the dice fools. That’s how they roll.

PS - the odds of any white person winning any award for anything, ever, at the BET awards is exactly ZERO. In an effort to eradicate racism, ain’t no white people allowed there at all.


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Posted by Drew458   United States  on 01/15/2015 at 03:25 PM   
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