As a result of all of the uproar with the Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences members not nominating any black actors for an
academy award, Danny DeVito stated recently that Americans are “a bunch of
racists”, thereby being honest to a fault, by admitting that he is a racist,
but he makes no statement as to how he is going to correct this flaw in himself
nor in AMPAS, he just accuses the entire nation, this being the racist nation
that has twice elected a black man as president.
In reality, Mr. DeVito is only indicting Hollywood liberals,
who are, along with himself, the politically correct, holier-than-thou,
sanctimonious crowd who like to tell the nation how we should live our lives.
It’s not we common folk who Danny says voted with racist intent, because no one
in Florida or Wyoming votes for the Oscar nominees. At the same time he’s also including
in his indictment of racism those AMPAS members who are gay and Hispanic, and
he ignores the fact that probably many of the members actually did vote for black
actors and actresses to receive an award, but not enough voted for the same
candidates so as to establish a nomination for them.
At least one Hispanic member of AMPAS has written a
letter to the president of the organization asking how he is a racist for
voting for his honest choice of best actor and asks how his possibly not being
allowed to cast a vote in the future is not racism being turned back at him, as
a minority. One has to love the ridiculous spots these liberal Hollywood fools
place themselves in with their pretentions of being so clean, honest, open and better
than anyone else. One interesting and
informative thing no one has mentioned, that somewhat offsets the racism charge,
is the number of black, multi-millionaire actors who are prosperously employed in
Hollywood and can afford to live in gated mansions in Beverly Hills. It would seem to most out-of-work (thanks to
Obama’s non-recovery) Americans, that simply being employed and making
extravagant salaries would be more valuable than a lump of metal (or are these
Oscars plastic?) award.
Several remedies have been suggested as to how to cleanse
Hollywood of their alleged racism and fix this awards problem: a trophy could
be given to all movie stars, or maybe trophies should be given only to black
actors, but perhaps only in proportion to their racial representation in the
Hollywood movie scene. It’s also been
suggested that the tried and true affirmative action program should be imposed
on Hollywood just as this fiasco of an idea was originally imposed on corporate
America. I’d like to be the one to set the standards for this affirmative movement
and be the one to decide when fairness has been achieved, just as some liberal
governmental agency at one time decided when AT&T and Ford had sufficiently
cast off racism in their companies. Hollywood types cannot be allowed to decide
when they themselves have cleared that hurdle, because, as Mr. DeVito has
claimed, they are a “bunch of racists”, and he should know.
This entire Oscar nomination thing is idiocy and was
brought up by people like Mr. DeVito so they would appear superior and better
than everyone else for their sensitivity and compassion. The whole Hollywood
scene is repulsive to real people with real jobs who must go to work every day and
save their money in order to live in this once great, now socialist nation, a
nation that too many people in Hollywood seem to hate.
