Remember #OscarsSoWhite? Apparently, they still are.
The Oscars’ racial makeup controversy lives on as the Academy continues its valiant quest for more racial diversity while ignoring any sort of ideological diversity.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter on September 10, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, discussed the Academy’s A2020 plan. Revealed in 2015, A2020 is “a five-year plan to study practices at the Academy with the aim of improving the diversity of its own staff and governance while also bringing new voices into the organization. It is also intended to encourage and to push the industry to examine its hiring practices and to begin to make changes.” And by “new voices,” they mean new skin colors.
Since 2,000 the racist/sexist Academy has awarded Oscar nominations to black actors at a percentage comparable to the size of the black population. Meryl Streep holds the highest number of Oscar nominations. And Boone Isaacs is an African-American woman, recently re-elected to her fourth term as president.
Although she claims, “I was lucky enough to have bosses that saw something in me and helped pull me through …" So she was able to climb the ladder through merit alone? Or “hard work and patience”? Kind of like how Hollywood actors expect to win Oscar nominations?
But perception is reality in Tinsel Town, and the bullying hashtag spurred Boone to “increase inclusion by 50 percent …”
Yet she continued, "Gender and race. It's a big goal — that is for sure. But if you don’t set a big goal, what is the point?" The point is that this diversity won’t be applied to hiring more conservatives in order to curb the massive liberal ideological makeup of the Academy.
Do different skin colors add true diversity? Why not strive for diversity of height or eye color? True diversity is intellectual diversity, and the Academy and the George Clooney/Angelina Jolie/ Leonardo DiCaprio run Hollywood are clearly lacking that.
Upholding the Academy’s motivation for the diversity push as a means toward “broader thinking,” Boone Isaacs remarked, “All of us sort of live in our own bubble…” Well, she’s right about that. The bubble she and other Hollywood lefties are stuck in however is the liberal, skin color/sexual preference/social justice-obsessed bubble. How about a diversity of ideas for a change?
The good news is at least this so-called racism can’t be blamed on conservatives.
