Now it's the Baftas
 

I’m getting mighty tired of people trying to make me feel guilty for being white!

First we have the Oscar debacle, where the complaint was that there were no black nominations in ‘major categories’.

Hey guys (or should that be bro’s) there were no good films with black actors or directors this time….there was no Amistad, no Driving Miss Daisy, no Unforgiven, no 12 years a slave, no Slumdog Millionaire etc..etc..

It’s not like black actors/films have been ignored…even way back in the 30’s the maid in Gone with the Wind and Ol’ Man River Robeson got the nod.

If it were down to me I would have voted Denzel for The Equalizer in 2014 ( but then again I like my films to be violent, escapist hokum and I don’t care if the main guy is black or white, hell I even like Eddie Murphy in Beverley Hills Cop)……..

And now we have a complaint in the Grammys……Bowie, Frey and Lemmy were to be celebrated but White was just going to part of the montage of musicians we lost last year (until the black musicians kicked off)....

Yup I said ‘White’…… hands up who know who Bowie, Frey and Lemmy are?

Now if I say ‘Maurice White’?

‘Earth, Wind and Fire’? ( Quick test to prove a point ..name an Eagles, Bowie, Motorhead and EWF hit…Think I can guess which one you struggled with)

Ok, Maurice White won the same amount of grammys as the Eagles, and more than Bowie and Motorhead put together, but he wasn’t a ‘name’ that people recognised, and if you are selling a show, you headline the people who draw the crowds…nothing to do with colour or creed!

And it’s about to kick off with the Baftas too….too much white in Pride and Prejudice, Downtown Abbey, Poldark???……hell lets rewrite history in the interest of diversity and inclusion?? Maybe a couple of Nigerian mill owners supervising the Peterloo massacre, a Somali gamekeeper on the Chatterly estate and Cathy running across the moors shouting ‘Mohammed’

To be Pythonesque…it’s all getting very, very silly!

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Does Bollywood have awards ceremonies, if so how many white actors were nominated. :idunno:

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Hey up you white trash, why should you care?

Surely you know that to be right when white is to be wrong?

You can bend over backwards to be equal, will it work?

Of course not. Plus and this is an extra but very important plus, it's your fault because, well you're white even though you weren't alive when all the nasty stuff was going on.

Don't expect forgiveness, all the black folk have agents getting them decent contracts to appear in T.V. adverts and all the others, (mustn't call them brown), just don't seem to like you.

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It is all getting a bit tedious.
I am sick of hearing these z list celebs bleating about awards.
Awards are given for excellent performances...so if these folk of colour want to be recognised with pointless awards, they had better get cracking on honing their acting skills.
Is it honest to give an award to an actor or actress just because they are a person of colour(that is how they describe themselves these days....not black or brown)?
Does this not devalue the awards? And isn't this just another kind of racism...or can racism only be levelled at people of colour?
I am heartily sick of these luvvies who are so far up themselves that it would take ten miners with lamps and fourteen ferrets to find them.
They need to go out and do a proper job. They tell us how hard it is to do a film...or a series. They should try getting a corporation bus to do a shift in the local hospital to find out what real work is.

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Ooh I need to take my anti sour and cynical pills...they seem to have worn off.

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Ah, but what colour are the ferrets when they go up and what colour may they be when they come out for breath?

Lose, lose situation the ferrets won't be white!

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I have some ‘Alan Partridge’ pitches for the BBC..possible BAFTA???

A) Indian doctor called Mahmoodstein creates life from some stitched up bodies

B) A story of farmlife in the dales…..Jarinderdale Farm….eventually all the family move in to the surrounding area and the name changes to Jarinderdale

C) Only Fools and Elephants

D) One flew over the Ostrich nest

E) The Lion, The Witch and His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular

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That's not one of your best (I prefered the thread starter) or were you just showing off that you can recite the alphabet as far as e?

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one dilemma is that if someone is guilted so much into been ashamed of been white and decides to black up to hide their shame they then open a whole new can of worms for themselves

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So if we went back in time the Black and White Minstrel Show wouldn't cut it for these bleating moaners(yes I DID say'bleating')

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And not forgetting Al Jolson who used to black up. One of mum's and my grandfather's favourites.

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And there's me foolishly thinking that it hasn't already happened.

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im sory but i dont see how its possible to apologize for no black nominations in the oscars while we are still apologizing for slavery

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Here's a plan ... when they finally do the remake of "Dam Busters", nominate the dog for best actor.;)

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yeh would have to change its name though,or it wouldn't be P.C.:rolleyes: