meat puppets should know better than to write their own dialogue.

It's refreshing to see that not everyone has jumped on the politically correct bandwagon. Here’s an opinion piece in The Los Angeles Times from a longtime Academy member.

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-…

Quote from the article: "Since its creation, the academy's focus has been excellence in motion pictures. The new focus, apparently, is diversity, and I'm sure I'm not alone in finding this re-conception misguided. In the past, black, Latino and Asian industry professionals could rest assured that they were admitted to the academy or awarded an Oscar for one reason only: the brilliance of their work. Now they and outsiders will wonder if they were tapped to fill some arbitrary quota.
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And another quote: "The #OscarsSoWhite controversy, as it's known on social media, is bedeviled by misinformation. I have read numerous accounts of how 6,200 mostly old white males produced the lily white nominations of 20 actors this year. In fact these nominees were selected by the 1,138 members of the actors branch, which has a larger percentage of African Americans than other branches, and probably skews younger as well. (The academy doesn't keep statistics on age.)

"These same voters in the last few years gave best acting Oscars to Forest Whitaker (“Last King of Scotland”), Mo'Nique (“Precious”), Viola Davis (“The Help”), Lupita Nyong'o (“12 Years a Slave”), and a nomination to Chiwetel Ejiofor (“12 Years a Slave”). ------------
"FOR THE RECORD
Viola Davis was nominated for an Oscar for her role in “The Help,” but did not win.
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"Beyond the acting category, it's absurd to pretend that the academy ignores films created by or about people of color. “12 Years a Slave” won three Oscars in 2014. “Selma” was nominated for best picture in 2015. A few months ago, the academy gave Spike Lee an honorary Oscar for his contribution to cinema."

She's an artist, not a politician. As they should all focus on art and acting and stay out of politics. As far as the Oscars? It's always been a crock in my opinion. It's an insiders club, biased from the inside. Not racist per se, but biased against anything and everything. I've never paid any attention to the oscars. The institution should dissipate in it's own self-congratulatory muck. Very unappealing.

As for the super rich and spoiled people I've read about who are doing the complaining. They don't come out looking very cool either.