That’s what Hollywood has programmed you to believe. There have been black people in movies as long as there have been movies. No one’s saying every other actor in Hail, Caesar should be a person of color but not writing a POC into the script when there were black actors in Hollywood at the time of the film is…

Diversity!

What am I missing? I mean it’s good that people who last worked on Harold & Maude won’t be deciding whether Isis Ebola can act or not is good but isn’t this just like providing three “Special VP in charge of Diversity” slots instead of the usual one?

I can’t even believe they said that shit. I mean. Wow.

That sounds reasonable but the academy recognizing another slave tale while ignoring tales of black agency, empowerment and triumph is telling. What’s more the Academy expanded the Best Picture category to ten films in 2009 for the express purpose of including more films of critical and commercial merit. So for the…

Selma being good or bad is subjective. I found both Selma and 12Years at times riveting and, like many Oscar-bait films, necessary. Was In the Name of the Father or The Piano better or worse than Schindler’s List? That’s subjective. The point is their directors were all recognized along with their films. Not even…

Racism is believing that people of color inherently lack talent or are unable to produce anything worthy of recognition. Like when professional critical bodies single out performances from a film like oh, I don’t know Selma or Creed or Straight Outta Compton and those people get recognized by everyone except the…

That’s a compelling and thoughtful response and I agree with much of what you’re saying. I would argue that the politicians were elected to advocate deregulation and reduction of oversight of the financial sector and that as opposed to braving risk a good portion of the financier class knowingly pulled the rug out…

I think characterizing the markets as “complex” is something we tell ourselves so we can sleep. The scope and origin of the massive amounts of fraud going on suggests that people in charge knew what they were doing. Of course, you’re correct in saying that the global economy is a vast enterprise but that’s a separate…

This is the basic problem with diversity in Hollywood. White Exec Prods + White Writers + White Casting Directer + White Network Exec = Show full of white people + one ethnic type.

Yeah, I’m wearing J’s at an awards show. Have you seen my wife? Suck it.

It’s sexist of me to compare Katrina Pierson to the black female pornstars who let white guys in confederate flag t-shirts ejaculate all over their faces after a gangbang but I’m going to go ahead and do that.

Race is only irrelevant when there are no white people around.

Hire some black/Latinx/Asian writers, directors, producers or STFU, Matt.

The memory of this moment will protect these boys from a fuck-ton of all the damaging, racist bullshit they’ll be subjected to coming of age in the United States.

I was convinced of the show’s quality from the first episode and I’ve no doubt the rest of the series has been just as good but I just can’t be arsed to watch a bunch of people with perfectly manageable lives fuck them up repeatedly because of their “issues”. Your second book is giving you problems? Deal. You feel…

I see Daisy Ridley and think, “What if Keira Knightly could act?”

How white people ruin chocolate? It’s chocolate, yo.

Tom Holland has already been cast as the new Peter Parker and Sony is rumored to have loaned him to one of the upcoming Avengers sequels so is MCU going to ignore Miles’ addition to the main Marvel Universe?

Some asshole on the internet posted an image of [huge spoiler] before I saw the film and the moment still worked for me when I watched it in real time.