Not everything needs to have a racial element.

You do realize that the oscars are about acheivment in film not the fix all the injustices in the world awards. If Mel Gibson had done the best job directing (he didn’t) i’d want him to win.

Lol. Everyone knows only black people can write and perform jazz music. To think otherwise would be racist, amiright?!

Yes, I the tenor of this article is terrible but fits with a certain strain of thought that pervades much of the Gawker universe. It is very counterproductive. I could see if the problem for the author was that the music wasn’t good. I don’t know. I didn’t see La La Land (and never intended to either) but it seems…

I’ve had the music from La La Land stuck in my head for weeks. I really like the score.

I was wondering if I was the only one that thought this was a really shit comment to make.

I don’t understand this logic. I loved Bad Brains back in the day. Zero fucks did I give for them being a black punk band.

I would never try to state that “white people” were responsible for Jazz, that would be ludicrous.…

I hear ya Kara....that Stan Getz.....Chet Baker.....Django Reinhardt....Bix Biederbecke and Dave Brubeck were fucking hacks. The world is much better served by listening to Nicki Minaj or Mariah and Salt and Pepa.

You guys are really ratcheting up the racism for the Oscars. Is it just for clicks, or do you really believe the skin color of these men affects their ability to write music?

That shit right there is highly alarming. He’ll probably constantly name-drop ‘neoliberalism’ too, as if the accusation alone makes it so.

Nobody you see bitching about Perez is an actual longterm Dem.

THANK YOU. Ida B Wells taught us, and we walked straight. FOHWTBS about ‘let-downs’ - we were stans for HRC to the very end. Y’all don’t get to be all revisionist on us, we’d nothing to do with the carnage on the 9th.

Are you this stupid and selfish naturally?

I remember a lot of things about Into The Woods and thought it was a pretty good adaptation.

What exactly is your criticism? It would seem that a music video relating to the “systemic oppression of underclasses and minorities and disadvantaged groups” would be a good thing. But only if that artist is a person of color, I guess? I would think that a white artist spreading this message could be positive, since…

THIS all day! I also like that the episode was a way of “humanizing” people of color in a way that reality TV doesn’t often show. Between LAHH and RHW we often see fighting and caricatures. As a person of color, I’m often shocked in 2017 that some white people (including some of the white men I’ve dated) believe…

“In this family, you don’t need to have black skin, but you need to have thick skin.”

Chaffetz, too. Must be included. He looks like a punching bag and a hamster fucked and shat out a lovechild

It was cool when it was “freaks” but now that it’s their sons, no.

Now it’s time for him to fade off into obscurity until the end of time. A fitting ending to his 15 minutes of fame.

Good point. He’s like Coulter. He says stuff exactly to piss people off. Most of it he doesn’t believe or likely remember the next day.