The possibility at this stage is four Oscars for a single performance:

1X Open Oscar (and thanks for the multicultural sensitivity)
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1X Negro-'Merican Special Oscar (the actor is black)
+
1X Womyn's Special Oscar (the actor has now decided she is a woman trapped in a man's body)
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1X Lesbian Special Oscar (the one who is a woman trapped in a man's body has 'evolved' and fancies women)

The forum's very sensitive and easily upset will inform if more categories of Special Oscars are required.

This appears to be a somewhat complex issue.

Who really knows what motivates the Academy
voter's choices. We can speculate all we want.

Statistics show that it is the Asians and
Hispanics that per population size are
overlooked at the Oscars not blacks.

The black lobby argues that Oscar voters are
94% white, 76% male and the average age is 63.
So who knows where their interests lie and what
they are interested in. It may not be a question
of colour, gender, or anything else.It may simply be what
subjects they're interested in. What appeals.
Movies, like art - are subjective.

The black lobby is getting its work together -
and undoubtedly pressure will be placed on the
Academy to make future changes. Whether this will work
we'll have to wait and see. We're told that there
will be a boycott of the Oscars this year by
some very well known black celebrities.
And comments will also be made at the ceremony
itself by well known guests.

Should be an interesting evening.

Oh my god!

Surely this is just another push by a minority group, upset that they aren't good enough to get their noses deep into the trough.

It merely indicates what you end up with when too many journalists have studied at a university, rather than the school of hard knocks.

If we could just fill their navels up with cement, they might start looking at something important, rather than navel gazing.

There is enough hatred of white people without self-hating whites themselves supporting whingers who don't realise that the colour of their skin (black in this case) doesn't automatically confer talent and rights on them.

Hasbeen adds to the problem by blaming university education for journalists as the reason the Oscars haven't included African Americans this year!
I imagine the media reports what other actors have said Hasbeen, so your hatred of intellectuals doesn't make sense in this case.

Others blame the Jews. A racist accusation of the highest degree. Maybe that nasty Catholic Mel Gibson is behind that particular thought?

What I am wondering is who decides who is on the board of judges for handing out Oscars? Would that be other groups of old white men?

Maybe it is time to include a group that represents the wider community, rather than old white men? It is not that there is a problem with listening to their views as such, it is just that we shouldn't have to ONLY hear their views.

The same goes for all forms of politics, military, and businesses too.
Certainly, the world couldn't do any worse than it is now under the predominant older male 'leadership'?

sonofgloin,

What you have offered is a false dichotomy. Racism can be direct or indirect.