The 37th Annual NAACP Award ShowFollow

Now honestly, who else thinks spending millions, wasting TV time on a show based ENTIRELY on giving awards to people solely because there black is, well, stupid.

This is just stupid. I mean honestly.

~Blix

Where's the NCACP (Caucasion(Sp?)) awards? NLACP (Latin) awards?

~Blix

So... do they have an award for every single black person or is there a lottery system?
They can make one gigantic White Russian and all the blacks can partake and discuss their future!

Another Caucasian, Gary...

Edited, Fri Mar 3 20:56:13 2006 by Jophiel

Well, there's already a TV show based ENTIRELY on giving awards to stupid people.

It's called "Wheel of Fortune".

Isn't that second one correctly the Association for the National Advancement of Latinos?

No that's the Gay Latin Community.

~Blix

Obviously because you're a gay Latino and you were telling me about it via annoying PMs.

Remember? Or maybe you were drunk.

Oh well.

~Blix

My point that I obviously put across rather badly is that just like Black history month it makes things unequal. It should all just be a plain mix and these things that split it up are not good ideas, they just cause more tension.

~Blix

Yes maybe I should have said it in a more intelligent way aye? ^^;

~Blix

we're even having our own in here!



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What'choo talkin' bout, Willis?? EVERYmonth is WHITE history Month.

So, basically your saying the playing field is even for white people over minorities? I don't think so few Black people have won oscars, they tend to slide one in every now and then. Just because we decided to host our own awards shows does not mean that only Black people can win. The award show include a lot of movies a,d/or actors/actresses that are over looked by award shows that constanly give a majority of the awards to White people. I am not saying that the award shows are racists, but there is still a biased against Black people. The oscars have been around for like Ithink 70 something years, and people have complained and fought, over and over, but still nothing drastic has changed.

Like I said before if the world was perfect we wouldn't have this problem. If there wasnt a NAACP awrds, or Vibe awards, or Ebony awards, a lot of people would be over looked for the recognintion that they deserve. It's been 70 yrs, things have changed but not much, it was time to give them the recognition.



Actually no she wasnt, Hattie Mcdaniel was first Black Woman to win an Oscar for best Actress in a leading role, Halee Berry was the 2nd since her to win that specific award, 64 yrs later and your complaining about a NAACP award show? lmao. http://members.aol.com/ttelracs/Hattie.htm



Thats what the majority usually says, cause they would rather see Black people sitting on their *** doing nothing, biting there finger nails saying "When is massa, gone let me win, Law I sho hope I win dis time". Hell, if things were fair there wouldnt be a need for it, so dont complain about a show that where the majority of the winners are Black, because the only people complaining about the majority of the Oscars going to White people, are Black people.

So we had to do something for us, because it will NEVER be fair, it will always be that racists ****, thinking they dont want no Black person getting a certain award, they sometimes do not judge on talent, but judge on race.

Whenever the day comes when you wake up Black and have to deal with the **** we deal with, sometimes on and everyday basis then come talk to me about what is fair. Oh and Black people whether racially mixed or not out number White people in America, so there isn't any lack of good Black actors/actresses.

Read if you would like to:
http://www.naacpimageawards.net/history.html

If you understood the why? Instead of just crying that it isnt fair, do some reading before you make an ignorant comment like that.

This is a quote from the website about WHY.



Edited, Tue Mar 7 02:21:01 2006 by kalaria

Of course I do not know every single movie or actor/actress that was passes up for an Oscar, because it was ethnic, but if their wasnt any biased it would have taken 64 yrs. for another Black woman to receive an Oscar for best actress in a leading role. Everything I had to say is in my post above, to not recognize that there is discrimination against Black people at certain awards show is being willfully blind.

Now, I'm not saying all White people are racist. I do think that sometimes when a Black person cries "racism", it is no true. But in this case it is. Please read the links, to get more information, before jumping to conclusions and thinking that the NAACP awards are not fair.

One thing I didnt say in my post is that, some more ethnic T.v. shows are overlooked, by certain award shows. Plz read the History of the NAACP award show and you will see why they have it.

Like I said above, things of course are much better in Amercia than 60 yrs ago, but the discrimination still takes place, becasue their are still people in Hollywood who dont look at just talent for certain roles, but rely on race. The info I provided has enough info one to understand why, If someone still doesn't then they choose not to understand for what ever reason.



So your saying there have been no Black cultural movies that were good, that showed intelligent Black people, instead of the usual "hood" parts? Have you seen "Brown Sugar", "The Brothers", "The Best Man".? They were good movies, and did not involve "fighting the man". There are plenty of movies celebrating our culture, just because you have not seen them does not mean there are no good movies, or know the basis of why it was made. Spike Lee made excellent movies dealing with racial discrimination, which people didnt like because people like to think it doesnt exist, when it is right in their faces.

This is a quote from the history section of the NAACP award website.



Steven Spielberg wrote:





Edited, Tue Mar 7 12:38:04 2006 by kalaria