The 37th Annual NAACP Award ShowFollow

Ok, so Hattie won it for supporting actress.

Did you not read WHY they have the NAACP awards? You dont give a damn, because if you did you take the time out to understand WHY they have it. The awards are not just for Black people, read the damn History, before giving me that seperate but equal ****, know what you are talking about.

WHY THEY HAVE NAACP AWARDS:



So promoting social justice is bad? God forbid there be EQUALITY, damn you think you know what is unfair, walk a mile in my shoes, you'd be running back to your own.Presented annually, the NAACP Image Awards is the nation’s premier event celebrating the outstanding achievements and performances of people of color in the arts as well as those individuals or groups who promote social justice.

Edited, Tue Mar 7 14:48:19 2006 by kalaria

/sigh..I think your the only one who can at least understand where I am coming from..

XD, LOL.

Just because you say somthing doesn't make it so nor does it change what it is.

Edit: Gbaji beat me to the puch, even though he typed about fiddy times as many words.

Edited, Tue Mar 7 18:58:28 2006 by AngryUndead

"The Brothers" and "Brown Sugar", two movies Kalaria suggested were in response to my statement of my ignorance of many movies starring black actors in the past year, do not seem to have occured in the past year, which makes it somewhat irrelevant I would think.

"The Best Man" looks to have happened in the past year though doing a google search on the director and name of the movie makes it seem as though it's a british romantic comedy starring more anglo-saxon sorts rather than any black actors.

I didn't mean to say there has never been a good movie containing black actors, I was saying that over the past few years there have been few movies deviating from more stereotypical roles in order to create a more dependable movie popularity-wise.

Edited, Tue Mar 7 20:03:07 2006 by Vensuvio

Oh, ok I see now. The point that I am trying to make is that why is is so hard to believe that the discrimination happens among certain award shows? I know that it is not all, but some.
The NAACP awards is to celebrate us and our culture, that is also inclusive of "Black" Television some shows and/or movies that would have been excluded or not appear in the same category as its white counter parts. Just because you think that the show does not promote social justice does not mean it doesn't. Like I said times are better, but there is still much that has to be done, because there are still people that will not like someone because they are black, thats all I am saying.

quote from NAACP website:



The show also promotes POSITIVE images of Black people, because most of what you see on television Black people are most of the time represented by "hood" characters. So it gives the younger black audience and America a chance to see that not all Black people act how society makes Black people seem. We are a minority, and as a minority we are missrepresented by a constant flow of negative images. If a person can not understand where a Black person is coming from regarding discrimination, then they can not argue about what is fair.

I might be mixed with different races, but I am still considered Black. I would still get nasty looks, or someone would feel threatend by my presence, where as a white person would not get them, because of their race. Of course their are people that may not like a person because they are white, but
white people run America, they have the upper hand, so I dont see why their is a complaint about an award show that is mosty Black.

We already have one month, to try and figure out our history. My family tree stops at middle 1800's, with some of my relatives being someone's property, like they were an animal. White people have a History, they can find out a **** load of information were they come from. So many familes were seperated during slavery it is hard to find out. Yeah, the guy from roots did it, but that is rare most of the people in his family we still alive.

Most of the ones in my family are gone. The only History about me I know of is the white part of my family who is from Ireland, thats it. I tried with my Black side, nothing but a paper chase. So I do not feel guilty about having something that celebrates a part of who I am as well as promoting equality. If the award shows that promote positive Black Images, and give the awards were they are justly do, is so offensive then start a group and try to have it shut down.

You have a history, allow me to create my mine, I want my son to grow up and be able to look back see what Black people have done, positive things, and we purposly put out positive images, instead of letting someone else poorly depict who we are, amd our culture.

Edited, Tue Mar 7 21:18:01 2006 by kalaria

lol, I am no way advocating awards just being given to a person just because they are Black. That statement is horrific, and proves my point on how people that think like that, have no idea what Black people go through everyday. So really this is a dead end discussion, because I cant make anyone understand where I am coming from, unless they are willing to learn.

to think that in some award show the judges arent racists is crazy. There are people are racist every where including hollywood.

Or, maybe Hotel Rwanda? It was also up for multiple awards. While it didn't win Best actor at either the Academy or Image awards, Best actor was taken by Jamie Foxx for Ray in both cases.

Oh. And Morgan Freeman won best supporting actor in 2005 as well.

Given that Blacks represent roughly 13% of the population, I'd say that at least in recent years, they've won a relatively proportional percentage of the "big" actor awards.

Statistically, of the four big actor awards at the Oscars, you'd expect one to go to a black actor/actress every other year. Of the last 5 years, we had none this year, 2 last year, none in 2004, none in 2003, and 2 in 2002. That's 4 out of 20, or 20%. That's *higher* then the statistics based on population...

Now admittedly, there were none in those catagories in the previous 5 years, and only one in the 5 years prior to that. But the point is that the Oscars clearly are not ignoring these actors. If anything, the greater problem is a lack of film producers putting black actors in major roles in major films. Interestingly enough, black actors have a very high win to nomination ratio in the Oscars. The problem isn't that the award show is biased, but that the film industry as a whole is. So the "solution" shouldn't be putting on a different awards show. It should be fixing the problems with the film industry that relegate black actors to second rate films (or, more correctly to non-dramatic roles, which tend to not win Oscards).

I've noticed a trend in Kalaria's posts where you capitalize the words black and white but leave "people" lower case. What up with that, G?

Then show me your boobs.

My statement was more in reference to Brokeback and to a lesser extent general claims of prejudicial treatment.

It seems as though you don't understand that "seperate, but equal" has already been tried and found to be a poor practice. As well you seem to claim that there is racism in the award show yet don't seem to want to put up examples for your arguement as to what has been passed over due to race.

If you can't actually show a situation where racism could be found to be a possibility then claiming racism isn't going to do much good.



This comment seems a bit like the red scare. With having racists under your bed ready to snatch you up and such. I'm not sure if it's poor grammar, but the comment would seem to suggest you believe that people should assume that in any panel of judges there is a racist.

What he said is what I was trying to say, I just said some award shows without further clarifying further even though some are, but it is mostly what is said in the quote above me.



Oh, no I do not mean that I'm not saying that thwe whole world is out get Black people. I'm just saying what I said above. Also yes I do think that some judges are biased or they just dont understand the culture, by I absolutly do not think there is one in every panel. I'm just saying it happens sometimes.

Edited, Tue Mar 7 23:41:00 2006 by kalaria