| Steven Boone <stevencboone@gmail.com> |
| to: Kevin B Lee |
| Sun, Jan 18, 2015 at 8:41 AM | | |
Al Sharpton's
outrage over the whiteness of nominees just illustrates
the industrial mindset that both Howood's fans and detractors are
trapped in. It keeps
the studios at the high center of our cultural
conversation against all reason. For Sharpton, the studios are just
another corporate job creator that should
embrace diversity and reward
excellent job performance. In other words, his POV is that of a
non-artist. That's great when we need somebody to stick up for a civil
rights victim but not when some insular awards committee expresses its
tastes.
I want to write something beseeching black folk and others to drop
the plantation/stockyard mentality. The Academy Awards are unimportant,
always were. All this cheap
moviemaking technology, all these
freewheeling new ways to watch a movie, and folks are still petitioning
the hairpiece-and-Porsche set to give them justice at the movies. What
passive, retrograde horseshit. There is no center, and no top. Fuck a
billboard.
Look around, motherfuckers!!!
