how Time Magazine Reported His Historic First Oscar Win in 1964

So I'm reading a TIME MAGAZINE article from a 1964 April 24 edition, and they're reporting on the Oscars.

First off, they said that the award show sucked that year (nothing much has changed) and then afer a long discourse about how much it sucked, they get to Sidney Poitier winning the Oscar.

It was an historic moment in American history: the first black man to win the Best Actor Oscar, and only the second person of color to win an Oscar of any kind.

But Time Magazine weren't so jolly about it.

They say that it 'coincided with the sentiment of the times' , as though it were a political decision, and then said that when his name was called out he jumped up 'more like a great Negro high jumper than a great Negro actor'.

WTF?

Time Magazine then say that 'inevitably, some people thought that Poitier was award the oscar more as a Negro than as an actor'..

WTF???

But they do sum up by saying that he was 'so overpoweringly good looking that he quite literally pales the white actors working beside him'.

Wow. Just Wow.

The amount of RACISM in this piece is astonishing.

Time Magazine was a New York based publication. Its wasn't operating out of Alabama.

The use of the word NEGRO throughought was not necessary; it was condescending, and used in a racist manner...especially with that 'high jumper' jibe! Like 'we know you blacks are good at your sports!' Suprised they didn't mention basketball!

And the other actors 'pale' in comparison due to his black good looks? OMG.

Stop. Just stop!

I hate how America has become so woke that it feels the need to bend over backwards to show blacks, hispanics, asians (anything but white) actors in ads and movies, but I also hate reading this type of racism.

Surely we can find a happy medium somewhere?