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This guy is ridiculous and a disgrace to black actors.

posted 9 years ago by groomten
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I say these as a black person...

Sorry but... for one thing I agree with the commentary about him being "all over the place." There wouldn't be a problem if being all over the place mean being at the right places, no, except that this guy seems quite overbearing and seems to ironically lack the dignity he desperately tries to project on screen.

This guy seems like a "yes boy" to the likes of Oprah and the other pseudo-intellectual black parvenu and filmmakers who apparently have spent too long mixing with Hollywood elites, and who live and abide by rules set by their white liberal masters, and who seem to have appointed themselves representatives of black America in that very strange hypocritical degenerate capitalist industry where money-making trumps all forms of morality and dignity.

He was being pushed around by the "masters" to appear at every event during the so-called Oscar campaign season, used like an idiot by Neil Patrick Harris and the Academy to be the face of "white acceptance and acknowledgement of black excellence;" given a frontal seat and made to "stand-up and be recognized" to insincere applause from people who truly couldn't give a sh**. Monique kept her dignity and refused to be pushed around like a duck, Don Cheadle learned his lessons and no longer bothers with so-called awards; black people with dignity tend to shun and avoid places they don't belong and never let themselves be used, apparently this guy didn't get the memo.

A great statement would have been made if these black tools had refused to show up for that award show, but no... they just couldn't resist being THE MAIN BLACK FACES, the photo ops and interviews and fashoin and approval by the studio execs, to the detriment of real black people with real dignity.

I don't know if its a British thing to be an industry yes-boy (due to a risk of being shipped back to that overcrowded Island if they screw up), but for the life of me I don't think I've ever seen a black American actor who allows himself to be used like a complete tool like this guy. Speaking with a boarding-house English accent and showcasing that annoying "snobbish uppity attitude" towards white people at the slightest chance does not equal dignity. Oprah and these puppet token Hollywood blacks represent the major reason we're stuck with the same boring historical white-liberal-created-and-approved-Oscar-bait drama movies, because apparently the Hollywood elites love them.

The Butler

12 Years a Slave

Selma

etc.

All good movies, but do you notice the trend? Movies about black struggles and victimhood told the way the Hollywood execs want them to be told; watch out for another one this year.

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[–] Bobtheawesome 9 years ago

you're a delusional idiot and obsessed with race. Noone is being used as a tool, they're just supporting the movies that they work on and being social towards those in their industry. And attacking him for his accent? What's wrong with you.

If anyone is a disgrace to their race it's you, not David Oyelowo. And you think The Butler was a good movie? Seriously?

[–] Google365 9 years ago

As another black person. You are really the disgrace,
This man is not in jail, causing trouble or doing any of the negative stereotypes that we do.
This is why there is disfunction amoung us blacks.

Because our passions are on the wrong thing.
We focus on writing stupid post like is one.

When actually we should be cheering this man on.

[–] killer_Joe79 9 years ago

I Understand your point and see where your coming from, ofcourse the librals here will always accuse you of being a hate monger or anti-progressive or anything alone those lines.

[–] C_Dubya 9 years ago

And then his wife is white. Surprise, surprise.

[–] Jonnythec 8 years ago

This guy is a f-in cry baby, you don't see Tom hanks crying every time he doesn't get a Oscar nod. You get a nom when you do something spectacular like fassbender and Leo did this year. I don't get all this race card crap this year. I seen all the movies that received noms and they were excellent. Just cause you play mlk in a boring movie doesnt mean you automatically get a Oscar ..get real...Selma wasn't a good film.

[–] cybercrash 8 years ago

This guy is a f-in cry baby, you don't see Tom hanks crying every time he doesn't get a Oscar nod. You get a nom when you do something spectacular like fassbender and Leo did this year. I don't get all this race card crap this year.
me neither. he's being a sore loser. 12 years a slave swept the academy awards in 2014. so what if this guy wasn't nominated this year. it's because his work the past year wasn't deserving of a nomination. this sense of entitlement needs to stop.