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Post by Michael Downing on Jan 22, 2016 15:29:20 GMT -5
iowadawg.com/oscars-diversity-controversy-racist-to-white-people/Oscars’ diversity controversy ‘racist to white people’British actress Charlotte Rampling, nominated for best actress at this year’s Academy Awards, called the boycott against the Oscars due to a lack of diversity in the acting nominations “racist to whites.” In an interview with French radio network Europe 1 on Friday, Rampling (nominated for her performance in the little-seen drama “45 Years”), responded to the recent backlash against another year without one black acting nominee. “It is racist to whites,” she said. “One can never really know, but perhaps the black actors did not deserve to make the final list.” The interviewers then asked the 69-year-old actress if if the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences should introduce quotas to increase diversity. “Why classify people? These days everyone is more or less accepted … People will always say: ‘Him, he’s less handsome’; ‘Him, he’s too black’; ‘He is too white’ … someone will always be saying ‘You are too’ [this or that] … But do we have to take from this that there should be lots of minorities everywhere?”
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