(1/2) Every year when this happens, it is not because there are no black contenders who could not possibly deserve serious consideration from voters and pundits.
Even this year, off the top of my head, I could think of 4 universally acclaimed films, 3 from viable distributors,
While you’re crying on twitter about black people being unforgiving of your ‘racist phase,’ the government has just murdered a one year old black baby and has legally justified it
If you had a "racist phase" respectfully go fuck yourself. It's one thing to have unconscious biases that might stem from how systematic racism is, but straight up viewing another race as sub human, throwing slurs around, and having entire fucking phase revolve around that?
to be clear: the only valid debate about josh o’connor as bond is whether an actor of his caliber should be tied to a franchise for a decade. not whether he can pull it off. watch Challengers, La Chimera and Wake Up Dead Man. range, magnetism, physicality. he has it all.
Everyone has implicit bias. Everybody. Everyone has to unlearn things they were brought up with. However, we should not be normalizing the notion of a “racist phase” just to assuage one’s guilt or anxiety about your own social history. This whole convo is egregious.
Some performances by Black artists that absolutely deserve to be in the awards convo:
J. Alphonse Nicholson & Danielle Brooks, IF I GO WILL THEY MISS ME
Michaela Coel, MOTHER MARY
Kara Young & Mallori Johnson, IS GOD IS
Mahershala Ali, YOUR MOTHER X3
Keke Palmer, I LOVE BOOSTERS
Sterling K. Brown, IS GOD IS
Sophie Okonedo and India Amarteifio, CLARISSA
Zendaya, THE DRAMA
David Jonsson, WASTEMAN
“pretend to care abt poc” when i’m a poc? also the white man in the show got more exposure and has gotten way more roles than the asian man you’re referring to. so do YOU care about poc?
'most queer media is white' there are hundreds of asian bls and gls coming out every year btw. too bad y'all think there's only one country in the world....
No Black Oscars nominee for acting would be inexcusable in a year of incredible performances from Mahershala Ali, Sophie Okonedo, Zendaya, Jaafar Jackson and Colman Domingo
dare i say none of them auditioned which is kinda why the only casting i was really excited for was maya. everything else was straight up just a fancast
the way she says it with 0 confidence and no accent is genuinely so disheartening.. and kinda confirms the rumor she didn't really have to audition. this isnt even the only example of her doing this either.