Well, here’s a shocker: Spike Lee is pissed off. This time, it’s the Oscars:
Spike Lee will skip the Oscars to protest all-white nominations https://t.co/Oj0sYKc3Up pic.twitter.com/Nw3r2j7TgH
— The Verge (@verge) January 18, 2016
Spike Lee to skip Academy Awards after no black actors were nominated https://t.co/LF7q6JUklL
— TIME (@TIME) January 18, 2016
.@SpikeLee will boycott the Academy Awards after #OscarsSoWhite: https://t.co/lyvhfgdSkj pic.twitter.com/io9uaP5x0k
— Entertainment Weekly (@EW) January 18, 2016
https://twitter.com/SpikeLee/status/689070664779698178
From his Instagram post:
I Would Like To Thank President Cheryl Boone Isaacs And The Board Of Governors Of The Academy Of Motion Pictures Arts And Sciences For Awarding Me an Honorary Oscar This Past November. I Am Most Appreciative. However My Wife, Mrs. Tonya Lewis Lee And I Will Not Be Attending The Oscar Ceremony This Coming February. We Cannot Support It And Mean No Disrespect To My Friends, Host Chris Rock and Producer Reggie Hudlin, President Isaacs And The Academy. But, How Is It Possible For The 2nd Consecutive Year All 20 Contenders Under The Actor Category Are White? And Let’s Not Even Get Into The Other Branches. 40 White Actors In 2 Years And No Flava At All. We Can’t Act?! WTF!! It’s No Coincidence I’m Writing This As We Celebrate The 30th Anniversary Of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s Birthday. Dr. King Said “There Comes A Time When One Must Take A Position That Is Neither Safe, Nor Politic, Nor Popular But He Must Take It Because Conscience Tells Him It’s Right”. For Too Many Years When The Oscars Nominations Are Revealed, My Office Phone Rings Off The Hook With The Media Asking Me My Opinion About The Lack Of African-Americans And This Year Was No Different.
He’ll be sharing the snit-fit spotlight actress Jada Pinkett Smith:
Spike Lee, Pinkett Smith boycott Oscars over all-white acting nominees https://t.co/vxBrcXFp8B
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 18, 2016
But we’re guessing he won’t be addressing this anytime soon:
https://twitter.com/FirstTeamTommy/status/689154071958278144
Oh, snap!
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