Academy award winner Melissa Leo. She is great!

Yeah, take that Will Smith and Oprah. God forbid you guys can become superstars and multi-millionaires. You have to "stay genuine", and never change, even if it means staying dirt poor or mediocre. Conforming to some vague notion of "blackness" is more important than personal achievement.

And fuck Obama too, and Ursula Burns, and any other black person with talent, drive and determination, who happens to have charisma and appeals to other races. And god forbid someone undergoes personal transformation and change to succeed, especially in a society where the chips are stacked against them on day 1. No, it's better to know one's place.

Yeah, Barack, Ursula, Will and Oprah, even though you guys are actually transforming what it means to be african american and black by kicking down barriers, so that black kids can feel they can do anything and be anyone, FUCK YOU.

Will, you should still be rapping about Philly with the other ol' skool rappers on tour on the c-circuit. Oprah, you should still be doing "who's the father!!" shows and competing with Jerry Springer and Maury. Ursula, wasn't middle management enough? And Barack my man, you did much more good as a community organizer.

C, your premise and line of thinking is ridiculous. Can you explain to me what role is acceptable for a black man? You castigate Will Smith for being weak then complain about Samuel Jackson and Denzel Washington? These guys aren't flava flav for gods sake.

Please forgive me for not seeing your sarcasm, if that's what this is. >> ^chingalera:

When it comes right down to it, who really gives a fuck why Will Smith back-slapped a reporter, or why the reporter decided to kiss him. All that really matters is that Will Smith, one of the whitest black men in America, will never get any revenue from me, as I plan to download the film from many of my friends around the world who won;t shed a tear when Hollywood dies.
He can join the other list of sell-out negroes in Hollywood who have taken the $Bait$ and become masters of a weak stereotypical representation of the African-American male.
There's the ultimate hero negro: Denzel Washington, Jim Brown, (AKA, The Victim of Society Negro
The Superhero Negro: Wesley Snipes, Samuel L. Jackson, Laurence Fishburne
The Historical Hero negro Cuba Gooding Jr., Denzel Washington, Will Smith
The Sidekick negro-Sam Jackson, Morgan Freeman, Don Cheadle
Cop/Psychologist/Social Worker Negro-Sydney Poitier, Whoopi Goldberg
and then there's the , "Only African-American female to ever win an Academy Award for best actress getting ass-raped negress, Halle Berry
Fuck Will Smith, he's another total sell-out.

When it comes right down to it, who really gives a fuck why Will Smith back-slapped a reporter, or why the reporter decided to kiss him. All that really matters is that Will Smith, one of the whitest black men in America, will never get any revenue from me, as I plan to download the film from many of my friends around the world who won;t shed a tear when Hollywood dies.

He can join the other list of sell-out negroes in Hollywood who have taken the $Bait$ and become masters of a weak stereotypical representation of the African-American male.

There's the ultimate hero negro: Denzel Washington, Jim Brown, (AKA, The Victim of Society Negro
The Superhero Negro: Wesley Snipes, Samuel L. Jackson, Laurence Fishburne
The Historical Hero negro Cuba Gooding Jr., Denzel Washington, Will Smith
The Sidekick negro-Sam Jackson, Morgan Freeman, Don Cheadle
Cop/Psychologist/Social Worker Negro-Sydney Poitier, Whoopi Goldberg

and then there's the , "Only African-American female to ever win an Academy Award for best actress getting ass-raped negress, Halle Berry

Fuck Will Smith, he's another total sell-out.

>> ^kulpims:

I feel old now, thanks


No problems, old fart camel. I never watched Academy Awards and this movie back then.

Yeah, I actually figured that but Speedy's an easy target for people with no sense of humour- I'm sure this Mayor fits that category.

In reply to this comment by ulysses1904:
Not sure if you misunderstood me, as I wasn't knocking or "censoring" Speedy Gonzalez. FWIW, the Warner Brothers cartoons from the 1940s and 1950s are the quality standard that I compare all over animations to. And no doubt some of them have blatantly racist or ethnically insulting scenes and characters, which were viewed as acceptable back then.

My comment was that it would fit right in with the mayor's taco remark, to act like being a fan of Speedy Gonzalez would help build bridges to the modern day Latino community in East Haven.

>> ^therealblankman:

>> ^ulysses1904:
Wow....just....wow. I live near New Haven and have read about this quote but this is the first I'm seeing the footage. At least he didn't say "I might have tacos and then watch a Speedy Gonzalez retrospective".

Don't you knock Speedy Gonzales! That dude rocks! He's won at least one more Academy Award than any of us ever will. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedy_Gonzales
The world of America was bigoted and rife with ethnic stereotypes at the time. Those views were just as wrong then as they are now, but to censor the mouse is the same as pretending that those views never existed. Disney pretends that "Song of the South" was never made, but that's a mistake as well.

Not sure if you misunderstood me, as I wasn't knocking or "censoring" Speedy Gonzalez. FWIW, the Warner Brothers cartoons from the 1940s and 1950s are the quality standard that I compare all over animations to. And no doubt some of them have blatantly racist or ethnically insulting scenes and characters, which were viewed as acceptable back then.

My comment was that it would fit right in with the mayor's taco remark, to act like being a fan of Speedy Gonzalez would help build bridges to the modern day Latino community in East Haven.

>> ^therealblankman:

>> ^ulysses1904:
Wow....just....wow. I live near New Haven and have read about this quote but this is the first I'm seeing the footage. At least he didn't say "I might have tacos and then watch a Speedy Gonzalez retrospective".

Don't you knock Speedy Gonzales! That dude rocks! He's won at least one more Academy Award than any of us ever will. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedy_Gonzales
The world of America was bigoted and rife with ethnic stereotypes at the time. Those views were just as wrong then as they are now, but to censor the mouse is the same as pretending that those views never existed. Disney pretends that "Song of the South" was never made, but that's a mistake as well.

>> ^ulysses1904:

Wow....just....wow. I live near New Haven and have read about this quote but this is the first I'm seeing the footage. At least he didn't say "I might have tacos and then watch a Speedy Gonzalez retrospective".


Don't you knock Speedy Gonzales! That dude rocks! He's won at least one more Academy Award than any of us ever will. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedy_Gonzales

The world of America was bigoted and rife with ethnic stereotypes at the time. Those views were just as wrong then as they are now, but to censor the mouse is the same as pretending that those views never existed. Disney pretends that "Song of the South" was never made, but that's a mistake as well.

That's a poor attempt even by the low standards of sarcasm since neither a literal nor sarcastic interpretation gives it any scientific weight since a Hollywood movie bears low scientific credibility with or without an Oscar.>> ^eric3579:

What I think you missed is.....it was said as a joke. Someone back me up on this.
>> ^messenger:
Nope. I mean, from 5 minutes of research I don't turn up any evidence that 2012 was ever nominated for any Oscars, let alone winning any. I started here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_(film)#Accolades and continued on to the lists of Oscar nominations from 2008 to 2011. What have I missed?>> ^brycewi19:
>> ^messenger:
"2012 ... swept the academy awards..."???? Wasn't even nominated, as far as I can tell.

Your sarcasm meter must be malfunctioning.

It was sarcasm - backed up! Seriously though, early in the clip he says people are predicting the end of the world in 2012 based off of ancient Mayan calenders "obviously". Pretty sure that's sarcasm. So one might assume he would use more sarcasm throughout his spiel. >> ^eric3579:

What I think you missed is.....it was said as a joke. Someone back me up on this.
>> ^messenger:
Nope. I mean, from 5 minutes of research I don't turn up any evidence that 2012 was ever nominated for any Oscars, let alone winning any. I started here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_(film)#Accolades and continued on to the lists of Oscar nominations from 2008 to 2011. What have I missed?>> ^brycewi19:
>> ^messenger:
"2012 ... swept the academy awards..."???? Wasn't even nominated, as far as I can tell.

Your sarcasm meter must be malfunctioning.

What I think you missed is.....it was said as a joke. Someone back me up on this.
>> ^messenger:

Nope. I mean, from 5 minutes of research I don't turn up any evidence that 2012 was ever nominated for any Oscars, let alone winning any. I started here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_(film)#Accolades and continued on to the lists of Oscar nominations from 2008 to 2011. What have I missed?>> ^brycewi19:
>> ^messenger:
"2012 ... swept the academy awards..."???? Wasn't even nominated, as far as I can tell.

Your sarcasm meter must be malfunctioning.

Nope. I mean, from 5 minutes of research I don't turn up any evidence that 2012 was ever nominated for any Oscars, let alone winning any. I started here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_(film)#Accolades and continued on to the lists of Oscar nominations from 2008 to 2011. What have I missed?>> ^brycewi19:

>> ^messenger:
"2012 ... swept the academy awards..."???? Wasn't even nominated, as far as I can tell.

Your sarcasm meter must be malfunctioning.

>> ^messenger:

"2012 ... swept the academy awards..."???? Wasn't even nominated, as far as I can tell.


Your sarcasm meter must be malfunctioning.

"2012 ... swept the academy awards..."???? Wasn't even nominated, as far as I can tell.

and the academy award for best throw up performance goes to...

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