Lee Daniels slams #OscarsSoWhite
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!!!deleted!!! (56068418) — 9 years ago(December 29, 2016 03:57 PM)
Lee Daniels show Empire, about the drama among the members of a hip hop moguls family as they fight for control of the company, has found a large audience ever since its premiere in 2015. Soon, his new show Star will premiere on Fox, and in honor of the new series, the New York Times has run a profile of the producer and director. In it, he expresses his negative opinion about the #OscarsSoWhite controversy over representation and diversity at the Academy Awards.
Go out and do the work, he says. Oscars so white! So what? Do your work. Let your legacy speak and stop complaining, man. Are we really in this for the awards?
If I had thought that way that the world was against me I wouldnt be here now, he continues. These whiny people that think were owed something are incomprehensible and reprehensible to me. I dont expect acknowledgment or acceptance from white America. Im going to be me.
Daniels wrote and directed the 2006 film Precious, based on the novel Push by Sapphire, which received six Oscar nominations and won two for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Supporting Actress. He also produced the 2001 film Monsters Ball, which also won the Oscar for Best Actress. -
miseducation78 — 9 years ago(December 29, 2016 04:01 PM)
"He thinks that people of color in Hollywood should focus more of their energy on being exceptions to the effects of racism and exclusion, instead of confronting the oppression head-on. This is called exceptionalism, and its an ideology rooted in classist respectability politics.
It asks disenfranchised groups to accept that nothing about their circumstances will change so they should try harder to join the ranks of the privileged minority instead of building a more leveled playing field for everyone. Relying on his own exceptional success in the entertainment industry, Daniels is feeding into this problematic stance.
Its ironic that a man who has been so intentional about bringing diverse narratives and identities into the fray of a television landscape dominated by whiteness can oversimplify a movement demanding representation for people who carry those identities in real life." -
Jade_The_Messenger — 9 years ago(December 29, 2016 07:24 PM)
He's telling the truth.
Tyler Perry did it. He went through his trials and tribulations, but he did it, and he did it HIS way.
Just because someone does something good for 111cyou, that doesn't mean they're good for you.