At the Academy Awards show last night, the host, Ellen Degeneres, joked that there are many possibilities for the show.
"Possibility number one, "12 Years a Slave" wins best picture. Possibility number 2, you're all racists."
Well, "12 Years a Slave" ended up winning the best picture award, so I guess Hollywood is off the racist hook.
But let's analyze this "joke". Hollywood is generally very liberal. Liberals often call any conservative opposed to the liberal agenda, especially President Obama's agenda, racist. So the questions are as follows.
Did Ellen know something about the best picture award and was she hinting to the audience?
Did Hollywood actually vote for the movie about the life of a real slave in order to avoid being tagged as racist?
If they had voted for another movie (there were nine movies nominated for that award), would they have been called racist?
What are the implications to society when your choices are limited or influenced by the prospect of being labeled racist, even when race is not actually part of the criteria for choosing?
Am I being paranoid because people who think like me are called racists so much?
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