Jada Pinkett Smith tackles lack of diversity at Oscars

Rock’s comments certainly aren’t the first to point out the massive lack of diversity amongst this year’s nominations, but it must have irked the Academy, well the white members at least.

Pinkett Smith’s post had been retweeted more than 30,000 times as of Monday morning.

Pinkett Smith noted the hypocrisy of asking people of colour to perform at such shows, while giving them hardly any recognition when it came to giving out awards.

“But we are rarely recognised for our artistic accomplishments”. Should people of color refrain from participating all together?”, she tweeted.”People can only treat us in the way in which we allow.

Lee went on to the note that the “real” battle is not with the Academy Awards specifically, but with the paucity of people of color in executive positions.

Following the all-white acting nominations for the 2016 Oscars, Hollywood has been discussing the issue of diversity when it comes to the annual awards show.

Following the 88th Academy Award nominations Thursday, Boone addressed the fact that no actors of color and very few nonwhite filmmakers received nominations. Creed and Straight Outta Compton were also left off the list of nominees for Best Picture. It’s In The Executive Office Of The Hollywood Studios And TV And Cable Networks. In a tweet he posted on the Fourth of July in 2012, he referred to the holiday as being a “white peoples day”. She also announced an initiative called “A2020”, a project that would aid the Academy in hiring, mentoring, encouraging and promoting talents in diverse areas of the film industry. For the second year in a row, not a single person of colour was nominated for any of the acting awards. Tell us what you think about the lack of racial diversity in the actors nominated this year for an Oscar.

One notable snub this year is Pinkett Smith’s husband, Will Smith, who won praise for his portrayal of Dr. Bennet Omalu in the National Football League medical drama “Concussion”. This Is Where The Gate Keepers Decide What Gets Made And What Gets Jettisoned To “Turnaround” Or Scrap Heap. Though her speech remains eternally inspiring, it’s deeply disheartening to see her exclamation, “this door tonight has been opened”, faced with that door steadfastly shut in the 14 years which have since passed. “Of course I am disappointed”, she told Deadline.