Academy Bars Will Smith From Oscars Ceremony for 10 Years After Slap
Source: NYT
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said on Friday that Will Smith would be barred from attending the Oscars for 10 years because of the “harmful behavior” he displayed when he struck the comedian Chris Rock during last month’s ceremony.
The ban came a week after the actor resigned from the organization following his violent outburst on the Oscar stage on March 27.
In an open letter released after a morning meeting of the academy’s 54 governors, the group’s president, David Rubin, and its chief executive, Dawn Hudson, also called Mr. Smith’s behavior “unacceptable” and admitted to not handling the situation properly during the telecast.
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If that's what it takes for Tiger to get him through the day.
He's earned every penny he ever made and he has nothing to prove to anyone, but I think he could choose a better bunch of friends. 
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off the stage on behalf of the winner Marlon Brando in 1973. 
Seriously? 
What Smith did was not right. Not one bit. But some of these folks saying that Smith should have been arrested, when cops on the regular are STILL getting away with murdering black people post George Floyd being murdered on FILM by ex-cop and now inprisoned Chauvin.
Thankfully, some intuitions have removed support from Wayne/his image/likeness over vile/racist remarks he made about blacks/native-americans during a 1971 Playboy interview. His son had nerve to say he was taken out of context, which is what most racists claim, even when it comes out of their OWN mouths and is ON FILM
USC Will Remove John Wayne Exhibit Due To Actor’s Racist Statements.
https://deadline.com/2020/07/john-wayne-racist-usc-exhibit-removal-black-lives-matter-1202982937/
https://vThe facts: But Wayne’s quote is real; it originally appeared in a May 1971 interview with Playboy magazine in which Wayne was responding to a question about whether Angela Davis, a counter-culture activist, communist and professor, was discriminated against by those who wanted to revoke her teaching credentials:
Wayne responded: “With a lot of blacks, there’s quite a bit of resentment along with their dissent, and possibly rightfully so. But we can’t all of a sudden get down on our knees and turn everything over to the leadership of the blacks. I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to a point of responsibility. I don’t believe in giving authority and positions of leadership and judgment to irresponsible people.”
When asked about his own hiring practices, Wayne said that while he did not discriminate against black actors or crew members, he didn’t seek them out either: “I’ve directed two pictures, and I gave the blacks their proper position. I had a black slave in The Alamo, and I had a correct number of blacks in The Green Berets. If it’s supposed to be a black character, naturally I use a black actor. But I don’t go so far as hunting for positions for them. I think the Hollywood studios are carrying their tokenism a little too far. …”
The Playboy interview contained one other quote that is frequently shared in meme form, Snopes.com reports. The quote was in response to Playboy’s question of whether Wayne felt any empathy for Native American for subordinate roles in Westerns:
“I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them, if that’s what you’re asking. Our so-called stealing of this country from them was just a matter of survival. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.”
.... the punishment he deserved from the academy. Thinking about it logically, why would the academy give a more severe punishment to someone because he is black for assaulting another person who happens to be black?
SARCASTOGRAM:
All those racists who sit on the board at the Academy Awards must have been twisting themselves in knots trying to figure out a way to not only punish one black man, but two black men at the same time. Unfortunately Smith got the brunt of it when the academy Award racists finally concluded there was no way out of this conundrum. One of the black men, to their dismay, would not be punished.
for anyone else, but if you can find any website where White people support Black people more than we here on DU........
And as for the people you talk to OFFLINE, I can't speak for them either, but I believe they're mistaken.
Have a pleasant evening. 
It is really depressing and probably helped contribute to a reality TV star occupying the White House for four years. Now we have people famous for just being famous.
this even happened. But since it did.. there has to be consequences.
As if Alopecia isn't hard enough.
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