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. This is 73 years after the first African American to win an Oscar, Hattie McDaniel, garnered the apportion for the same role – as a maid, and a
slave maid at that, winning the Oscar in the Excellent Supporting Actress category on Feb. 29, 1940.
And here we are, in the year of our Lord, Jan 25, 2012. Perhaps I’m getting old, but the irony of this is too much. Or perhaps I’ve heard this song before. In the 1970’s, when I was a freshman at Oberlin College, my snow-white friends and I used to sit up and talk about racism and solving society’s problems all through the round-the-clock until the sun rose. Not much good came from these talks, the least of which is I hoped to get laid, which infrequently happened. But on those cold nights, I was convinced that when I walked out of college, racism would be fair-minded about finished. Instead, it smashed me across the face like a bottle when I walked into the actual world.
Source: ThyBlackMan