Only at the Media Research Center could Chris Rock’s monologue at the Oscars hitting on how no black actors were nominated for major awards and Hollywood’s genteel racism could be nothing but “racism” and “race jokes.” Behold Alexa Moutevelis Coombs’ NewsBusters rant on the subject:
Comedian Chris Rock was under a lot of pressure to “speak truth to power” in his second turn as host of the 88th Annual Academy Awards. The lack of black actors and actresses nominated has dominated Oscar coverage again this year, with pledges from Will and Jada Pinkett Smith and Spike Lee to boycott and the Academy to change the racial makeup of its members. Rock reportedly even rewrote his opening monologue after the Oscar nominations were revealed in mid-January and the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag started trending. So you pretty much knew Chris Rock would be out with some hard-hitting racial jokes he’s known for. But who knew that pretty much the entire 10 minute monologue would be solely dedicated to race jokes?
Update: Chris Rock ended the Oscars broadcast by shouting, “Black Lives Matter!” Racism from beginning to end.
Yeah, she really wrote that.