{"id":9015,"date":"2016-02-28T14:10:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T20:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/music.sportsinnercity.com\/?p=9015"},"modified":"2016-02-28T14:10:13","modified_gmt":"2016-02-28T20:10:13","slug":"refuse-to-watch-the-oscars-until-they-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/?p=9015","title":{"rendered":"Refuse To Watch The Oscars Until They Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;One Man&#8217;s Opinion&#8221; by Gordon Curvey<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/music.sportsinnercity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Oscars-logo.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-9017\" alt=\"Oscars-logo\" src=\"http:\/\/music.sportsinnercity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Oscars-logo.jpg\" width=\"398\" height=\"398\" \/><\/a>First of all I want to thank you for your support in coming here to &#8220;M.I.C News Magazine&#8221;. If you know me I am not afraid to voice my views on certain topics that bother me. Others are scared. I am not ladies and gentlemen.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things I want to voice my concerns about is the Oscars. For two years in a row the Oscars has a grand total of zero African American nominees. Let me repeat. Zero nominees. How on earth can this happen two years in row? What is Hollywood thinking?<\/p>\n<p>This is a severe problem that needs to be changed right now. Not next week or next month. Now.<\/p>\n<p>I truly think Chris Rock should have stepped down and not host the Oscars this years. He should have taken a strong stand to tell the Oscars he would not be used. Many others asked Rock to step down but he did not.<\/p>\n<p>Of course some will not attend the Oscar ceremony because of the total lack of diversity. People like Jada and Will Smith, director Spike Lee and others will stay home. I do not think they will even watch just like I refuse to do. I think African Americans just not watch the Oscars on TV to take a strong stand. Also do not support businesses who runs advertisements on the telecast.<\/p>\n<p>Rock has called Hollywood &#8220;a white industry&#8221; in 2014. And he is telling the truth. I do not care how many African American presenters will be handing out Oscars because none of people obtaining Oscars will be African American. Give me a break readers.<\/p>\n<p>I watched local TV outlet KOMO last night, a outlet that broadcasts the Oscars, and the news hosts say they could not wait for the Oscars well that&#8217;s their feelings because it is not mine and many others who feel the lack of African American nominees for two years in a row is a flat out severe problem. How can they say that readers?<\/p>\n<p>Myself and many others will not be watching the Oscars. I am going to watch the red carpet interviews on E Online with Ryan Seacrest to see how many African Americans Ryan will interview. Then I will watch what Rock will say about the huge diversity problem at the start of the program then I am getting my remote and turn the Oscars off. If you feel the way I do, I hope you why not or did not watch the Oscars. It is time for Hollywood to wake up!!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;One Man&#8217;s Opinion&#8221; by Gordon Curvey First of all I want to thank you for your support in coming here to &#8220;M.I.C News Magazine&#8221;. If you know me I am not afraid to voice my views on certain topics that bother me. Others are scared. I am not ladies and gentlemen. One of the things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-much-more","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9015"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/musicinnercity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}