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    cdwag14Peter J. Rickards
    2/25/19 2:41pm

    The savaging that Green Book took on Twitter last night made me so happy. Words of advice to the collection of smug ass white men that gave this award to the film that shall not be named, when the family of the subject of the film shits all over it you may not want to award it Best Picture. Just my opinion.

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      Old white guycdwag14
      2/25/19 4:30pm

      Just to point out, yo named the movie that shall not be named 

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    whatamithinkingPeter J. Rickards
    2/25/19 3:57pm

    Spike is not one to bite his tongue and that’s why i’m a big fan. Yet i’m not surprised Green Book won; Hollywood has this nasty habit of rewarding and playing games with black folk and our history.

    “the collection of smug ass white men that gave this award to the film...” My gut says there were a couple of black assimilationists who voted for Green Book too, precisely for its kumbaya-ish approach to race.

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      Not Enough Day Drinkingwhatamithinking
      2/25/19 6:47pm

      Do The Right Thing would’ve been Oscar eligible in 1990. What film won best picture that year? Driving Miss Daisy.

      So it’s not shocking that 30 years later, you’ve got 2 films with ‘black’ right in the name that lose to a film about race written by a white guy, even when the two ‘black’ films were far more successful and were far better received better by both critics and audiences.

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    JadePeter J. Rickards
    2/26/19 12:53am

    Yup, it was ‘Driving Miss Daisy 2.0'.

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    Tall Glass Of CakePeter J. Rickards
    2/25/19 3:55pm

    You couldn't pay me to watch fucking Green Book. Hardest pass this year.

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    Old white guyPeter J. Rickards
    2/25/19 4:37pm

    I haven’t seen thE flick, it isn’t that movie the story of a white man who overcomes his own racism to see that not all black people are bad?

    I’m shocked it beat song of the south, no,... what was that movie, lady sings the blues? No, white girl overcomes to sing. Star is born, yeah, that one, because that was like La la land, the kind of movie white Oscar voters love. Maybe they were showing their inclusion by picking a movie that kind of dealt with racism.

    But we are talking about the institution that, on spike lees first movie, found a way to give an Oscar to like the only white person in it. 

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    moufPeter J. Rickards
    2/25/19 5:01pm

    I thought Spike Lee joints were good until I was old enough to realize that good films were - not tricking me again, nope.

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    Trent100Peter J. Rickards
    2/25/19 3:30pm

    I have to agree with him on Green Book ,it was an ok Driving Mr Daisy film ,but far from best of the year.

    Black Klansman was however just ok itself .

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