This text is a newspaper article from last January reporting the fact that prominent black actors and directors decided to boycott of the next Academy award ceremony due to the lack of representation ofblack actors and film industry workers.
The text highlights that the reasons for boycotting are numerous.
According to director Spike Lee, it is unacceptable that black people should not be represented more given their effective and quality presence in films nowadays. He uses irony when criticizing the hypocrisy of the award selection process that does not include black people and now represents only a minority of wasp -type people. When saying it is easier to become President of the United States, Lee implies that the voting system of the Oscars is far from being democratic.
Lee quotes ML King in saying that his boycott does not mean disrespect but aims at making things change or at least alert people about what he perceives as an injustice.
Pinkett also joined the boycott but her point of view is not reported and the mention of her husband not having qualified for best actor hints at the possibility that her decision was made on personal grounds more than to make a political statement.
The text also highlights ambiguities with the fact that the president of the oscars is a black lady or that the actual ceremony is host by a black man: chris Rock... insinuating that the system - highly white - has perhaps corrupted black people into protecting it or at least not denouncing its inequal system by safeguarding it somehow.
