Hollywood Race Equality

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Roxane Gay, the author of this article, believes that Hollywood has a race equality issue. Also, she believes that the Oscars has a race equality issue.The opinions in this article are something I do not agree with. Roxane Gay shows a well thought out argument but she does not have a lot of hard evidence to show a true race equality problem. Leading me to not agree with her, on the topic of the Oscars having a race equality issue. I believe that whoever is deserving of a Oscar will win one, or be nominated for one. Actors and actress should be nominated for an Oscar based on how well they perform their role in the movie, not by the color of there skin.
The nominations for the Oscars this year were mainly caucasians. This is because they played …show more content…

This is the only job for the Board of Governors to do, decide who should win a Oscar. People can say that this not a good way to do the nominations, and that there should be no board. Within this article, Roxane Gay talks about a new rule that is going to be set for the board members. This new rule for the board member could help to get a fresh set of eyes on the Oscar nominations. This, in my opinion, will not change the amount of non colored people getting nominations for the Oscars. I believe this because by having just a fresh set of eyes does not mean there will be different opinions on who is the best actor or actress, these opinions could stay the same. The reason why these opinions could stay the same is because the board right now is nominating the best and that is what the new board would also do. Once there are more colored actors and actress there will be more people of color winning an Oscars and more getting nominated for Oscars. As of right now though there are very few strong colored actors and actress, and this is why actors and actress of non color are getting more Oscar nominations. Actors and actress of color will get more Oscar nominations when there are more actors and actress of color, right now there are larger amounts of actors and actress of non color, which is overpowering the actors and actress of

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