Lee fabricated the advertisement on his Instagram annual aboriginal Monday. Endure week, #OscarsSoWhite trended on amusing media for the additional beeline year afterwards it was appear all 20 acting nominees up for Academy Awards in 2016 are white.
"We cannot abutment it and beggarly no boldness to my friends, host Chris Rock and ambassador Reggie Hudlin, admiral Isaacs and the Academy," Lee wrote. "But, how is it accessible for the additional after year all 20 contenders beneath the acting class are white? And let's not even get into the added branches. Forty white actors in two years and no flava at all. We can't act?! WTF!!"
Lee wrote that it was "no coincidence" his letter was acquaint on the civic anniversary to bless the altogether of Martin Luther King Jr.
"Dr. King said, 'There comes a time if one accept to yield a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he accept to yield it because censor tells him it's right,'" Lee wrote. "For too abounding years, if the Oscar nominations are revealed, my appointment buzz rings off the angle with the media allurement me my assessment about the abridgement of African-Americans and this year was no different. For already (maybe), I would like the media to ask all the white nominees and flat active how they feel about addition all-white ballot. If anyone has addressed this and I absent it again I angle mistaken."
But admitting the altercation over the Oscars, Lee acclaimed that the "'real' battle" is in "the controlling offices of the Hollywood studios and TV and cable networks," as those positions accept the ability to get projects made. Lee quoted Hamilton in his letter, accurately the song "In the Room Where It Happens," which is performed by Leslie Odom Jr., who plays Aaron Burr.
"People, the accuracy is we ain't in those rooms, and until minorities are, the Oscar nominees will abide lilly white," Lee wrote. He again cited his own accepting accent from endure year's Governors Awards. "It's easier for an African-American to be Admiral Of The United States than be admiral of a Hollywood studio."
According to Lee, a band-aid to the assortment affair could be begin via practices activated by the Civic Football League, accurately the Rooney Rule. Enacted in 2003, the Rooney Rule requires every NFL aggregation to account at atomic one boyhood applicant for arch drillmaster openings and added chief positions.
"Why can't Hollywood do the same? It's account the accomplishment or it will be the aforementioned old hi-jinks," Lee wrote. "I do achievement in my children's lifetime things will change for the advancement of all Americans. A abundant assorted America."
At the Governors Awards in November, Lee fabricated agnate comments, and acclaimed how U.S. demography date showed that by 2043, "white Americans are traveling to be a boyhood in this country."
"Everybody in actuality apparently voted for Obama, but if I go to offices, I see no atramentous association except for the brother man at the aegis who checks my name off the account as I go into the studio," Lee said. "So we can talk, 'yada yada yada,' but we charge to accept some austere altercation about assortment and get some acidity up in this."
Lee is one of a amount of arresting atramentous filmmakers and stars who accept announced out about this year's Oscar nominations, including Beeline Outta Compton ambassador Will Packer and extra Jada Pinkett Smith.
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