ACADEMY TAKES HISTORIC ACTION TO INCREASE DIVERSITY????????????

 The headlines read:

ACADEMY TAKES HISTORIC ACTION TO INCREASE DIVERSITY

Let's compare the promise to overhaul the Academy with what is actually being proposed by crunching a few numbers;

Let's start at the top -

The board of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences is overwhelmingly white and male 

The board of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is almost entirely Caucasian — and an overwhelming majority of the board is white men, a Daily News survey of the iconic organization found.

The only exceptions are board president Cheryl Boone Isaacs — the lone woman of color — and board member cinematographer Daryn Okada, the only minority male.

The 52-member board breaks down this way:

37 white men

13 white women

1 black woman


1 Asian man.

That’s 96.1% white and 71% white male.



Then, there's the Academy;



Last year, the Los Angeles Times revealed that the Academy as a whole is 76% male and 94% white.

 

 In Hollywood, “prestige” still means white: Academy scrambles to fix ongoing Oscar diversity problem — but this goes deeper than voting rules 



For a long time, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has had a problem: Its membership has been older, whiter, and more male than the nation and the film audience as a whole. In recent years, this has gone from being something people had a vague sense of to an inescapable fact. And this year, that fact caught fire, and the #OscarsSoWhite movement has become a cultural adjunct to #BlackLivesMatter.

But what does the Academy do now, as protests, frustrations, and boycotts mount over the all-white acting slate for this year’s awards? A New York Times story describes what might be in store:
The "promise" is to double the number of minorities by 2020 which would look like this;









In 2020 the 52-member board breaks down this way:

35 white men

13 white women

2 black woman


2 Asian man.

That’s 96.1% white and 71% white male.



And the Academy which today is 94% white and 76% male would look like this ;



If, in 2020, you doubled the minority representation by adding 24% more females and 6% more minorities it would add up to 52% male and 88% white. Hardly historic.

Oscar's Diversity Crisis: What The Academy Should, Could & Shouldn't Do

BOYCOT! OSCAR IS A MIDDLE-AGED WHITE MAN!

In Hollywood, “prestige” still means white: Academy scrambles to fix ongoing Oscar diversity problem — but this goes deeper than voting rules

For a long time, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has had a problem: Its membership has been older, whiter, and more male than the nation and the film audience as a whole. In recent years, this has gone from being something people had a vague sense of to an inescapable fact. And this year, that fact caught fire, and the #OscarsSoWhite movement has become a cultural adjunct to #BlackLivesMatter.

1927 -2016 Academy on Oscars Controversy:179 Years of racism in the ranks

This institution was created in 1927 and it's taken 179 years for them to come to the conclusion that something needs to be done about the racism that thrives in their ranks. 





Academy President On Oscars Diversity Controversy: "We need to do more, and better and more quickly."


Isaacs’ full statement is below.
I’d like to acknowledge the wonderful work of this year’s nominees. While we celebrate their extraordinary achievements, I am both heartbroken and frustrated about the lack of inclusion. This is a difficult but important conversation, and it’s time for big changes. The Academy is taking dramatic steps to alter the makeup of our membership. In the coming days and weeks we will conduct a review of our membership recruitment in order to bring about much-needed diversity in our 2016 class and beyond.

As many of you know, we have implemented changes to diversify our membership in the last four years. But the change is not coming as fast as we would like. We need to do more, and better and more quickly.

This isn’t unprecedented for the Academy. In the ‘60s and ‘70s it was about recruiting younger members to stay vital and relevant. In 2016, the mandate is inclusion in all of its facets: gender, race, ethnicity and sexual orientation. We recognize the very real concerns of our community, and I so appreciate all of you who have reached out to me in our effort to move forward together.

WHY ELECT BERNIE SANDERS FOR PRESIDENT?

Bernie Sanders is a "democratic socialist" while those who oppose him are nothing other than "capitalistic socialists"

He would end the following examples of corporate welfare which is nothing more than socialism for the rich!

The US can't pay for social programs for the rest of America as long as it keeps giving tens of billions of tax breaks to massive mega corporations and subsidies to already established and profitable sectors.

 http://obrag.org/?p=65977

 

That's Socialism for The Rich, and Capitalism for everyone else.

1) Exxon Mobil made $19 billion in profits in 2009. Exxon not only paid no federal income taxes, it actually received a $156 million rebate from the IRS, according to its SEC filings.

2) Bank of America received a $1.9 billion tax refund from the IRS last year, although it made $4.4 billion in profits and received a bailout from the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department of nearly $1 trillion.

3) Over the past five years, while General Electric made $26 billion in profits in the United States, it received a $4.1 billion refund from the IRS.

4) Chevron received a $19 million refund from the IRS last year after it made $10 billion in profits in 2009.

5) Boeing, which received a $30 billion contract from the Pentagon to build 179 airborne tankers, got a $124 million refund from the IRS last year.

6) Valero Energy, the 25th largest company in America with $68 billion in sales last year received a $157 million tax refund check from the IRS and, over the past three years, it received a $134 million tax break from the oil and gas manufacturing tax deduction.

7) Goldman Sachs in 2008 only paid 1.1 percent of its income in taxes even though it earned a profit of $2.3 billion and received an almost $800 billion from the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury Department

8) Citigroup last year made more than $4 billion in profits but paid no federal income taxes. It received a $2.5 trillion bailout from the Federal Reserve and U.S. Treasury

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9) ConocoPhillips, the fifth largest oil company in the United States, made $16 billion in profits from 2007 through 2009, but received $451 million in tax breaks through the oil and gas manufacturing deduction.

10) Over the past five years, Carnival Cruise Lines made more than $11 billion in profits, but its federal income tax rate during those years was just 1.1 percent.

And then there's subsidies; 

Fossil Fuel Subsidies: Overview - Oil Change International

 

Even the Oil industry gets ~$38 billion in subsidies yearly. Oil, this is. Not Alternative Energy.

Then there is the military spending,  

 

GOLDMAN SACHS - CITI BANK BAIL OUT CRUZ

Looks like Ted Cruz had so little grass roots support in his 2012 run for the US Senate he needed the "big banks" to bail him out.



Politicians that can't garner enough financial support from those that vote for them should not be elected to public office especially when it comes to  these "by my own boot straps" ranters like Cruz. Needing banks to "finance" your campaign starts out smelling rotten and the stink just gets worse as they go on to get elected.

Ted Cruz Didn’t Report Goldman Sachs Loan in a Senate Race

Reports show that in the critical weeks before the May 2012Republican primary, Mr. Cruz — currently a leading contender for his party’s presidential nomination — put “personal funds” totaling $960,000 into his Senate campaign. Two months later, shortly before a scheduled runoff election, he added more, bringing the total to $1.2 million — “which is all we had saved,” as Mr. Cruz described it in an interview with The New York Times several years ago.

ONE VERY GOOD REASON NOT TO OWN A GUN

I know! I know! It's the person, not the gun.



But then, imagine if this poor guy didn't own one. One less gun would have prevented one less tragic and preventable death.



Cincinnati man shoots 14-year-old son dead after teen unexpectedly returns after leaving for school

SANDERS-WARREN 2016