 Hi, my name is Mitch Mitchell and this is going to be probably a very hard-hitting video But you know what? It just has to be said you know the Oscar nominations came out last week and I pretty much didn't expect to hear anything that I had seen or that I Knew about and whatever and I was pretty right and this isn't one of those grags about age Voltron and Star Wars making a lot of money. This is about the topic that has been going around lately talking about Oscars So white and you know, I can't be shocked by anything. I mean, how can I be shocked? This has been a pattern forever. Sure. There have been certain wins here and there but in general, you know minorities really don't get a fair shake and there are some people who are saying well No, they get a fair shake. They get to have their movies. They get shown. Yeah, right, right? You know, it's incredible how People who are not minorities think they can justify the reasons why minorities don't get nominated for things We're not even necessarily talking about wins, but rarely do they get nominated for things and in the scope of the numbers I mean you would think that there would be better opportunities now back in the early days, you know The 30s through the 50s maybe even mid 60s. Okay, there weren't a lot of minorities in movies So to expect there to be a lot who are nominated. Okay, that made no sense But look since 1980s since the 80s There have been tons of movies with minority actors or we'll say ethnic actors in American films who aren't really nominated who were basically overlooked and You know, you can make this a total thing about the Oscars. That's not just the Oscars. It's the Golden Globes It's the people's choice. So I'm gonna drop some knowledge on you here Just a little bit of knowledge and then we'll come back to some other points I have so let's look at the Academy Awards first. So The Academy Awards been around what 70 years 80 years something like that There have been four black male winners for for a best actor and there've been 18 nominated Sydney 48 93 of those times There's been five Latino men and there's only ever been one winner and the last one was in 1950 There's been two Asian men and there were actually three wins and the thing is you'll bring her and Ben Kingsley I didn't even know they were considered as Asian There was one black female winner for best actress out of ten nominated and one of those nominated happen to be nine years old Really? I mean, I'm not beating up on a nine-year-old, but there were no adult women who were qualified to be nominated There's been three Latino women nominated no winners. There was one Asian woman who was nominated ever and she won 1935 So let's look at best supporting Black males there's been four ever who have won and 15 nominated there have been four Latinos nominated and there were three wins and Anthony Quinn won two of them I didn't even know Anthony Quinn was considered Latino and there's been one Asian nominated and one winner So let's look at the female supporting actor There's been six black women who have been nominated or who have actually won and 19 nominated There are six Latino women who are nominated and two winners one of them who won a couple years ago playing a black woman in 12 years a slave turns out she was born in Mexico go figure There's been six Asian women who have been nominated and one winner the last winner was in 1957, but get this Meg and Jennifer Tilly I didn't know they were Asian. They're considered Asian. So they were two of the women who were nominated for this I thought that was kind of interesting So let's look at best director. There have been three black best director nominations no winners Spike Lee, are you kidding? He wasn't nominated for either Hurricane or Malcolm. Are you nuts really that that's that's the truth There have been six Latinos nominated and two winners and there were four Asians nominated and there have been two wins both of them by Ang Lee and They were actually pretty cool movies Let's look at music, you know, because people think that minorities really good at music There have been eight nominations for black people and no winners There are no winners for Asians. They weren't even nominations for So let's look at the black pictures nominated or pictures nominated There have been four black pictures nominated ever and there were one one winner Which was 12 years of slave sure had to be about slavery didn't it there have been Asian? Eight Asian best pictures no winners no Latino movies ever nominated So, you know, that's that's the pretty bad ratio, but that's just Oscars That's just the Academy Awards. Let's look at the people's choice of awards So the people choice awards I just did a big global thing because there's tons and tons of nominations and I just did it for this past year where there were 65 categories and Only five minority winners and one of those was for voice a voice over for cartoon Which is Selena Gomez who portrayed the daughter in Hotel Transylvania, which was a fun movie But really and then two of them were cable awards one for Kevin Hart and one for the rock Dwayne the rock You know, he gets a couple of different things, but you know, and that doesn't just like people I mean, we're just talking about minorities in general so five minorities out of 65 So now let's look at the Golden Globes really quick And Golden Globes are, you know, they're the pre Oscars and they have some breakdown in categories So you would think there'd be a better opportunity for minorities to do well here. Well, they're quite true in Drama the best-picture drama for men. There have been three winners ever and There's been 21 nominated but out of the 21 nominated Sydney Portier was nominated five times Denzel Washington was nominated six times in Will Smith three So there you go for black female There has been one winner ever and there's been eight nominated for comedy or musical You know, we got a lot of musicals two wins out of eight nominations For men one win and nine nominations for women for best director three times No winners best song. There's been five winners out of 23 nominations By the way, the Golden Globes go way back as well. So we're talking close to 60 years and for TV drama There were five men's nominations No winners eight women's nomination three winners and TV comedy four winners out of ten men and one win for Women out of eight nominations So, you know, you've got to sit there and say that this is not necessarily been all that balanced By the way, the only reason I mentioned black people on the last one is because I couldn't find any issues I couldn't find the right category to find any Asian folks or find any Latinos I'm sure there have been some but there's probably been minimal and you know, I Understand where this kind of comes from Where where folks have this thing where they say well, geez those things weren't really all that popular Yeah, they are you know what there are There are tons of minority movies out these days and a whole lot of folks who are in these movies who are minority And there have been some just stellar You know presentations and acting and all these other kinds of things and they don't get nominated But let's move outside of movies for a chance, you know for a second You know there was someone who busted on a friend of mine Because she you know made a comment on a story talking about the Oscars so white and he said well Geez, you got the BET and they never have any white people in it really really. That's the best you have I wonder why that is maybe because the only videos that ever get nominated for MTV Awards That are not under a black category are all white people. Maybe that's it Really, I mean notice the Grammys the Grammys at least have their different categories They have the Latino category and they have the jazz category and they have the rap category And you have they have of all these different categories that they move people in and out of so at least the Grammys are doing something like that But MTV Awards, no the VH1 video awards I'm gonna what I think I've ever only watched one so I can't say for sure But I've got a feeling that if it's that way for everything else then it probably is what it is now There's also there are Latino awards. There's a country music awards. There's a jazz music award There is the double awards for Christian music in essence There are groups of people who are separating themselves out from other stuff to be recognized because they can't get recognized by the big global, you know main one main award shows that end up on TV and You know I've been kind of carrying this little bug around with me ever since the whiz was on TV Y'all remember back I think it was December the one the whiz was on and it was wonderful the whiz was absolutely wonderful and I was following on Twitter and I was having a good time talking about other people And there were a couple people came in say how come there's no white people in the whiz how come it's got to be all black I'm thinking really let's see because there was a wizard of Oz that had no black people in it The sound of music which came on had no black people in it And by the way, there were some white people in the whiz if you looked at the big dance sequence when they had all the people out There so those people are white a couple of them were Latino at least I assume I don't you know I'm making a distinction. They could have just been white. I don't know but there were other people in that show What is it? You got to have everything you can't differentiate and allow Some people who are not quite To basically show what they can do really that's the best you got And I remember the complaints used to be about black history month And there's probably still a few people out there where we have to learn something about black history month because you got the other 11 months Are you kidding come on when I went to school way back when there was no black history month You know who talked about black history Years truly I was called the militant because I was only one who knew anything about black history and in 11th grade I actually got to teach a week of black history at my high school Which was really freaky and none of the people knew any of that stuff Some of them had heard the name Martin Luther King, Jr. But that's pretty much it and can you imagine a 16 year old teaching a class? I did that and you know what else? I also taught two classes About Native American history back then we didn't call Native Americans But still because I've got some of that in me as well So I just happen to know something that no one else knew because regular school traditional school does not teach Anything about minorities. Okay slavery really? That's all we get right with the King, Jr. Okay, that's significant. What else you got? Nothing, you know, I mean come on people Let's not be so petty that you got to have everything let some minorities enjoy some of these things, you know Or not I think Jada Pinkett had a video that she put out the other day and she said, you know As long as we keep depending on the powers that be to recognize us We're never going to get anything done. So we need to start recognizing ourselves. You know what she's absolutely right So this one of the reasons I put out my own videos is one of the reasons I write my five blogs. Yeah, I get five blogs Because I'm not waiting around for someone else to write stuff about me Yes, do I want to be named? I sure do. Do I want to be mentioned? I sure do Do I want to get on the top 50 blogger lists and the top 25 blogger lists and leadership lists? All those other kind of things I sure do But am I going to sit around waiting to be nominated for something and recognize for something before I do anything? Absolutely not. No, you can't wait for you and if I have to basically, you know Go to a conference that they call blogger of the I think it's called the blogging while brown conference Which is mainly black people. Why because nobody recognizes them You know, there was a thing that came out last week. They talked about the top 50 bloggers Not a single black person on it. There are a couple of Asian people a couple of Indian people Wonderful happy for that. Not a single black person. You know what I've been blogging 10 years I got five blogs. I got 5 000 articles online. Nobody knows who I am But I'm not necessarily worried about me. Um, at least actually most of the time we get Eileen Smith At least we got one. So, you know every once in a while not always. Well, at least we got our one Uh, but still That's just not right. It's just not going to get it done. So anyway, this is my perspective on this there just needs to be some fairness And I knew years ago. I made a commentary on something and the lady says, well, I don't know any black people So that's the point. You need to know some. Are you kidding? There's not a black person in this country who doesn't know a white person But there are white people who don't know any black people It's all I got to say Anyway, this is my rant. This was not the video I was going to put up But it's the video that needed to be put up. Maybe next week. I won't be ranting about anything. Let's find out Anyway, I'm Mitch Mitchell. Go ahead. Leave your opinion. Keep it nice because you know if it's nasty or whatever It's just going to go away. So don't even waste your time being a troll and we'll see what happens. Y'all take care