Spike Lee Not Going To Oscars
Most years, this announcement might not matter. But Lee has just won an honorary Oscar and so there was an expectation that he’d attend the main ceremony on February 28th. Not gonna happen. Lee is fed up with the lack of non-white nominees. Read Lee’s statement here. Jada Pinkett Smith is suggesting a wider boycott. This year’s host, Chris Rock, has already been poking fun at the whiteness of the affair, but there’s something almost as tired about poking fun about the whiteness as there is about its existence in the first place.
