LA Times Calls The No-White-People NAACP Image Awards ‘The Most Diverse Awards Show’

   Brian Anderson

             

LA Times Calls The No-White-People NAACP Image Awards ‘The Most Diverse Awards Show’

  As we know, racism is a one-way street: if a white person says or does something it is racist but if a black person says or does the exact same thing or something similar it is not racist. As it turns out, diversity follows the same traffic laws: if something has too many white people it lacks diversity but if it has almost all black people it is diverse. Case and point: the NAACP Image Awards. The mostly black and nearly no white awards are being hailed by the LA Times as the most diverse awards show of the year.

In response to the lack of black actor nominations in this year’s Academy Awards, the ultra-liberal LA Times struck back by proclaiming:
NAACP Image Awards set to be most diverse awards show of the season
And in case you weren’t sure what they were talking about, they said it again:

As the NAACP Image Awards presentation gears up for a live broadcast on Friday, its red carpet, audience and winners list look to be the most diverse of the awards-show season.

According to the website, the NAACP Image Awards is…

…the nation’s preeminent multicultural awards show from an African-American point of view. The event celebrates the outstanding achievements and performances of people of color in the arts, as well as those individuals or groups who promote social justice through their creative endeavors.

   Despite that “multicultural” designation, the Image Awards are primarily for black people. So, the question is, why does the LA Times call this black thing a diverse event? Well, because 1 Latina and 1 Asian have been nominated for something. You get that? An Asian, a Latina, and a bunch of black people equals diversity.
   I checked out the TV acting nominees and the only non-black nods went to Gina Rodriguez from Jane The Virgin and Hudson Yang from Fresh Off The Boat. Out of 65 possible acting nominations, two went to non-blacks and none at all for whites. As for the film acting nominees, all 20 went to black actors. How’s that for diversity?
   While the Oscars this year have no black nominees, it’s not like the Academy Awards are exclusively for white people. Blacks have been nominated and even won in the past. It’s based on talent and performance rather than race. The Image Awards, on the other hand, is almost exclusively for blacks and not based on talent or performance, but rather race. Somehow in this scenario the Oscars are racist and the Image Awards are empowering.
   When black celebrities say they are boycotting the Oscars not because of race, but rather due to fairness and inclusion, I wonder what they think about the Image Awards. If Will Smith and his untalented wife had any integrity, they would skip the NAACP awards show as well.
As a white guy that believes equality is achieved when everyone is treated equally, this doesn’t make a lot of sense to me, but I think I’m starting to come around: Yesterday’s NHL All-Star game was not diverse because it was mostly white players but the NBA All-Star game with its all-black starting line-up is incredibly diverse. See, everything makes sense when you abandon logic.