The Oscar Academy tried to pay reparations for white people last year by giving the best picture award to “Twelve Years a Slave,” but as they’re learning this year, it’s not a one-year project, you have to pay the racebaiting pied piper every year!
oscars r racist trash this yr (more thn usual anyway), the only possible good that can happen is selma winning BP & that wont happen
— emily (@gorgeoushag) February 22, 2015
#13: Selma won’t win anything, as it's only in two tough categories, and because @TheAcademy is a racist hive of scum and villainy #Oscars
— Hitsville U.K. (@wearehitsville) February 22, 2015
It makes me sad that just because no actors from Selma are nommed, the academy is racist, when many Italians, Mexicans and others are nommed
— Barbie Woods (@katie_m_elliott) February 22, 2015
It's okay to recognize films featuring people of color as slaves but not as leaders. #selma #OscarsSoWhite
— Maggie (Taylor's Version) (@maggeygrace) February 23, 2015
I'm serious. The Oscars will not get my view Sunday. They can forever go to hell. #Selma #OscarsSoWhite and never love for women either smh.
— II Most Wanted #1 Fan (@MixMalikMarvel) February 20, 2015
Others fought back against the idea that the only reason Selma could lose is because of racism:
It's not racist to say "Selma" was barely good enough to be a made for Television flick. #Oscars
— Steven Aeons (@StevenAeons) February 22, 2015
It’s always raaaaacism! It can’t be that “Selma” just isn’t a good movie, and if it isn’t, the Oscars need affirmative action for all the slavery movies it produced! Darn it.