(CelebNMusic247-News) Jamie Foxx Stirs The Pot at NAACP Awards
Django Unchained star Jamie Foxx is again facing a backlash for making a controversial, racially charged remark during an NAACP awards ceremony.
As Whoopi Goldberg states, Jamie was only trying to encourage Black people at the NAACP Awards, because Oscars never seems to recognize talented Black actors no matter how good their performance is.
Jamie accepted the Entertainer of the Year Award during the Feb. 1 ceremony, he praised other luminaries such as Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier, saying that he was humbled by the amazing people he shared the stage with.
But when Foxx made the comment, “Black people are the most talented people in the world. I, it’s, I can’t explain it.”
“You can’t sit in this room and not watch Gladys Knight sing and go like, “Golly, what in the world?'” drawing the ire of conservative critics who took offense to what they considered a racist remark.
NewsBusters quickly put writer Noel Sheppard on BLAST for criticizing Jamie Foxx for what he lambasted as a ‘really stupid’ remark.
Sheppard wrote:
“Can you imagine the heat a white actor would get if he said at a nationally televised awards ceremony, ‘White people are the most talented people in the world?”
“Probably be the end of his or her career.”
While sites like Red Alert Politics, which caters to young conservatives, described the comment as a ‘backhanded’ criticism of ‘performers of all other races.’
In interviews after the release of the film, in which he is attempting to rescue his wife from a cruel slave owner played by Leonardo DiCaprio, Foxx said he expected the movie would provoke strong reactions from the black community and he revealed how ‘every single thing in my life is built around race.’
He said that black people are ‘always sensitive’ about race and often see everything through a racial prism. ‘As a black person it’s always racial,’ he reportedly said, according to the Daily News.
He said:
“I don’t necessarily speak it because you can’t.”
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