Has a black person who wasn't a slave, criminal or c00n gotten an Oscar before?

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Louis Gossett Jr. - An Officer & A Gentlemen
Cuba Gooding Jr. - Jerry Maguire
Jamie Foxx - Ray
Whoopi Goldberg - Ghost
Morgan Freeman - Million Dollar Baby
Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls

None of those roles have anything to do with slavery, being a criminal, or being a slave.

Whoopie Goldberg was a conartist in ghost.

Then you got thethe usual niche sports stars and singers
 

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:yeshrug: blacks need to stop supporting this fukkery. i haven't been to the movies in years. i dont watch tv/ award shows.

blacks keep financially supporting this bullshyt, then get mad when they play us.
 

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Whoopie Goldberg was a conartist in ghost.

Then you got thethe usual niche sports stars and singers

I thought Whoopi played a fortuneteller in "Ghost." Then again, fortunetellers are con-artists in general. Nevertheless, her character wasn't a villain in the movie.

Gossett Jr. played an army drill sergeant, and Morgan Freeman played a gym assistant in the roles they won Oscars for.

I don't mind actors playing singers and athletes, especially because those roles are not necessarily stereotypical. The very year after Jamie Foxx won an Oscar for "Ray," Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon were nominated and won Oscars for "Walk The Line," the Johnny Cash story. A few years after "Dreamgirls," actors won awards for singing and dancing in "Les Miserables." So, those role aren't stereotypical or negative.

It doesn't really matter anyway.
 

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I thought Whoopi played a fortuneteller in "Ghost." Then again, fortunetellers are con-artists in general. Nevertheless, her character wasn't a villain in the movie.

Gossett Jr. played an army drill sergeant, and Morgan Freeman played a gym assistant in the roles they won Oscars for.

I don't mind actors playing singers and athletes, especially because those roles are not necessarily stereotypical. The very year after Jamie Foxx won an Oscar for "Ray," Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon were nominated and won Oscars for "Walk The Line," the Johnny Cash story. A few years after "Dreamgirls," actors won awards for singing and dancing in "Les Miserables." So, those role aren't stereotypical or negative.

It doesn't really matter anyway.
Black people playing entertainers is not stereotypical?

That's basically our niche in society.

Musicians, sport stars, comedians, criminals.

And yh whoopie was a con artist in the film.

It is what it is

Stay woke
 

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Nope. We have always had the ball in our hands to stop him. That's just cac doctrine or what ever to keep us waiting. Like we wait for jesus. At any moment we can end his rule with uncompromising unity and purpose for our and only our prosperity. Starting with your own immediate family. Families doing work automatically forms the community to form the unity necessary.

you cant save the community but you can save your family. Wish more people would think like this instead of acting like helpless victims
 

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Black people playing entertainers is not stereotypical?

In the cases of those particular films, no. There is nothing negative about any of the roles I listed, and I gave you examples of non-black actors playing similar roles in other films and getting similar recognition.

And whoopie was a con artist in the film.

It is what it is

Stay woke

Whoopi was a fortuneteller and a psychic. Her character wasn't a criminal or a villain, nor was she associated with negativity in that film.

I'm already wide awake, thank you.
 
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