Academy Award Nominated Director Lee Daniels Slams #OscarsSoWhite

"Go out and do the work."

12.29.2016

Almost one year after the #OscarsSoWhite controversy raged across social media with SJW's whining about minority absence in the 2015 Academy Award acting categories, black filmmaker Lee Daniels, previously nominated for Precious, has denounced the movement as a lazy ploy for cheap recognition.

In an interview with The New York Times, Daniels excoriated the hashtag's proponents as self-serving whiners in need of a lesson in hard work.

"Go out and do the work. Oscars so white! So what? . . . Do your work," he said. "Let your legacy speak and stop complaining, man. Are we really in this for the awards?"

"If I had thought that way — that the world was against me — I wouldn’t be here now," he continued. "These whiny people that think we’re owed something are incomprehensible and reprehensible to me. I don’t expect acknowledgment or acceptance from white America. I’m going to be me."

Daniels, aged 57, said these words of wisdom with a modicum, perhaps even surplus, of memory of a far more racist America, where blacks couldn't even step into a movie theater without getting harassed. The #OscarsSoWhite controversy received its biggest push from pampered millennials, who think that innocent movies like A Christmas Story somehowcarry undertones of racial animus.