Oscars 2016: Chris Rock Opening Monologue Was All About The OscarsSoWhite Controversy

Mar 02, 2016, 18:56
Oscars 2016: Chris Rock Opening Monologue Was All About The OscarsSoWhite Controversy

Still, Rock had to try, and it's worth noting that, after the monologue, Rock stopped trying to relate to the white audience and began trolling them, most obviously with the Stacey Dash cameo.

His big win was arguably one of the most exciting moments of the night with fans and celebrities alike taking to Twitter to congratulate the star for finally being recognized. "Jada boycotting the Oscars is like me boycotting Rihanna's panties", joked Rock.

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The Spotlight team, which won the first and last prizes of the night Best Original Screenplay and Best Picture and nothing else, celebrated the Pulitzer Prize-winning work of The Boston Globe journalists who exposed sex abuses in the Roman Catholic Church and the conversation the film has renewed around the world.

Yet Rock also underlined the senselessness of boycotts when he pointed out that if he had resigned as host, the Oscars would have gone on anyway (and would have very easily found another black person to host).

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How Not to Get Your Ass Kicked by the Oscars? Instead he coined a useful phrase that deftly captured the combination of clubbiness and condescension that rules the Academy: "Hollywood is sorority racist".

Dunn remained sporting about the whole thing. What can I say, except that I'm really grateful? That was perhaps the best example of our pop cultural divide the evening had to provide: Black people were amazed at the audacity of having a Fox News contributor who had recently called for the eradication of Black History Month given a global stage, and white people all blinked and looked confused. "Because we had real things to protest at the time", he said.

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The Smiths may not be the last people on earth with genuine cause to complain about anything, but they're pretty close. Julianne Moore, John Legend, Kate Winslet, Lou Gossett Jr., Olivia Wilde, Matt Damon and even the Vice President of the United States were among those who joined forces to make sure Rock could reign victorious.

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