Looks like Sharpton has been talkin’ to this dude a little too much.
Via Newsbusters:
Last week, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences released their nominations for the 87th Academy Awards and many have criticized the academy for shutting out the film “Selma” from the four biggest acting categories.
With the so-called controversy over the film’s lack of nominations continuing, on Sunday, CNN’s Reliable Sources brought on actor Gbenga Akinnagbe, star of HBO’s “The Wire” and Fox’s “24″ to slam Hollywood as lacking diversity. Akinnagbe argued that Hollywood is “very similar to Congress. We get these rules and regulations that benefit one class because we have a Congress full of millionaires. That’s pretty much how Hollywood tends to work.”
The segment began with CNN’s Brian Stelter noting “the startling lack of diversity in the Academy itself. Look at the stats here, 94 percent Caucasian, 77 percent male. Black makes up about 2 percent of the Academy voters, Latinos less than 2 percent, and Oscar voters have a median age of 62.”