He thinks Hollywood has a white guilt problem, naturally.
Via Breitbart:
David Oyelowo, the actor who portrayed Martin Luther King Jr. in the historical film “Selma,” blasted the Motion Picture Academy Sunday for awarding black actors with Oscars “more for when we are subservient, when we are not being leaders or kings or being at the center of our own narrative.”
Oyelowo said, “No, look, historically — this is truly my feeling, I felt this before the situation we’re talking about and I feel it now — generally speaking, we, as black people, have been celebrated more for when we are subservient, when we are not being leaders or kings or being at the center of our own narrative.”
As evidence, Oyelowo argued that “Denzel Washington should have won for playing Malcolm X” and that Sidney Poitier should have won his Oscar for In the Heat of the Night rather than Lilies of the Field. “So this bears out what I’m saying,” the actor continued, “which is we’ve just got to come to the point whereby there isn’t a self-fulfilling prophecy — a notion of who black people are — that feeds into what we are celebrated as, not just in the Academy, but in life generally. We have been slaves, we have been domestic servants, we have been criminals, we have been all of those things. But we have been leaders, we have been kings, we have been those who changed the world.”
Oyelowo was not nominated for his portrayal of King in “Selma,” a move that caused an uproar among anti-science Leftists.