Spike Lee Boycotts Oscars, Compares Himself to Martin Luther King, Jr.

Breitbart
Jan. 19, 2016

Spike Lee will boycott this year's Academy Awards after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominated exclusively white actors in top categories for a second consecutive year.

In an Instagram post Monday morning, the Chi-Raq director said he meant "no disrespect" toward ceremony host Chris Rock and Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs, but felt compelled to act after seeing this year's nominations.

"How is it possible for the second consecutive year all 20 contenders under the acting category are white?" Lee wrote in a lengthy post. "And let's not even get into the other branches. Forty white actors in two years and flava at all. We can't act?! WTF!!"

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