Faizon Love has granted an exclusive interview to Vladtv and trashed the Oscars calling it some “cornball sh**.” He also touched on Jada Pinkett telling black people to boycott the Oscars but not when Will Smith got nominated.
Faizon Love started off speaking about Will Smith’s Oscar nomination, and he spoke about why he thinks the Oscars are some “cornball sh**.”
Faizon then reacted to Jada and Will boycotting the Oscars in the past, and Jada also asking Chris Rock to step down as host in 2016. Faizon then reacted to Will and Jada changing their minds after Will’s nomination.
Faizon is not lying, this was Jada back in 2016.
Calmly and coolly on Monday, Jada Pinkett Smith took the opportunity on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday to deliver a video message on Facebook explaining her decision to boycott the Academy Awards, which for the second year in a row have only white performers nominated in the four actor and actress categories.
“I ask the question,” she said. “Have we now come to a new time and place where we recognize that we can no longer beg for the love, acknowledgment or respect of any group; that maybe it’s time that we recognize that if we love and respect and acknowledge ourselves in a way that we are asking others to do, that that is the place of true power? I’m simply asking the question.”
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, she said, has the right to acknowledge whomever it chooses and to invite whomever it chooses. However, she added: “Maybe it is time that we pull back our resources and we put them back into our communities, into our programs, and we make programs for ourselves that acknowledge us in ways that we see fit, that are just as good as the so-called ‘mainstream’ ones. I don’t know.”
“Here’s what I do know. Begging for acknowledgement, or even asking, diminishes dignity, and diminishes power, and we are a dignified people, and we are powerful, and let’s not forget it.”
Pinkett Smith’s husband, “Concussion” star Will Smith — previously nominated for Oscars for his work in “Ali” and “The Pursuit of Happyness” — was not among the best actor nominees announced Thursday, despite a Golden Globes nomination in an equivalent category. On Saturday on Facebook, the actress seemed to be considering a boycott.
“At the Oscars … people of color are always welcomed to give out awards … even entertain, but we are rarely recognized for our artistic accomplishments. Should people of color refrain from participating all together? People can only treat us in the way in which we allow,” she wrote. “With much respect in the midst of deep disappointment, J.”
Jada also took a shot at Chris Rock hosting the OSCARS that year, which might have been the reason Chris took a shot at her at this year’s OSCARS which led to Will slapping him.
Flip to the next page to watch the interview and all the times Jada has embarrassed Will.
