White People’s Choice Awards
ByThe nominees for the 2009 People’s Choice Awards were announced their earlier this week — in categories like Favorite TV Drama Actress, Favorite Action Star, and Favorite Breakout Music Artist — and it looks like the biggest gathering of white people since Glenn Beck’s last Tea Party.
Only a handful of the 80 individuals nominated are people of color, and about half of them are nominated are in the R&B category. Maybe the People’s Choice folks are hoping hiring Queen Latifah as the host will distract us from noticing?
To celebrate America’s time-honored tradition of overlooking talented people of color in entertainment, I’ve created this 2009 White People’s Choice Awards game from the nominations on the PCA website. (Duplicates are the result of Taylor Swift some people being nominated in more than one category).
Play the game and see how well you score!
This handy guide can also double as a bingo card when the awards air on Jan. 6 on CBS!
Who said ethnocentrity can’t be fun?
Brad Pitt must count as a POC, obviously…
Tell what is odd/bad too…Beyonce one of the few POC in that list of people actually looks as white as Britney & Vince Vaughn next to her! Crazy
PS: Love that the anti-spam word check thing was Buffy related, no idea if it was intended or not but funny anyway
10! What? Okay. UM. Dang, now I feel stupid because I think you were making a point.
There are many things to worry about on this topic. The entertainment industry continues to be relatively successful at pushing women, POC and LGBTQ people further to the margins while pushing a white hetero-male agenda.
What concerns me is that I don’t see a strong united front of the marginalized groups to pressure the entertainment industry to represent groups more equally in the 21st Century. This problem is as old as time itself and I’m not impressed that there has been any improvement.
How can you complain about awards that YOU vote for??