Post Oscars: "Green Book" had a little too much white in it - and other colorful notions

It seemed like SUCH a wonderful night for REVERSE RACISM. Er, DIVERSITY.

As the NY Times crowed, THREE of the four winning actors were "OF COLOR." Not colored people, of course. "OF COLOR."

The great Spike Lee FINALLY was rewarded for all his glaring and scowling over the years and got an Oscar.

BUT...the "Best Picture" award went to "Green Book," which had too much white in it.

The cheers instantly turned to jeers, and Spike Lee stormed out of the theater in disgust because...nobody is falling for that "Driving Miss Daisy" crap anymore. Nobody is buying the notion that white people EVER helped blacks do anything. Hell, there were no Freedom Riders either. Some kind of myth created Jewish parents whose kids were lost on spring break or something.

"Green Book" was instantly declared unworthy. Not for being nominated, but for winning. Sore winning.

Happily, today's NY POST focused on the positive, which is that after all the #oscarsowhite complaints, the Oscars were SO BLACK!

"Black Panther" won quite a few technical awards, and no doubt as Philip Roth, Elie Weisel, Edward Lewis Wallant, Saul Bellow and Leon Uris sink into the obscurity they deserve, there will be more film adaptations of James Baldwin novels.

Over at "The Gray Lady," the New York Times, there was also joy in the triumph of color vs pale vanilla, lily white awfulness, and anything that smacked of "old school" thinking like Shakespeare or Dickens or Poe or Hemingway or any of the other irrelevant people who should be cast out of libraries. Let's give prestigious literary awards to rappers instead, right Kendrick?

How thrilling that almost no films involving white people were nominated. Oh, that awful "Best Actress" award didn't go the right way. And that movie with Melissa McCarthy and Richard E. Grant, and the one with Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga...at least THOSE made sure to stress GAYNESS. Grant's character was gay, and Lady Gaga's movie made sure to sneak in a Drag Queen sequence, dear.

The real question is when that DIVERSITY beacon of rainbow colors (no white) points toward the New York Times and the New York Post.

It's time they made public the ethnicity and sexual orientation of their employees. If the Best Actor/Actress nominations were 75% OF COLOR this year, then surely, the Post and the Times must have rosters that only include 25% whites.

Let's have DIVERSITY at these newspapers. Most especially, fire any white males over 40.

Well, unless they are gay.

Seems fair, doesn't it?

Let's remember we're in the 21st Century, where talent and ability don't matter, only someone's sexuality and the color of their skin.

As long as the sexuality isn't hetero and the color isn't white...prejudice can be a GOOD thing.