Unlike many of his peers who blasted the Oscars in written statements, Nick Cannon has turned to the art of spoken word to get his message out.
The entertainer recorded a black and white film, which sees him deliver an emotional speech on the lack of diversity in the Oscars pool, and pays tribute to the recent news-making deaths that kicked off the Black Lives Matter movement.
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“Look what they did to Oscar,”; he began. “I’m talking Oscar Grant, Sandra Bland, Mike Brown, Tamir Rice, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray. Why we trust what the news say anyway? It’s blasphemous, don’t get distracted by these lottery tickets and statues.”;
Cannon went on to describe the Oscar statuette as “just fake gold and plastic,” before pointing out the lack of black representatives among the Academy’s voting members. “We crying for votes but how many of us is on the board.”;
Watch Cannon’s complete performance below.
