Afro-Netizen™: Clooney's looney for citing 'Mammy'

On the regular, I will have to "Pick My 'Fro Out" on topics relative to the edification of the African-American community. These will be found in the category of the same name (Pick Out My 'Fro) in the sidebar. Look, Under the Dryer is an intelligent blog beauty shop too now; if you came for hair-n-fingernails-type conversation only, hit the 'Next Blog' button up top. Afro-Netizen™: Clooney's looney for citing 'Mammy' "We gave Hattie McDaniel an Oscar in 1939 when blacks were still sitting in the backs of theaters. I'm proud to be part of this Academy. I'm proud to be part of this community."--George Clooney aka Danny Ocean in the films Ocean's 11 and 12 Chris Rabb, editor of the finest news blog in the 'sphere IMO, Afro-Netizen, is on it once again with this intelligent missive aimed at the short-sighted ignorant statement from ol' Danny Ocean himself. If the public forgot Clooney hails from Louisville, KY originally, he just refreshed our memory by taking us back to his ol' Kentucky home with this one. First let me level set: We could not sit in the back of the theater or anywhere on the first level in 1939 IF we could go at all. If allowed admittance, we were seated in the balcony,which became known as 'black man's heaven' for it's proximity to Glory, so to speak. If George Jefferson Clooney was up on his movie history, he'd know during this same era most of Lena Horne's movie parts were shot of her singing alone, so that the scene could be edited out for distribution to the segregated South. She was never part of the plot. So, with that said, you can imagine what we think of that little statue huh? Clooney seems here to be trying to "raise his game" from hunk to mogul/politico in Hollywood, but he can't seem to avoid getting his zapato stuck in his mouth on the way up . Further, unlike the authentic mogul/politicos in Tinsel Town, such as Martin Sheen, Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins, Denzel Washington, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee et al, he seems to fail to realize you need to have some sense and class to go along with the little gold statue. Now, if Mr. Clooney had said "We gave Hattie McDaniel an Oscar in 1939 and have only awarded two more (to Whoopi Goldberg and Halle Berry ,for those playing along on the home version) to a black woman in the 57 years since, and I'm ashamed to stand here and accept this.", shoot I'd have given him Under the Dryer's "Sista-Pass of the Week" Award just on GP. But since he didn't, I can't...BUT I do have a solution to get Mr. Clooney on the proverbial Straight Street. I say let Mr. Clooney guest star on an episode of the new FX network reality series "Black and White." The premise is one white family and one black family "switch races" via the magic of Hollywood makeup artists. So, I make Mr. Clooney up as an African-American male actor for a week and follow him with the camera as he attempts to go on casting calls for movie roles other than buddy boys, pimps, hustlers, rapists, or what Spike Lee calls "the magical mystical negro"role, a'la Bagger Vance. Then come back and tell us Danny-boy how proud you are to be a member of The Academy.