How many people had that as their newspaper headline, or something to that effect?
We had "Blacks come to the fore on Hollywoods most colourful night"

Which was interesting, given Denzel Washington's quote "Don't put 'Black Actor Wins' on your heading, put 'Actor Wins'" (Paraphrase)
I thought this was interesting, I knew that I wasn't the only person out there to feel that to single out a minority group was just as much racism as to completely ignore them. It's worse, in my opinion, because it's the racism of pity, of condescension, and it's harder to break through that. People are respected for being the best 'Black' in the business, not the best in the business, which, quite frankly he is.
South Park dealt with this a while back, with the woman with a dead foetus* on the side of her head episode. When I mentioned Washington's quote (that is, the actor) to a friend just now, she agreed. I didn't know that it was so widespread, I never talk about this because I just think I'll get vilified by the same people who have "Refugees Welcome Here" posters on their windows (see previous post).

Again, I throw it open to you. Do you have a decent defense of either side?
I believe that positive action should be taken, but lets make it subtle, and individual. I think Australian Aborigines should get more than $1,08 for every $1 a Caucasian Australian gets in health funding, not because they are Aboriginal, but because they need it more.

Maybe this isn't even an issue. Then I think I need to be told this, and I think that the Posters people really need to be told this, because niether of us seem to know it yet.

samhael

*Totally off topic, did you know that the correct spelling of foetus is actually fetus, i.e. the American Way. It wasn't until the 18th Century that "Educated" Englishmen began bringing the dipthongs back into English. Which is why Americans spell it one way, and English (and Australians) spell it the other: the languages went their separate ways before the Renaissance. Similar to the American Accent and the British one. They split off 400 years ago, when the British sounded alot more like the Northern Americans. So Shakespeare is meant to be spoken in an American accent. As I said, totally off topic.