An the Oscar goes to the Scarecrow

I believe we should start talking about diversity in a different way now that it's been nine years since the #OscarsSoWhite trended. I'm not suggesting that we forget that it trended and was seen as very true that the Oscars lacked diversity for nearly seventy five years before 2003. I want to change the script, so to speak because even though Lily Gladstone did get nominated for Best Actress appearing in the Killers of the Flower Moon, we should really focus on something innate and intriguing about the actress who did win the 2024 Best Actress Award. Emma Stone appeared in the award winning movie The Help in 2011 and she was just 22 years old. Viola Davis was nominated as Best Supporting Actress in 2012 for her character Aibileen. This is what she said when asked if there were any movies she regreted. "I know Aibileen. I know Minny. They're my grandma. They're my mom. And I know that if you do a movie where the whole premise is, I want to know what it feels like to work for white people and to bring up children in 1963, I want to hear how you really feel about it. I never heard that in the course of the movie," Davis said. " To me that's interesting and it's not because she didn't win the Oscar, but because she was nominated as Best Supporting Actress in the movie that was literally called, "The Help." She was the help, but not the starring role or main actress of the story. The Main Actress of the movie that was supposed to be about the help was 22 year old Emma Stone. This is half way between then and now which is why we should start talking about award ceremonies and the general idea of Hollywood and the entertainment industry all together. When you bring Lily Gladstone to the Oscars and with her comes the Osage Nation which is great because the movie she was in took place historically on that Nation's Land, but then give Emma Stone the Oscar for Best Actress in a movie where she literally had no brain other than one of an infant, it sends a message. It sends the same message as it did back in 2012 when Viola Davis didn't win the Oscar and that's, "you can be nominated, but we'd rather pick a brainless teeny bobber girl over your ass." I mean, Margot Robbie literally made a movie about a Barbie Doll and that won an Oscar It might have been in music, but it's still an Oscar. So hears the deal. Oppenheimer is about an atom bomb maker and it got the most Oscars than any other movie. It sends the same message that we, the entertainment industry, would rather glorify a war weapon than recognize an actual war crime like what happened to the Osage Nation in Killers of the Flower Moon. Take into consideration this is a Scorcese Film with Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert DiNiro, Brendan Frasier, Jesse Plemons and John Lithgow. It even had the music of Jack White. It had just about every "Whose, who," of Native American actors. Here is a synopsis of Mollie Burkhart: the character Lily Gladstone played. "At 44 Mollie could finally spend her money as she pleased and was recognized as a fully fledged American citizen." Mollie died at age 50! 6 years as a regular person is what it amounts to. We better go back to the Barbie movie. I'm not sure the Barbie was a regular person longer than Mollie Burkhart? She might have been. I know Emma Stone was in the acting business not much longer than Burkhart was free from Americans trying to kill and rob her of the riches she inherently possessed and yet still, she couldn't get a fair shake for the actress that portrayed her in a movie about her life. Instead, they gave the Oscar to a fictional person that had their brain removed and replaced. What do you think is harder to do? Act like a person without a brain or act like a person who has to live amongst other people who have no brain? Because that's what it's probably like for Lily Gladstone to be at the Oscars. Don't get me wrong. This in no way, shape or form, reflects badly on Lily Gladstone because she literally comes from an educational background. Her mother is a teacher and she spent time (Lily) in the theater and still goes and encourages young natives to explore acting, as an artform and we need people like that in Indian Country. I just find it hard to except that this lady is literally breaking down walls and barriers for all Native People and yet Hollywood after being "ShutDown," for being unfair to the people behind the scenes that make it all possible and still they don't get that their larger than life egos are ruining Hollywood. I'm with you Lily. I know you won't talk bad about people around you, but I will.