{"id":3758,"date":"2016-01-19T17:58:11","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T01:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/?p=3758"},"modified":"2024-05-12T13:19:26","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T20:19:26","slug":"jada-plans-to-boycott-the-2106-oscar-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/?p=3758","title":{"rendered":"Jada plans to boycott the 2016 Oscar Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vCexPC6w9nE\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><br \/>\nOpinion from Dean L. Jones:<br \/>\nI was born at the time when offended blacks encouraged advertisers and television producers to purge the successful Amos &#8216;n Andy comedy from airing. The foundation stem around how black characters were the imagination of white writers and poorly depicted blacks [Negroes] for a TV show.<\/p>\n<p>Alvin Childress (Amos), Spencer Williams (Andy &#8211; Andrew Hogg Brown), Tim Moore (George &#8220;Kingfish&#8221; Stevens), Ernestine Wade (Sapphire Stevens), Amanda Randolph (Ramona Smith &#8211; Sapphire&#8217;s Mother), Lillian Randolph (Madame Queen), Johnny Lee (Algonquin J. Calhoun), Nick Stewart (Lightnin&#8217; billed as &#8220;Nick O&#8217;Demus&#8221;), and Jane Adams (Ruby Jones) all lost their jobs from disconcerted blacks.<\/p>\n<p>Had there been a replacement or remedy in the script writing, perhaps these quality actors would have continued their television career. Unfortunately, all of these actors were sacrificed and sent to a television career slump. With the exception where Amanda Randolph landed a job on Danny Thomas&#8217; Make Room for Daddy portraying the household maid, and ironically comecally speaking no different than she did so well on Amos &#8216;n Andy.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, it was more than twenty years later before blacks were reentered in numbers television series on such shows as Sanford and Sons, Good Times, The Jeffersons, What&#8217;s Happening, That&#8217;s My Mama, and Diff&#8217;rent Strokes. The acting or the character composites were of no higher caliber than Amos &#8216;n Andy, but the blacks felt it was time to get a job in front of the camaera no matter what the role. It was just comedy and the roles were not meant to represent blacks in general.<\/p>\n<p>This leads me to see how today blacks are moving to cut off the &#8216;Oscar Progress&#8217; nose to spite the &#8216;black cinema&#8217; face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opinion from Dean L. Jones: I was born at the time when offended blacks encouraged&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3762,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8,14,13,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-civil-protest","category-equal-opportunity","category-first-amendment-rights","category-music","category-social-change","wpcat-4-id","wpcat-8-id","wpcat-14-id","wpcat-13-id","wpcat-17-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/historeplay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}