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Golden Globes: Winners?

I might be the exception to the rule, but I do not watch award shows. Not just some specific ones, all of them. I stopped watching them a few years ago, partly because they have the same effect on me as roller coaster rides at amusement parks – terrorizing anticipation, followed by tremendous let down. I stopped riding roller coasters too. The other reason is that is a large chunk of time that I do not have to give to the real time experience. My new activity of fun is reading Twitter and Facebook feeds in the morning. I feel as if I was right there and my friends commentating about what is happening is way more entertaining.
Here is the complete list of Golden Globe Winners.
This is where I would normally bring up the lack of diversity in the nominees or winners, but I am not sure who is at fault this year. When I look at the selection of movies released by, for or about African Americans, I do not see a lot of quality to choose from. What do you think? Who is to blame, if anyone for the lack of diversity in this Golden Globe Awards?

If you are curious, I have included a ink to a list of African American movies of 2014.

Selma: A Primer

I liked Selma.

I enjoyed it. I wasn’t moved in the way that "12 Years a Slave” moved me. I did not get up and cheer at the end, nor was I moved to tears at its beginning.
Ava DuVernay did a good job in the movies direction and perspective. I loved seeing the characters fill up the screen. King always looked and felt weighted. Even in private moments, his narrow shoulders always seemed heavy. The ensemble cast was amazing. Almost too amazing. I spent several telling minutes racking my brain trying to remember where I had seen, Tim Roth, the actor that played Alabama governor George Wallace (I remembered on the ride home it was “The Hulk”). The movie was fine. The acting great. The story, however, familiar, was told in a fresh way.

But shortly after the movie began, I realized that it was a lesson plan unfolding in front of me: a lesson plan for a movement. Teachable moments
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