[Jamie89]

The whole industry has a big problem where race is concerned, but it starts with casting. Boycotting the Oscars will bring attention to the problem, but if they really want to make a difference they'll need to do more than not spend one evening walking up and down a red carpet. Wasn't there a film recently, I think it was Exodus, where the whole cast was white (playing non-white characters).

The Oscars are just representing the fact that there are so few films that cast non-white actors, and it would be wrong for them to not recognise the actors that have done well over the past year (so I don't think they are inherently racist). Instead they, as a ceremony, are simply the end result of a problem, rather than being the cause of the problem.