Nate Parker Figured This Oscars So White Shit Out Fast

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out what to do with a bunch of wealthy white progressives in Hollywood desperately concerned about being perceived as racists. Rake them over the coals for cold hard White Privilege cash. Black TV actor Nate Parker got some dough from some NBA ballers to make a film about the Nat Turner slave rebellion in the early 1800’s. Birth of a Nation he called it to in the very least remind everybody of the D.W. Griffith spectacularly racist epic of a hundred years ago. Pitch perfect. You couldn’t pick a better #OscarsSoWhite era film topic if you tried.

The film screened at Sundance and immediately following Parker and the film producers held fucking court as every guilt ridden Whitey in Hollywood came begging them to buy the distribution rights to the guaranteed Oscar’s 2017 black film. Fox Searchlight eventually won the bidding war with $17 million in advance, a record for any film festival purchase in the world, ever. This shit wasn’t hard to figure out. Easy money tastes just as sweet.

Photo credit: Birth of a Nation