Abolish The (So White) Oscars, Says Danny Glover. Just Let Them Fade Into Irrelevance, Says Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Who Nails The Real Problem.

Andrew O’Hehir: “So what we’re talking about here … is not so much a failure of representation as a failure of perception and vision and imagination. By invoking [Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man], Abdul-Jabbar suggests that Oscar voters literally cannot see certain kinds of non-white performers and certain kinds of films.”