Sinners’ leads movie nominations for NAACP Image Awards

If people don’t want to realize how dehumanizing and backwards Diversity Equity and Inclusion is, they should know by now that the NAACP Image Awards show the R: Representation.

Firstly, what is equality for? Michael B. Jordan portrays two characters as the nominated Best Actor; Ryan Coogler deserves Best Director of the Best Picture of 2025, Coogler’s Sinners.

By having an award show that people don’t take too seriously (sadly) it erases the notion of pouting lips not able to earn awards that cater mostly to those with lighter hues.

Also, there have only been black directors who have taken home the prize as top director at the NAACP Image awards.

The Oscars® have never seen a black director win that awesome prize. Only a handful of colored people have actually won Academy Awards. And the Golden Globes is just a fun way to prime for the aforementioned Awards.

That is when the R comes into play. Instead of whining and crying about the reality about how only one black woman in the near century old Academy Awards ( Halle Berry), Foundational Black Americans (FBA) and tethers should rejoice that there is an awards system that caters to them.

Representation is the truth of what should show how the Didn’t Earn It idea to be tossed out because someone that is among the blacks will be awarded hardware and given the ability to know they’re seen, that their excellence is all about the R.

Representation requires for the men and women to deliver on the edge of their talents. The NAACP Image awards has ended up being the catalyst for awarding only those who are worthy.

While the Grammys® and Emmys® stand as high level award ceremonies and even if there have been higher concentrations of black winners at these shows, it’s still not enough.

NAACP Image Awards project only what is deserved. That is the absolute reason for R.

To represent instead mope and cry that the white man doesn’t hand you a gold statuette.

It is mainly for the movies. Music and TV can be a totally different issue. A handful of black men have clutched the coveted Best Actor award.

This is going to be ongoing because the DEI bandits who wish to keep the parameters of an evil idea will never stop at trying to destroy the nature of merit. There’s an incentive for the NAACP Image Awards to continue to carry the flame of showing just how men and women of color should be recognized for their work.

By knowing there’s a way to show how so many people have a defining line between skin color and the history of awards shows.

At one point, Hattie McDaniel couldn’t even sit with the rest of the cast in Gone With the Wind (1939) and had to exit out of a separate door. This wasn’t the deep South…this was Hollywood, California.

In time, the Academy has been a change agent for color, but the reality is that there is such a dearth in major awards the people calculating the votes don’t look like the people of color.

That’s the R. Representation is the NAACP Image Awards. It offers a chance for the darker skin to have their own show and to bring into focus the choice to connect with all people.

As has been the case for decades, whites take note of the NAACP Image Awards and see how they may have missed the mark by not nominating and ultimately not handing out awards to black talent.

It is up to the people who pursue the awards to open up the market and permit more individuals who have earned it to collect as many pieces of hardware as possible.