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Susan Hornik

Amid the glitz, glamour and historic firsts of the 93rd annual Academy Awards, Oscar presenters and winners took the opportunity to direct audiences’ attention to social issues – and especially racism, encouraging American viewers to unite against recent hate crimes and police brutality in the country. 
In her opening monologue, actress and director Regina King directly addressed the fallout of the recent Derek Chauvin murder trial, which found the police officer guilty of George Floyd’s murder just days earlier on April 20.
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“I have to be honest: if things had gone differently this past week in Minneapolis, I might have traded in my heels for marching boots,” she said. “I know many of you want to reach for your remote when you feel Hollywood is preaching to you, but as the mother of a black son who fears for his safety, no fame or fortune changes that.”

In Tyler Perry’s acceptance speech for the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, he said: “I refuse to hate someone because they are Mexican or because they are black or white or LGBTQ. I refuse to hate someone because they are a police officer. I refuse to hate someone because they are Asian. I would hope that we would refuse hate, and I want to take this Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and dedicate it to anyone who wants to stand in the middle, no matter what’s around the wall. 
“Stand in the middle ’cause that’s where healing happens. That’s where conversation happens. That’s where change happens. It happens in the middle.”
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Mia Neal, who received the Oscar for make-up and hairstyling in the film Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom together with Sergio Lopez-Rivera and Jamika Wilson, had a message of hope.
“I want to say thank you to our ancestors who put the work in, were denied but never gave up. I also stand here as Jamika and I break this glass ceiling with so much excitement for the future,” she said.

Neal continued: “I can picture black trans women standing up here, and Asian sisters and our Latino sisters and indigenous women. And I know that one day it won’t be unusual or groundbreaking; it will just be normal.”
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Director Travon Free won best live action film short along with co-director Martin Desmond Roe, for their drama Two Distant Strangers, which focuses on the tragic deaths of black Americans during encounters with police. 

“Today the police will kill three people. And tomorrow, the police will kill three people and the day after that, the police will kill three people – because on average, the police in America every day kill three people,” Free said. “Which amounts to about 1,000 people a year. And those people happen to disproportionately be black people. ”
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Quoting James Baldwin, he added: “‘the most despicable thing a person can be is indifferent to other people’s pain’. And so I just ask that you please not be indifferent. Please don’t be indifferent to our pain.”
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Travon Free, who won best live action film short with Martin Desmond Roe for Two Distant Strangers, quoted James Baldwin, urging viewers not to be ‘indifferent’
Mia Neal had a message of hope for women of all races when she received the award for make-up and hairstyling in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom


Beyond the typical glitz and glamour of the 93rd annual Academy Awards, Regina King, Tyler Perry and more used their spotlight moments to highlight the prejudice endemic in US society
