TMC
01-23-2016, 03:43 AM
https://twitter.com/jimmykimmel/status/690637694502711298
Kimmel (http://www.lipstickalley.com/showthread.php/981787-Jimmy-Kimmel-mocks-OscarsSoWhite-in-crass-sketch) tweeted Friday that he was "trying to poke fun at the film industry, not those it excludes” with this sketch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOS8sLl2Q1A) airing Tuesday on the Oscar diversity controversy. The sketch has been deemed “racist” (http://www.bet.com/news/celebrities/2016/01/22/racist-or-nah--twitter-is-ripping-jimmy-kimmel-for--oscarssowhit.html) by many on Twitter. Ebony called it a "Blackwashing sketch," (http://www.ebony.com/entertainment-culture/jimmy-kimmel-bad-oscarsowhite-joke#axzz3y1NQzKDz) denouncing"Kimmel’s Blackening of the Oscar nominations with trite, tired stereotypes.” To one Twitter user, Kimmel responded: "For offending those I intended to defend, I am sorry."
Kimmel (http://www.lipstickalley.com/showthread.php/981787-Jimmy-Kimmel-mocks-OscarsSoWhite-in-crass-sketch) tweeted Friday that he was "trying to poke fun at the film industry, not those it excludes” with this sketch (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOS8sLl2Q1A) airing Tuesday on the Oscar diversity controversy. The sketch has been deemed “racist” (http://www.bet.com/news/celebrities/2016/01/22/racist-or-nah--twitter-is-ripping-jimmy-kimmel-for--oscarssowhit.html) by many on Twitter. Ebony called it a "Blackwashing sketch," (http://www.ebony.com/entertainment-culture/jimmy-kimmel-bad-oscarsowhite-joke#axzz3y1NQzKDz) denouncing"Kimmel’s Blackening of the Oscar nominations with trite, tired stereotypes.” To one Twitter user, Kimmel responded: "For offending those I intended to defend, I am sorry."