Sunday night's Emmys ceremony was led by a racially diverse lineup of hosts and presenters, but despite performers of color making up nearly half of the nominations, white actors swept the 12 major acting categories.
” in previous years, it was evident to viewers that the producers went to great lengths to keep the live ceremony diverse — with Cedric the Entertainer taking on the main hosting job, DJ Reggie Watts spinning tracks by the likes of Notorious B.I.G and Run DMC, as well as an array of racially diverse presenters.
“Attempting to increase diversity by having POC as host and 90% of the presenters, but only giving awards to white folks isn’t a great look for the #Emmys,” someone wrote on Twitter, calling out the surface-deep nature of the Emmys’ inclusivity. “The old ‘let’s try to fix our diversity problem without challenging the power structure’ trick.”Gotta say.
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