We can’t forget that three years ago, host Billy Crystal literally wore blackface to the Oscars. What happened to him? Nothing. He might have taken some heat in the media, but he didn’t lose a cent. His career wasn’t hurt.

The show went on, as it always has, as it always does after Black people are insulted and discriminated against. We live in world where anti-Black racists don’t receive proper comeuppance for their crimes. Cops who murder Black people aren’t put away. Employers who discriminate against Black employees aren’t named and shamed. It is just as safe as ever to be racist against Black people.

At minimum, a majority-Black cast in a movie is an antidote to the whiteness of Hollywood, not an effort to marginalize non-Black voices of color.

