Thank you? Honor? Blessing? Wait a second. Why would Berry or anyone of color grovel towards this most racist of all American institutions, that took 74 years to grant its most coveted award to a black actress? Baseball was integrated over 50 years ago. Separate water fountains? Forty years ago. White people plunk down millions to make Oprah the highest paid woman in the world, Tiger the richest golfer, Jordan, Jackson, and Berry bazillionaires. The entire KKK could fit into a bowling alley. Black kids even fork up millions to hear white rapper Eminem swear his way up the charts. And if Colin Powell runs for president, we’ll have black politicians at every level in America. America is shedding racism and black people have "made it" in virtually every facet of American life except the skinhead movement.

And apparently, ultra-liberal Hollywood.

Think of those great black actresses Berry cited. Dorothy Dandridge, Lena Horne, Diahann Carroll, Angela Bassett…Did Ronald Reagan steal their Oscar? Did George Bush recount the Academy chads? No…white Hollywood liberals, gushing about "diversity" and "justice" took SEVENTY FOUR YEARS to allow a black woman the "honor" of accepting an Oscar. While the rest of America has moved decisively towards meritocracy, liberals retrenched two hundred years of a back scratching, exclusionary good old boys network. Hollywood isn’t just upholding centuries of racist liberal tradition; Hollywood is shining the beacon.

The tokenism of this event is as enraging as the countless dreams deferred in Hollywood. Nobody can claim there haven’t been deserving black actresses in previous years. In an obvious ploy, Denzel Washington got an Oscar for a mundane performance, when he should have easily won years ago for his spectacular razor-edged performance in "Malcolm X." The Academy sealed the "black agenda night" by trotting out a generic "honorary award" for Sidney Poitier, the last and only previous black Best Actor winner 38 long years ago. The audience swooned. Not for Berry, Washington or Poitier, but for themselves. "We’re so compassionate! See? We just gave some Colored Folk a prize. Aren’t we wonderful?"

Yet tomorrow, black people will still worship these arrogant racists. I am sick.

After Black America was pried away from the Republicans that emancipated their ancestors, they re-enslaved themselves to the Democrats that first stole their freedom. Like the battered wife who returns home for another whipping, Black America gratefully embraces the chains of the liberal plantation in a twisted abuser/enabler relationship, afraid of that freedom. The pitch comes at election time…"I feel your pain…here’s a few bucks…thanks for voting. See ya…" Then, the Great American Liberal slips into the limo and retreats to the hills behind high-walled havens, away from the mayhem.

Meanwhile, Berry will cherish her Oscar, deluded into believing she broke some glass ceiling blocking the mountaintop of acting achievement. Washington will place his cheap souvenir on the mantle, surrounded by empty spaces of previously deserved Oscars. Poitier will go home clutching his award in place of the closetfull he never got. Because Hollywood has once again done exactly what liberals have done for centuries: diminish and exploit black people for profit and power, then offer a few scraps to shut them up. And black people let them get away with it.