What Hollywood Keeps Getting Wrong About Race

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The New York Times

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🗓️ 26 February 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Three decades ago, the highest honor at the Academy Awards was given to a movie about a white passenger learning to love her black chauffeur. Sunday night, the same award was given to a film about a white chauffeur learning to love his black passenger. We look at Hollywood’s obsession with fantasies of racial reconciliation. Guest: Wesley Morris, a critic at large for The New York Times and a host of the podcast “Still Processing.” For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily.

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0:25.6	From The New York Times, I'm Michael Barbar.
0:32.6	This is The New York.
0:40.6	Today, three decades ago, the Academy Awards gave its highest honor to a movie about a white
0:47.6	passenger learning to love her black chauffeur.
0:51.9	On Sunday night, it gave the same award to a film about a white chauffeur learning to
0:58.1	love his black passenger.
1:01.2	Times Culture Critic Wesley Morris on Hollywood's Obsession with fantasies of racial reconciliation.
1:10.8	It's Tuesday, February 26.
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1:38.4	So last night when I was watching the Academy Awards, I was struck that it was John Lewis,
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