Former Golden Globes president calls BLM a ''hate movement''
An email sent Sunday by a former Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. president criticizing Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors and likening BLM to a hate group touched off a firestorm among many of the organization’s members.
In the email, Phil Berk, who served eight terms as HFPA president, shared a post that called BLM a “racist hate movement” and described Cullors as “the self-proclaimed ‘trained Marxist.’” It was sent out to the association’s members, its staff and the group’s general counsel and chief operating officer, Gregory Goeckner.
The email lands at a sensitive time for the HFPA, which has come under pressure for not having any Black members as well as allegations of ethical and financial lapses raised in a Times investigation into the group. Last month, the group behind the Golden Globe Awards pledged to make “transformational change” and retained a strategic diversity advisor, Shaun Harper, a professor of racial, gender and LGBTQ issues at USC’s Marshall School of Business, and an outside law firm, Ropes & Gray, to audit and review its policies and membership requirements and bylaws. The HFPA, which in recent weeks has reached out to the National Assn. of Black Journalists and NAACP, plans to announce a set of reforms on May 6.
While Berk, 88, did not cite a source or provide a link to his email post, it appears to be have been an article originally published under the headline “BLM Goes Hollywood” that appeared on conservative commentator David Horowitz’s Freedom Center website, FrontPage Mag, on April 12.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 17 | April 21, 2021 7:37 AM
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David Horowitz, the NBC anchor who would do those gotcha segments ?
by Anonymous | reply 2 | April 20, 2021 1:30 PM
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Might Berk be suffering from dementia-related poor impulse control?
by Anonymous | reply 4 | April 20, 2021 5:05 PM
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Yeah, R1. We know you guys on the right like your sexual predators
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 5 | April 20, 2021 5:08 PM
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CDAN has a revealed item about a bunch of old white male directors in Hollywood who started a club to prevent people of colour from making progress in the industry.
Patrisse Cullors should go and join them. Bunch of fossils.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | April 20, 2021 5:16 PM
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He's an old Jewish guy from South Africa. Why is everyone surprise?
by Anonymous | reply 8 | April 20, 2021 5:21 PM
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Wait, he’s a gay sexual predator?
by Anonymous | reply 9 | April 20, 2021 5:52 PM
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Why is a straight guy groping another guy?
by Anonymous | reply 10 | April 20, 2021 5:53 PM
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[Quote]CDAN has a revealed item about a bunch of old white male directors in Hollywood who started a club to prevent people of colour from making progress in the industry. Patrisse Cullors should go and join them. Bunch of fossils.
What sense are we supposed to make of this? That you don't know the difference between Berks and Cullors?
by Anonymous | reply 11 | April 21, 2021 12:11 AM
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R1 and r6 probably support Trump, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Madison Cawthorn, Lauren Boebert
The Golden Globs should be irrelevant after nominating Emily in Paris due to bribery
by Anonymous | reply 12 | April 21, 2021 12:14 AM
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[quote] CDAN has a revealed item about a bunch of old white male directors in Hollywood who started a club to prevent people of colour from making progress in the industry.
How many of them are racist old white queens like you?
by Anonymous | reply 13 | April 21, 2021 12:16 AM
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R11 & R13 = Russian trolls
by Anonymous | reply 14 | April 21, 2021 5:51 AM
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They obviously don't hate the white people who appear on dollar bills if its co-founder can rake up enough of them to buy all that real estate.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | April 21, 2021 7:37 AM
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