EdibleKnife
Member
Sure. Show me a voting member or give me an anecdote of a voting member suggesting that white actors generally deliver more Oscar worthy performances. In a town that size, with that much booze running through it it can't be that hard to get someone to slip.
You have heard of implicit bias right? People can declare one thing and generally still perform in a way that's detrimental to another group. An Academy member doesn't have to say that they they truly believe black actors are worse, they just have to vote with their implicit bias of preferring white actors which they may or may not be fully aware of. They're not evil for holding that type of implicit bias, but an unwillingness to recognize it and in turn work toward changing those attitudes leads to a structure that is racist. That just is what it is.