Emmys 2017: Atlanta's Donald Glover is the first black Best Comedy Director
First of all, congratulations to Donald Glover, I'm a very big fan. However, I'm going to focus more on what this means for the Emmy's and many other mainstream awards. Recently mainstream award ceremonies, especially the Oscars, have been accused of being far too 'whitewashed' (a term meaning something that has little to no minorities included). To counteract this backlash, the Oscars went somewhat overboard in picking primarily black actor's and actress' for that years winners. This isn't to say the actor's themselves didn't deserve it, but it's more than a little bit obvious that it was the media trying to cover their past bias by introducing more bias. It appears that the Emmy's tried to do the same as Donald Glover was nominated for 5 different awards that night and won 3, breaking records. He's not the only one, there were several other minorities nominated, most of which won their respective awards. Although, it seems to have worked. Most people have forgotten about the issue and many are just happy to have more minorities in the spotlight regardless of the reason. This falls under the representation of race and brings forth the question, will this last, or is it just temporary until everyone forgets about the 'whitewash'ed awards?
You should add pictures to this also you should refer to CCCEO next time to make it more detailed.
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