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Green Book won Best Picture. The movie where a racist white man becomes marginally less racist through being around a heralded and deeply patient Black musician as he toured the very racist South. The movie that proudly took the word of a self-proclaimed “bullshit artist” over speaking to even a single member of Don Shirley’s family. The one directed by an admitted wang-flasher and written by a publicly outed Islamaphobe. That Green Book. Best Picture.

It was a surprise, to put it mildly. And Twitter had thoughts.

“Can’t stop looking at the group of people collecting the Best Picture Oscar for Green Book, a film about racism in the South,” Freddie Campion tweeted.

“Green Book. Crash. Driving Miss Daisy. Why are all the worst Best Picture winners of my lifetime about white people thinking they’re solving racism? #Oscars,” Film critic Kimber Myers wrote.

Brian Tallerico, another popular film critic, tweeted: “I’ve said this before. I know people who like Green Book. I don’t know a single person who thinks it’s the BEST PICTURE OF THE YEAR. That’s the baffling thing I’ll never understand. I feel like even Crash had more of that than this one. Famous sports journalist Jemele Hill tweeted: “Green Book thinks if you don’t like how this country is, you should leave.”

Published in Daily Times, February 27^th 2019.