The unbearable whiteness of this year’s Academy Awards nominations sparked the #OscarsSoWhite hashtag and boycott. But, for at least one Hollywood producer, the Oscars are too black!
Juergen Pichler Levine, a producer with over 900,000 Instagram followers, and an obsession with Sylvester Stallone, posted and then deleted a meltdown on Instagram over the overwhelming presence of Black people at Sunday night’s Oscars. Luckily, it was screen grabbed by one of his Instagram followers.
The producer, who hails from Austria but lives in Texas– a scary trajectory, to say the least– posted a photo of awards-ceremony host Chris Rock talking to a Black person and went on a racist tear that sounds like it came straight from the mouth of Bruno, the fictional racist, anti-semitic, Austrian fashionsta character played by Sasha Baron Cohen:
Why is this Oscar Party as Black??? I am freaking out Obama get out and let us alone #Oscars#Suck#Academy#Awards#Mess#what the hell is this Comedy the Worst Avademy [sic] Awards in history Stallone will get his award and that’s sure and it’s not happened yet he deserves it #God bless America but not these monkeys.
A translation note: people who speak English as a second language often use the word “as” for “so” and “let” for “leave. So, Pichler Levine was almost certainly asking, “why is this Oscars Party so Black?” and imploring the President to “leave us alone.” Sure, one can only presume, is “sure.”
Who is Pichler Levine, you ask? Up until now, he was perhaps best known for being featured in the San Francisco Chronicle article, “These Super Bowl fans are loaded with cash, arrive tardy” for arriving late to the Super Bowl where he had shelled out $14,000 for VIP seats. His jet was delayed for an hour and a half before it was given permission to land at the San Jose Airport. Though this would have stressed out a less zen man, the unintentional self-parody of an out of touch, filthy rich jetsetter, reportedly said of his late arrival, “We could give a f**. We are rich.”
I’d be remiss to not include that he is a major arms enthusiast, as evidenced by his photos of guns, and this one of his “cutie!’
