We Have This Conversation Every Year and It Pisses Me Off- Whoopi Goldberg

As the diversity controversy surrounding this year's Oscar nominations is growing, Whoopi Goldberg is speaking out about the roadblocks minorities face in the film industry and pledges to keep talking.

Goldberg, an Oscar winner herself, said that people should get fired up about the absence of non-white actors in film all year long, rather than just when they are ignored on the awards circuit.
 
“Why is this a conversation that we only have once a year, every year we get all fired up and the rest of the year nobody says anything. There's not a lot of support for little companies that make movies that may be more diverse than anything else, but you can't bitch about it just on Oscar time ... I am mad. So don't be surprised. I make movies for a living. Let me tell you what the problem is – It's not that the people doing the nominating are too white ... The problem is the people who can be helping to make movies that have Blacks and Latinos and women and all that that money doesn't come to you because the idea is that there is no place for Black movies” she said.
 
Goldberg, who won the 1991 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Ghost, also addressed the boycott of the Feb. 28 ceremony that stars like Spike Lee and Jada Pinkett Smith are planning, saying it only makes the problem worse. she said “Chris Rock is the host of the Academy Awards and so to boycott him seems just as bad as what everybody is saying, we have this conversation every year and it pisses me off. Boycotting doesn't work and it's also a slap in the face to Chris Rock”