I am here tonight to explain why no black people will ever be nominated for anything, he said.
Black people love to act.
We can cry at the drop of a hat or laugh.
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These are some of the things black people can do.
The comedian, who co-hosted that year with Chevy Chase, continued, Were also going to stop entertaining.
That will show you.
We refuse to be in show business all together.
Then see who sings and dances for you.
Youll have to listen to Lawrence Welk forever.
take a stab at boogaloo to that.
The show is going out to 75 million people.
None of them are black.
We dont even know how to vote.
Theres 3,349 people in the voting thing and only two black people, Sidney Poitier and Harry Belafonte.
Jesse Jackson planned to protest the awards, and asked supporters attending the show to wear ribbons.
Jackson and the ribbons and ribbons for other causes as well made it into Goldbergsopening monologue.
I want to say something to all the people who sent me ribbons to wear.
You dont ask a black woman to buy an expensive dress and then cover it with ribbons.
She added, Jesse Jackson asked me to wear a ribbon.
Its kind of like the Def Oscar Jam tonight.
Black movies dont have real names.
You get names likeBarbershop.
Thats right, you knowLaundromatis coming soon, and after thatCheck Cashing Place.
Crystal had played Davis before, most memorably onSaturday Night Live, but the backlash was still strong.
Welcome to the 87th Oscars, he began.
Tonight, we honor Hollywoods best and whitest sorry, brightest.
As with this years ceremony, every acting nominee at the 2015 Oscars was white.
Additional reporting by Mary Sollosi.
