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It started with Janelle Monae.
We celebrate all the women who directed phenomenal films, Monae declared, apparently on behalf of the attendees.
It was a reference to the women who had been shut out of the Best Director race this year.
Congratulations, Oscarsnot so white now, he responded.
Its an event that features impassioned political pleas andswag bagsthat include a free yacht cruise.
It simultaneously means something and nothing at all.
Protests about the Oscars deficiencies can be flipped a little too readily into acts of self-congratulation.
It doesnt let anyone, including the most well-meaning attendees in that room, off the hook.
The question remains, of course, who in Bongs movie they might relate to most.
