Chris Rock’s opening monologue at the Oscars ceremony on Sunday took the #OscarsSoWhite controversy head-on. “Everyone wants to know: Is Hollywood racist? Is it burning-cross racist? No. It’s a different kind of racist,” the comedian-actor, hosting the Oscars for the second time, said. “You're damn right Hollywood's racist, but not the racist that you’ve grown accustomed to. Hollywood is sorority racist. It’s like, ‘We like you, Rhonda, but you're not a Kappa.’ That’s how Hollywood is.” What do the Kappa ladies think of this? HitFix reached out to a few Kappa sororities to get their thoughts on Rock’s Greek life mention. Kappa Kappa Gamma vice president Elizabeth Bailey sent us this response via email: “We believe it (the reference to Kappa) was used as a generic reference to Greek life. Kappa is a commonly used Greek letter and last night’s reference certainly does...
- 3/1/2016
- by Emily Rome
- Hitfix
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