Jada Pinkett Smith has made her feelings on the Oscars and its lack of diverse nominees known, though not everyone was receptive to them.
Former "Fresh Prince" star Janet Hubert slammed the actress for being concerned about Oscar nominations when there are more pressing issues that need to be addressed.
"People are dying. Our boys are being shot left and right. People are starving. People are trying to pay bills," Hubert said in a video posted to Facebook on Jan 18. "And you're talking about some motherf**king actors and Oscars. And it just ain't that deep."
On Wednesday, the 44-year-old responded to Hubert's comments saying her boycott of the Feb. 28 award show "isn't really about the Oscars."
"Considering that Alabama had its highest recruitment for the KKK for Martin Luther King's birthday, I hope that we as African Americans can find a way to get along and step together," Pinkett Smith said in a video obtained by Entertainment Tonight, referencing reports a Ku Klux Klan chapter sent out recruitment flyers in Mobile, Alabama, this past weekend.
The actress continued, "This whole Oscar controversy isn't really about the Oscars. Really, in my plea to ask all communities and people of color to take back our power is so that we can use it in all sectors of our community, and right now, specifically with African-American people, we have some very serious issues that I think we as a people have to move together on."
She added, "I'm hoping we can find ways to step together in this instead of finding ways to fight each other. I got love for everybody."
After posting her initial video announcing her boycott of the Oscars, Pinkett Smith thanked the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and its president, Cheryl Boone Isaacs, for responding to the controversy with promises that the Academy is "taking dramatic steps to alter the makeup of our membership."
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