Congrats to Monique, how classy of Monique to remember Hattie M, the very first black woman to win for supporitng actress. We have to remember that during Hattie time, black women were reduced to playing maids, and other stereotypical parts. And as talented as she was, Hattie couldn't get any work in Hollywood, and lived her life as a maid. But, the sad thing about Hattie's win was that she wasn't allowed to be in the actual room where the Oscars were being tapped, she had to sit in another room, away from white Holllywood, that is why we only see her speech. To know where we come from as a people, is a must, Hattie and those of her black peers are the true trailblazers.

Off Topic: Years ago a black man wrote many of the musical scores for Hollywood movies, yet never received credit for it, because of his skin, odd to think that Quincy Jones wrote the score for the movie, "In the Heat of The Night", co-starring sydney Poitier, many believe he was the first black to compose music for movies, but he wasn't that honored went to the unknown black man that achieve that goal. We need to teach our children our real history, and not just that we came from atheletes and rappers and singers. We are more, and I take offense to people that say that we should acknowledge other minorities not just our own. If we don't than who will? If it wasn't for the sacrifices that blacks made in this country, there would be no equal rights for latinos, asians, native americans, middle easterners, etc. We were right there helping other minorities achieve rights and their successes have been on the backs of blacks, yet not one time, are we acknowledge and given a thank you, for the most part others look down on us, like we are less than, when we paved the way. That is to the poster who bought up race.