Oscar Winning Screenwriter, John Ridley, has been put under the microscope once again for his piece, The Manifesto of Ascendancy for the Modern American N****r. The piece was originally released in 2006 through Esquire Magazine but has resurfaced in light of him winning an Oscar this past Sunday. The ‘manifesto’ is less of a piece and more of a rant about the Black community and their supposed lack of self-reliance.

Though the manifesto was long forgotten, it has started up quite a spark and people can’t stop talking about it. Many feel that the rant is extremely degrading of the black community especially coming from a man of the black community. And others agree with him.

Here is a short excerpt from the manifesto:

LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING ABOUT NIGGERS, the oppressed minority within our minority. Always down. Always out. Always complaining that they can’t catch a break. Notoriously poor about doing for themselves. Constantly in need of a leader but unable to follow in any direction that’s navigated by hard work, self-reliance. And though they spliff and drink and procreate their way onto welfare doles and WIC lines, niggers will tell you their state of being is no fault of their own. They are not responsible for their nearly 5 percent incarceration rate and their 9.2 percent unemployment rate. Not responsible for the 11.8 percent rate at which they drop out of high school. For the 69.3 percent of births they create out of wedlock.

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If we as a race could win the centuries-long war against institutionalized racism, why is it that so many of us cannot secure the advantage after decades of freedom?

Tell us what you think of the piece and if John Ridley should be held accountable for his past words.