The Academy Apologizes to Sacheen Littlefeather

[Milchshake]

49 years after the fact.



The first time Sacheen Littlefeather encountered the Academy, in 1973, she was booed onstage at the Oscars, heckled with mock ululations and so-called “tomahawk chops” offstage, and threatened with arrest and physical assault.
Nearly half a century later, she will return to the Academy as an invited guest of honor for an evening of reflection at the Academy Museum, featuring something she never dared to imagine: a formal apology from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
“I was stunned. I never thought I’d live to see the day I would be hearing this, experiencing this,” Littlefeather (Apache/Yaqui/Ariz.), now 75, tells The Hollywood Reporter of receiving the Academy’s statement, which was first privately presented to her in June. “When I was at the podium in 1973, I stood there alone.”

[Koriani]

I mean hey - better late than never.

And still faster to apologize for crap like this than say the Catholic Church =D

[SinR]

Groovy? I guess?

[SavoirFaire]

You think by now any organization like this would have made a list of shitty things they did and just got all the apologies over and done with.

[Darkeon]

Brave and stunning action. I clap.