Priorities, priorities...

As I sit here reflecting on the recent Academy Awards, with not one but two (wholeheartedly deserved) African American winners, I ask myself: Is the failure to award a major "Oscar" to a Latina/o for over 40 years any less horrific than the prolonged imprisonment of so-called terrorist, Jose Padilla?

Seriously, why is it that - after all these years - we still lack adequate representation?

And no, Benicio del Toro does not count because he was born a genius...