Immigrant Gary Oldman Thanks AMERICA During Oscar Speech… Not ONE Person Claps

As I’ve mentioned many, MANY times on this site, I moved to the USA from Mexico when I was 12.

I could not be more grateful.

If it were not for the US, I would not have the education I have now, or the opportunity to freely speak my mind the way I do. As a woman, I would have a much harder time paying my own bills, determining my own path, and pursuing my own dreams.

I wake up every morning and drink my coffee watching the sunrise over my beloved Arizona mountains and think to myself…. God bless America. How BLESSED I am to live this American life.

As someone who grew up in a different country… I DO believe in privilege… not white privilege or male privilege, but AMERICAN privilege. We are PRIVILEGED to live in the most extraordinary nation in the world. To have infinite opportunity and the freedom to pursue our destiny at our very fingertips.

We, as Americans, are all blessed. Sadly… Americans are truly losing sight of this.

Sometimes… it DOES take an outsider’s perspective to remember what you have. Which is why I really liked what Gary Oldham had to say during his Oscar speech.

“I’ve lived in America for the longest time, and I am deeply grateful to her for the loves and the friendships I have made and the many wonderful gifts it has given me,” Oldman said at the very beginning of his speech. “My home. My livelihood. My family and now Oscar.”

Beautiful. Something I can TRULY relate to. Everything I have I owe to this great nation.

I should not take an IMMIGRANT to remind a native-born American of this… but I find that often, it does.

And of course… Hollywood… the most privileged of all, those who have been showered in FORTUNES for being in the right place at the right time (because as we know, it takes luck, not talent, to make it in Hollywood.) refuse to see that. It pains me.

According to the Daily Caller:
Gary Oldman took home the Oscar for Best Actor at Sunday night’s 90th Academy Awards, but the Los Angeles audience withheld applause for one particular part of his thank you speech.

Oldman delivered a stellar performance as Winston Churchill in “The Darkest Hour,” and he earned applause when he thanked both the movie’s makeup team of Kazuhiro Tsuji, David Malinowski and Lucy Sibbick and his mother. His ode to his adopted country, America, resulted in crickets from the Hollywood elite.

“I’ve lived in America for the longest time, and I am deeply grateful to her for the loves and the friendships I have made and the many wonderful gifts it has given me,” Oldman said at the very beginning of his speech. “My home. My livelihood. My family and now Oscar.”

No applause.

It’s not like they didn’t clap… mention of his 99 year old mother received exuberant applause. They simply refused to clap for the USA.

That wasn’t just an applause line… it was a beautiful one.

And while his win was controversial… his love for this country should not be.

We owe it ALL to AMERICA.