Chris Rock will be hosting the Oscars again for the first time in a decade this weekend and he won’t stay away from the biggest issue hovering over the ceremony: the lack of diversity among the Oscar nominees.
Rock has stayed quiet since he was picked for the job, rarely tweeting over the past few weeks. However, today, he tweeted a GIF of white noise with the text, “See you Sunday.” He added the hashtags #blackout and #oscars.
While Rock has tweeted a few photos, this is his first direct comment on the Oscars since he called it the “White BET Awards” on Jan. 15.
Although there were some calls for Rock to quit the hosting gig after no minority actors were nominated, he stayed with it. Co-producer Reginald Hudlin revealed that Rock rewrote his monologue to comment on the #OscarsSoWhite controversy.
The 88th Academy Awards mark the second consecutive year that no minority actors and actresses were nominated in any of the four acting categories. Creed and Straight Outta Compton, two hit films with African American actors, were also mostly ignored and only earned one nomination each.
The Oscars are on ABC on Feb. 28.