Rush Limbaugh discusses it, and Cintra Wilson (at least in part) writes it:

Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | Oscars 2002: Somebody make it stop!

I used to call it the "Noble Cripple and Spade Year" -- it comes around every five years or so. When the Oscar Winner's alumni circle starts to look like the meeting table in "Judgment at Nuremberg," the Academy devotes a year to not looking like racist, Aryan-celebrity-eugenics-worshipping, cracker peckerwoods, and either gives an Oscar for the best dribbling retard performance, or jerks us off with a big, obvious, Slather the African-Americans With Trophies orgy to make up for the previous insulting, five-to-seven-year stretch when barely anybody of color was recognized at all, for anything.

The article is a hoot, if a little harsh on Halle. Most definitely a no-holds-barred view of the Oscarcast, though, as well as Hollywood celebrity in general.