Before the #OscarsSoWhite backlash surfaced in protest of the lack of diversity in the Academy Award nominations, there was another awards ceremony criticized for its underrepresentation of people of color: The 2010 Emmys.

Actress Regina King was an outspoken critic of that year's show, and as she noted in a candid blog for HuffPost , the statistics for Emmy nominees were quite sobering.

It is impossible for me to ignore the published statistics regarding the number of people of color mentioned, celebrated or honored in the history of the televised Emmys. Up to and including this year, there have been only 53 non-white actors nominated for Emmys out of nearly 1,000 possible nominations in the top four acting categories for drama and comedy.

King's frustration only grew once the Emmys aired and she saw two particularly troubling missteps by the show's organizers. First, a shot of "True Blood" actress Rutina Wesley featured a caption that mistook her for King (who was not in attendance). Then, veteran actress Alaina Hall, King's former costar, was left off the show's In Memoriam reel.