HECK! said this in post #3 : Malcom, Michael Richards says the 'N' word and you flip out. Washington says *** a few times and you think it's some gay power backlash because he lost his job.
Those racial covered glasses you see the world through never cease to amaze me.
-HECK!
KKKramer said more than "N" word. Check for yourself. Anyone with a brain will wonder if you have "fliped out."
" someone heard the booming voice of a Black man and got really scared and that was the beginning of the end for me. My mistake was thinking Black people get 2nd chances. I was wrong on all fronts."
" I was told some people were afraid of me around the studio... because I'm a 6-foot-1 Black man with darkskin who doesn't go around saying ' yessah, massa sir' to everyone?
" can only apologize so many times. I can only accept so much responsibility.... Isaiah will go on and do what I love to do. And I have to go about my business of letting people know what's written about me IS NOT THE TRUTH."
Also interesting, that in the same breath that he can only apologize so many times and accept somuch responsibilty and then say it's not true. You tell me what 6 foot 1 inch man with a booming voice is going to apologize for something he didn't do? I'm 5 foot 10 inches and if I didn't do it, I'm not apologizing.
Let it go Malcolm. Get out in the world, you might just realize that everybody doesn't hate you. It's only the ignorant that make the news.
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
If he had just admitted he did it, admit he was wrong and take whatever punsihment he got I think more people might have had a little more respect for him taking it like a man. However when he acts like it's a racial agenda and has people like malcolm claiming he is a victim of white, gay conservative power then he just appears like a crybaby and loses what little support he has left.
Also interesting, that in the same breath that he can only apologize so many times and accept somuch responsibilty and then say it's not true. You tell me what 6 foot 1 inch man with a booming voice is going to apologize for something he didn't do? I'm 5 foot 10 inches and if I didn't do it, I'm not apologizing.
Let it go Malcolm. Get out in the world, you might just realize that everybody doesn't hate you. It's only the ignorant that make the news.
A tolerant person listens to both sides of story.To be the judge and the jury, it would be fair that you do.
A tolerant person listens to both sides of story.To be the judge and the jury, it would be fair that you do.
I usually do, and I always try to Malcolm. However, I stated that he was probably done wrong, and the punishment was probably too harsh, in this very thread. What's assinine about this is that you refuse to keep anything in context and continue to argue things that are off the scope of your initial post on this issue. I also find it extremely interesting that you of all people would post this, and yet I find you highly intolerant of pretty much anyone who's not black. You apparently can find no instance where something happens to a black person with out it being a racial issue.
Isaiah Washington called someone else a f***ot and then used that same word when denying that he had said it. You trust purely an the color of ones skin rather than the content of one's character. Numerous people heard Mr. Washington say it, and only he denies it. He then himself made it seem as though people are afraid of him because of the color of his skin, the tone of his voice, and his physical stature. Maybe, just maybe it's his demeanor and temperment that is off putting to others. Maybe he was a difficult person to work with to begin with.
However, it seems to me that none of that matters to you. Prove me wrong man. I've never met you, all I know of you is what you put on this board. I'd like to think that you really don't feel the way you seem to, but how would I know? In any event, it is quite unavoidably clear that Isaiah Washington was fired for more than the color of his skin.
Also, for what it's worth, I'm no judge. Nor am I a jury. I just call bull**** when I see it, that's all.
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
08-02-2007 01:54 AM
