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Disclaimer:
I don't condone Anti-Semitism in any form and the intent behind me posting this is to have a discussion and NOT TO SUPPORT ANY OF THE COMMENTS MADE BY ANY OF THE BLACK CELEBRITIES MENTIONED HERE. I don't know them and they don't speak for me.
So first there was the Desean Jackson incident where he thought he was quoting Hitler (turns out he wasn't). He shouldn't have said any of that. He's rich enough to afford a PR person that should have prevented him from saying any of that nonsense. There was no place for it. Period.
He has and will likely continue to apologize for what he said. I am surprised that he wasn't already cut by the team (although there's plenty of time for that to happen).
My problem with it is that the team that he plays for, the Philadelphia Eagles, are basically making this man get on his knees AFTER having apologized profusely for his comments.
What I want to know is where was this type of admonishment when another WR for the Eagles a few years back, one Riley Cooper, was caught on video shouting the dreaded N-word at a Kenny Chesney concert?
As a matter of fact- Cooper was rewarded with a contract extension in the weeks following the incident. He wasn't required to meet with leaders in the black community in the way that Jackson has to meet with Rabbis and visit the Holocaust museum.
Why is the punishment for black celebs always infinitely more harsh than it is for whites?
Then I saw this article today:
The article
Now what Nick Cannon said was ugly and again I don't condone that- but why is the penalty that CBS/Viacom terminates their relationship with him entirely within 1 day? There was no conversation as there would have been if say, Ryan Seacrest had said something equally as ugly about Black people. Mind you- Nick's show Wildin Out (no matter how you feel about it) has basically kept MTV afloat for years.
As for Louis Farrakhan being in the headline picture... as far as I'm concerned there isn't a discussion to be had about him. He hates Jewish people, period and I don't think a discussion of his politics is of any utility here or elsewhere.
Diddy got looped into this because he publicly lobbied for Cannon to come to Revolt TV to do his show. So I suppose his face appearing near the headline is guilt by proposed association which I don't agree with at all in this case (unless of course there are some anti-Semitic comments diddy has made that I am unaware of).
Ice Cube is there due to his recent tweets and if I am not mistaken some comments he made about Jerry Heller in the late 80's- Early 90's after Heller attempted to penetrate cube and the rest of NWA with "no Vaseline."
I don't condone Anti-Semitism in any form and the intent behind me posting this is to have a discussion and NOT TO SUPPORT ANY OF THE COMMENTS MADE BY ANY OF THE BLACK CELEBRITIES MENTIONED HERE. I don't know them and they don't speak for me.
So first there was the Desean Jackson incident where he thought he was quoting Hitler (turns out he wasn't). He shouldn't have said any of that. He's rich enough to afford a PR person that should have prevented him from saying any of that nonsense. There was no place for it. Period.
He has and will likely continue to apologize for what he said. I am surprised that he wasn't already cut by the team (although there's plenty of time for that to happen).
My problem with it is that the team that he plays for, the Philadelphia Eagles, are basically making this man get on his knees AFTER having apologized profusely for his comments.
What I want to know is where was this type of admonishment when another WR for the Eagles a few years back, one Riley Cooper, was caught on video shouting the dreaded N-word at a Kenny Chesney concert?
As a matter of fact- Cooper was rewarded with a contract extension in the weeks following the incident. He wasn't required to meet with leaders in the black community in the way that Jackson has to meet with Rabbis and visit the Holocaust museum.
Why is the punishment for black celebs always infinitely more harsh than it is for whites?
Then I saw this article today:
The article
Now what Nick Cannon said was ugly and again I don't condone that- but why is the penalty that CBS/Viacom terminates their relationship with him entirely within 1 day? There was no conversation as there would have been if say, Ryan Seacrest had said something equally as ugly about Black people. Mind you- Nick's show Wildin Out (no matter how you feel about it) has basically kept MTV afloat for years.
As for Louis Farrakhan being in the headline picture... as far as I'm concerned there isn't a discussion to be had about him. He hates Jewish people, period and I don't think a discussion of his politics is of any utility here or elsewhere.
Diddy got looped into this because he publicly lobbied for Cannon to come to Revolt TV to do his show. So I suppose his face appearing near the headline is guilt by proposed association which I don't agree with at all in this case (unless of course there are some anti-Semitic comments diddy has made that I am unaware of).
Ice Cube is there due to his recent tweets and if I am not mistaken some comments he made about Jerry Heller in the late 80's- Early 90's after Heller attempted to penetrate cube and the rest of NWA with "no Vaseline."