What does everyone think about the Isaiah Washington issues?

I think he said something stupid but its getting blown out of proportion. And it will most likely ruin his career.

 

Re: What does everyone think about the Isaiah Washington iss

Indeed. White dudes have done worse. Mark Walhberg, a vicious racist thug who's attacked innocent people based on their race, has espoused similar views and is a successful actor today. It's all bullshit to me.

 

Isaiah needs to fall back and get that money. He needs white people to like him so his career can flourish as it has been doing on ABC. I mean, it's not a neccesity for success but it sure does open a lot of doors.

 

Re: What does everyone think about the Isaiah Washington iss

It's so messed up, but it was also stupid on his part in light of the brouhaha over that previous incident. I read he's now entered some treatment facility, and they're going after the BW who created the show and hired him. Since he's already laid up on the series they can easily write him on out. I heard he met with GLAAD as well.

 

It' funny that they say "He needs treatment", as though not liking the homosexual lifestyle a disease. He's being used as an example that suggests that anyone who disaaproves of homosexuality in any form must be psychologically ill. If this persists throughtout the years then one day homosexuality will be the NORM !!!!! AT THE SAME DEGREE AS HETEROSEXUALITY. At every turn the media is attacking any and every hint of strong masculinity(especially black) so that they may scare away real men from rebelling so that they can easilly promote the homosexual lifestyle.

 

He apologised for calling a fellow actor a 'faggot'. End of story.

He's not comfortable with that lifestyle. His choice.

I've seen gay men in my local web cafe looking at some pics that turn my stomach (in a public area like a web cafe, too) so it's no surprise that many people find it objectionable.

 

Mark Wahlberg still has a career and folks have long known of his racist nature. Kramer will be back out there before you know it.

http://www.abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=2509542&page=1

The rage he channeled for the role comes from a very personal place — the tough streets he was raised on in Dorchester, Mass. He led a life characterized by incidents of petty crime, drug dealing and racism.

He harassed a group of African American school kids with racist epithets, and when he was 16, again using racist language, he attacked a middle-aged Vietnamese man and left the man blind in one eye. Wahlberg was arrested for attempted murder, plead guilty to assault, and spent 45 days in jail.

And though the right thing to do would be to try to find the man and make amends, Wahlberg says, he admits he hasn't done so — but says he's no longer burdened by guilt.

"I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes," Wahlberg says. "You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night. I feel good when I wake up in the morning."

 

This black gay woman is right on the money. Gays are no different from the rest of their society.

JASMYME CANNICK: The Hypocrisy of White Gay America
Gays Can Protest Isaiah Washington, but Remain Silent on White Gay Man Who Performs Blackface Minstrel Show
January 18, 2007

After 24 hours of protest by white gay America towards “Grey’s Anatomy” star Isaiah Washington after accusations from fellow gay co-actor T.R. Knight of Washington referring to him as the f-word and Washington’s mistake of using the word at a press conference at the Golden Globes, the gays have won.

In an editorial I penned yesterday (scroll down below), I referred to the protest as something that reminds of 1876 in the Deep South, when a white woman would scream rape at the hands of a Black man, and that Black man was then dragged out of his home into the middle of the night and beaten and lynched by an angry white mob without any proof or evidence, just the word of his accuser. It was another case of guilty until proven innocent.

At the end of the day, the issue for me and many Black Americans was the fact that in the beginning this was the issue of one man’s word against another and without any further evidence, all of white gay America pounced on Washington defending their beloved Knight.

But for the most part that’s the way it always goes.

And in the end, as I said yesterday, Isaiah was wrong for using the word at the Golden Globes, he could have said “the f-word” instead of repeating the entire slur again. However, it really didn’t matter because the gay mafia’s wheels were in motion and they smelled meat, dark meat. And whether Isaiah apologized or not, it was all down hill for him anyway. Once you’re labeled as a homophobe in the entertainment industry it’s pretty hard to shake that wrap.

But something about this whole thing reeks of white privilege, gay power, and what I commonly refer to as the hypocrisy of white gay America.

The gay mafia didn’t have a problem defending their pretty boy Knight whose career will probably sky rocket now that’s he’s out of the closet. However, at the same time, there’s been no protest launched against Charles Knipp, a white gay man who dresses up in blackface as a character he calls Shirley Q. Liquor and describes as an “inarticulate Black women on welfare with 19 kids.”

Set to perform during Black History Month in West Hollywood, this self-described comic has built an entire career of promoting the most negative and vicious stereotypes of Blacks, in particular Black women. In broken English, Liquor makes comments like “axe your mamma how she durrin” and misuses words like “ignunt.” Knipp mocks the Black American holiday Kwanzaa and makes fun of stereotypical Black names in a music video entitled, “Who Is My Baby’s Daddy?,” even going as far as to use sexually transmitted diseases as names of Black children. Knipp’s characterizations of Black woman played out on stage in city after city are ones that portray Black women as being on welfare, living in the projects, illiterate, sexually promiscuous mothers who don’t know who their children’s fathers are, alcoholics, and drug addicts.

But let’s look a bit closer at the hypocrisy I spoke of.

I already mentioned that the gay mafia has said nothing about Knipp, but do you want to know why? Because they’re the ones responsible for selling out his shows as he tours around the country.

Knipp doesn’t bring his shows to the people he’s degrading. No, he books his shows in white gay Mecca’s like L.A.’s West Hollywood, New York’s Chelsea District, San Francisco’s Castro District.

So let me get this straight, no pun intended, it’s not ok for the Black guy to use the f-word, but it is ok for the white gay guy to dress up in blackface and perform parodies that mock Blacks.

I once made the comment that if Knipp were making fun of Jews his act would have been canceled a long time ago, but I think I’ll change that to include gays as well given the recent incident with Washington.

I learned a long time ago that as a Black lesbian, my place was with Blacks. The same racism and classism issues that exists between Blacks and whites in general, applies to the gay community as well. I may have issues with the occasional homophobic Black pastor or rapper, but at the end of the day, we as Blacks know what discrimination and racism is because we’ve dealt with it all of our lives. So when it happens, we can call it out. Unfortunately, when it comes to the gay community, if it’s not affecting their rosy white lives, then they couldn’t give a damn. But hey, isn’t that what white privilege is all about?

Jasmyne Cannick is a social commentator and activist who is known for addressing the issues others can't or simply won't. Chosen as one of ESSENCE Magazine's 25 Women Shaping the World, at 29, Jasmyne is a member of the National Association of Black Journalists and writes a popular daily blog at www.jasmynecannick.com and www.myspace.com/jasmynecannick. She resides in Los Angeles.

 

I honestly think the issue is that he used a hurtful word more so than the fact that he obviously doesn't agree with the gay lifestyle. I think everyone is entitled to that opinion, if you don't like it so be it but don't call them the f-word, we all know that that is the trigger word that makes the gay community jump. He is in the public light and represents more than just his personal opinion and in times of everyone being PC you just shouldn't be so stupid. I love Isiaiah and his character on the show but now when I watch it and he and TR Knight are on screen I wonder about the incident and that is what the show and the producers have a problem with. In addition his ignorant tantrum spoiled the Golden Globe success for the entire cast.

Oh and yeah as far as entering treatment, that is the new way of dealing with problems in addition ABC can't fire him now since he is under psycho care, smart move after all.

 

He said something stupid at that press conference at the Golden Globes. Also, the producers of this show should had set him straight no pun intended months back after that drama on the set.