"It's Because I'm A Black Man"

God how I hate it when people who are blatantly wrong try to play the race card. Hollywood actor Isaiah Washington is no different.

Washington, who initially used the epithet during an onset clash with a co-star, told Newsweek magazine that "someone heard the booming voice of a black man and got really scared and that was the beginning of the end for me."

He tried to make amends by expressing remorse and volunteering to enter a counseling program to understand how the confrontation got out of hand, he told Newsweek.

"My mistake was believing that I would get the support from my network and all of my cast mates across the board. My mistake was believing I could correct a wrong with honesty and sincerity," he said in the interview posted online Thursday.

"My mistake was thinking black people get second chances. I was wrong on all fronts," he said.

His unwillingness to act like a submissive black at work was part of the problem, Washington said.

"Well, it didn't help me on the set that I was a black man who wasn't a mush-mouth Negro walking around with his head in his hands all the time. I didn't speak like I'd just left the plantation and that can be a problem for people sometime," he said.

"I had a person in human resources tell me after this thing played out that 'some people' were afraid of me around the studio. I asked her why, because I'm a 6-foot-1, black man with dark skin and who doesn't go around saying 'Yessah, massa sir' and 'No sir, massa' to everyone?

"It's nuts when your presence alone can just scare people, and that made me a prime candidate to take the heat in a dysfunctional family," he said.

First off, if any of you used an anti-gay remark at work, you'd be fired immediately. If I called someone a "fag" or "dyke" or whatever the hell this guy called someone else, I'd be hauled into an office and I'd be unemployed within minutes. It has NOTHING to do with the color of my skin.

Why should you get the "support of the network and your cast mates across the board"? Do you think if anyone in the real world did what you did that they would get unconditional support from their coworkers? There are gay people in the world Isaiah, and if you show that you're willing to call a person an anti-gay remark, what the fuck makes you think they should automatically forgive you? Would you forgive a cast mate who called another person a "nigger"? Probably not, and you'd be completely in the right for not forgiving that person.

Maybe if Johnny Cochran was alive he could help out: "If the word "fag" comes from his mouth, his employment shouldn't go south".

So suck it up idiot, you made your bed, now lie in it like a MAN would do.

Travis
travis@rightwinglunatic.com