Radio Host Calls Rice 'Aunt Jemima'

[RobFunk]

Radio Host Calls Rice 'Aunt Jemima'

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<!-- TextStart -->By JAMES A. CARLSON, Associated Press Writer

MILWAUKEE - A radio talk show host drew criticism Thursday after calling Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) an "Aunt Jemima" and saying she isn't competent to be secretary of state.

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John Sylvester, the program director and morning personality on WTDY-AM in Madison, said in a phone interview Thursday that he used the term on Wednesday's show to describe Rice and other blacks as having only a subservient role in the Bush administration.



Rice has served as President Bush (news - web sites)'s national security adviser and was named this week to replace the departing Colin Powell (news - web sites) as secretary of state.



Sylvester, who is white, also referred to Powell as an "Uncle Tom" — a contemptuous term for a black whose behavior toward whites is regarded as fawning or servile.



He said Thursday night that he was referring to remarks by singer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte that the price of admittance for blacks to the Bush White House was subservience.



As for Rice, "they're using her for an illusion of inclusion," he said, adding that he feels her history as national security adviser showed a lack of competence.



Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz called the remarks "racially insensitive," while Sen. Russ Feingold (news, bio, voting record), D-Wis., said in a statement he joined "all Wisconsinites in rejecting" the statements.



Linda Hoskins of the NAACP's Madison branch said she could not comment on Sylvester's remarks until she had heard them in their entirety.



The station's corporate office received about 100 calls about his comments, Sylvester said.



He added that he has a long history of commitment to civil rights and has supported Madison's black community.



He said he was planning a giveaway on Friday's show of Aunt Jemima pancake mix and syrup. "I will apologize to Aunt Jemima," he said.



The incident came after a radio host in Milwaukee had his talk show taken off the air all of last week after he used word "wetback" to refer to undocumented Mexican immigrants, sparking protests from Hispanics.



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Associated Press writer JR Ross in Madison contributed to this story.

 

[RobFunk]

was petre on to something?

 

[Marco]

She does look a little bit like that bottle of syrup on the store shelf....

 

[bblight]

I'm baffled!
The liberals are supposed to be kinder and gentler, yet they'll use the most base and degrading names toward someone who doesn't march lockstep with them. Then one of them will come up with some seemingly good reason for the demeaning remark, and all will act as though it was ok to do it.

I learned long ago that a base and degrading remark harms the person who says it, as well as the person it was said about.

Well, the KKK has a lot of company, as I'm sure they feel the same way about Ms Rice!

 

[RobFunk]

yea! liberal this conserv that! seems like right and left all calling her pancake mix girl there isnt a single righty that thinks this is a good move. quit with the bs

 

[bblight]

Rob, racism is racism, no matter what the intentions of the person are.

You don't have to be a conservative or a liberal to recognize racism - or to approve of it!

 

[docmercer--banned]

bblight:

Well said ...

Heck, the biggest racist on the airwaves is Rush Limbaugh
and this comment is tame compared to some of the crap Limbaugh has spouted off in the last decade about the African-American race

Again .. Republican or Democratic affiliation ...NO EXCUSE

 

[RobFunk]

ya you guys are right. it [pancake mix and condi] shouldnt be a household association. racism is a lousy way to flame someone. there are much better ways to do it!

where do you suppose the guy got the idea though was he visiting our beloved poly forum?! :toast:

 

[Ego74]

just weird that people laugh and think it's funny when a black republican is made fun of, but when the tables are turned, it's an outrage. The democrats are masters (no pun intended) of pitting classes and races of people against each other. pretty sick if you ask me.

 

[bblight]

Some people just don't understand that racism is intolerable - no matter where it comes from. Such racial phenomena as desegregation andThe tuskagee syphilis experiment happend in my lifetime.

Institutionalized racism is dead, and any kind of racism shouldn't be tolerated - from anyone, from any race!

 

[docmercer--banned]

I agree that Racism shows lack of intelligence and has no place in modern society ...

One problem ...The main spokesman for the Bushies is Rush Limbaugh and I've heard plenty of Bushies argue that Limbaugh "doesnt have a racist bone in his body" ... Really?

*In 1992, on his now-defunct TV show, Limbaugh expressed his ire when Spike Lee urged that black schoolchildren get off from school to see his film Malcolm X: <!--StartFragment --> "Spike, if you're going to do that, let's complete the education experience. You should tell them that they should loot the theater, and then blow it up on their way out."

<!--StartFragment -->*As a young broadcaster in the 1970s, Limbaugh once told a black caller: "Take that bone out of your nose and call me back." A decade ago, after becoming nationally syndicated, he mused on the air: "Have you ever noticed how all composite pictures of wanted criminals resemble Jesse Jackson?"


*In a similar vein, here is Limbaugh's mocking take on the NAACP, a group with a ninety-year commitment to nonviolence: "The NAACP should have riot rehearsal. They should get a liquor store and practice robberies." *When Carol Moseley-Braun (D-IL) was in the U.S. Senate, the first black woman ever elected to that body, Limbaugh would play the "Movin' On Up" theme song from TV's "Jeffersons" when he mentioned her.

*Limbaugh sometimes still uses mock dialect -- substituting "ax" for "ask"-- when discussing black leaders. *In 1994, Limbaugh mocked St. Louis for building a rail line to East St. Louis "where nobody goes." East St. Louis is home to roughly 40,000 residents -- 98 percent of whom are African-Americans. One of its 40,000 "nobodies" is star NFL linebacker Bryan Cox.

*Once, in response to a caller arguing that black people need to be heard, Limbaugh responded: "They are 12 percent of the population. Who the hell cares?"

 

[petre]

i'ze real scared of dat condi

 

[petre]

by the way, the radio guy is not guilty of plagiarism, since after he saw my post on the Rx, he called and received permission to use this allegory on his radio show, to answer all your inquiries.

 

[petre]

give credit where credit is due for this brilliant observation

 

[petre]

 

[Ego74]

Some people just don't understand that racism is intolerable - no matter where it comes from. Such racial phenomena as desegregation andThe tuskagee syphilis experiment happend in my lifetime.

Institutionalized racism is dead, and any kind of racism shouldn't be tolerated - from anyone, from any race!

amen brother