MSNBC racist joke against Mitt Romney's family

[Mediocre Man]

Melissa Harris-Perry decided it was fine to make racial slurs towards Mitt Romney's family and their black grandson in particular. The show started singing "one of these things is not like the other" at one point.

She has apologized and he accepted, but where was the fucking backlash from Jesse and Al?

MSNBC reinstated her today. If she was a white woman who slammed Obama in a racial way, she would be out of a damn job and probably would never work in media again.



http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...hr/news+(The+Hollywood+Reporter+-+Top+Stories)

 

[VanillaGorilla]

I can't make myself care about this.

 

[Mediocre Man]

I can't make myself care about this.

Cause it was a black person being racist?

Funny how that works

 

[VanillaGorilla]

Cause it was a black person being racist?

Funny how that works

No, that's not it at all.

 

[barfo]

I don't understand. This happened DAYS ago. Why don't we have a dozen outraged threads on this already? I actually had to learn about this from the *media*!?!

barfo

 

[BlazerWookee]

It was funny. It would have been funny if it was a black family with an adopted white baby. She, nor MSNBC, should feel the need to apologize.

Unfortunately, professional hypersensitives have so polluted the inter-racial dialogue in this country, people actually choose to be offended by stuff like this.

 

[Mediocre Man]

It was funny. It would have been funny if it was a black family with an adopted white baby. She, nor MSNBC, should feel the need to apologize.

Unfortunately, professional hypersensitives have so polluted the inter-racial dialogue in this country, people actually choose to be offended by stuff like this.

For the record, I thought it was funny as well.

I just can't seem to get over the complete double standard in this country when it comes to race

 

[bluefrog]

I'm missing the "double standard" part.

She got called out for making a racist joke and apologized for it.

 

[Mediocre Man]

I'm missing the "double standard" part.

She got called out for making a racist joke and apologized for it.

And the backlash from Jesse and Al? the NAACP going after her like they did Phil Robertson for saying he never saw black people complaining when they were picking cotton? Him suspended indefinitely, her getting her job back. It's complete bullshit.

I have ZERO problem with what she said, but if you are going to do it to one, you have to do it to all

 

[Boob-No-More]

Perhaps there was little outrage because rich, white politicians are not a historically oppressed, underrepresented minority.

BTW, in spite of Phil Robertson's anti-gay statements, he was not suspended indefinitely. He was reinstated without missing any filming or having his pay docked in any way.

BNM

 

[Denny Crane]

This isn't the first time she's opened her mouth, said what she really thinks, and got called out for it.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...-the-firestorm-over-collective-parenting.html

Proof that you can be not too bright and be given a job as professor.

 

[Mediocre Man]

Perhaps there was little outrage because rich, white politicians are not a historically oppressed, underrepresented minority.

BTW, in spite of Phil Robertson's anti-gay statements, he was not suspended indefinitely. He was reinstated without missing any filming or having his pay docked in any way.

BNM

So it's ok to slam Romney and white people in 2013-14 because we were not oppressed decades ago?

Underrepresented minority? I guess Barry doesn't represent black people?

 

[Boob-No-More]

So it's ok to slam Romney and white people in 2013-14 because we were not oppressed decades ago?

Oh please, nobody got "slammed" in that clip. She apologized, he accepted, end of story.

BNM

 

[Nate4Prez]

Melissa Harris-Perry decided it was fine to make racial slurs towards Mitt Romney's family and their black grandson in particular. The show started singing "one of these things is not like the other" at one point.

She has apologized and he accepted, but where was the fucking backlash from Jesse and Al?

MSNBC reinstated her today. If she was a white woman who slammed Obama in a racial way, she would be out of a damn job and probably would never work in media again.



http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...hr/news+(The+Hollywood+Reporter+-+Top+Stories)

I don't understand what "racial slur" was used. I can't find "one of these things is not like the other" on this list.

 

[BlazerWookee]

I don't understand what "racial slur" was used. I can't find "one of these things is not like the other" on this list.

The word "slur" has been defined down so far that even mentioning race can be construed as a "slur."

Stupid hypersensitivity industry...

 

[The_Lillard_King]

For the record, I thought it was funny as well.

I just can't seem to get over the complete double standard in this country when it comes to race

Really? A country that allowed slavery at one point and you can't understand the double standard in this country. Has there ever not been a double standard in this country when it comes to women and people of color?

 

[Mediocre Man]

Really? A country that allowed slavery at one point and you can't understand the double standard in this country. Has there ever not been a double standard in this country when it comes to women and people of color?

So again, it's ok for a balck w?oman to make fun of and mock the Romney family in a racial manner because decades ago people had slaves....right

 

[Mediocre Man]

Oh please, nobody got "slammed" in that clip. She apologized, he accepted, end of story.

BNM

White people make dumb racial comments all the time, apologize and it still causes a shit storm. Why does this get to be the end of the story.....because she's black?

 

[Boob-No-More]

White people make dumb racial comments all the time, apologize and it still causes a shit storm. Why does this get to be the end of the story.....because she's black?

Or maybe because what she said really wasn't all that offensive. She didn't use any racial slurs. It's not like she put on a hood and burned a cross on the Romney's front lawn.

BNM

 

[Boob-No-More]

For the record, I thought it was funny as well.

So, you weren't offended by her comments...

I just can't seem to get over the complete double standard in this country when it comes to race

but, you're offended that others aren't offended?

There's your double standard.

BNM

 

[The_Lillard_King]

So again, it's ok for a balck w?oman to make fun of and mock the Romney family in a racial manner because decades ago people had slaves....right

No. You seem upset about double standards and I got to wonder what life you have been leading to be acting surprised by what you perceive to be a double standard. Because personally, I live in a world where double standard is the norm and it has existed long before I've been living in it.

And this woman publically apologized so not OK for her to mock Romney's family or she probably wouldn't have apologized.

 

[MarAzul]

Really? A country that allowed slavery at one point and you can't understand the double standard in this country. Has there ever not been a double standard in this country when it comes to women and people of color?

Please Sir! You completely mis state the reality of the day. Slavery existed in the world at the time this Nation was created. Africans were being sold in Africa by Africans. Great Britain was the first country (and top dog of the day) in 1807 to outlaw the Slave trade. Jefferson and the US Congress acted in 1808 to make importing slaves into the US illegal and to set the US Navy to work on the High Seas to interdict the trade to any Nation. The trouble was, the US Navy was a wish at the time. Jefferson's first order of six frigates had not all been built yet. Jefferson first attempted to end slavery in Virgina before the Nation declared independence, while he was a member of the Virgina house of Burgesses but his attempt failed in the vote.

Slavery existed in the world before laws were passed eventually to make it illegal.

http://abolition.nypl.org/print/us_constitution/

 

[TradeNurkicNow]

And the backlash from Jesse and Al? the NAACP going after her like they did Phil Robertson for saying he never saw black people complaining when they were picking cotton? Him suspended indefinitely, her getting her job back. It's complete bullshit.

I have ZERO problem with what she said, but if you are going to do it to one, you have to do it to all

It sounds to me that you have a problem with Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and the NAACP. You're assuming their politicized rhetoric is representative of the entire country, or at least the segments of the population you want to demonize.

Oh, and Phil Robertson is back on the show. In fact, he didn't miss a day of filming. So there's that. Small victories. Stay strong.

 

[Eastoff]

Cause it was a black person being racist?

Funny how that works

Yeah, what does this black bitch know about growing up in a white family?

Her father was the first dean of African-American Affairs at the University of Virginia.[1] Her mother, Diana Gray, who is white, taught at a community college and was working on her doctorate when they met.

oh well that still doesn't give her the right to make fun of mormons!

"My maternal line are Mormons. My grandfather's mother immigrated from Sweden with her two siblings after her widowed mother was converted by Mormon missionaries. My great-grandfather's father came to America as a 19-year-old from England following the Latter Day Saints to Utah. My immigrant ancestors pushed hand carts across the American West during the Mormon expulsion and I even have a maternal great-great grandfather who was imprisoned for polygamy. When he married multiple wives the practice was legal in the Utah territory. But when Utah entered the Union in 1896, his plural [marriages] became illegal. Despite these laws, great grandfather Cooper refused to abandon his family. He served time in prison as a result. My own mother, though she left the Mormon church as an adult, was raised as a Mormon and attended Brigham Young University, graduating in 1965."

well... it's still not nice! /s

 

[The_Lillard_King]

Please Sir! You completely mis state the reality of the day. Slavery existed in the world at the time this Nation was created. Africans were being sold in Africa by Africans. Great Britain was the first country (and top dog of the day) in 1807 to outlaw the Slave trade. Jefferson and the US Congress acted in 1808 to make importing slaves into the US illegal and to set the US Navy to work on the High Seas to interdict the trade to any Nation. The trouble was, the US Navy was a wish at the time. Jefferson's first order of six frigates had not all been built yet. Jefferson first attempted to end slavery in Virgina before the Nation declared independence, while he was a member of the Virgina house of Burgesses but his attempt failed in the vote.

Slavery existed in the world before laws were passed eventually to make it illegal.

http://abolition.nypl.org/print/us_constitution/

Fine, you don't like the slavery example. How about woman's right to vote, Black person's right to marry a white person . .. it can go on and on.

My point was the US society has had double standards for a long time and society continues to have a double standard . . . more like a multi-layer of standards.

MM likes to point out when he thinks the double standard works in favor of people of color. There are times when the the multi-standard works in favor of people of color . . . there are many times when the double standard works against people of color too.

 

[crowTrobot]

It would have been funny if it was a black family with an adopted white baby.

thanks for a "the Jerk" flashback

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

I wanna care because I hate double standards too. Not because I really care about the double standards so much but because if they went away it might be a sign that racism is really fading out of existence. It just isn't and I just can't make myself care what they said. If we all just mixed races for a generation everyone would look the same....but pale blondes are just so hot to me I don't want it to happen.

 

[MARIS61]

The segment had Harris-Perry showing newsworthy photos of 2013 to a panel and asking them to come up with clever captions. The one photo that didn’t include an image of President Barack Obama was a Mitt Romney Christmas card that featured a photo of the former Republican candidate for president surrounded by his wife and grandchildren. On his lap sat infant Kieran Romney, the adopted black son of one of Romney’s sons.

On seeing the photo, one panelist, actress Pia Glenn sang, “One of these things is not like the other … and that little baby, front and center, would be the one,” as Harris-Perry laughed. Another panelist, comedian Dean Obeidallah joked that the image “sums up the diversity of the Republican party.” Harris-Perry cracked up the panel of four with the notion that Kieran could some day marry North West, the child of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian. “Can you imagine Mitt Romney and Kanye West as in-laws?” she asked.

3 people I've never heard of, on a show nobody watches, expose their marginal IQ's to the pathetic world of tabloid groupies. It's a sad situation all around.