Posted on 08/04/2012 11:59:04 AM PDT by Perdogg
NBC has become the centre of a race storm after airing an ad featuring a monkey performing gymnastics, right after showing the performance of Gabby Douglas, the first African-American to win Olympic gold. The network has since apologised for the advert's poor timing, explaining: 'No offense was intended.'
The controversy ignited as sportscaster
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liberals are the real racists. The white ones live in lilly white neighborhoods. They purport to be all inclusive. The like abortion because it disproportionately eliminates black babies as a percentage. They scream racism at others to make themselves feel good. They like them on the voting plantation, but they don’t them being economically better off because they may move to their neighborhood. They throw money at them because to keep them dependent. Everyone knows if you don’t earn your way in life, you generally don’t appreciate anything you or others around you have.
They do this sort of thing to conservatives time and time again like with Sarah Palin and certain lead in music as an example. I am certain, a couple of nubile liberals behind the scenes thought it would be humorous to do this.
Closest racists=liberal. They are true racists.
These days that's all it takes.
Good point. In fact, even THINKING that the monkey has anything to do with the athlete can by itself be construed as racism.
But what Costas said was definitely racist. Why did he have to mention all other black girls when talking about her? Definitely racism.
Once every decade is what I settle for. Lol.
For anyone, ANYONE to besmirch the accomplishments of this young athlete by inferring that there is ANY connection between her performance and that stupid, effing commercial...
Absolutely shameful and disgusting.
The same network that also pushes the “Justice For Trayvon” racist garbage...how fitting
I wonder if Gabby Douglass does not fit the NBC-DNC-Al Sharpton stereotype of African-Americans? After all, she won in a sport that is mainly “white” and she even lives with a “white family”. Sharpton, Jackson, New Black Panthers must be hating that
Before seeing the clip i was siding with those who were saying that to find it offensive was itself racist. Why equate a monkey with a black person in the first place? But after seeing the clip, i can see why people are upset.
I mean, the whole thing come off like something you might expect to see in a Mel Brooks movie. Paraphrasing Costas (who looks the same as he did 30 years ago by the way): “...so that African-American girls will dream of following in her footsteps some day.” Then right after that, as though on cue, there comes an ad showing dark hands holding onto the high-bar, with a voice-over saying something like: “He has been training all his life for this moment.”
So you’re thinking, “Oh i see, they’re showing a black gymnast to follow up on what Costas was saying.”
But then, as if this really were a cutting edge comedy skit, the hands turn out not to be that of a black person but a chimp. I think if Costas hadn’t said what he did, no one would have been too bothered by i...but it does come off looking quite bad.
Aren’t the people who see this back to back and are offended, the real racists or racismists? They have to believe there’s some connection btwn a black gymnast interview and a monkey in an ad doing gymnastics. I’d not make that connection. Racists however would. Racismists would as well.
But with the events unfolding like they did, it is nice to see NBC was the victim of its own type of political correctness. It couldn't have happened to a nicer group. I can only imagine what Chrissy Matthews would be saying for a month, if this had unfolded on FOX.
But I simply have to believe its was serendipity and not malice. But it is fine to bend NBC over the picklebarrel.
Those girls are America’s little crown jewels.
Keep a small bedroll/bag packed, ‘just-in-case’. LOL.
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