"It's all good, bro. You're one of us."
Posted on 03/20/2012 4:18:30 AM PDT by servo1969
Video footage obtained by The Daily Caller shows Hollywood screen legend Tom Hanks and Eagles musician Glenn Frey at a 2004 fundraising auction, playfully interacting with a white man dressed as an African native, complete with blackface makeup and a giant Afro wig.
Hanks most recently provided the narration for ”The Road We’ve Traveled,” a 17-minute-long campaign video meant to help President Barack Obama win re-election in November.
The fundraiser, held March 13, 2004 at St. Matthew’s Parish School in Pacific Palisades, Calif., featured Hanks and Frey as co-emcees. Children of both men attended the school. The event’s theme, “Castaways,” evoked memories of the 2000 film “Cast Away,” in which Hanks starred.
Actor Tom Hanks is seen at a 2004 school fundraising auction, along with a white investment adviser who wore blackface makeup and a giant Afro wig The 2004 auction’s routine included a white man in blackface, identified in the footage as investment banker James Montgomery, CEO of the Santa Monica, Calif., firm Montgomery & Co. In addition to blackface makeup and the wig, Montgomery wore a leopard-print toga and an arm band made to look like it consisted of animal teeth.
During a lull in the auction, Frey refers to Montgomery and comments, “See how boring money management and stock investment is, people? It’s not nearly as much fun as, like, professional basketball.”
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Eight years ago
“It is gross, it’s coarse, and it is shocking that something like this would be done in California. Not Mississippi — in California!”
Sure. Because everyone knows all the racists live in Mississippi. There are no racists in California. /s
I’ve found that the liberals of the left are infatuated with race for some reason, whether it’s diversity, to affirmative action to making fun of blacks who live in the poorer areas.
How come Innis is a niger and Al Sharpton is not?
That proves it.
Tom Hanks forgot how to be funny. That corresponds with his stupid political conversion. His mid life crisis.
If he had Erectile Dysfunction he would have purchased a Ferrari.
we paid hard earned money to see the Eagles last fall. During their performance in Pittsburgh, comments were made regarding conservatives.......and the crowd collectively groaned. It turned me off to them forever. They showed still shots of Hannity, Beck and others, made comments about Christine Odonnell.....I kept thinking of Laura Ingraham.........just shut up and sing.
Damn those glass houses!
Apparently, in their world, it’s cutting edge and pushing the envelope.
It’s bad enough that Hanks and co. thought the act was clever. Worse is that the school allowed it and the audience of Hollywood 1%ers stuck around to participate in the auction. Nobody had the decency to nix it, say “not cool” or to walk out?
Who thought the racist gig was so awesome that they got high bid on the gorilla?
I saw excerpts from Don Felder's book regarding Frey and they were hilarious.
“I guess it’s not racist if liberals do it. Right?”
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Of course.
Smug, self-congratulatory progressivs are only ridiculing their inferiors: Backward, racist haters out in flyover.
They are so sophisticated and advanced, even....gasp...edgy and daring, in their perspective, that no one would even THINK of considering them as “racist”. They are SO beyond and above that.
“I guess it’s not racist if liberals do it. Right?”
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Of course.
Smug, self-congratulatory progressives are only ridiculing their inferiors: Backward, racist haters out in flyover.
They are so sophisticated and advanced, even....gasp...edgy and daring, in their perspective, that no one would even THINK of considering them as “racist”. They are SO beyond and above that.
They say this is as close to diversity as they will get at this school. So to them diversity is just some sort of game they poke others with but it can’t be all that important to them or why are they sending their children to a school lacking diversity and then laughing about it?
"It's all good, bro. You're one of us."
Not only 'not' racist - but NOT something the MSM or New York Times has the slightest interest in...
If you want to see 'creepy' check out this undercover video of journalists talking when they think only fellow 'elites' are in the room. It's sickening - don't watch the ending.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBFOmUXR080
Check this out if you want to see how liberals talk to each other when they think they're alone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBFOmUXR080
If there were a video of rush limbaugh and friends doing this, what would Tom hanks say? I haven’t seen this video so I have no idea if it’s racist or not, but in Liberalville all that matters is whether you’ve chosen to “like” the person and how they vote.
To liberals, Tom hanks should enjoy more freedom of behavior. Rush limbaugh should be put to death for the same thing they’d enjoy Tom hanks doing.
Eight years ago.
Oh, well nevermind then. Nothing to see here.
Hey, heard any good Mel Gibson jokes lately?
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