'Mammy Condoleezza' Parody Prompts Apology, NAACP Mum

newsmax.com | Monday Jan. 27, 2003; 9:03 p.m. EST | newsmax staff

[mware]

'Mammy Condoleezza' Parody Prompts Apology, NAACP Mum

A Florida radio station has apologized for letting one of its hosts air a racist song parody about Bush National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. But the apology comes no thanks to the local chapter of the NAACP, which was contacted about the racial outrage, but decided not to complain on behalf of the top black Bush official.

The song "Condoleezza," aired repeatedly by WQAM-AM Miami radio host Neil Rogers, who's a harsh critic of President Bush, was a viscous racial assault on Ms. Rice that described her as a "black-haired answer-mammy" who "cleans all the White House bathrooms."

Angered over the radio racism directed towards the nation's highest ranking African-American woman, Robert Oliver, producer for the "Interactions" radio show on Chicago's WBEE, complained to WQAM about "Condoleezza" in December. It was he, not anyone with the Miami NAACP, who finally extracted the following apology from station management, which was broadcast on WQAM on Jan. 17:

"Recently Neil Rogers, one of our broadcast personalities, aired a parody with derogatory comments regarding Condoleezza Rice and her heritage. Ms. Rice is a respected senior official of our government and, on that basis alone, deserves to be addressed with respect.

"As broadcasters, we take our role as steward of the public airwaves very seriously and wish to inform listeners that Mr. Rogers' comments and opinions are his and his alone. Station personnel at WQAM and its owner, the Beasley Broadcast Group, DO NOT share Mr. Rogers' views on this subject and satire and we offer our sincere apology to anyone who was offended by this broadcast." (End of Apology)

To anyone who was offended? How could anyone not be offended with song lyrics like these:

"Condoleezza" (Sung to the Nat King Cole classic, Mona Lisa)

"Condoleezza, Condoleezza, what you be doin'? That neo-facist black-haired token schwarze dog.

"Is you there 'cause you a high-toned public Negro? Is you their black-haired answer-mammy who be smart? Does they like how you shine their shoes, Condoleezza? Or the way you wash and park the whitey's cars.

"Georgie junior says he trusts you, Condoleezza. Who said our [unintelligible] off the greedy oil woes. But then he make you clean all the White House bathrooms. The public sink, the toilet and let's scrub the floors." (End of Excerpt)

Mr. Oliver, who also works with the Illinois Freedom Project, told us on Friday that he was satisfied with the station's apology, although there's no indication that WQAM is ready to discipline the race-baiting Mr. Rogers, whose own voice was conspicuously absent from the station owner's apology.

When NewsMax.com first the reported on the "Condoleezza" hate parody in late October, the racial sensitivity police decided to take a powder. Ditto two weeks later, when Fox News Channel's Heather Nauert attempted to interview Rogers about "Condoleezza," and was taunted by sexual vulgarities instead. Credit for forcing WQAM's apology also goes to Congress of Racial Equality National Spokesman Niger Innis, who worked with Mr. Oliver behind the scenes.

So where was the outrage from the rest of the press over Rogers' racist attack on Rice? Apparently the media was too busy getting their knickers in a twist over Trent Lott's gaffe to notice this bit of genuine Jim Crow-style bigotry polluting South Florida's airwaves.

Right under the noses of Miami's NAACP.

[mware]

TIME FOR A FREEP

[CobaltBlue]

That is really shocking. I don't know what's more shocking, the overt racism, or the lack of outrage by other black people. Is it ok to be racist as long as you're just racist towards conservative blacks?

Astonishing.

[xsmommy]

this is outrageous.

[Damocles]

This sounds familiar. I swear I read about this last summer. I'll look around...

[MrB]

I'm sure Condi isn't all that put out about this. People of character only get upset when people that they respect are demeaning.

And, she should find it a compliment that the NAACP didn't step up to proclaim the racism. It just shows that she's a powerful, mature adult that can defend herself.

I'm personally outraged that there was such a demeaning childish attack on such a capable person of excellence.

[FR_addict]

I'm bumping this one. I am so tired of the liberals getting away with their bigoted and hateful words when it is an attack on a conservative black person.

[mware]

I don't have the time now, but if anyone does, how about some telephone numbers and email addresses.

[mware]

How about O'Reilly and Hannity. This is right up their alley.

[GraniteStateConservative]

"Kiss a N----r Good Morning"-- another tasteless song from the tolerant left.

[The Raven]

The libs are a bunch of losers. All of them. They are loud mouthed control freaks. There! How does it feel to get some in return you goofy, stupid liberals (not that they'lll be reading this)?

[TommyDale]

Condi Rice has more class in her little toenail that the entire NAACP combined. This radio host would be fired if he were a conservative, doing a similar song about Jesse Jackass.

I agree that things like this need to be explored by people like Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh and others.

BTTT.

[hgro]

What is outrageous is that the NAACP is out to lunch. Too, where is that crusader Jesse "I spit in White Folks soup" Jackson.

[Elenya]

Is it ok to be racist as long as you're just racist towards conservative blacks?

Absolutely. Black Democrats are the only worthy Blacks. The others don't count. In fact, they're subhumans... < /sarcasm>

[mware]

I know that Carl from Oyster Bay (newsmax.com) is a friend of Sean's. I can guarantee it he will cover this on his radio show and maybe Hannity and Colmes.

[xsmommy]

or that presidential candidate, alsharpton ?

[chatham]

We the People of the Unites States own the airwaves and we license the use to different people.
If dopey Lott loses his job because of an implied racial slur then this jerk Rogers and his station should lose their license to use our radio in violation of our Laws...

[GraniteStateConservative]

FNC, 11-8-02

[mware]

implied racial slur

Nothing implied about that bit of racism. It is as plain as black and white.

[litehaus]

My memory says Neil Rogers is/has been,an advocate for the "Alternative Lifestyle" for many many years in Miami and environs........and a vicious advocate of same I might add.........

[Damocles]

Thank you!

[bmwcyle]

Racism is alive in many Blacks.

[big gray tabby]

Somebody needs to smack these a-holes upside their heads. That's not funny, it's vicious. A good ass-whomping is in order.

[dennisw]

I don't think it's so bad. It does have some humor. If Black posters at FR are offended then I will change my mind.

[dennisw]

My memory says Neil Rogers is/has been,an advocate for the "Alternative Lifestyle" for many many years in Miami and environs........and a vicious advocate of same I might add.........
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As queer as a 3 dollar bill.

[ravingnutter]

Credit for forcing WQAM's apology also goes to Congress of Racial Equality National Spokesman Niger Innis, who worked with Mr. Oliver behind the scenes.

Thank you Niger...we need more young black leaders like you! Don't let the Dems get a free pass on this!

BTW, the CORE website has a media protest feature that allows you to address all the major media outlets on their bias. Let's Freep them as well!

[HEY4QDEMS]

I can't believe anyone is shocked at all.

The NAACP like many other minority groups have always been Democrats first and a racial identity second.

Anyone who thinks that they are sincere in their alleged cause is totally naive.

[Pharmboy]

Click here too: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/830747/posts

[Living Free in NH]

How do you think this would go over at the NAALCP HQ...

The song "Sharpton," aired repeatedly by WQAM-AM Miami radio host Neil Rogers, who's a harsh critic of President Sharpton, was a viscous racial assault on the President that described him as a "black-haired answer-boy" who "cleans all the White House bathrooms."

"Sharpton" (Sung to the Nat King Cole classic, Mona Lisa)

"Sharpton, Sharpton, what you be doin'? That neo-facist black-haired token schwarze dog."

"Is you there 'cause you a high-toned public Negro? Is you their black-haired answer-boy who be smart? Does they like how you shine their shoes, Sharpton? Or the way you wash and park the whitey's cars."

"All the Libs says they trusts you, Sharpie. Who said our [unintelligible] off the greedy welfare woes. But then they make you clean all the White House bathrooms. The public sink, the toilet and let's scrub the floors." (End of Excerpt)

[MomwithHope]

I wouldn't be surprised if Jesse Jackson was the author.

[VRWCmember]

I don't think it's so bad. It does have some humor.

From your profile page:
Isaiah 5:20 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

There is nothing humorous about the Condoleeza Mammy song parody. It is completely hateful and bigoted. We live in a country where the idiot that recorded has the freedom to be an idiot and reveal his idiocy to all. And anyone with any decency at all also has the right to be outraged and offended by such hateful bigotry.

[logic101.net]

Why are you shocked? Have you not heard Mr Dashole? Mr Al Whore? Think of some of their comments in the past (and present for that matter).

Think of what Justice Thomas went through. "It's not the nature of the evidence..." Mr Thomas can't even speak at a university if invited to do so; he can't get in the door.

Yet, a prominent East Coast university is planing to invite a convicted terrorist to speak, claiming this person was a "plolitical prisioner". The conviction was for plotting to blow up the US Capital building. Yet, could Justice Thomas speak there? Hell no! How about Condi? Hell no!

To Socialists, free speach means they are free to speak; and we MUST listen! To them, it is a one-way street.

To Socialists, blacks who leave the plantation are nothing more than run away slaves who need to be destroyed lest they infect the rest of the slave population. Those who achieve success without the socialist party (the DNC), and who align themselves with the evil Republicans are meat for anyone's axe. The NAACP is nothing more than an Uncle Tom organization intent on keeping the status quo. They don't want blacks to rise too far either; because then the NAACP becomes irrelevent!

MARK A SITY
http://www.logic101.net/

[wingnuts'nbolts]

Neil Rogers, a self admitted homosexual and stauch democrat,
has had his radio show for years. He is vulgar, disgusting and totally over the top on poluting the airwaves.

After his airing of the Ms. Rice defaming parody he went on the air to tell us all that he doesn't give a "Shi$$ what people think, it's his show and he'll do what he wants to do." And so he does!

It is not news that the NAACP only rears it's ugly head when whitey, conservative and ordinary business owners are the target. Never one of their own. Like Ms. Oliphant of the Broward Elections Office, inept, incompetent, dishonest, and generally sleazy, who, according to our esteemed Black leaders is only under attack because of the color of her skin. They would be much smarter to slap her upside the head and straighten her out, but they depend on the incompetence and criminal behavior of those in charge of elections. How else would they ever win?

[Paulie]

"I'm bumping this one. I am so tired of the liberals getting away with their bigoted and hateful words when it is an attack on a conservative black person."

I am also.

[George W. Bush]

Credit for forcing WQAM's apology also goes to Congress of Racial Equality National Spokesman Niger Innis, who worked with Mr. Oliver behind the scenes.

Congress of Racial Equality bump.

I really like what I've seen of those guys the last few years.

[Grampa Dave]

The real racists in this world are the elite of the lunatic left and elite wannabees like this racist POS Neil Rogers.

Every conservative should buy Ann Coulter's book, Slander. Then they would understand the raw racism that is the core of the lunatic left.

The NAACP, $harpton, Je$$ie and the Black Raci$t caucus are paid to ignore remarks like this and push the phoney story of Republicans being racists.

[jws3sticks]

[alnick]

According to the NAACP and the democrats, if a black person is well spoken and intelligent (not to mention brilliant, as is the case with Dr. Rice), that person is not black enough.

[chimera]

I don't think it's so bad. It does have some humor. If Black posters at FR are offended then I will change my mind.

Rush does parody all the time and there is nothing wrong with it as long as it doesn't cross the line to being hateful. I realize that people can have different opinions on what constitutes that but surely you are aware of the current mood of the country on anything related to racial issues. Trent Lott was just hung out to dry over some relatively innocuous though ill-considered remarks. While he spoke poorly the language and tone he used were nothing compared to this blatant racism. Yet those very people who should have been most offended and spoken out most forcefully in protest (like they did against Lott) are strangely silent because the purveyor of the racist rant is a liberal and it is directed against someone who works for a conservative administration.

IOW, double standard once again on the part of the liberal leftists. Fair-minded people (i.e., conservatives) should point out the hypocrisy of the liberals when it comes to racial issues whenever the opportunity presents itself. The left has gotten a free pass for too long. I for one say no more free pases for the racist hypocrites on the left.

[AndrewC]

The fact that she is also a Christian draws more fire. But that belief also allows her to go beyond the rancor.

Walk of Faith - Condoleeza Rice

     I try always to not think I am Elijah, that I have somehow been particularly called. That's a dangerous thing. In a sense, we've all been, to whatever it is we are doing. But if you try to wear the imprimatur of God - I've seen that happen to leaders who begin too much to believe - there are a couple of very good anecdotes to that. I try to say in my prayers, "Help me to walk in Your way, not my own." To try to walk in a way that is actually trying to fulfill a plan and recognize you are a cog in a larger universe.

     I think people who believe in a creator can never take themselves too seriously. I feel that faith allows me to have a kind of optimism about the future. You look around you and you see an awful lot of pain and suffering and things that are going wrong. It could be oppressive. But when I look at my own story or many others that I have seen, I think, "How could it possibly be that it has turned out this way?" Then my only answer is it's God's plan. And that makes me very optimistic that this is all working out in a proper way if we all stay close to God and pray and follow in His footsteps.

     I really do believe that God will never let you fall too far. There is an old gospel hymn, "He knows how much you can bear." I really do believe that.

     I greatly appreciate, and so does the president, the prayers of the American people. You feel them. You know that they are there. If you just keep doing that, it is so important to all of us.

[alnick]

I'm curious. What's humorous about it? Condi is not a mammy. She doesn't clean White House toilets or speak in ebonics. For something to be humorous there has to be at least a tad of truth to it. This "song" simply pulls out a bunch of hateful old racial stereotypes and applies them to CR because her skin happens to be black and she doesn't march to the democrat drummer.

[dennisw]

You all are right. It goes way too far. I didn't see the outrageous line about toilets.

If CORE/Roy Innis think it stinks then so do I.

[johnny7]

My ex-father-in-law was a big-time lib'ral. Newspaper writer in New Jersey.

Big joke-teller too. All the jokes made fun of blacks.

He and his wife were happy to pay more taxes to keep the blacks on welfare and in Newark.

A racist white, black... whatever will tell you flat out their opinion. You can then judge them.

It's those skunk, white lib'rals who will shake your hand and laugh at you as you walk away... that's what makes me puke!

[Wondervixen]

ALL liberal groups need to be called on the carpet to answer for their silence just as they hold us to any slips of the tongue that our Trent Lott's and others might make.

When they are hair-triggered about demanding apologies from us, by golly, they need to be hit hard to apologize when one of their loose cannons fires off! When they don't, we need to rub their noses in it that we're going to stop offering any such "Sorry's" and it's the fault of their sister constituency groups for not living up to similar responsibilities.

NO MORE DOUBLE STANDARDS DAMMIT!

[Grampa Dave]

The rat party was the party of George Wallace and the racist senators in the 1950-60's. Those senators included the Senior Goron, Fullbright and other white racists.

The current rat party has a KKKer as one of their senators and that racist POS Hollings.

Then they are controlled by elite racists like your ex Father in Law. They herd up the blacks and put them in inner cities, push abortions among the blacks, lock them in terrible schools and send their drug pushers out to hook as many as they can.

The lunatic racists overseers like Je$$E, $harpton, the NAACP and the black caucus are paid to keep the blacks crammed up in inner cities and to have them ready to vote for their white slave masters, the Rat Politicians.

[beachn4fun]

I agree with you about this, in reference to Lott. See how those liberals can say what they want and their associates say, " it is their opinion and not ours...", but the GOP wouldn't even say anything like this in support of Lott. What is going on here?

[hosepipe]

AH! neil Rogers is just copying the songs on Rush Limbaughs show.

[beachn4fun]

Not only what you said, but one must ask themselves why there are so many black people out there who are jealous of the successful black person. But, one must also note that you usually don't hear them speaking badly about successful black sports and movie stars! Such as Jordan, Foreman, Tyson, D. Washington or Henry Belafonte!!

[freekitty]

Wonder why this idiot has not been charged with racism? See, their agenda really isn't racism. They know we will all get along if they just leave us alone.

[amused]

That neo-facist black-haired token schwarze dog

This is a sick example of the left's concept of "rights for me and none for thee" if one is in disagreement. Many on the left find no problem whatsoever with describing Powell and Rice as hosue slaves, tokens, etc. Andrew Sullivan is described as self-hating because he is a gay conservative.

Tolerance to the left is a concept that extends only to those in general agreement with the left.