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Star Trek Icon Apologizes for Clarence Thomas 'Blackface' Slur
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| July 4 2015
| LYNETTE HOLLOWAY
Posted on 07/04/2015 9:34:56 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
I’ve always found Takei to be a very nice person but his involvement in gay affairs has turned him into a bitter old man.
To: nickcarraway
Sulu was never an icon or legend, just the token queer. If not for Star Trek no one would have known his name or dementia.
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posted on
07/04/2015 11:37:53 PM PDT
by
Mastador1
(I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
To: nickcarraway
Another liberal apology that really isn’t.
These folks have this down to a science. Wonder if they distribute a template with fill in the blanks?
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posted on
07/05/2015 12:16:52 AM PDT
by
upchuck
(There is no coexisting with those who want to destroy us from within.)
To: windsorknot
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posted on
07/05/2015 12:20:39 AM PDT
by
upchuck
(There is no coexisting with those who want to destroy us from within.)
To: FredZarguna
Yes, and Sulu has been getting mileage out of the fact that Shatner dissed him by not attending his "wedding".
Shatner has said repeatedly that he barely KNOWS Takei.
Yeah they worked together 50 years ago, and on the movies, but face it, Sulu was a minor character.
Shatner was only close to Nimoy, the other actual STAR on Star Trek.
He's mentioned being friendly with DeForest Kelley, but pretty much as a "work" friend.
The others he barely interacted with outside of the show.
He even forgot Chekov's real name, when introducing the cast at some ST event.
To this day, he still pronounces Takei as "Ta-kye", which George just can't get over.
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posted on
07/05/2015 12:21:43 AM PDT
by
boop
(Hey, stoop, that's got gears. It ain't no Ford.)
To: boop
I think they settled around Kirk, Spock, and McCoy as the three stars, with occasional bits for Scottie and Uhura. Chekov and Sulu were good for an “aye-aye” from time-to-time in response to an “all ahead full” at the end of the show. The fact that Shatner hardly knew a bit-player like Takei isn’t really all that surprising. What is surprising is the tremendous mileage that George managed to get out of a show that lasted 79 episodes in which he was a very minor player.
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posted on
07/05/2015 12:42:53 AM PDT
by
FredZarguna
(Now, which is bigger, Pluto or Goofy?)
To: FredZarguna
I attended a sci fi convention not too many years ago and not many people even bothered to stop at George Takei’s table.
His career was resurrected by none other than Donald Trump on Celebrity Apprentice.
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posted on
07/05/2015 12:51:29 AM PDT
by
Williams
To: Williams
Be gentle with George. He suffers from Stockholm Syndrome. Even though he constantly whines about interment he never seems to realize it was imposed by Liberal icons like FDR and Earl Warren. Despite that he continues to support Liberal policies.
Then, too, just who is a greater authority on “black heritage” than some washed up, third rate Japanese actor?
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posted on
07/05/2015 2:03:42 AM PDT
by
Robwin
To: nickcarraway; potlatch; ntnychik; Fred Nerks; onyx
The larger point Takei made illustrates his blindness--his parents lost everything they acquired in the 'thirties--thanks to FDR, liberal godhead, you braindead automaton.
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posted on
07/05/2015 2:42:48 AM PDT
by
PhilDragoo
(Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Fakistan)
To: Semper Mark
Ah ah ah, Uncle Thomas is just a black who didn’t know his place (which is as servile to liberals).
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posted on
07/05/2015 3:55:19 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
It is a pageant of hate mixed with servility. No wonder Takei is now servile to hate.
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posted on
07/05/2015 3:56:25 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: PhilDragoo
Never blamed THAT liberal, did he?!?
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posted on
07/05/2015 3:57:16 AM PDT
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
To: nickcarraway
“Racist, gay and stupid is no way to go through life, son.”
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posted on
07/05/2015 4:02:15 AM PDT
by
Sooth2222
("In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve." - Joseph de Maistre, 1753-1821)
To: Semper Mark
Who cares what this aging Space Faggie thinks?
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posted on
07/05/2015 4:40:15 AM PDT
by
elcid1970
("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
To: nickcarraway
Star Trek Icon Apologizes for Clarence Thomas 'Blackface' Slur"Icon?" He had a bit part in a TV show almost 50 years ago. That's an "Icon?"
To: nickcarraway
"I was still seething, and I referred to him as a 'clown in blackface' to suggest that he had abdicated and abandoned his heritage,..."What does that mean? What exact piece of Justice Thomas's "heritage" would suggest a history of/need to redefine the meaning of words and our Constitutuon ?
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posted on
07/05/2015 4:53:32 AM PDT
by
NativeSon
( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
To: eddie willers
Wow. I haven’t seen you in a long time.
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posted on
07/05/2015 4:58:20 AM PDT
by
real saxophonist
(Total concentwation. This is not a chawade.)
To: windsorknot
Still laughing!!!!!
You are TOO funny!!!!!!
To: nickcarraway
Gay + dignity = Oil & Water
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posted on
07/05/2015 5:41:27 AM PDT
by
Vaduz
(women and children to be impacted the most.)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
07/05/2015 6:28:49 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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