'Mammy Condoleezza' Parody Prompts Apology, NAACP Mum

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

[InvisibleChurch]

Monday Jan. 27, 2003; 9:03 p.m. EST '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.

[InvisibleChurch]

Inri

[murdoog]

What exactly is an answer-mammy?

[SamAdams76]

Had a conservative talk show host done a parody of a high-ranking black woman of a Democratic Administration that was only half as bad as this one, it would be lights out, career over. (And conservatives would be leading the charge.)

[Argus]

I don't know but I just watched GONE WITH THE WIND on tv again last night, and Mammy is the most sensible character in the whole movie.

[chance33_98]

NAACP - National Assoc. for the Advancement of the Clinton Perv

[cyborg]

Not only was she the most sensible, but the most well respected... esp. by Rhett Butler. Glad I wasn't the only one watching. I didn't hear about this situation at all. This is disgusting. Again... just as Rush said.. NAALCP (liberal).. they pick and choose their battles. Black magazines can have Clarence Thomas caricatured as a lawn jockey, but if the movie Barbershop makes a joke about Jesse Jackson... all hell breaks loose.

[Pharmboy]

"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.

Do you believe this apology? Could someone buy this guy a clue?

NO PUBLIC FIGURE deserves to be made fun of based on their heritage, ethnicity, religion, etc. However, senior officials with our gummint can certainly be taken to task; just NOT THAT WAY. Sheesh--what a maroon...

[Blood of Tyrants]

That is the difference. Liberals have no moral conviction, only a political agenda. If it advances the political agenda, then they can find someone who can fake the required moral outrage.

[treesdream]

A thank you bump.

No story here! Doesn't meet the liberal "agenda" test. NOT

Just more proof of the double standard.

[marron]

NAACP is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Democratic National Committee. It is not an independent body. They are not going to defend Republicans, because thats not their job. They are Democrats.

[sweetliberty]

" 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"

Speaks volumes doesn't it?

[LO_IQ]

When Jewish comedian Jackie Mason called NY mayor David Dinkins a "schwartza", all the liberal black leaders made a big deal out of it.

Now another Jewish "comedian" uses the same word to refer to a high ranking official, the National Security Advisor, and there is complete silence from the liberal black leaders.

No double standard?

[Mr. Mojo]

Had a conservative talk show host done a parody of a high-ranking black woman of a Democratic Administration that was only half as bad as this one, it would be lights out, career over. (And conservatives would be leading the charge.)

No doubt about it. Conservatives are always held to much higher standards than liberals, by people of all political persuasions.

[BOOTSTICK]

Neil Rodgers is the nations foremost self hating jew, as he constantly apologizes for the Islamo-nazis.

[clintonh8r]

He's also a self-hating faggot, but that's redundant....

[alrea]

viscous racial assault

bump

[cricket]

"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."

. . ."Right under the noses of Miami's NAACP."

. . .easy to see why they are silent.

Do Liberals ever make themselves or other Liberals SICK?

. . .scratch a Liberal; find a racist. . .

[alrea]

viscous racial assault

with a shaq oneal tomahawk slap

[sweetliberty]

This is the second time these hypocritical b*st*rds have taken worse than a cheap shot at Condi Rice. I guess it just blows their whole facade when a black woman proves she can make it without the condescending enabling of the RAT party. This makes me sick, but it really does provide a stark contrast that reveals the ugliness of REAL racism against the phony racism that the demonRATS are always shrieking about. Here is a thread that was posted some months ago regarding the first such parody.

Condoleezza Rice Targeted by Racial Song Parody

We really need to be rubbing the noses of liberals in this kind of hypocrisy and racism and doing so very publicly. They have been getting away with this kind of outrageous crap way too long and then they have the audacity to call Republicans the party of racism! Unbelieveable.

[Ben Ficklin]

Neil Rogers' toll free number is 877-785-6345

[yooper]

Once again a liberal exhibits two sets of rules. I can appreciate good humor, but you know what? This wasn't even remotely funny or clever.

[Tax Government]

Success is the best revenge. Condi for president in 2008.

[LO_IQ]

Liberals attack Jackie Mason for using "schwartza" (black in German and Yiddish) but give a pass to Neil Rogers who used the same word

Jackie's record as a racist and bigot, and more importantly, a JERK goes back a long way, be it making fun of Ed Sullivan, or referring to ex-mayor David Dinkins as a "fancy with a moustache".

The Talking Dog, August 2002

In recent years, the inquisitors of political correctness have burned the following heretics at the stake: Jimmy the Greek, sports handicapper, for discoursing after a long lunch at D.C.'s Duke Zeibert's on why black athletes seem superior. Marlon Brando for a single derogatory term about Jews. Jackie Mason for using a Yiddish slur for black mayor David Dinkins. Andy Rooney for simply suggesting that people with AIDS, like smokers with emphysema, may be at fault for their condition. Footballer Reggie White and Trent Lott for airing Bible-based beliefs about homosexuality.

Pat Buchanan, August 1998

[sweetliberty]

I thought y'all might find this interesting.I tried not to double ping anybody.

[Ken H]

You can add this guy to the list with Sheets Byrd.

[rdb3]

I'd like to say that I'm shocked. But, alas, I'm not.

Birth of Tha SYNDICATE, the philosophical heir to William Lloyd Garrison.
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[sweetliberty]

"This wasn't even remotely funny or clever"

I am both able to appreciate fairly dark humor (no pun intended) and parody as well as to overlook remarks that many might consider racist, but this goes way over the line on both counts.

[thoughtomator]

Thing Fish!

An' wot yew be doin' wit dat flah-min-go ovah deah? Dat be de State Boid of New Joisey, yew cud git five ta life fo dat in dese pahts!

[AD from SpringBay]

Al and Jesse aren't around this for two reasons. First of all, there's no money to be made and secondly, they only support liberal blacks, not blacks, just like NOW only supports liberal women and not women.

[Sam Cree]

Neil Rogers is a leftist...he's funny if you like to listen to lots of complaining. Guess NAACP now stands for the National Association of Leftist Colored People.

[Victoria Delsoul]

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.

Oh for goodness sake! The hypocrisy!!! The blatant hypocrisy of the media, the Democrats, the NAACP and everyone else who cries "racist." Neil Rogers wouldn't have his job had he made fun of a Democrat.

[Temple Owl]

That's KKK Kleagle Byrd's favorite song. He sings it when he takes his springtime shower.

[lizma]

Condi for president in 2008.

Nope, she won't do it. She doesn't want it.

What kills me is part of Black America hates success. Why do they think that this mind-set will take them to a better place? It will take them no where. Why don't they see that?

I think someday soon they will get dumped for the Hispanics. They squandered their opportunities.

They have to solve their own problems. I find it sad that so many of they don't see that.

[mhking]

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[Wondervixen]

Are you speaking of the Dragon breath Senator from West Virginia, Robert "Sheets" Byrd of the Bleach Boys?

[PhiKapMom]

Talk about a double standard! I cannot feature the outrage if a conservative radio host had done anything like this!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[cubreporter]

That's because everyone rolls over. When they learn to stand tall and not take it then this will stop.

[Marauder]

The thundrous silence from the hypocritical b*st*rds of the NAACP says all that needs to be said.
Remember the silence of the lunatic fringe pigs of NOW, over Clintoon's antics and accusations of rape? Same thing here; slimy low-life liberal rats are all alike. They're all lower than whale dung, from Jesse Jackson and Terry McAuliffe to Bill Clintoon and Dan Rather.
A pox on them all.

[Wondervixen]

The mindset of the Black Dummycrap that MAKES them Dummycraps is that the party of the Jackass caters to the Black Man's anger fantasies...

Standard white man's fantasies include being Clint Eastwood (previously...being John Wayne), vanquishing the bad guys with his gun and riding off into the sunset.

The black man's fantasy (since the 1960's) is to be Sydney Poitier, vanquishing all disrespectful racism wherever it rears its head and slipping off into the night for a cold Colt 45 and a hot sister.

It is the Dummycraps who keep that fantasy alive by fabricating the definition of racism to be ANYTHING a Republican says and does.

[Rome2000]

Neil Rogers is funny, for a gay aetheist Christian bashing leftist millionaire pervert that hates the right wing in general and the Bush family in particular.

Miami radio is so pathetic that there is actually nothing else to listen to between the time Stern is over and Rush begins.

That stupid song is so terribly written and performed that Condoleeza should be embarassed for the loser thats singing it to make a buck.

Propaganda that has no effect is not something that should be worried about.

[cyborg]

Condi 2008 VS. Hillary 2008... what a dilemma all around

Elect a black conservative female president or the lily-white liberal b-buster female president... decisions decisions
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What kills me is part of Black America hates success. Why do they think that this mind-set will take them to a better place? It will take them no where. Why don't they see that?

DG: You are right. That mindset won't take them to a better place. My parents came here as immigrants. Let's see my father first gen American.. self made millionaire. My mother worked hard also, and was a stay at home mother.

I think someday soon they will get dumped for the Hispanics. They squandered their opportunities.

DG: I can tell you there is a lot of jealously against hispanics and black west indian and african immigrants by some black americans. How is it that recent central american immigrants can come to this country and open a bodega in five years? Or Seni Hazzan can come from Africa without a penny in his pocket and in five years graduate from harvard get an advanced degree and open up his own business?

They have to solve their own problems. I find it sad that so many of they don't see that.

DG: Some black americans have a lot of bitterness and unforgiveness towards white people. It isn't healthy and it causes a lot of problems. It is sad. I've seen it first hand and hear all of the excuses on a daily basis.

[cyborg]

The black man's fantasy (since the 1960's) is to be Sydney Poitier, vanquishing all disrespectful racism wherever it rears its head and slipping off into the night for a cold Colt 45 and a hot sister.

DG: You mean Billy Dee Williams... Colt 45s and street walkers aren't Poitier's style. Poitier is a man of class, and also a conservative on many issues.

Standard white man's fantasies include being Clint Eastwood (previously...being John Wayne), vanquishing the bad guys with his gun and riding off into the sunset.

DG: Since when? I haven't heard this from any white man lately. Any white man under sixty anyway... the field is pretty level in many men wanting to be a hiphop lowlife. The last white man I remember who wanted to be John Wayne was my dad and he was 80.

[JulieRNR21]

Absolutely disgusting!

[henbane]

"As broadcasters, we [at WQAM] take our role as steward of the public airwaves very seriously. . . ."

Do these media clowns at WQAM think that the public doesn't know Neil Rogers--their latrine-mouthed and repellent racist front man--spews his foul garbage only under their willing and greedy urgings?

Roger's cost WQAM big bucks by pouring out his spittle-spraying sicko sex tirades into the ears of young children.

And WAQM's management pathetically tried to validate Roger's filthy sewage output by citing the lower standards created by Bubba's public Oval Office BJ scandal.

To no avail--the FCC slapped WQAM's happy little slime-fest with a $35,000 INDECENCY ticket.

__________________________________

WQAM'S RACIST STAR

Federal Communications Commission
Washington, D.C. 20554

FORFEITURE ORDER

Adopted: January 24, 2000
Released: January 28, 2000
By the Commission:

2. By Notice of Apparent Liability (NAL), FCC 99-187, released July 22, 1999, we determined that certain material apparently broadcast [by Neil Rogers] over WQAM on five days in May 1998 was indecent. Inasmuch as the material was apparently aired between the hours of 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., we concluded that the broadcasts occurred at a time when there was a reasonable risk that children might be in the audience.

9. . . . the licensee asserts that the standard has evolved as a consequence of discussions, analyses and jokes resulting from the sex scandal involving the President [Clinton]. As a consequence, the licensee argues, the broadcast medium has aired a great deal of material that is sexually graphic, and these broadcasts must be considered in evaluating the Neil Rogers Show.

With respect to contemporary community standards for the broadcast medium, we [FCC] explained in Infinity, that we would judge such standards "by the standard of an average broadcast viewer or listener." In making the required determination of indecency,[FCC] Commissioners draw on their knowledge of the views of the average viewer or listener, as well as their general expertise in broadcast matters.

Applying such knowledge to the [Neil Rogers] broadcasts at issue, we reaffirm our determination that they are patently offensive.

10. Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED, pursuant to Section 503(b) of the Communications Act, 47 U.S.C. Section 503(b), and Section 1.80(f)(4) of the Commission’s Rules, 47 C.F.R. Section 1.80(f)(4), that WQAM License Limited Partnership, licensee of Station WQAM, Miami, Florida, FORFEIT to the United States the sum of $35,000 (thirty-five thousand dollars) for willful and repeated violations of 18 U.S.C. Section 1464.9

[Wondervixen]

What does a blonde know but her father, brothers, and husband I guess...I was just choosing similarities in fantasy to draw differences from.

My reference to Poitier was due to him being the 1960's motion picture conscience of the Black Man taking on racism.

[blackbart.223]

"That is the difference. Liberals have no moral conviction, only a political agenda."

Hot steel on target. I wish more of our fellow citizens could see this simple fact.

[cyborg]

Whoops my bad then... There was a popular commercial in the eighties with Billy Dee Williams for Colt 45 malt liquor. I thought you were referencing that! Sidney Poitier spoke out against racism in the sixties because there was REAL RACISM back then. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner was a big scandal back then. And well he's married to a white lady now anyway and pretty quiet. personally I feel that he was pressured into speaking out, as he was not even an American anyway. He's Haitian married to a white lady. My nominees for angry black men with chips on their shoulders: Spike Lee Denzel Washington black men with a guilt complex about their "success": Russell Simmons...well wait... he's also signle handedly defiling the ears of American youth by promoting filthy rap music records, and not mention his silly clothing line with the upside down AMERICAN FLAG.

[Michael.SF.]

Success is the best revenge. Condi for president in 2008.

Before one runs, one has to walk,

Condi for senate in 2004. (vs. Box(t)er)

[aruanan]

...viscous racial assault....

Just how viscous was it? As viscous as mo-lassass?