Isaiah Washington Out

So the controversy is finally dying down about Hollywood actor Isaiah Washington who finally got canned from the hit television show Gray’s Anatomy. Many aren’t thrilled by it, some even claiming it is more that he was black and that the White Elite were more in tune to sympathize with the Gay Mafia Types. Hey not my words. But it does perhaps goes to showing how unbalanced this whole racism shit is.

One black gay activist sees the lobbying far differently. Jasmyne Cannick, a friend of Washington’s, said the case reflected a division between Hollywood’s powerful white gays and lesbians and those who are minorities.

“The ones calling for (Washington’s) head are what I refer to as the gay Mafia,” Cannick said. (see Story)

I find it interesting, that when a white person insults someone of color, the call for his dismissal is loud and when it happens, there is rejoicing. No Gay group called for Washington to be fired, merely that he apologize. It wasn’t a hue and cry by the public either, despite the fact that he used the slur twice, plus denied using it even. In short he lied, in attempting to cover it up, then went ahead and repeated it.

Don Imus never lied about what he said, did apologize, and yet the cry for his dismissal was intense. And that is okay, but when it comes to the shoe being on the other foot, suddenly its different?

Gays were just as hurt by Washington’s cruelty, as the basketball girls were. Yet we are supposed to accept the apology, which we did, but the girls and other offended African Americans weren’t. Seems to me more of a double standard than a matter of doing what is right. In fact, the remarks that it was part of some secret conspiracy by Gays to use the race card is more insulting than Washington’s comments.

This is George Bush’s legacy. He has pitted race against race, all in the name of politics and money. This is how it comes to pass, when you do not uphold the simple principle of one law for everyone. This is what festers and promotes racism.

Should he have been canned? Given his history, the other complaints, he deserved no less of a treatment than Don Imus received.