Via the AP: Radio Host Calls Rice ‘Aunt Jemima’
A radio talk show host drew criticism Thursday after calling Condoleezza Rice an “Aunt Jemima” and saying she isn’t competent to be secretary of state.Sphere: Related Content[...]
John Sylvester, the program director and morning personality on WTDY-AM in Madison, said in a phone interview Thursday that he used the term on Wednesday’s show to describe Rice and other blacks as having only a subservient role in the Bush administration.
Sylvester, who is white, also referred to Powell as an “Uncle Tom” — a contemptuous term for a black whose behavior toward whites is regarded as fawning or servile.
He said Thursday night that he was referring to remarks by singer and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte that the price of admittance for blacks to the Bush White House was subservience.
As for Rice, “they’re using her for an illusion of inclusion,” he said, adding that he feels her history as national security adviser showed a lack of competence.
November 19th, 2004 at 1:07 pm
The White House does kinda look like an IHOP.
Maybe Gary Trudeau (or whoever draws for him now) could swap the stock drawings of the White House for an IHOP.
(Oh, and more seriously, I had a colleague insist the Oliphant cartoon wasn’t offensive.)
November 19th, 2004 at 1:19 pm
Click my name to see another example of shear genius.
November 19th, 2004 at 1:57 pm
Radio Host Calls Rice ‘Aunt Jemima’
John Sylvester (Sly), morning show host of WTDY-AM in Madison, WI used the term “Aunt Jemima” on Wednesday’s show to describe Condoleezza Rice. Rice is replacing departing Defence secretary Colin Powell, who Sylvester referred to as an “Uncle Tom”.
November 19th, 2004 at 2:09 pm
As a Wisconsinite I can tell you that Sly has a history on-air insults. His WTDY statio bio here lists some of them.
November 19th, 2004 at 7:06 pm
As a Termite, all I can say is that wood tastes good.
November 19th, 2004 at 10:33 pm
As for Rice, “they’re using her for an illusion of inclusion,� he said,
As opposed to the Clinton Whitehouse, that couldn’t be bothered to appoint minorities to any positions of importance….
November 20th, 2004 at 9:37 am
“Illusion of inclusion”
I.e., you have to hire minorities that think “correctly” or it doesn’t “count.” That is even more racist and offensive that the original insults.