Posted on 07/03/2015 3:12:51 PM PDT by raccoonradio
I owe an apology. On the eve of Independence Day, I have a renewed sense of what this country stands for, and how I personally could help achieve it. The promise of equality and freedom is one that all of us have to work for, at all times. I know this as a survivor of the Japanese American internment, which each day drives me only to strive harder to help fulfill that promise for future generations.
I recently was asked by a reporter about Justice Clarence Thomas’s dissent in the marriage equality cases, in which he wrote words that really got under my skin, by suggesting that the government cannot take away human dignity through slavery, or though internment. In my mind that suggested that this meant he felt the government therefore shouldn’t be held accountable, or should do nothing in the face of gross violations of dignity. When asked by a reporter about the opinion, I was still seething, and I referred to him as a “clown in blackface” to suggest that he had abdicated and abandoned his heritage. This was not intended to be racist, but rather to evoke a history of racism in the theatrical arts. While I continue to vehemently disagree with Justice Thomas, the words I chose, said in the heat of anger, were not carefully considered.
I am reminded, especially on this July 4th holiday, that though we have the freedom to speak our minds, we must use that freedom judiciously. Each of us, as humans, have hot-button topics that can set-us off, and Justice Thomas had hit mine, that is clear. But my choice of words was regrettable, not because I do not believe Justice Thomas is deeply wrong, but because they were ad hominem and uncivil, and for that I am sorry.
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Exactly.
“Hollywood idiot’’. Kind of redundant, don’t you think?
Hey asshole, take your faggot apology and shove it up another faggot’s behind..
Well said. I appreciated his effort to admit his lack of emotional control and actually to define that what he had said was "ad hominem and uncivil." I think that goes well beyond the typical "non-apology apology" we so often see.
That said, in my book he remains a public fool, in numerous ways. All he did by this apparently genuine apology, no matter what prompted it, was to refrain from becoming a greater fool.
He needs people to pray for him, as we all do. I'm reminded of someone on FR who announced several weeks ago that henceforth he would be praying faithfully for Miley Cyrus's salvation. It appeared to be in obedience to a calling from the Holy Spirit, and I hope he is persisting.
So when are the liberals going to start frogmarching him on his apology tour?
And of course George fully expects that his apology makes everything right and that he retains his full moral authority (or at least whatever moral he had to begin with) hereafter, because George is one of the righteous of whom only the best is to be believed. What George does not get or chooses to ignore is that if someone from the other side of the argument had said such a thing, no apology would be deep enough, sincere enough to save him. He would be destroyed.
I wonder if George ever gave a moment of thought to that or attempted to calm down his bloodthirsty fellow travelers in the face of their many rabid efforts to not win the arguments with opponents but to destroy them. This is the methodology of the left, call it Obamism, Clintonism, Alinskyism, whatever.
And it is especially ironic in view of what was done to Clarence Thomas when he was first nominated.
Mr. Takei, in truth, you are a racist, self-righteous, moral prig (your version of morality, of course).
He’s a liar. A real apology would include Seppuku.
George Takei’s acting skills are rivaled only by the lettuce in a Big Mac commercial.
The other thing Shatner talked about is how Sulu was always angry that Sulu was not promoted to Captain (until the last Star Trek movie). Sulu wanted to be promoted to captain ages ago. He wanted his own command.
Shatner tried to put this delicately to Stern: Did Sulu not understand that if he got his own command, on his own ship, he was off the show and out of the movies?
Apology not accepted. We know it’s simply the real you coming out of the closet. Take a hike, you racist hate filled pig.
Just another non-apologetic apology from the left reeking of insincerity.
Also, there is a star fleet regulation against promoting queers to captain
Didn’t help the owner of the clippers(?) to apologize did it?
He is Japanese-homo-American so its okay for him to speak for authentic black folks.
That's the most queer apology I've ever read.
It’s ok George we all know you were just talking out of your @ss.
It is interesting to review the Supreme Courts Opinion on the Constitutionality of the Case and particularly the dissents. One of the dissenters was the only Republican on the Court, the second the only Catholic, the third obviously would be considered today as a Constitutionalist and who would limit executive governmental prerogatives. https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/323/214
I was in college at Syracuse University in the fall of 1950 and a large part of the required PoliSc class was dedicated to the Internment and another issue where a Black refused to serve in the military because of bigotry of American Government (can not remember objector name or if it was a court case).
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