Posted on 06/23/2020 10:58:22 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
The late-night host also says waiting to say something about the impersonation "was a mistake."
Jimmy Kimmel is apologizing for a blackface impression he did of NBA star Karl Malone in the mid- and late 1990s.
The ABC late-night host, who's currently taking a summer break from Jimmy Kimmel Live, issued the statement Tuesday. It comes amid a continued reckoning in the industry over racist depictions of Black people and other people of color in the past, ranging from Gone With the Wind being temporarily removed from HBO Max to Hulu pulling down four episodes of 30 Rock that featured blackface scenes.
"I have long been reluctant to address this, as I knew doing so would be celebrated as a victory by those who equate apologies with weakness and cheer for leaders who use prejudice to divide us," Kimmel said. "That delay was a mistake. There is nothing more important to me than your respect, and I apologize to those who were genuinely hurt or offended by the makeup I wore or the words I spoke."
Kimmel began doing his impression of Malone, then a player with the Utah Jazz, in the mid-'90s, and continued it on TV, where he wore blackface makeup and a bald cap. A sketch from Comedy Central's The Man Show featuring the impression remains on YouTube.
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Sorry, self righteous smug jackasses don’t have apology accepted when it turns out they are hypocritical lying opportunist fakes.
In my whole life even as child I knew black face was a no no. Maybe pre second world war with memories of minstrel shows still around it was accepted but not much after. I can’t believe I was more woke than these idiot entertainers.
“Did he apologize for one time accidentally being funny?”
If he was ever funny, it was probably a combination of luck and his sidekick setting him up for success.
A conservative Trump supporter would already be gone from TV. Fire him NOW!
Hamilton...Agree...Absolutely stupid
The Blacks aren’t the problem, it’s the white liberals who constantly tell black people what should offend them.
No, Jimmy, YOUR life and career need to be PERMANENTLY DESTROYED in the same fashion you promote being inflicted on conservatives...frequently by a HOAX.
That’s nice, Jimmy. Now apologize for dropping the n-word repeatedly. And then ask your liberal friends to treat you the same way you’d treat a conservative who had as many instances of racism and bigotry as you have.
Go, and sin no more. All is forgiven.
Nice how it works with leftists.
How about Oprah? And Snoop Dogg?? And what was that N-word you were repeating in that rap song?
This fools going down.
>>Did he apologize for one time accidentally being funny?<<
Nothing to apologize for as it has not happened.
But what does Karl Malone think?
I seriously think, black people aren’t playing this no more. They want to see these sanctimonious white people, who think they know what’s best for black people, to go down. And I would welcome this. For that is the first step towards truly improving race relations.
No way asshole...you showed no quarter to the people whose careers you and your kind ruined....just go away!!!!
What goes around...
Here’s your petard, Mr. Kimmel
“I will be back to work in September.”
Sure you will. Ain’t White Privilege wonderful?
People who would go the the play “Hamilton” are probably shocked to find out that Alexander Hamilton was never president.
He better get on his knees and shine some shoes
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