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Denzel Washington Re:Moore 9-11,"I'm an Ex-slave"
Katie Couric interview Friday night tv
| 7/23/04
| sunnsydie
Posted on 07/23/2004 5:53:33 PM PDT by SunnySide
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To: Atigun
Atigun=anal-retentive
Ifs yoos kant reed watt iz meenz .....
To: SunnySide
All our ancestors were slaves at one point or another. And I don't mean in the figurative sense as Mr. Washington does.
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posted on
07/23/2004 11:04:04 PM PDT
by
TheDon
(The Democratic Party is the party of TREASON)
To: Redcoat LI
To the Sudanese, Mr. Washington would be considered an American, not an African.
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posted on
07/23/2004 11:04:49 PM PDT
by
TheDon
(The Democratic Party is the party of TREASON)
To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
He hasn't, he is a class act.
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posted on
07/23/2004 11:13:33 PM PDT
by
jpsb
(Nominated 1994 "Worst writer on the net")
To: SunnySide
An ex-slave paid handsomely to play "pretend".
To: SunnySide
Sounds on this thread like you are the one slanting and twisting what you hear.
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posted on
07/23/2004 11:15:06 PM PDT
by
HairOfTheDog
(~*-,._.,-*~Loves her hubbit~*-,._.,-*~)
To: HairOfTheDog
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posted on
07/23/2004 11:31:29 PM PDT
by
jpsb
(Nominated 1994 "Worst writer on the net")
To: SunnySide
"God helps those who help themselves"
_________________
Where is this in the Bible?
To: KMG365
Check out:
http://www.yale.edu/opa/v31.n17/story3.html
In the late 1980s, Streep formed the environmental and consumer advocacy group Mothers and Others for Pesticide Limits, which brought national attention to the health risks to children of the pesticide Alar, then commonly used on U.S.-grown apples and other fruit. Streep spoke out about the dangers of the controversial pesticide on a "60 Minutes" program and before the U.S. Congress.
To: Redcoat LI
When did slavery come to Mt. Vernon NY.
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posted on
07/24/2004 5:21:02 AM PDT
by
angcat
To: SunnySide
In the context of the few sentences that are written, it is difficult for me to put too much stock in the "slave" reference when he prefaces it by saying that he DID NOT see F9/11. I'm not sure what has everyone so upset. If he said he was the descendant of slaves (rather than an "ex-slave"), would that make everyone feel better? If he said it that way, I would interpret it to mean he has risen above slavery and is beyond having to be told what to think a la F9/11.
Am I a hillbilly or simply descended from them? Is someone going to get on me because I say one and not the other?
Nothing DW said in this short excerpt gives this conservative any problems at all. To tell the truth, it sounds like piling on the black guy for no particular reason.
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posted on
07/24/2004 5:33:54 AM PDT
by
TN4Liberty
("I did not have socks with that document....." S. Berger)
To: TN4Liberty
There is a conditioned response by some here that when a black mentions "slave" he is trying to get whitey's goat.
I read Mr. Washington's response that he has risen above slave status.
He has never, to my recollection, played the race card.
He is, in fact, a self-made man.
To: SunnySide
Denzel, "I didn't see it, I live in America, I grew up here, I'm an ex-slave" Another example of the wonder that is the United States of America. Look at the success that can be acheived by an ex-slave. (Of course I know he wasn't REALLY a slave, but the race pimps have created a slave class out of whole cloth, and it is amazing whenever someone breaks out of it to achieve success.)
Rather than focusing on whether he really is an ex-slave or not, we should be pointing others to his success. The more people who rise above the race hustlers, the better for all of us, because many of them will become conservatives. Really.
To: TN4Liberty
But I've seen Denzel in many other interviews over the course of his career and his smug condescending 'tude especially towards women is dismal. It's as if he can't be bothered with (in his view) silly women who belong back in the kitchen(that other slavery acceptable to men of all races).Sounds like SunnySide is coming at this with a feminist prejudice. I would agree with your interpretation and take hers with a grain of salt.
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posted on
07/24/2004 6:13:21 AM PDT
by
mollynme
(cogito, ergo freepum)
To: giotto
"I read his comment as meaning that he not only hasn't seen the movie, but he didn't plan to see it, because he's an American. The part about being an ex-slave was possibly to underscore the many generations of his ancestors who have lived in America. In other words, he was saying his roots are in America, and they are deep. The fact that he later disagreed with Strep and also distanced himself from Hollywood, makes me think this interpretation is correct."
Ping!!
That's how I viewed his comments as well. They were a definite (yet somewhat subtle) dig at Moore and all of his crapola about victimization.
While Denzel may not be a FReeper (or is he????), I did not get the impression from the interview or even from past interviews that he is a typical Hollywood lib/socialist/dem. He's always seemed to try to distance himself from that whenever possible within the limits of keeping his job.
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posted on
07/24/2004 6:20:15 AM PDT
by
Skywarner
(Enjoying freedom? Thank a Veteran!)
To: SunnySide
If we could all trace our roots back far enough, I bet we'd all be able to call ourselves ex-slaves.
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posted on
07/24/2004 6:21:48 AM PDT
by
ampat
To: SunnySide
"Are you a real slave?"
"No, but I did stay in a Holiday Inn."
No, Dwezzle, you're not an ex-slave, you're a full-time fatuous ass.
To: Walkingfeather
I knew a man who researched his ancestry, hoping to find out who owned his great great grand parents. He was disappointed to discover they came over as free immigrants.
For some blacks that is the ultimate insult.
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posted on
07/24/2004 6:25:05 AM PDT
by
R. Scott
(Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
To: SunnySide
Saw an Ohio(think, maybe Indiana) license plate last week that read: EX-SLAVE.
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posted on
07/24/2004 6:29:19 AM PDT
by
Rebelbase
( A majority of Europeans have lost the courage of their fathers and grandfathers.)
To: SunnySide
I am not a huge fan but Denzel was great in "Training Day". But his slave ancestors deserve the credit. They came here in chains from Africa and worked the cotton and other crops 7 days a week. Would Denzel be happier if his ancestors were left behind in Africa? How dare he says he's an ex-slave! This is garbage.
We merely stand on the shoulders of giants. Same for Denzel. Same for me, I thank my grandparents for coming here from Europe and enduring terrible living conditions for my parents and me.
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posted on
07/24/2004 6:29:57 AM PDT
by
dennisw
(Once is Happenstance. Twice is Coincidence. The third time is Enemy action. - Ian Fleming)
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