Posted on 11/19/2004 3:43:24 AM PST by kattracks
MILWAUKEE -- 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.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.
Rice has served as President Bush's national security adviser and was named this week to replace the departing Colin Powell as secretary of state.
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.
Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz called the remarks "racially insensitive," while Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., said in a statement he joined "all Wisconsinites in rejecting" the statements.
Linda Hoskins of the NAACP's Madison branch said she could not comment on Sylvester's remarks until she had heard them in their entirety.
The station's corporate office received about 100 calls about his comments, Sylvester said.
He added that he has a long history of commitment to civil rights and has supported Madison's black community.
He said he was planning a giveaway on Friday's show of Aunt Jemima pancake mix and syrup. "I will apologize to Aunt Jemima," he said.
The incident came after a radio host in Milwaukee had his talk show taken off the air all of last week after he used word "wetback" to refer to undocumented Mexican immigrants, sparking protests from Hispanics.
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Associated Press writer JR Ross in Madison contributed to this story.
Well, as kids, we actually got to meet Aunt Jemima at a pancake breakfast one snowy winter morning at the Univeristy of Missouri at Kansas City. Can't remember why save it was a family reunion thing. Aunt Jemima was a pleasant and very nice black lady who was actually wearing that turban gizmo. It was kinda neat, actually.
Dr. Rice is no A.J., and only a disposessed lib in flyover country would make that bonehead mistake.
ROFLMAO!
The demo-commies need to remember the following quote, " That Was Then-This Is Now!!!"
Where is HIS color-blindness?
Well said.
Linda Hoskins of the NAACP's Madison branch said she could not comment on Sylvester's remarks until she had heard them in their entirety.
If a conservative had said such an awful thing about a liberal, do you think the NAACP refuse to comment and issue the same statment as above? Or would they be all over that person like white on rice in a glass of milk on a paper plate in a snowstorm?
Mike Savage has company! Meanwhile, let's see him do the job if he's so qualified.
doube barrell ping
That's a tough test to pass, isn't it?
Say what you want about Obama, but you can't be a slouch and attend Harvard. He may be a liberal loon, but he's an educated liberal loon. Otherwise, Halle Berry is a bit touched but well equipped apparently from the male enthusiastic endorsement of Monster's Ball.
LMAO...Great example.
Listen to him on Charlie Sykes' radio show trying to defend his statement.
You simply won't believe it.
found at: http://www.620wtmj.com/620audio/Sly%2011-17-04.rm
PUT AN INSULT IN CONTEXT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! what a LOSER
I think we stand up against the attacks on republicans for racism. we shrivel away , dump our leader of the senate, and take out butt-whipping on race everytime. we aren't racists- it's not racist to believe fair means fair, and stacking the deck for or against any one race is just flat wrong.
Listen to this Mike. Black callers GAVE him permission to use it because they use it themselves. this guy is a CREEP.
This host just called her an incompetant boob! What an idiot.
listen to this!
"President Bush has done more to promote ethnic diversity in his Administration..."
Agreed. And he did it by selecting for merit, not the shibboleth of diversity.
The liberals have always had a carpetbagger mentality toward blacks -- i.e., hold them down, use them and occasionally throw them a crumb. Colin and Condi don't belong on their New Plantation and must be destroyed.
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