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U.S. National - AP Radio Host Calls Rice 'Aunt Jemima'
AP | 11-19-04 | James A Carlson

Posted on 11/19/2004 10:27:24 AM PST by squirt-gun

U.S. National - AP Radio Host Calls Rice 'Aunt Jemima'

Fri Nov 19,12:33 AM ET

U.S. National - AP

By JAMES A. CARLSON, Associated Press Writer

MILWAUKEE - A radio talk show host drew criticism Thursday after calling Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) 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 (news - web sites)'s national security adviser and was named this week to replace the departing Colin Powell (news - web sites) 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 (news, bio, voting record), 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.


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To: squirt-gun
A note of interest...the real Aunt Jemima is buried only about 18 miles from where I live. My husband was in Kiwanis years ago and each year they had a pancake day to raise money for the Boys Club, and she would come over and play hostess. It was really a treat to have her. The family placed her in an unmaked grave because they knew tourist would trample the site.
41 posted on 11/19/2004 10:48:48 AM PST by native texan
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To: squirt-gun

Pancakes and syrup? Listen, bud, Aunt Jemima has a new image. She's no longer the fat tub with a bandana. She now looks like someone's Aunt Mary from church, and she has a profession: registered dietician! She goes to seminars and instructs families in proper nutrition!


42 posted on 11/19/2004 10:48:49 AM PST by Ciexyz (I use the term Blue Cities, not Blue States. PA is red except for Philly, Pgh & Erie.)
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To: Howlin

er..this IS Madison, Wisconsin after all..


43 posted on 11/19/2004 10:49:17 AM PST by ken5050
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To: ken5050

Kinda like Jersey without the smell?


44 posted on 11/19/2004 10:50:15 AM PST by acad1228 (Red man from a Red State!!!)
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To: squirt-gun
Check the link below.

Related thread THE FBLC DENOUNCES THE RACIAL MOTIVATED ATTACKS UPON DR. CONDOLEEZZA RICE

45 posted on 11/19/2004 10:51:16 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (****We won - - - you lost - - - - GET OVER IT!!****)
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To: acad1228
I guess it's okay to belittle minority folks who don't agree with you

This is not just belittling -- this is insulting anyone who worked hard to succeed.

The message is: If you make it as a black, you are a token. The only acceptable way for blacks to succeed is in entertainment and race pimping. There is glass ceiling in the Domncrat party. Look at Klintoon's staff -- all lily white and mostly male.

46 posted on 11/19/2004 10:53:00 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Democrat credo: If we win, we win: if we lose it is theft!)
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To: squirt-gun

Yes, that's the one....the highly intellegent, very nervous, black woman with the druggy son who was arrested more than once. She did a fine job raising him, so maybe we should have turned all our children over to her ideas


47 posted on 11/19/2004 10:55:02 AM PST by TexasTaysor
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To: freedumb2003

Odd considering the fact that he prefers a lot of female company. I guess he feels they're only good for one thing.


48 posted on 11/19/2004 10:55:33 AM PST by acad1228 (Red man from a Red State!!!)
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To: squirt-gun; TexasTaysor
She wore a sailor suit and wanted all elementary school children to be taught how to have safe sex(as well as how to masturbate in order to relieve tensions)......A very nice Dem!

She was also against drug legalization, until her son was arrested for dealing at college. Then she was for drug legalization.

And she was a big Eric Clapner fan.

49 posted on 11/19/2004 10:56:13 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: native texan
re # 41...I remember the box sitting on the kitchen table....and that smiling black face....and the pancakes were great.

It was long ago... before the hate really surfaced and the politicians ran with it. The turning point, of course, was Johnson and his "great Society" (which essentially destroyed black families north and south).

But it is surely better for Black people now....aunt 'Jemia' or not.

50 posted on 11/19/2004 10:56:34 AM PST by squirt-gun
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To: dead

Clapner!!!

Priceless! I had forgotten about that!


51 posted on 11/19/2004 10:57:19 AM PST by acad1228 (Red man from a Red State!!!)
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To: acad1228
I guess he feels they're only good for one thing.

Ding ding ding!

If you scratch a liberal, you will find a racist and sexist just under the surface. That is why they are so easily maniplated by race baiters. Because they feel guilty about their feelings of superiority.

52 posted on 11/19/2004 10:57:19 AM PST by freedumb2003 (Democrat credo: If we win, we win: if we lose it is theft!)
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To: squirt-gun; Mudboy Slim; 4ConservativeJustices; stainlessbanner
John Sylvester, the program director and morning personality on WTDY-AM in Madison [Wisconsin], 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.

Yep, them Secretaries of State and National Security Advisors are just token figureheards! Gee, I thought they were so enlightened, tolerant, and well-educated up there in Wisconsin! I guess this guy doesn't realize how important the Secretary of State is, or how high up in the line of succession he/she is if the president should be unable to fill out his term. Good thing I's been edjy-kated down here in ol' Virginny!

53 posted on 11/19/2004 11:00:36 AM PST by HenryLeeII ("How do you ask a goose to be the last goose to die for a shameless political stunt?" -Tony in Ohio)
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To: squirt-gun
Excuse me????

What role SHOULD Cabinet members play in ANY President's administration? Since I mostly attended public schools, please remind me which Democrat Presidents made sure to choose only Cabinet members who held opposing viewpoints, and who made sure to delegate all presidential authority to their Cabinet and staff.

If you can't find any examples, I will be left in the awkward position of thinking these leftwing critics are utter racists.

54 posted on 11/19/2004 11:00:43 AM PST by Yaelle
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To: ken5050
Re your "43...Madison is a great place...I was on a science visit decades ago and some commie students destroyed part os the University labs....

A nice place not to visit but I wouldnt want to live there.

55 posted on 11/19/2004 11:01:18 AM PST by squirt-gun
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To: HenryLeeII

You mean those racist terms came from Wisconsin.....up North? Hmmmm


56 posted on 11/19/2004 11:02:24 AM PST by stainlessbanner
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To: trubluolyguy

This person is not fit to shine Condi's shoes.


57 posted on 11/19/2004 11:03:51 AM PST by KC_Conspirator (I am poster #48)
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To: West Coast Conservative
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.

Yeah - they'll get right on it . . .

58 posted on 11/19/2004 11:07:42 AM PST by mykroar ("Pearl Harbor" sucked . . . .and I miss you.//Freedom costs a buck-oh-five.)
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To: dead

And she was a big Eric Clapner fan

LOL I'd forgotten about that.


59 posted on 11/19/2004 11:08:33 AM PST by TexasTaysor
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To: stainlessbanner; 4ConservativeJustices; Mudboy Slim
You mean those racist terms came from Wisconsin.....up North? Hmmmm

I guess you could say that some northerners are quite niggardly when it comes to following the dictates they put down for the rest of us! ;>)

60 posted on 11/19/2004 11:08:35 AM PST by HenryLeeII ("How do you ask a goose to be the last goose to die for a shameless political stunt?" -Tony in Ohio)
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