Posted on 11/19/2004 7:39:47 PM PST by Paul Atreides
MADISON, Wis. -- A radio talk show host who called Condoleezza Rice an "Aunt Jemima" issued an apology Friday, but not to Rice.
"It is with a heavy heart that I apologize this morning to Aunt Jemima," John "Sly" Sylvester said on WTDY-AM in Madison. "She wasn't a self-serving hack politician who got up in front of Congress and lied. Aunt Jemima didn't kowtow to Don Rumsfeld or Dick Cheney."
Sylvester made his comments in conjunction with a giveaway of Aunt Jemima pancake mix and syrup to listeners. Sylvester, who is white, said he called Rice "Aunt Jemima" on Wednesday's show to describe her and other black officials as having only a subservient role in the Bush administration. He also referred to Secretary of State Colin Powell as an "Uncle Tom" _ a contemptuous term for black people whose behavior toward whites is regarded as fawning or servile.
NAACP president Kweisi Mfume said people who make such remarks "are just as bad as those who hide under sheets and burn crosses." Mfume said Rice is "an example of how far hard work, education and determination can take one to new heights."
Madison Mayor Dave Cieslewicz called Sylvester's remarks "racially insensitive," while Democratic Sen. Russ Feingold said he joined all Wisconsin residents in rejecting the statements.
Tom Walker, general manager for Mid-West Family Broadcast Group, which owns the station, said he doesn't agree with Sylvester's statements but defended his right to free speech.
"He has the right to do it and say it," Walker said after Friday morning's broadcast. "As long as he isn't hateful and as long as he isn't racist, I'm fine with it."
Sylvester told listeners he would resign if his employer lost advertisers or was hurt by the uproar over his comments.
He said Aunt Jemima was really a "strong, independent black woman" named Nancy Green. Born a slave in Kentucky, Green was hired in the 1890s to advertise the pancake mix.
"Aunt Jemima never lied about yellow cake uranium, she just makes a damn good pancake," Sylvester said.
The incident came after Mark Belling of WISN Radio in Milwaukee had his talk show taken off the air all of last week after using the word "wetback" to refer to undocumented Mexican immigrants. That sparked protests from the Hispanic community.
This festering tub of goo should take a look at himself. Hi is a two-bit hack who isn't fit to take a lunch order from Condi's secretary.
It's Madison, Wisconsin aka "The People's Republic of Madison, Wisconsin", aka "28 Square Miles Surrounded by Reality."
In other words, forget it. Ain't happening. The lib meatheads in Dane County probably support this hypocrite 100%.
Maybe it is time to call in some markers and arrange for this fella to have an unfortunate accident. Not that I support that sorta thing...
Yuck. Another fat, greezy, pasty-faced lib with gunk in his hair. 10 to 1 he's never scored with a human.
Race be damned, I look forward to watching Ben Rothlisberger kicking Donovan McNabb's butt (again) IN THE SUPER BOWL.
he done look like a fat farthead an' de mauve color make him look like he sittin' on sumpin real special.
"Sylvester told listeners he would resign if his employer lost advertisers or was hurt by the uproar over his comments."
Does anyone know exactly who ARE the advertisers on his program?
Does he stutter when he talks? I think we know what Perky Pig has been up since his Looney Tune days ended.
Where's the insult?
What is that supposed to mean?
Don't you understand that liberals are so always right that they never have to apologize for anything they might say? /sarcasm
I've listened to Sly in the Morning for years. He's entertaining when picking on local politicians, but when Bush got elected he had a brain melt and I started turning him off more often than not. Very viscious Bush basher and a close friend of Russ Feingold (he used to deliver pizzas the the great man's office before he found his true calling as a minimum wage DJ). Threatened to go to Canada but like most chicken-sh!t libs, is till hanging around. My bet is this stunt was carefully designed to raise his visibility so he could get another gig, maybe somewhere colder than Madison?
Oh, the station under his direction has now become "Madision's Progressive Talk". No semblance of balance there. Just a bunch of bloviating from Sly and his wannabes. Only in a city best described as "25 square miles surrounded by reality" could he ever sustain a listening audience (even if they are the same talk-show pigs day after day).
Yeah...try letting his discernment-limited radio personality call one of the REAL plantation dwellers, i.e., proteges of the Immans Jackson or Sharpton et al, "Aunt Jemima" and this "manager" will find himself feverishly distancing himself from the idiot to try and keep himself from being lynched from the nearest tree.
Liberal, double standard IS thy standard.
"ummm, I'm wondering exactly which person in the Bush administration doesn't have a subservient role to the President?"
I was thinking the same thing. What is a cabinet for, if not to serve the President.
This A-hole was on the Dom Giordano Show here in Philadelphia around 6 Eastern and got a proper flogging. Most of the black callers were pissed, even the libs.
Can anyone think of a prominent black official during the Clinton administration? I frankly cannot. It has to bother them intensely. By the way, doesn't it take balls the size of guords for a paste-white guy to claim he speaks for Black people, while simultaneously claiming white people can't speak for black people? Methinks Elmer Fudd needs to see one of those PEST shrinks.
Did you bother to read the whole article ?
This character has apparently been desperate for attention all his life, and like most losers finds negative attention much easier to get.
Judging by his early history of inapproriate "PLEASE NOTICE ME!" behavior, I'd guess he didn't have much of an upbringing. But he's past the time of blaming his parents. If he can't learn to behave, shame on those who are so desperate for attention for monetary reasons that they pay him to attract the attention of other misfits to their economic advantage.
One more example of the hatred that comes from the left. The violence and hate-talk pre-election and after are a sure sign of worse to come. This is beyond politics and I fail to see how this country's people can co-exist. I really believe the left wants to and will spark a civil war.
Quit the dialoge. Save the energy for the developing revolution. Talk is cheap & just promotes their agenda. Speak soft & carry a BIG STICK.
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