'Mammy Condoleezza' Parody Prompts Apology, NAACP Mum

newsmax.com | Monday Jan. 27, 2003; 9:03 p.m. EST | newsmax staff

[mware]

'Mammy Condoleezza' Parody Prompts Apology, NAACP Mum

A Florida radio station has apologized for letting one of its hosts air a racist song parody about Bush National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. But the apology comes no thanks to the local chapter of the NAACP, which was contacted about the racial outrage, but decided not to complain on behalf of the top black Bush official.

The song "Condoleezza," aired repeatedly by WQAM-AM Miami radio host Neil Rogers, who's a harsh critic of President Bush, was a viscous racial assault on Ms. Rice that described her as a "black-haired answer-mammy" who "cleans all the White House bathrooms."

Angered over the radio racism directed towards the nation's highest ranking African-American woman, Robert Oliver, producer for the "Interactions" radio show on Chicago's WBEE, complained to WQAM about "Condoleezza" in December. It was he, not anyone with the Miami NAACP, who finally extracted the following apology from station management, which was broadcast on WQAM on Jan. 17:

"Recently Neil Rogers, one of our broadcast personalities, aired a parody with derogatory comments regarding Condoleezza Rice and her heritage. Ms. Rice is a respected senior official of our government and, on that basis alone, deserves to be addressed with respect.

"As broadcasters, we take our role as steward of the public airwaves very seriously and wish to inform listeners that Mr. Rogers' comments and opinions are his and his alone. Station personnel at WQAM and its owner, the Beasley Broadcast Group, DO NOT share Mr. Rogers' views on this subject and satire and we offer our sincere apology to anyone who was offended by this broadcast." (End of Apology)

To anyone who was offended? How could anyone not be offended with song lyrics like these:

"Condoleezza" (Sung to the Nat King Cole classic, Mona Lisa)

"Condoleezza, Condoleezza, what you be doin'? That neo-facist black-haired token schwarze dog.

"Is you there 'cause you a high-toned public Negro? Is you their black-haired answer-mammy who be smart? Does they like how you shine their shoes, Condoleezza? Or the way you wash and park the whitey's cars.

"Georgie junior says he trusts you, Condoleezza. Who said our [unintelligible] off the greedy oil woes. But then he make you clean all the White House bathrooms. The public sink, the toilet and let's scrub the floors." (End of Excerpt)

Mr. Oliver, who also works with the Illinois Freedom Project, told us on Friday that he was satisfied with the station's apology, although there's no indication that WQAM is ready to discipline the race-baiting Mr. Rogers, whose own voice was conspicuously absent from the station owner's apology.

When NewsMax.com first the reported on the "Condoleezza" hate parody in late October, the racial sensitivity police decided to take a powder. Ditto two weeks later, when Fox News Channel's Heather Nauert attempted to interview Rogers about "Condoleezza," and was taunted by sexual vulgarities instead. Credit for forcing WQAM's apology also goes to Congress of Racial Equality National Spokesman Niger Innis, who worked with Mr. Oliver behind the scenes.

So where was the outrage from the rest of the press over Rogers' racist attack on Rice? Apparently the media was too busy getting their knickers in a twist over Trent Lott's gaffe to notice this bit of genuine Jim Crow-style bigotry polluting South Florida's airwaves.

Right under the noses of Miami's NAACP.

[dennisw]

You all are right. It goes way too far. I didn't see the outrageous line about toilets.

If CORE/Roy Innis think it stinks then so do I.

[johnny7]

My ex-father-in-law was a big-time lib'ral. Newspaper writer in New Jersey.

Big joke-teller too. All the jokes made fun of blacks.

He and his wife were happy to pay more taxes to keep the blacks on welfare and in Newark.

A racist white, black... whatever will tell you flat out their opinion. You can then judge them.

It's those skunk, white lib'rals who will shake your hand and laugh at you as you walk away... that's what makes me puke!

[Wondervixen]

ALL liberal groups need to be called on the carpet to answer for their silence just as they hold us to any slips of the tongue that our Trent Lott's and others might make.

When they are hair-triggered about demanding apologies from us, by golly, they need to be hit hard to apologize when one of their loose cannons fires off! When they don't, we need to rub their noses in it that we're going to stop offering any such "Sorry's" and it's the fault of their sister constituency groups for not living up to similar responsibilities.

NO MORE DOUBLE STANDARDS DAMMIT!

[Grampa Dave]

The rat party was the party of George Wallace and the racist senators in the 1950-60's. Those senators included the Senior Goron, Fullbright and other white racists.

The current rat party has a KKKer as one of their senators and that racist POS Hollings.

Then they are controlled by elite racists like your ex Father in Law. They herd up the blacks and put them in inner cities, push abortions among the blacks, lock them in terrible schools and send their drug pushers out to hook as many as they can.

The lunatic racists overseers like Je$$E, $harpton, the NAACP and the black caucus are paid to keep the blacks crammed up in inner cities and to have them ready to vote for their white slave masters, the Rat Politicians.

[beachn4fun]

I agree with you about this, in reference to Lott. See how those liberals can say what they want and their associates say, " it is their opinion and not ours...", but the GOP wouldn't even say anything like this in support of Lott. What is going on here?

[hosepipe]

AH! neil Rogers is just copying the songs on Rush Limbaughs show.

[beachn4fun]

Not only what you said, but one must ask themselves why there are so many black people out there who are jealous of the successful black person. But, one must also note that you usually don't hear them speaking badly about successful black sports and movie stars! Such as Jordan, Foreman, Tyson, D. Washington or Henry Belafonte!!

[freekitty]

Wonder why this idiot has not been charged with racism? See, their agenda really isn't racism. They know we will all get along if they just leave us alone.

[amused]

That neo-facist black-haired token schwarze dog

This is a sick example of the left's concept of "rights for me and none for thee" if one is in disagreement. Many on the left find no problem whatsoever with describing Powell and Rice as hosue slaves, tokens, etc. Andrew Sullivan is described as self-hating because he is a gay conservative.

Tolerance to the left is a concept that extends only to those in general agreement with the left.