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FACEBOOKLindsay Lohan didn't get fired for: showing up late, hung over, or just plainly skipping her takes by not showing up at all. Instead, she got a verbal lashing in written form from the president of the studio. Isaiah is a talented actor with numerous films/ TV shows under his belt and he gets fired for using the word, F*got. I have many friends who are homosexual and they use this word more than the word gay, so what's the big deal…well as the woman in Human Resources put it, came from a black man, and now their afraid of him. Isaiah is preaching to the choir because I have been in similar situations myself and know plenty of others who have also experienced the same. I've had my white co-workers flying off the handle, shouting in my face and causing a riot. The moment I open my mouth and calmly try to say something and sometimes nothing at all, here comes Human Resources saying, that I was the irate, out of control one shaking my head and my co-workers are afraid of me. Been there one too many times. It is always interesting that people seem to think that African Americans play the race card when it's convenient and I wish sometimes you could truly walk in our shoes and see what it's like to be black for a day. I guarantee you would be shocked at how differently we are treated and how hurtful it is that we will NEVER be on the same playing field in a country that says, "equal justice for all" oh and note if Paris Hilton were black she would be serving the full front of her 42 days!
Thursday June 28, 2007
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When Isaiah Washington used a homophobic slur on the set of Grey's Anatomy, his castmates spoke out against him. Now that he's been dismissed from the show, it's Washington who's doing all the talking.
Washington's latest outburst comes in Newsweek, which interviewed the actor in his trailer on the set of the indie film The Least of These. From ramblings on "homophobia rehab" to racism in America, Washington doesn't hold anything back.
Read on for excerpts:
On the infamous on-set fight between Washington and Patrick Dempsey:
"Patrick and I had a philosophical disagreement that got out of hand and that I regret a great deal. I said a lot of negative things that were never reported, but there was one word that caught everyone’s attention, particularly someone who wasn’t even in the room with us...someone heard the booming voice of a black man and got really scared and that was the beginning of the end for me."
On where that "one word" might have come from:
"Growing up in the South, I wasn’t exposed to as many different lifestyles and personalities as I could have been. And that’s always a problem, because the more you’re exposed, clearly the more you know and understand."
On forgiveness:
"I apologized and showed my remorse for what I said and for the pain I caused anyone. If a black man can’t get forgiveness in this country, when so many other people like Robert Downey Jr. and the governor of California get second and third chances … I think that says a lot about race and this country where we stand."
On his stint in "rehab":
"There is no rehab for homophobia—that was just some crap being put out by the network. I went into an executive counseling program which many people in this industry know about and go to. They knew what the program was but chose to call it what they wanted to fit their agenda."
On what he saw as an already existing prejudice:
"Well, it didn’t help me on the set that I was a black man who wasn’t a mush-mouth Negro walking around with his head in his hands all the time. I didn’t speak like I’d just left the plantation and that can be a problem for people sometime. I had a person in human resources tell me after this thing played out that 'some people' were afraid of me around the studio. I asked her why, because I’m a 6-foot-1, black man with dark skin and who doesn’t go around saying ‘Yessah, massa sir’ and ‘No sir, massa’ to everyone?
On the lessons learned from this experience:
"My mistake was believing that I would get the support from my network and all of my cast mates across the board. My mistake was believing I could correct a wrong with honesty and sincerity. My mistake was thinking black people get second chances. I was wrong on all fronts."
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I am an African American successful woman however I do not let the "kindness and/ or generosity of my senior management sway me from knowing the facts about the country we live in and whether you agree or disagree race, ALWAYS plays a role in America. Someone mentioned Colin Powell as a positive African American leader however, that was before the Bush Administration used him as a scapegoat in saying it was he who chose to go forward with in-accurate information that Iraq had Weapons of Mass Destruction. If your remember that is what lead to Colin Powell's resignation and somewhat now tarnished legacy. Isaiah Washington is correct that race 100% played an active roll in his firing. Even before the mishap it was clear that most of his white cast mates on the show did not embrace him. If those of you who follow the press would think back to when Grey first started, you will realize that they were distance with him for day one by side stepping any comments referring to him. While they only praised their white counterparts with the exception of Sandra O' whom is non-white herself, she said she admired and had great respect for Isaiah. Strangely enough actors like Robert Downey Jr., Mel Gibson, Tom Cruise (remember his remarks; appalling), Robin Williams even (did time in the nut house for his antics) however, all of them have been able to move on and continue making movies. Needless, to say none of them got fired from the set. Someone mentioned Isaiah was unprofessional and therefore his firing was justified.
Color had nothing to do with it - Isaiah is a loud-mouth obnoxious jerk and unfortunately jerks come in all colors. People don't like to work with divisive self-serving people wether they are man or woman, black or white. Isaiah is annoying and blames everybody for his malfunction. Grey's Anatomy did not fire him, by the way, they just didn't renew his contract. They were right. He's proving their case for them.
It's a tv show...build a bridge and get over it.In one hundred years no one will remember it anyway.And "Lance" I missed a letter...not exactly the same thing as misspelling a word but your right I should have checked more thoroughly.
Suppose one of his cast members had used the N-word? You bet your a** that he would expect that individual to be fired. Washington's ridiculous babble only confirms that the Grey's Anatomy execs did the right thing by getting rid of this ignorant hypocrite.
2:22- Hey you stupid ,you should take your own advice yeah,and do a spelling check ,you did not spell responsibility correctly,you spelled it reposibility,thats firstly,and secondly "This guy was the best actor on greys anatomy and the most well known of the entire show",the show is going to go off of the air very soon ,they wont have many more season's left,and thats very good for all of his jealous and envious other cast members.
One should think before one submits the rubbish I have read in these comments (and use spell check!).There's barely a comment that sticks to the subject matter and a whole host of those that want to fling insults around without the aid of intelligent thought.The man deserved to be fired because he CHOSE to act like a two year old with a soggy diaper not getting his way.It is so sad to see a man (of any color) acting that way.He refuses to take resposibility for his own actions and instead places the blame on anything that will make him seem a victim.And for this to cause an all out insult-fest just proves the point that it isn't meant to shine the light on unfair or biased treatment but to stir up hatred and anger between two races who by now should have both grown up and learned to get along.I don't think he should get a second chance because it seems as if he was given third and fourth chances but he CHOSE to go his own way and his arrogance and self-seeking attitude have led him to the place where he is at today.
NO IMPORTA LO QUE DIGAN, LA SERIE PERDIO MAS AL DESPEDIRLO. NINGUNO DE ESA SERIE ES TAN BUEN ACTOR COMO Isaiah Washington Y SU PAPEL ERA DE LO MEJOR.
Isaiah Washington WAS THE BEST ACTOR, MORE THAN ANYONE IN THIS SERIE.
NO IMPORTA LO QUE DIGAN, LA SERIE PERDIO MAS AL DESPEDIRLO. NINGUNO DE ESA SERIE ES TAN BUEN ACTOR COMO Isaiah Washington Y SU PAPEL ERA DE LO MEJOR.
Isaiah Washington WAS THE BEST ACTOR, MORE THAN ANYONE IN THIS SERIE.
Funny how blacks claim they want to be treated the same but when they are they always pull the 'RACE CARD'!!! Viveca Fox just did the same thing - PATHETIC!!
Wow, if you look back on this post there are some racist, sorry, attention seeking A-holes out there. Stupid people, racisim is for idiots.
For someone supposedly so educated and above everyone else, you have proven yourself to be unintelligent and severely lacking in your truths! Isaiah Washington is a sad, poor, idiot of a man, who happened to put his OWN foot in his OWN mouth and make repeated mistakes over and over! I liked his character on Grey's just fine, but the creators of the show did what they felt they had to do! They didn't dump him b/c he is a self-admitted "Booming black man", he used it as an excuse! I find that most people, when faced with their own self-distruction, blame said demise on everyone and thing they can! If a black man is so unfairly treated, how do you explain a respected politician like Colin Powell, or a worthy entertainer like Jamiee Foxx? These men know what respect and class is! They do not need to present lies in interviews, solely to further their dwindling careers! I say keep talking Isaiah-you only prove my point with each unintelligent thing you say!
I BELIEVE THAT ISAIH WASHINGTON IS A VICTIM OF ENVY AND OF JEALOUSY AND THE GREYS ANATOMY CANT MAKE IT WITHOUT A MAJOR STAR LIKE THAT MISSING,I DONT THINK THE SHOW WILL STAY ON THE AIR MUCH LONGER AND QUITE FRANKLY I LOOK FORWARD TO ITS DOWNFALL!!!
OBVIOUSLY YOU AMERICANS ARE THE MOST STUPID AND IDIOTIC PEOPLE ,YOU ARE THE LAST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD THAT ARE STILL LIVING LIKE THA CAVE MEN, YOU STILL THINK ABOUT RACISM ,YOU IDIOTS THERE ARE AFRICAN KINGS AND QUEENS AND RICH OIL MAGOR LEAGUERS AND A WHOLE WORLD OUT THERE,THANK GOD WE GERMANS ARE FAR MORE INTELLIGENT THAN YOU DUMB DUMB AMERICANS WE DONT HAVE THIS KIND OF IDIOCRACY IN GERMANY AND HOPE THAT YOU DUMB DUMBS STAY WITH YOUR STUPID MENTALITIES IN AMERICA.THIS WOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED TO ISIAH WASHINGTON IN GERMANY , BUT THEN WE ARE A MILLION MILES MORE !ADVANCED AND INTELLIGENT
THAN YOU DUMMIES,AND NON OF YOU CAN PROBABLY TELL ME WHO YOUR PRESIDENT IS NOW CAN YOU?
I BELIEVE THAT ISAIH WASHINGTON IS A VICTIM OF ENVY AND OF JEALOUSY AND THE GREYS ANATOMY CANT MAKE IT WITHOUT A MAJOR STAR LIKE THAT MISSING,I DONT THINK THE SHOW WILL STAY ON THE AIR MUCH LONGER AND QUITE FRANKLY I LOOK FORWARD TO ITS DOWNFALL!!!
OBVIOUSLY YOU AMERICANS ARE THE MOST STUPID AND IDIOTIC PEOPLE ,YOU ARE THE LAST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD THAT ARE STILL LIVING LIKE THA CAVE MEN, YOU STILL THINK ABOUT RACISM ,YOU IDIOTS THERE ARE AFRICAN KINGS AND QUEENS AND RICH OIL MAGOR LEAGUERS AND A WHOLE WORLD OUT THERE,THANK GOD WE GERMANS ARE FAR MORE INTELLIGENT THAN YOU DUMB DUMB AMERICANS WE DONT HAVE THIS KIND OF IDIOCRACY IN GERMANY AND HOPE THAT YOU DUMB DUMBS STAY WITH YOUR STUPID MENTALITIES IN AMERICA.THIS WOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED TO ISIAH WASHINGTON IN GERMANY , BUT THEN WE ARE A MILLION MILES MORE !ADVANCED AND INTELLIGENT
THAN YOU DUMMIES,AND NON OF YOU CAN PROBABLY TELL ME WHO YOUR PRESIDENT IS NOW CAN YOU?
I BELIEVE THAT ISAIH WASHINGTON IS A VICTIM OF ENVY AND OF JEALOUSY AND THE GREYS ANATOMY CANT MAKE IT WITHOUT A MAJOR STAR LIKE THAT MISSING,I DONT THINK THE SHOW WILL STAY ON THE AIR MUCH LONGER AND QUITE FRANKLY I LOOK FORWARD TO ITS DOWNFALL!!!
OBVIOUSLY YOU AMERICANS ARE THE MOST STUPID AND IDIOTIC PEOPLE ,YOU ARE THE LAST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD THAT ARE STILL LIVING LIKE THA CAVE MEN, YOU STILL THINK ABOUT RACISM ,YOU IDIOTS THERE ARE AFRICAN KINGS AND QUEENS AND RICH OIL MAGOR LEAGUERS AND A WHOLE WORLD OUT THERE,THANK GOD WE GERMANS ARE FAR MORE INTELLIGENT THAN YOU DUMB DUMB AMERICANS WE DONT HAVE THIS KIND OF IDIOCRACY IN GERMANY AND HOPE THAT YOU DUMB DUMBS STAY WITH YOUR STUPID MENTALITIES IN AMERICA.THIS WOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED TO ISIAH WASHINGTON IN GERMANY , BUT THEN WE ARE A MILLION MILES MORE !ADVANCED AND INTELLIGENT
THAN YOU DUMMIES,AND NON OF YOU CAN PROBABLY TELL ME WHO YOUR PRESIDENT IS NOW CAN YOU?
I BELIEVE THAT ISAIH WASHINGTON IS A VICTIM OF ENVY AND OF JEALOUSY AND THE GREYS ANATOMY CANT MAKE IT WITHOUT A MAJOR STAR LIKE THAT MISSING,I DONT THINK THE SHOW WILL STAY ON THE AIR MUCH LONGER AND QUITE FRANKLY I LOOK FORWARD TO ITS DOWNFALL!!!
OBVIOUSLY YOU AMERICANS ARE THE MOST STUPID AND IDIOTIC PEOPLE ,YOU ARE THE LAST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD THAT ARE STILL LIVING LIKE THA CAVE MEN, YOU STILL THINK ABOUT RACISM ,YOU IDIOTS THERE ARE AFRICAN KINGS AND QUEENS AND RICH OIL MAGOR LEAGUERS AND A WHOLE WORLD OUT THERE,THANK GOD WE GERMANS ARE FAR MORE INTELLIGENT THAN YOU DUMB DUMB AMERICANS WE DONT HAVE THIS KIND OF IDIOCRACY IN GERMANY AND HOPE THAT YOU DUMB DUMBS STAY WITH YOUR STUPID MENTALITIES IN AMERICA.THIS WOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED TO ISIAH WASHINGTON IN GERMANY , BUT THEN WE ARE A MILLION MILES MORE !ADVANCED AND INTELLIGENT
THAN YOU DUMMIES,AND NON OF YOU CAN PROBABLY TELL ME WHO YOUR PRESIDENT IS NOW CAN YOU?
I BELIEVE THAT ISAIH WASHINGTON IS A VICTIM OF ENVY AND OF JEALOUSY AND THE GREYS ANATOMY CANT MAKE IT WITHOUT A MAJOR STAR LIKE THAT MISSING,I DONT THINK THE SHOW WILL STAY ON THE AIR MUCH LONGER AND QUITE FRANKLY I LOOK FORWARD TO ITS DOWNFALL!!!
OBVIOUSLY YOU AMERICANS ARE THE MOST STUPID AND IDIOTIC PEOPLE ,YOU ARE THE LAST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD THAT ARE STILL LIVING LIKE THA CAVE MEN, YOU STILL THINK ABOUT RACISM ,YOU IDIOTS THERE ARE AFRICAN KINGS AND QUEENS AND RICH OIL MAGOR LEAGUERS AND A WHOLE WORLD OUT THERE,THANK GOD WE GERMANS ARE FAR MORE INTELLIGENT THAN YOU DUMB DUMB AMERICANS WE DONT HAVE THIS KIND OF IDIOCRACY IN GERMANY AND HOPE THAT YOU DUMB DUMBS STAY WITH YOUR STUPID MENTALITIES IN AMERICA.THIS WOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED TO ISIAH WASHINGTON IN GERMANY , BUT THEN WE ARE A MILLION MILES MORE !ADVANCED AND INTELLIGENT
THAN YOU DUMMIES,AND NON OF YOU CAN PROBABLY TELL ME WHO YOUR PRESIDENT IS NOW CAN YOU?
As a black male myself, Isiah has just guaranteed himself a free casting pass on Chitlin Circuit TV. In case you forgot, brotha, guess what color the head honchos of nearly all the big networks and movie studios are? I'm all for him not being an Uncle Tom or a "yes" man, but in your field especially, it's still a white man that will ultimately be singing your checks...even over at BET or Lion's Gate Studios. Even sadder, comments like this above will only make it harder for other black actors out there.
I THINK HIM USING THE F WORD WAS A BIG NO-NO FOR ISIAH BUT I THINK IT WAS ONLY PART OF WHY THE POWERS-THAT-BE GOT RID OF ISIAH. I NOTICE HE KEEPS SAYING, "IT WAS AN ARGUMENT BETWEEN ME AND PATRICK THAT GOT OUT OF HAND. I APOLOGIZED, WE SHOOK HANDS, THAT WAS IT." WELL, MR. WASHINGTON, IF THE MATTER WAS AS "SQUASHED" AS YOU SAY IT WAS, WHY DID YOU (NOT T.R., NOT PATRICK, NOT KATHERINE...BUT YOU!) BRING THE WHOLE THING UP AGAIN BACKSTAGE AT THE GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS IN FRONT A WHOLE ROOM OF MEDIA PRESS????? YOU WERE HEARD CLEARLY SAYING AND WITH A LAUGH, "NO I DID NOT CALL T.R. KNIGHT A F@GGOT!" ALL OF THIS IN FRONT OF THE PRESS, YOUR FELLOW CASTMATES INCLUDING THE VERY PERSON YOU INDIRECTLY AIMED THE SLUR AT.
NOPE, I THINK HE WAS FIRED BECAUSE HE CLEARLY DOESN'T KNOW WHEN TO SHUP HIS MOUTH. BETWEEN THE GOLDEN GLOBES TO SUBSEQUENT INTERVIEWS HE'S GIVEN IN LIGHT OF THIS TO THIS ARTICLE NOW, HE OBVIOUSLY DOESN'T THINK BEFORE HE SPEAKS. SOMEONE LIKE THAT IS A LIABILITY. THE WORD F@GGOT ASIDE, THE STATEMENTS ABOVE SHOW THAT HE HAS NO PROBLEM SPEAKING HIS MIND. AND GRANTED HE SHOULD, FREEDOM OF SPEECH AFTER ALL BUT THERE IS A TIME AND A PLACE FOR EVERYTHING. ABC DID THE RIGHT THING. IT WOULD ONLY BE A MATTER OF TIME BEFORE HE OFFENDED SOMEONE ELSE WITH HIS BIG TRAP.
isolated..mmm so it's ok to beat your wife or kid if its isolated?just that one time?..mm oh yeah it's ok to molest a child if its an isolated thingy...oh yeah then it's ok to kill someone because well i only did it that 1 insolated time right so what if i rape some inosent old woman...it's gonna be just this 1 insolated time....you stupid ass's do you know how stupid you sound... miss sarah?
By the way, he has acted on over 50 t.v shows, and movies, and that's just since 1991.
If he had such a history WHY DID THEY HIRE HIM IN THE FIRST PLACE. It's contradictory. He obviously DID not have a history or the network WOULD NOT have taken a chance on hiring him in the first place. This was an isolated incident--THAT HE APOLOGIZED to the other actor for. Has anyone seen the list of work this man has done--IF HE WAS SUCH AN A******* why would he have been hired over and over again. If he was such a JERK he would have earned himself a reputation a very long time ago.
2:13 PM White power Says: Your mother should have used a condom , would have saved her the humiliation she suffers right now as the world judges her as a mother while listing to your verbal vomit!
anon 123 It is so easy to see how ignorant and un-educated you are just by the way you spell. Or rather try to spell. anon 2:22 When you heard about what Bill Cosby said you put it together how you wanted to. I know you did not watch it. What a lucky day for all these stupid hillbillies! They have found a place to attempt to pass along their stupid attitudes. Please do not pro-create
11:12 AM White Power Says: ANNON @ 8:56AM. On behave of my self and all other white people in the world , you are an embarassment to our race you are hateful and ugly also ignorent, you bring nothing positive to humanity and i for one am sorry that you were born.the world would be a nicer place with out you..
I didn't know the KKK could read or write. That's really giving them too much credit. I thought the KKK were all disturbed from their inbreeding which left them with low IQ's.
Who knew the KKK read USMag? Wow! The racists are out in full force this afternoon! You do realize that spewing your crap makes Washington look like a choir boy, which he certainly is not. Could you do us all a favor and crawl back under your hoods?
Good God! It appears as if Isaiah Washington has started a race war on this site. For Washington to say this is a racial issue is no different than when President Bush brought up the whole issue of gay marriage, it's an effort to get people worked up about something that is a topic of debate and take the focus off the matter at hand, in Washington's case his responsibility for the actions he took and the words he spoke, and in our President's case, his never ending list of blunders that would have otherwise been so overwhelming as to keep him from being re-elected. Racism exists, certainly, and when people are treated poorly or unfairly because of their race (or their gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, etc...) then we should be outraged, but this is not one of those cases. I am truly offended that he's playing the race card when this show has one of the more diverse casts out there, not to mention that the shows creator Shonda Rimes in in fact a black woman. Smart move Isaiah, throw out the race card and now no one is focusing on you anymore, they're too busy arguing over their perspectives and opinions.
This guy is an ignorant a-hole.
So is he saying the other Black Americans on the show are unintelligent and unexperienced?
I hate this guy. I hope he never gets to act anywhere else except maybe in community theater as a stage hand.
ANNOYING, MAYBE I WILL WATCH THE SHOW AGAIN NOW THAT HE IS GONE!
I agree with anonymous 2:22, black women are misreable and rude they think they should do nothing at work and get paid big bucks. They always have an attitude, when ever I see a white man with a black women I know he's a drug addict, no one wants them, no real man anyway with a real career and morals, maybe they should think about that next time they open there misreable mouths
