The network of Jimmy the Greek is circling its race-conscious wagons again, this time over something 60 Minutes' Andy Rooney said on the Don Imus radio show.
There is more context for the remark here than Drudge shared, but to me it still comes across as at least a bit insensitive, despite Vaughan Ververs' spinning.
UPDATE: iFilm has it here ...
That is the funniest thing I have ever seen!!
Posted by: Jenz | November 04, 2005 at 08:59 PM
What is "insensitive" about what Rooney said?
Posted by: wilsonkolb | November 05, 2005 at 01:47 PM
Yeah. There's even a United Negro College Fund. I saw posters for it all the time in high school (2 years ago). It was the polite way people referred to blacks way back in the day, and Andy Rooney is an old guy. He thinks he's being polite. Cut him some slack.
Posted by: Yum Yum | November 05, 2005 at 04:49 PM
Oh, FFS... I'm the child of an inter-racial marriage, and my parents had to take some REAL racist abuse from both sides of the family. When you've seen your mother called a "n****r-loving c**t" by a stranger because she had the gall to kiss her husband on the cheek in public, you get a sense of perspective.
Posted by: Craig Ranapia | November 05, 2005 at 05:28 PM
The African-American community has basically chosen "African-American" as the term of preferred reference. For self-described "Irish-American" Andy Rooney to split hairs and decide unilaterally that the term is, for some undescribed reason, wrong or inaccurate is insensitive and, yes, borderline racist.
As for the United Negro College Fund, they have begun referring to it simply as "The College Fund."
Posted by: The Malcontent | November 05, 2005 at 08:24 PM