Jamie Foxx @ BET Awards - Wait... did he really say that?

[Kona*]

Has anyone else seen/heard the comments Jamie Foxx made at the BET Awards about Michael Jackson? Here is the one I'm talking about:

We want to celebrate this black man - he belongs to us - and we shared him with everybody else.

Now I know he's at a black entertainment awards ceremony but could you imagine the uproar if the tables were turned and a white person said something similar? The whole crowd cheered his comments which made it all the more disgusting, comments like his do nothing for the global community.

Meh - I just wanted to vent

 

[Duke]

Heard it on the radio and cringed a bit.

 

[meghatronic]

Racism only exists in the eyes of those offended. At least here. "Black man" said by black men.... Gingerbread man..... Whatever.

 

[fonzee]

Heard it on the radio and cringed a bit.

 

[antijoke]

Is it really that big of an issue?

 

[dannyjo22]

Yeah especially as Jacko wasn't black anymore and his kids even less black.

That is cringeworthy, that because he was black he belonged to them and they have been nice enough to share him.

 

[Firestar_3x]

No but i want a White Entertainment Awards, wonder how far that would get................

 

[randal]

Didn't Michael Jackson spend the majority of his life trying to be anything but black?

 

[flat-6]

Well its hardly offensive that he said he was black - it just seems ridiculous given he obviously spent millions of dollars trying to change his appearance to look more caucasian.

 

[Tom0]

Don't matter if you're black or white

*grabs groin* OOOAAAW!

 

[Kona*]

Well its hardly offensive that he said he was black - it just seems ridiculous given he obviously spent millions of dollars trying to change his appearance to look more caucasian.

I didn't get offended when he said that he was black, it was the part where he said "he belongs to us" which got my back up.

 

[CLAWS]

Don't matter if you're black or white

*grabs groin* OOOAAAW!

Quality

 

[shifty_uk]

Don't matter if you're black or white

*grabs groin* OOOAAAW!

Jamie Foxx is a bit of an imbecile, tbh.

 

[Moley]

What is offensive about this comment is that Jamie Foxx is intimating that the white community/race and the black community/race are somehow different and the white community/race should be grateful for the black community/race sharing one of their prized performers. This goes against everything that the black community has been campaigning for since the days of slavery - that black people are equal to white people and should be treated as such.

Growing up as a white person and for years seeing black community leaders demanding equality (fair enough I say) and seeing our own community leaders going to extremes to make sure these demands were met (again fair enough - we do need a fair and equal society) - it then really grinds my gears to see such a high profile black actor stand up and make divisive statements like that.

 

[atpbx]

Growing up as a white person and for years seeing black community leaders demanding equality (fair enough I say) and seeing our own community leaders going to extremes to make sure these demands were met (again fair enough - we do need a fair and equal society) - it then really grinds my gears to see such a high profile black actor stand up and make divisive statements like that.

I've got to be honest, I'm white, I dont have a community leader.

 

[Moley]

I've got to be honest, I'm white, I dont have a community leader.

Local authority leaders would count.

 

[sidthesexist]

Is it really that big of an issue?

It would be if a white person said a similar thing, then half the forum would be branding him/her a racist instead of saying no big deal

 

[mac1st3]

"he belongs to us"...?....like a slave?...... >.>

 

[atpbx]

Local authority leaders would count.

I dont think so, not in the way the way that term is usually used.

 

[Bucket]

I agree that it is rather racist and if a white person ever dared to say that then the media would have a field day.