
UpForGrabs
Norm Smith Medallist
1) I'm angry because I was hoping Hey Hey would just disappear now, but this has bought it to attention.
2) There's no difference between racially insensitive and racist. They're just as bad as each other and this skit was both.
3) Shame on the guys for a) thinking that their act was funny and b) for the Hey Hey producers letting the act go on. I don't care if they did it 20 years ago. It was wrong then and is especially so today.
4) How quickly people forget. Anyone care to bring up the Harbhajan Singh/Andrew Symonds "monkey" controversy or the prior problems Symo had in India? Indians were knocked pillar to post for saying "monkey" was in no way a racist term, when we all knew different. Now that the shoe's on the other foot, people are claiming the yanks to get over it. Interesting.
5) Shame on anyone who thinks this is a storm in a teacup. What society do we live in when this type of behaviour is either excused or tolerated. How ignorant must we be to not know that 'blackface' is a vile act and the reminder of a bygone era where racism was just allowed, it was indoctrined into society.
2) There's no difference between racially insensitive and racist. They're just as bad as each other and this skit was both.
3) Shame on the guys for a) thinking that their act was funny and b) for the Hey Hey producers letting the act go on. I don't care if they did it 20 years ago. It was wrong then and is especially so today.
4) How quickly people forget. Anyone care to bring up the Harbhajan Singh/Andrew Symonds "monkey" controversy or the prior problems Symo had in India? Indians were knocked pillar to post for saying "monkey" was in no way a racist term, when we all knew different. Now that the shoe's on the other foot, people are claiming the yanks to get over it. Interesting.
5) Shame on anyone who thinks this is a storm in a teacup. What society do we live in when this type of behaviour is either excused or tolerated. How ignorant must we be to not know that 'blackface' is a vile act and the reminder of a bygone era where racism was just allowed, it was indoctrined into society.