Jamie Foxx: Black People are the most talented people in the world

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White people mad, and I understand. A white actor would look like an a$$hole if he said the same thing but, fukkitdoe. I'm glad Jamie said it :smugdraper:




By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

Actor Jamie Foxx is again facing a backlash for making a controversial, racially charged remark, this time for making a statement about black superiority during an NAACP awards ceremony. Foxx declared that black people are the 'most talented people in the world' at the 44th annual NAACP Image Awards, drawing the ire of conservative critics who took offense to what they considered a racist remark.

As he accepted the Entertainer of the Year Award during the Feb. 1 ceremony, he praised other luminaries such as Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier, saying that he was humbled by the amazing people he shared the stage with. 'Black people are the most talented people in the world. I, it’s, I can’t explain it,' Foxx said. 'You can’t sit in this room and not watch Gladys Knight sing and go like, “Golly, what in the world?”'

The site NewsBusters, which claims its mission is to expose the media's bias toward the left, picked up on the comment and writer Noel Sheppard criticized Foxx for what he lambasted as a 'really stupid' remark. 'Can you imagine the heat a white actor would get if he said at a nationally televised awards ceremony, "White people are the most talented people in the world?" Sheppard wrote. 'Probably be the end of his or her career.'

The site Red Alert Politics, which caters to young conservatives, described the comment as a 'backhanded' criticism of 'performers of all other races.' 'Foxx shouldn't ignore other talented actors and singers who may not share his skin color,' wrote Kelsey Osterman.

It was hardly the first time Foxx had caused this sort of stir. He took flak for at one point comparing President Barack Obama to Jesus. Some of the jokes he made on a recent 'Saturday Night Live' episode to promote his new film 'Django Unchained' didn't sit well with some observers, either. Foxx said on the comedy show that, in Quentin Tarantino's latest history-revising revenge-fantasy, he plays a freed slave who kills 'all the white people in the movie...How great is that?'

In interviews after the release of the film, in which he is attempting to rescue his wife from a cruel slave owner played by Leonardo DiCaprio, Foxx said he expected the movie would provoke strong reactions from the black community and he revealed how 'every single thing in my life is built around race.'

He said that black people are 'always sensitive' about race and often see everything through a racial prism. 'As a black person it's always racial,' he reportedly said, according to the Daily News.

'I don't necessarily speak it because you can't,' he said.
 

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Ehh....he's said worse things....seems more like a "black pride" type statement to me

Although the point about "what if a white man said that about whites" is a good one :manny:....you KNOW that would cause at least a 10-page thread on here
 
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all the "white is right" shyt us non-whites get shoved down our throats, Whites should get a taste every once in a while
 

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NOBODY WOULD GIVE A shyt IF SOMEBODY SAID "THE IRISH ARE THE MOST TALENTED PEOPLE IN THE WORLD" OR IF SOMEONE SAID "AMERICA IS THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD" AND THAT'S THE CONTEXT IN WHICH I LOOK AT FOXX'S STATEMENT, BROTHER! HE SAYS HE'S INVOKING RACE, BUT IT'S MORE ACCURATE TO SAY HE'S ADDRESSING ETHNICITY OR AN UNOFFICIAL NATIONALITY THAT IS AFRICAN AMERICANS, DUDE!

IF A WHITE ACTOR WHO WAS ALSO ENGLISH SAID "THE ENGLISH ARE THE MOST TALENTED PEOPLE" IT WOULDN'T BE VIEWED AS A BIGOTED STATEMENT, JACK! "WHITE PEOPLE" ISN'T REALLY A DEFINED GROUP OF PEOPLE AND IN THIS CONTEXT, "BLACK PEOPLE" ALMOST CERTAINLY REFERS SPECIFICALLY TO AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE, MEAN GENE!
 

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I hate this...."oh what if a white person said the same thing" false equivalency.

Bytch, Black people havent systematically used political, social, and legislative powers to destroy the dignity and humanity of white people for over 400 years. There has never been any collective effort on behalf of Black people to injure whites as a whole. Since the birth of this nation, damn near, whites have woken up for the expressed purpose of trying to figure out different ways to put their boots in our ass. SMH.
 
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NOBODY WOULD GIVE A shyt IF SOMEBODY SAID "THE IRISH ARE THE MOST TALENTED PEOPLE IN THE WORLD" OR IF SOMEONE SAID "AMERICA IS THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD" AND THAT'S THE CONTEXT IN WHICH I LOOK AT FOXX'S STATEMENT, BROTHER! HE SAYS HE'S INVOKING RACE, BUT IT'S MORE ACCURATE TO SAY HE'S ADDRESSING ETHNICITY OR AN UNOFFICIAL NATIONALITY THAT IS AFRICAN AMERICANS, DUDE!

IF A WHITE ACTOR WHO WAS ALSO ENGLISH SAID "THE ENGLISH ARE THE MOST TALENTED PEOPLE" IT WOULDN'T BE VIEWED AS A BIGOTED STATEMENT, JACK! "WHITE PEOPLE" ISN'T REALLY A DEFINED GROUP OF PEOPLE AND IN THIS CONTEXT, "BLACK PEOPLE" ALMOST CERTAINLY REFERS SPECIFICALLY TO AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE, MEAN GENE!

I concur! It's a debatable opinion but not an outlandish one. Pride in culture is not bigotry.

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I hate this...."oh what if a white person said the same thing" false equivalency.

Bytch, Black people havent systematically used political, social, and legislative powers to destroy the dignity and humanity of white people for over 400 years. There has never been any collective effort on behalf of Black people to injure whites as a whole. Since the birth of this nation, damn near, whites have woken up for the expressed purpose of trying to figure out different ways to put their boots in our ass. SMH.

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