Wes Pedersen (10/08):
Charlotte, look at your last paragraph. "It's too bad you had to display your venonmous hatred on air...." Perhaps it's not bad. He let it all pour out, Gibson style, and now we know him for what he is: a raving bigot. A boycott of everything he attempts to do in the future would seem in order.
Ron Levy (10/08):
Today it's the Jews but 100 years from now it could be the white people. I'm serious. Can you see how, if you were an African or an Asian, you could ask why white people have several times as much per capita income as Africans and Asians? Whites control the world's media and money. Whites run most of the great universities and hospitals. The multibillion dollar corporations are almost entirely owned and managed by white people.
"Weapons of Mass Destruction" have been decried by many but made mainly by white people. Wars are waged mainly by whites and not just in this past century; the Crusaders were white, and the objects of their disaffection were not. It has become fashionable to speak out against "racism" yet what proportion of Americans do not prefer that their kids should marry someone of the same race? I don't know the answer. If I were African or Asian, I do think I'd recognize that whites have been prejudiced against us for a long time, and have taken advantage of us, and that there's really no reason why whites should have several times as much income while their kids have several times as much chance of a college education. Whites have VASTLY more access to the world's medical care. We spend more on medical schools, we bring in doctors from India and nurses from the Phillipines plus the Caribbean, and we provide our citizens with more money for health.
The average white person may spend more on soft drinks and fast food than the average non-white can spend on doctors. In the U.S. and many other countries, Jews are no longer killed in large numbers because of their religion. Perhaps it's partly because of visible good deeds like sponsoring hospitals, museums and universities--and devotion to education that has produced a good number of Jewish doctors and scientists who are seen doing things for people of all religions. that benefit everyone. Perhaps white people should be doing that.
Joe Honick, GMA International Ltd (10/10):
I think Ron and Sanchez should read the new book by British MP Denis MacShane that highlights the new rising anti-Semitism around the world and how well financed it is....including right here in the US. It's unfortunate but true.
PR Historian (10/08):
New educational efforts are indeed needed. Part of the older generation never believed that any regime could possibly put so many million Jews to death in such brutal fashion. Many in the younger generations know nothing at all about it.
Fed Up In NYC! (10/08):
The Jews marched with the blacks in the 60's... unfortunately, no marches with the Jews.
Kevin Foley (10/11):
I suspect Sanchez felt he was simply joining the chorus of bigotry currently fashionable on cable and radio.
Wondering in Omaha (10/11):
What Sanchez did was reprehensible and he was fired for it. He got what he deserved and it's going to be very difficult for him to find a new job anytime soon. Good riddance. All of that said, I wish we saw the same level of outrage from educators and communications professionals on this site (and elsewhere) at the hate and bigotry spewed forth every day by the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and the other shock jocks across this country. Many of these "entertainers/media figures" command huge audiences for their hate and vitriol against blacks, women, and gays. Limbaugh and Beck are lionized for their hate mongering (much, much worse then Sanchez ever uttered) by right wing networks (Fox), politicians, and business people. And, they reap hundreds of millions of dollars for spewing such garbage. Where's the justice in that? Just askin'.
Joe Honick, GMA International Ltd (10/11):
Sanchez was canned for his remarks, but not one word about Glenn Beck's hyping of a pro-Nazi author's book(Elizabeth Dilling). Maybe if Sanchez attracted more ads and parades....?
Wes Pedersen (10/11):
Sanchez is eating dirt trying to worm out of this mess. Now if some of those who are storming mad at his comments -- and the network/channel eagerness to reguritate his words -- would just get busy and scream about the wars we are still locked into, about the healthcare mess, about education, about.... Well, about our fading future. Now before I am accused of failing to understand the true depravity of Sanchez, and his like-minders, let me say, Yes, damn it, I do. I know about the Holocast and the millions it devoured without protest from the world. I also understand that we have come to forget about the wars that are killing our men and women in uniform. I find the fact that we have permitted this kind of slaughter to continue without a massive cry from the American public despicable.
Joe Honick, GMA International Ltd (10/12):
A very loud screaming AMEN to Wes Pedersen's comment....for all the good it will do, especially when so many worried about a GAP logo and the Wall Street Journal decided to survey NFL Quarterbacks' hairdo's. |