Rick Sanchez Apologizes: "I Screwed Up."

I promise you guys, I'm done standing up for minorities in the hot seat who I think have done no wrong. OK, well, maybe not entirely. But me taking up for them, only to have them disappoint me by apologizing pisses me off.

You know the story about Rick Sanchez; we discussed it, and yes, I still think nothing he said was anti-Semitic. But hey, when you've lost your job, and you have a new book to sell, and the Jews run the media you gotta make it do what it do:

What Exactly Did Rick Sanchez Say Wrong?

So CNN's afternoon guy, Rick Sanchez, was fired yesterday. Supposedly he said some foul shit on a radio show, that was interpreted to be anti-Semitic. My initial reaction without giving a listen to, or having any knowledge of what was said was... Damn, if only CNN had moved this quickly on Lou Dobbs...

But hey, I realize that Lou Dobbs is an old white man so he can pretty much get away with any form of bigotry against any anybody. Hell, if Lou Dobbs sat in Helen Thomas' seat and said what she said about Israel and "them Jews", I'm pretty sure that unlike Helen Thomas, his old cantankerous ass would still have a job.

Uh-huh, yeah... watch ya back Roland Martin! Of course had it been Roland Martin who said the very same words or opinions expressed as Sanchez, the black community would be in an uproar. But after listening to what Sanchez said, maybe it explains why Roland doesn't have his own show with the network.

What, is Roland only good enough for TV One?

No but seriously, that's how I felt when I first heard the news. But now that I've heard the audio, I'm not quite sure that I can say that he did or said anything wrong. Nothing anti-Semitic at least. Now if he said something like "Jews owned the slave ships that brought black folks over from Africa," yeah, that would be so wrong.

But like I said, I don't see where anything he said was offensive, or derogatory enough to warrant him losing his job. OK, so yeah, maybe he was hatin' on Jon Stewart (who happens to be Jewish) just a tad for jabs taken at him in the name of comedy on The Daily Show.

Personally, I believe Sanchez has a right to feel the way he does as seen through a racial lens. As a minority, Sanchez has a right to feel some-type-of-way about how he's perceived. Which is really a trip coming from me because I take shots at just about anybody on this very site everyday.

But I'm black... and that means I can get a pass (I'm so laughing at that last line). I mean we had slavery, and they had the Holocaust. And no, not to compare and have a trivial debate about atrocities. But, as Sanchez said, I don't exactly see or hear of anybody Jewish having a hard time getting a job because of being Jewish.