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.

Jesus was racist. No, not the Mexican dude; the guy who wore sandals, and hung out with whores and other societal derelicts

Uh huh, yeah, I know this is going to be hard for some of you to process; yes, I know it is especially after you see this video at the end [ hat-tip to macon d at Stuff White People Do]. If anything, it (the video at the end) should motivate you to re-think the parable of the "Good Samaritan". After all, he (Jesus) did tell this story to these Jewish folks, and look at what they did to Cynthia McKinney when she attempted to bring aid to Palestinians over a week ago.

Yeah, they finally released her after sitting in jail for 7 days, and ironically there was little press coverage surrounding the story. But I guess that's to be expected coming from the same people who pretty much disowned him. That thing religion sure is hypocritical funny isn't it? Just ask the Jewish guy in the pic above. Hopefully today for the sake of the message in the parable Christians are not like, well, you know who.

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ANTI-SEMITIC? I'LL BE THAT!!

"Our race is the Master Race. We are divine gods on this planet. We are as different from the inferior races as they are from insects. In fact, compared to our race, other races are beasts and animals, cattle at best. Other races are considered as human excrement. Our destiny is to rule over the inferior races. Our earthly kingdom will be ruled by our leader with a rod of iron. The masses will lick our feet and serve us as our slaves." - Menachem Begin (Israeli Prime Minister 1977-1983)

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that those Zionists in the Israeli government are fuckin racist. Thats right, and I give two shits about who I offend. Call me anti-semetic if you like, but I call it like I see it. I'm sick and tired, of them having the blind support of people here in America. But then again, this is America we're talking about here. And I'm sick and tired of them and other assholes hiding behind the whole "God's Chosen People" bullshit. In my opinion, this is a perfect example of how fucked up the marriage of religion and politics can be. Thank God that the United States Constitution protects us from that sort of ideological thinking.

But hey, I don't wanna start in on the Bible, religion, Ribinic Laws and the Hametic Curse; thats a different blog soon to come. Instead, I wanna speak on just how racist the Jewish Zionists are. Yeah, I know some of you are gonna say stuff about the fact that the first president of the NAACP was Jewish and all of that, but thats nothing. Hell, one of the first private corporations was formed by the Portugese slave ship owners who transported slaves from Africa. And guess what? They were all Jewish. Yup, they owned the damn slave ships. Look it up if you don't believe me.

When the Abolitionist movement first got off the ground here in the United States, it received very little support from the Jews, or leading Jewish organizations. This is why I can't understand the people featured in this next video. The video chronicles the struggle for the Black Hebrews to live in Israel. They are a sect of African Hebrews who migrated from America to Israel. They believe that they're descendants from the biblical lost tribe of Israel. Now, whether this is true or not, the fact that they're not recognized as Jews in Israel is foul. But hey, I guess thats what you get from jumping out of the pot into the flames.

The video can be seen by clicking HERE

Seriously, you folks should click that link above.

Look at how hard those Palestinians have it over there on the Gaza Strip. These brothers (in my opinion) would have been better off staying in Chicago where they were from. At least here in America they would have been recognized as people and not have to worry about being deported, or not being recognized as Jewish because of the color of their skin. I guess it just goes to show that no matter where you are as a Black person you catch hell. Oh well, at least their not getting bombed like the Palestinians and suffering innocent civilian casualties.

Look, what's happening in the Middle East between the Israeli's and the Palestinians is just another form of apartheid. Maybe not as bad as practiced by the old South African government, but its evil, and wrong all the same. It's inhumane, and unjust. And for anybody to support what's happening as "defense" of one's country is really sad. Ok, so Hamas flew a few bottle rockets into Israel after the expiration of the cease fire a few weeks ago. What were they supposed to send them...roses?

I mean the Palestinians have been shitted on and have had their land stolen from them for years. They've also been subjugated to Jim Crow-like laws in their every day existence. In so many ways, their fight is a fight for justice and equality. But somehow, the mainstream media makes them (the Palestinians) out to be the bad guys. I've even heard them refered to as terrorists. The Israeli Prime Minister has even stated that their fight is not against Hamas, or Palestine, but instead a fight against terrorism. Really? Call it what you want, but I call it racism. It was racism in South Africa back then, and it's racism in Israel today.

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