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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 1091122" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p>Now that's racist !!!</p><p></p><p>Anyone else get the feeling if a white performer boldly proclaimed, “white people are the most talented people in the world,” it probably wouldn’t go over so well?</p><p></p><p>Via <a href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2013/02/08/jamie-foxx-black-people-are-most-talented-people-world#ixzz2KMA1FrFv" target="_blank">Newsbusters</a>:</p><p></p><p style="margin-left: 20px">JAMIE FOXX: All I can say is I’m so humbled tonight. I was thinking about all the stuff that I was going to say personally about myself, and I was gonna be all about me and how I did it, and how me and me and I and I, and then you watch Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier come out, and you say to yourself it’s really not big of a deal of what you are doing just yet. [...]</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"><strong>Black people are the most talented people in the world. I, it’s, I can’t explain it.</strong> You can’t sit in this room and not watch Gladys Knight sing and go like, “Golly, what in the world?”</p> <p style="margin-left: 20px"></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 1091122, member: 1246"] Now that's racist !!! Anyone else get the feeling if a white performer boldly proclaimed, “white people are the most talented people in the world,” it probably wouldn’t go over so well? Via [URL="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2013/02/08/jamie-foxx-black-people-are-most-talented-people-world#ixzz2KMA1FrFv"]Newsbusters[/URL]: [INDENT]JAMIE FOXX: All I can say is I’m so humbled tonight. I was thinking about all the stuff that I was going to say personally about myself, and I was gonna be all about me and how I did it, and how me and me and I and I, and then you watch Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier come out, and you say to yourself it’s really not big of a deal of what you are doing just yet. [...] [B]Black people are the most talented people in the world. I, it’s, I can’t explain it.[/B] You can’t sit in this room and not watch Gladys Knight sing and go like, “Golly, what in the world?” [/INDENT] [/QUOTE]
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