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The media operates in cycles – cycles of obsession. Yesterday’s hot-ticket item was comedienne, Wanda Sykes’, borderline controversial performance at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. A few of her Limbaugh jokes toed the line of tasteless. (Although, personally, I say “Go in!” He totally deserves it.)

But what I think is even more controversial than Sykes’ comedy is a comment from well-known critic, Christopher Hitchens, that almost slipped through the cracks.

In a brilliant article on The Daily Beast by Chris Rovzar and Jada Yuan which enumerates the unreported highlights of the Correspondents’ Dinner, buried wayyyyyy at the end is this nugget from Mr. Hitchens:

“The president should be squirming in his seat. Not smiling. The black dyke got it wrong. No one told her the rules.”

CLICK HERE to read the original post. *Scroll to the bottom for the quote.

Sound off! Is this an appropriate response to Sykes’ performance?

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/HeartofAKing1/ HeartofAKing1

    She’s a comedian.With her there are no rules.1st Amendmant right,freedom of speech.Did you read the rules Chrissy Hitchens:).I will exercise my 1st Amendmant right and tell you the f*ck of*.Wanda got it right.You sound like your a mad republican.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BIG_BLOCK_HEMI/ BIG_BLOCK_HEMI

    SHE IS A WONDERFUL WOMAN SHE’S JUST A LIL HARD WITH IT (TAKES NO S**T) I’LL MAKE LOVE TO HER

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/yummyumm70/ yummyumm70

    F**K THESE WHITE SLOBS

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/doubleap/ doubleap

    Oh well! The truth hurts! Way to go Wanda! Continue to keep it real!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/denise3759/ denise3759

    You go Wanda—-she got up there and with her quick wit and made comments that we all wanted to say about that drug popping fat slob limbaugh…I one hundred and fifty percent agree with her and whom doesn’t like it—so what the hell like we give a damn! It’s only white america who believes they are entitled to voice their opinion about something they don’t like–but when someone of color speaks their mind all of a sudden there’s a problem. Get over yourselves–she did nothing wrong but speak the truth especially since he spun his hateful words at the President!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Nish83/ Nish83

    Awesome outstanding job Wanda!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    F**k hitchsen.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/envincible/ envincible

    How the f**k do you joke about 9\11? There is nothing humorous about it. There is no irony, no lighter side of the issue.

    You just dont do it. Thats some amateur night at the apollo s**t, some bet comicview s**t not white house material.

    She is black, she is a dyke…I call it like i see it myself so a white guy can call her that too.

    Fact:
    Wanda Sykes is a black dyke.
    Queen latifah is a black dyke
    Ellen Degeneres is a white dyke. Lindsey Lohan is a white dyke.

    Its not racist, its just a brutally honest statement.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/missfoxy73/ missfoxy73

    Go Wanda!!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DAREALRECKLESS/ DAREALRECKLESS

    she IS a dyke………….whats the fuss about?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/OregonWebmaster/ OregonWebmaster

    some things to consider, ok? what wanda is into in life, versus her observations on rush, are two different things. what I want to know is what nerve has been hit here, attacking rush. they brought out some bigs guns to smear wanda. so, consider a few things

    odds are the rush is still a drug addict.

    odds are rush is still into the young crowd on sex vacations to places like the dominican.

    i think the whole backlash on wanda is create a smear so nasty that nobody will look into the facts on rush.

    its all there, all you have to do is connect the dots. rush likes drugs and rush likes sex with kids. google it a little

    the problem with wanda is she dissed the big daddy. can’t let it get too hot. can’t let it get to the truth. as usual they divert back to some other nasty nasty smear. but the truth is out there. Maybe Chris Hitchens should make some comments on Rush’s drug and sex life.

    now that would be interesting

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/doug1965/ doug1965

    This is getting ugly fast! Unless someone is with Wanda when she is at home, they would not know if she is a dyke or not. By the way it is rude to slander someone if that is what she did you just followed in her footsteps and did the same thing. White America needs to live by the creed they so “love” to parade in front of the world that this is the land or of “free speech”! Well….if it is then SHUT THE F**K UP! Wanda is at the WH press dinner. She knows where she was and she did nothing that was not done for hundreds of years before President Obama was ever considered for the post he holds. Go back and look at all the things said before. Sometimes things are said that are not liked. She was refering to a person who did make a statement that was borderline terroristic!! So in the words and deeds of those so hurt by 9/11, she did a great thing in putting that white racist in his place. Wanda WE have your back so f**k with her if you want and we will stomp a hole in your ass!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/KrayzeeBish/ KrayzeeBish

    I don’t care if she is a homosexual or not the woman is hillarious! I love her.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/fabulousculture/ fabulousculture

    life is way too short………

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/girlhasskills/ girlhasskills

    That was the best he could come up with… a “Black dyke?” Clearly he is Racist and ignorant, So he gets no love. What a loser. Looks like Wanda struck a nerve when she talked about his boyfriend, Rush. Too bad Rush wont love him back, because Rush is only into little kids.
    Wanda had me rollin’ through that whole 15 minutes!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/markwjacobs/ markwjacobs

    The Bible says “thou shall not”, she is a black dyke!! Black people need to stop defending sins and people who commit them, even if they are black!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Stardune/ Stardune

    THIS IS NO SURPRISE FOR A WHITE UNDERCOVER NEGRO HATER TO SHOW HIS COLORS. IF HE WANTED TO MADE A NOT SO NICE COMMENT THEN THAT FINE, BUT TO USE THE WORD A BLACK DYKE BECAUSE THEIR SEXUALLY BELIEVES THIS SHOWS THAT HE IS A RACIST,I WONDER WHAT CHRIS HITCHENS HAD TO SAY ABOUT THAT FAT LOOKING ROSIE THAT NEEDS A NEW LOOK FOR A DYKE OR THAT NEED SOME FAT ON HER BONES PLUS SHE NEEDS TO LEARN TO DANCE TO HIP HOP MUSIC ELLEN AND THEY ARE WHITE DYKES, UM I WONDER WHAT HIDDEN DEEP IN BOTH HIS AND RUSH LIVES.MAYBE THEY ARE SAD THAT NEITHER HAS BEEN TO THE MOUNTAIN TOP AND ALL THEY KNOW IS TOO PUT PEOPLE DOWN TO FEEL LIKE THEY ARE MEN BUT INSTEAD THEY LOOK LIKE TODDLERS JUST GOING FORM CRAWLING TO WALKING.I CAN MADE THIS STATEMENT BECAUSE I BELIEVE IT IS BETWEEN THEM AND GOD TO UNDERSTAND AND DEAL WITH THE RIGHT AND THE WRONG OF WHAT THEY ARE DOING IN THEIR LIVES. I DON’T KNOW WHO THIS MAN CHRIS IS BUT HE NEEDS TO WATCH HIS WORDS AS WELL AS OTHER PEOPLE LIKE RUSH ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE RACES AND SEXUALLY DESIRES, THERE ARE MORE WHITE DYKES THEN THERE ARE BLACK ONES AND THIS HAS BEEN OVER THE CENTURIES EVEN IN SLAVERY TIMES WHEN THE MASTER WOULD NOT TOUCH THEIR WIVES AND THEY HAD TO BE GET IT FROM SOMEWHERE AND THE YOUNG SLAVE WOMEN KNEW NOTHING OF THAT.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/laguanhaze/ laguanhaze

    After having read through some of this commentary it’s perfectly reasonable to see why black people remain at the back of the bus on issues. We still have this tether of ignorance around our necks put there by religion. It was placed there by our so called “benevolent” captors from so many years ago. If people are reading the Bible they’ll also recall that slavery was seen as an acceptable thing in “God’s” eyes. How about today? People have used “God’s” word to justify killing people (black people included) for so many things it blows me away that Christians call themselves such a thing. The Jews have never lived down killing Christ (which is a contradiction in terms). I had a white person tell me about miscegenation and how “God” doesn’t like black people and white people having sex with each other. Really? I suppose “God” shouldn’t have put people of different colors and races on the same damn planet; that would have led to them talking with each other. Later on they certainly would have ended up dancing with one another or perhaps even enslaving one another–but interbreeding? No way!!! And as long as black people have been getting duped by the Bible for being black and worthy of being enslaved what makes us so damn judgmental about homosexuals? I don’t get that one. Homosexuals have the same damn status that black people had (still have) in the Jim Crow south. Remember that black people? Did you forget how second class you were? How can you sit there on the one hand and quote the Bible about something that would have been you a few years previously? Don’t tell me I’m confusing the issue. Jesus didn’t mention the homosexuals because homosexuals had probably figured out the “don’t ask, don’t tell” rule about religious people. Nevermind if you’re black, a witch or a Jew–those are dead giveaways. Black people really need to quit being amnesiacs like their right wing conservative holocaust deniers. That’s right a**holes like Hitler even had the state sanctioned church backing him back in the day he did all those atrocities to the Jews. In another 50-100 years, when church attendance drops off another 33% maybe people will get over “God’s” so called homophobia.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/4merHorse06/ 4merHorse06

    What’s the problem? She’s Black, she’s a dyke…wait; he forgot NOT FUNNY!!! That’s it! I’ve seen traffic accidents more entertaining then this tired carpet-munching hag.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/XOXOLadyIceXOXO/ XOXOLadyIceXOXO

    I can’t stand when people throw race into everything….if she is a dyke…so be it…but does it make a difference if she’s black or not….

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/fsw968/ fsw968

    Both comments were wrong. I am not a Rush fan–at all. But Wanda went too far. You don’t say that you hope that a person has renal failure! The critic was also wrong when he called her a black dyke.

    And to all my bible quoting brothers and sister, you don’t have the right to disrect others–even if they are involved in a gay lifestyle. I’m sure you did a few thou-shalt-nots too. God said “…with loving kindness have I drawn thee.” Some of you need to check yourselve!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/eflint99/ eflint99

    I agree with markwjacobs’ post. We need to stop defending “black” people when they sin, just because they are “black.” I don’t care what color a person is, I honor God’s Word first. Sodomy is a sin according to the word of Jehovah. Hence, for me it is not a race issue. Should he have used the word homosexual instead of dyke (I really don’t care) – finding euphemisms to describe the act of sodomy seems to be something that people like to do in the public eye. However, the Lord says that we should call a “sin” a “sin.”

    Jehovah is the Hebrew God and not the so called “white man’s god that a lot of misguided people say He is”. If people who claim that Christianity is a “white religion” properly studied their history they will see that true Christianity had nothing to do with “white people” when it was birthed in Semitic nations. Jesus’ name is actually Yashua, and Yashua was delivered to be crucified by his own people “not white people”. We also need to stop blaming this race or that race for our situation when we ourselves are our worst enemies as we continue to brainwash, fornicate, inebriate, abort our babies and sodomize each other as a “black people.” No disenfranchised people that commit such things among its own can every truly prosper. Your oppressors know this – that is why they allowed our currently installed “puppet president” to sign an abortion bill that allows us to continue to aid them in reducing our numbers (don’t be fooled by Obama’s color). Why don’t people consider the spiritual ramifications that allowed the civil rights movement to succeed in the 60′s?

    Now in regards to sodomy the bible is very clear “thou shalt not” do it. Just like thou shalt not commit incest or bestiality – all in the same chapter. For some reason people chose not to measure the correlation between our downfall as a united states along with the decline of righteousness as a united nation. There is no yoke put over our necks when we seek righteousness, but instead we see a yoke put on our necks when we give way to all manner of wickedness, lasciviousness, abominations and perversions. He who hath an ear let him hear.

    I say as an African man, and the tribe that I am from is descended from the original Hebrews.

    Peace be unto you,

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/CARA-MELLO/ CARA-MELLO

    dyke, check
    black, check

    I guess we should be upset because she’s black now? fcuk that, she dished it out, she can take it.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/shorty1460/ shorty1460

    Hurrah for Wanda Sikes! It’s about time someone pointed out that Rush was hooked on drugs. Who in thier right mind would beleive the rantings of a former drug addict. Rush was probable the fat kid in grade school who’s lunch money was stolen from him every day and he’s still pissed off about it!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Rosita3597/ Rosita3597

    Overall in my opinion Wanda is not funny, but the joke about Rush was really funny and probably true. The one about Dick Cheney was funny and also true he is scary and probably will shoot you without a reason.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/guitar102/ guitar102

    I completely supported Wanda Sykes and yes, everything she said for the following reasons:

    Rush Limbaugh did say he hoped Obama would fail and was tacitly saying he didn’t care about the subsequent fallout on Americans already desperately struggling with this current economic meltdown primarily caused by his Neocon wet dream George W. Bush. This is in fact an expression of hatred for America which would qualify him as an ipso facto member of Al Qaida and could (comedically speaking) make him the 20th hijacker except that he (as Wanda hilariously put it) was (is) a drug addict, securing them from his housekeeper (while hypocritically calling for harsher sentences for drug users – as well as incriminating her) and also that (as I put it) would be simply too fat and out of shape to ever be a member of any terrorist organization save for the use of his face and vocal patterns.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/positivlysmb/ positivlysmb

    For people who want to compare people “black” to being gay. Please understand that color is normal. Homo behavior is abnormal. It’s about reproduction. You can’t reproduce if your using the wrong holes for the wrong thing(unless u want to have a jellybaby).Homosexuality is a sexual abnormality. If it were normal we would have two sex organs. One of each. Wouldn’t we? So please don’t compare discrimination against what is normal to what is not.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Jim_Crowe/ Jim_Crowe

    Wanda Sikes is neither funny nor worth our community holding her up as an icon. When we stoop down to the level she did we are no different the the white folks who painted black on their faces to make fun of us. Oh I see, we finally make it into the big house and we can be as disgustingly perverted as the white slave owner who raped our women,and sold the product of their unholy act for profit?

    Wake up brothers, all we do by supporting trash like Sikes is tell the whites who slam our communities that they are right. We cannot handle power no more than we can handle freedom. Should not surprise me though. Almost 98% of the African community voted for a man who is hell bent on helping whighty put us back into slavery.

    You brothers and sister who support this woman and her perverted behavior make me sick. Is that what we want our women to be acting like? Think about what this lesbian does when she is not making a fool of our race. If her head isn’t into making sick perverted jokes, it’s between another woman’s legs.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MICHAL1/ MICHAL1

    i didnt know she was a kitty licker..i was hoping she would one day have the hots for me but i dont like rush he has not respect for minorities so i feel she may have went a little to far at a whitehouse dinner but i feel she was being the democratic Rush and attacking his conservatism but the real problem comes into play when RACE is thrown into it..so what shes into women but if u have noticed RACIST WHITE america has reminded us of the color of the PRESIDENT the FIRST LADY their CHILDREN and their SUPPORTERS every chance they get all because they have made up in their mind BLACK dont BELONG in the WHITE-HOUSE..less not leave out that he is going to be americas BEST PRESIDENT EVER thats why not only are they hoping he fails but they are trying to make him fail..i can only hope this opens the eyes of the UNCLE TOM BLACK REPUBLICANS and as far as HOMOSEXUALITY ITS JUST ANOTHER MEANS OF SEGGRATION away of putting another group on the back of the BUS..once upon a time it was the BLACKS and the MEXICANS now its the BLACK MEXICANS & HOMOSEXUALS TRYING NOT TO BE THE MOST HATED CLASS OF PEOPLE IN AMERICA..note i didnt say THE AMERICAN INDIAN..do u wonder why..BECAUSE THEY ARE THE MOST HATED AND MISTREATED group of TRUE AMERICANS to this DAY..so KNOWING OUR HISTORY why would we SPEAK OUT AGAINST ANY GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT ARE DOING NOTHING TO HURT US..YET WE HELP PROMOTE THE SEPERATION OF CLASSES OF PEOPLE be it through RELIGION OR FEAR..how quick we FORGET TREAT YOUR BROTHER IN THE WAY YOU WOULD WANT YOUR BROTHER TO TREAT YOU !!!! DON’T TAKE COMMON SENSE OUT OF THE EQUASION..(UNLESS YOU DON’T HAVE IT..that is AMERICAS PROBLEM..lack of common sense)GIVE IT SOME THOUGHT..MICHAL1

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/svnjewels/ svnjewels

    Jokes about 9/11 aren’t cool. Outside of that, she can trash Rush all she wants. He’s in the business of offending people too.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/rastadude7/ rastadude7

    C.Hitchings is an ASS!!! And If he’s dumb enough to believe in”Rules” at a party where the celebrants (the media) don’t have first ammendment freedoms- within the White House…SOMEONE should tell him he’s a Jackass WHENEVER he is seen or heard from again! Thanks from Denver!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/rastadude7/ rastadude7

    Just for the record… Hitchins PROBABLY has a “Chocolate fantasy” and someone who looks like wanda- or – Wanda herself probably turned him down!!! Thanke from Denver!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/P-rokk/ P-rokk

    Wanda A dyke ! We already know shes black ! Big Deal ! Already a
    livingroom,lunchroom,water cooler topic ! Rush the ultimate prejudice jerk !NEXT !

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/lips03/ lips03

    Who cares if she is gay thats her business and her choice. It does not change the fact that she’s funny as hell. Wanda says what she feels more people need to do that it would make life a lot easier. She just has the ability to make it funny when she says it. I cant help but wonder had Ellen made some of the comments she made would he have tagged her as a “white dyke”? But whatever Rush is an ass and always has been, who cares really its just ccoommeeddyyyy!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/jamesperry58/ jamesperry58

    Here we go again responding to all the negative things that white folks say about Obama and black people in general. So to Limbaugh, Hitchens, all the rest of you haters and closet racists. WE ARE HERE AND WE AIN’T GOING NOWHERE. I love Wanda, Hitchens, Rushie, what you say means nothing to us.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/rene1953/ rene1953

    Once again somebody is jealous because they aren’t getting a audience with the President. You have to realize, all the white people can’t see him just like the black. The problem is I’m sooo sorry you couldn’t shake his hand or get a hug. Oh well that’s life.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/drwrencho/ drwrencho

    About as important as me being called a crazy cracker when I walk my dogs down through the newly titled “International Zone” aka the hood except that sometimes I fear my life. My son is black and I am white. I hope I teach him to address important issues and not trivial nonsense such as this.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sekoo63/ sekoo63

    The internet seems to be the only place where I find this type of dumb stuff.

    Lending credence to some drunken fool’s comments only encourages other fools to make stupid remarks so that they can get fools like us to visit their blogs.

    As a journalist you empower those fools that make socially irresponsible utterances by reporting about them. I have to ask you why something like this is important.

    THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY! FREE YOUR MIND. STOP ALLOWING OTHERS TO DEFINE YOU AND PEOPLE THAT RESEMBLE YOU BY THEIR WORDS.

    If that drunken fool had walked up and slapped the cowboy stew out of Wanda Sykes at one of those after parties that might be news worthing. Stating the obvious about a woman who has a wife is not.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/shawnjohn40/ shawnjohn40

    I think that we need to drop the preaching as the bible has nothing to do with this issue and truthfully speaking I see alot of slander and unwanted comments from the media and now the whole country is in an uproar about comments made by a black female about a over paid child molesting drug addict that white america holds as one of their idols, now come on black folks if we cannot exercise our freedom of speech especially about a dope using child molester that personally attacked our president amongst other so called conservatives that think that a black man is only good for picking up his hand me downs then just how really far have we come as a people, I have read all of these statements and seems that only a few have grasped the real concept, that lady is a entertainer and if that was the material that she wrote or rehearsed for that funtion than that was her business we all think about what she said but some of us are too afraid to say what we feel but quick to criticize the person that actually in a funny way spoke the truth,don’t let the media control or influence our thoughts as they have done america for so many years do your own research on the issues before we start arguing amongst ourselves especially about someone as petty as Rush Limbaugh.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/J-Smooth143/ J-Smooth143

    She’s black………..She’s a dyke………where’s the controversy?????

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/lovelyone4u2c/ lovelyone4u2c

    Thats my girl, im glad she came out. She loves women, so what. I WISH I COULD MARRY MY GIRLFRIEND…….LOL

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/dericox/ dericox

    I think one has to know and understand Christopher Hitchens’ person to understand what he meant by these comments.

    Christopher is one of the most noted freethinkers on the planet (along with Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris). I have read enough of his books and listened to enough of his commentary to know that 1) he is not racist, and 2) he is not homophobic in the least. I have also read enough of his writings and gone to enough of his lectures to know that he’s fairly cutting with his tongue, oftentimes saying things that push the limit of what we consider acceptable to say in this society. For example, go to Youtube.com to look at his debate with Al Sharpton against, what he believes, is the utter nonsense of religious faith. A lot of the side comments he makes in the debate are statements that we are taught as children never to make to people of the cloth.

    I’d be interested to see what preceded his comments and what came after them, though, because I am sure the entire pictures tells an accurate story of what he was talking about. Reprinting one line of what was probably a long diatribe (he’s known for them), of course, is sensational and only serves to increase the number of hits to this Blackplanet.com.

    If interested, Amazon.com has most of Christopher’s books listed there for purchase. I have found them enjoyable and concur with most of his thoughts, but not always his delivery.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Monte_Brown/ Monte_Brown

    Sykes is a comedian. If she can dish it out then she can take it too.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Karif3333/ Karif3333

    dericox you are another housen****r who defends master. MASTERWESICK .YOU ARE A DISGRACE TO SKIN YOUR IN

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Whos_GiNa/ Whos_GiNa

    Why is what he said so oontroversial? Is it because she’s black and a lesbian? So what!! She IS black and she IS a lesbian..what’s the problem? Would it have been acceptable if he called her a African American Lesbian instead? NO probably not but Wanda is a strong woman which I admire and i’m not all ready to go out and beat up every person who’s got something negative to say about her. I’m almost willing to bet that she’s got a whole days worth of comedic comebacks for Mr. Christopher Hitchens. She can and will defend herself if she feels she needs to. I can sympathize with her on why she kept her relationship private all these years. The media are nothing but grubby azzholes who prey on people’s private lives so they can make $$$.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/thealex1/ thealex1

    I have one thing to say to Chris Hitchens: You’ve just given Wanda Sykes the biggest compliment by calling her a “black d**e”. Ms. Sykes is probably laughing this up, and treating this like water off a duck’s back. She’s black, proud, and gay! Almost any insult directed toward Wanda will likely get turned on its’ head, so if Mr. Hitchens thinks he’s hurt Ms. Sykes…let’s just say that I hope he’s enjoying that side of crow and the frying egg in his face.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/geode07/ geode07

    she might as well do women,she looks like Tommy Hearns after a Sugar Ray fight.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/VTNeophyte1/ VTNeophyte1

    Brother dericox, the phrase itself was a complete thought, meaning it contained a subject and a predicate. The previous sentence which stated that Obama should have been squirming before the black dyke comment is sufficient enough in terms of establishing the context for the remark. It matters not that he is a “free-thinking individual.” In fact, he just proved that he is a free-thinking/talking individual. His liberal tendency’s does not disqualify him from being a racist, misogynist, homophobic, and religious insensitive jackass. If you have read so many of his books, lectures, and interviews, you should know that he is known for his rudeness and his reputation of being drunk at public events. Sisher Whos_GiNa: Do you understand that he was not in any way trying to compliment her? A white male bringing up someone’s race and sexuality within a situation that does not warrant such a remark should make you suspicious to say the least. Yes she is Black and lesbian, and many people in the audience probably knew that either by observation or background knowledge. The question should not be “she IS black and she IS a lesbian..what’s the problem?” The question should be: why is this even relevant? The fact that he even mentioned that “no one told her the rules” is very problematic since this was a roast, which by definition, is where comedians or other guests are allowed to make comedic insults, outlandish remarks, or praises to a person who takes them in good faith. What rule did she break? Was she out of her place for making jokes that a man, particularly a white male, could get a way with? These are the types of questions that any self-proclaimed strong woman should be making when a white male implies that she is of order. And yes, it is my opinion that he is racist and homophobic. Those who are committed to anti-racism/sexism/homophobia do not resort to oppressive language at moments where such things aren’t warranted. This story was on Huffington post early yesterday, and someone noted that he was polluted. It is my experience that alcohol tends to make people think allowed. If he thinks racist/homophobic thoughts or are bound by those assumptions, then that makes him racist, homophobic, and sexist from a sociological/social psychological perspective, particularly since he implied that there was some rule that she didn’t abide by within a situation where she was clearly allowed to make her jokes. That makes him a racist, sexist, and homophobic white liberal!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BlackMiss62/ BlackMiss62

    Well damn! I must be the LAST person to even know homegirl ‘faces’ women! Daaaaayummm!!

    Okay, back to your regularly scheduled program…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/conservative_sista/ conservative_sista

    Uh, God bless her heart, but she is a black dyke. Thats not being rude, I’m sure she agrees. I’m sorry saying that you want someone’s kidneys to fail and that they are a terrorist is far worse than calling someone a black dyke-which is the truth

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/VTNeophyte1/ VTNeophyte1

    Ok, lets debate the substance of her joke. She argued that anyone who wishes failure, like Rush Limbaugh, on a President is the same as wishing failure on the country. Why? Because implicit within her argument is the assumption that when the President fails at whatever he does domestic policy or foreign policy wise, hurts Americans as a whole. Any person that wishes failure on the President, in Wanda’s (and my view), is no different from a terrorist making the same claim, particularly since terrorists work in their own best interest. Even though you may be conservative, you can always debate foreign and domestic policy. That is the essence of a democracy. However, when you wish failure on a President for political gain as Rush Limbaugh did, that is very insensitive and selfish. More importantly, you aren’t operating in the best interest of the country. Wanda followed up with “I hope his kidneys fail, how about that.” It’s an analogous relationship given that a President failing at domestic or foreign policy is as detrimental to the American public as kidney failure is to an individual. You’d have to THINK about the substance of the joke instead of reacting in a knee jerk fashion. I’m sure she doesn’t really wish him harm. After all, this was a dinner roast, and these things are supposed to be taken in good faith. I’m sure Rush Limbaugh got that part of the joke.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/conservative_sista/ conservative_sista

    Oh ok, I get it…Thank you VTNeophyte1…..I now understand that if you want Obama’s enormous spending to fail, the fact that he hires people to be ahead of the IRS that don’t even pay their own taxes to fail, the fact that he is such a stonch supporter of the most extreme abortion to fail, the fact that he doesnt want to waterboard detainees that really want to kill us to fail, that makes Rush Limbaugh, a mere talk show host, comparable to a terrorist??? Remember this, what hurts America is willfully ignorant uninformed people who depend on government for everything , hence thats why we’re in this mess we are in now. Rush Limbaugh stated that Obama’s policies undermine everything that this country was built on, which is individual freedom. Wanda Sykes has a first amendment right, I would never want her silenced, but wanting his kidneys to fail is a stretch…(p.s. black people please educate yourself, if anyone tells you to DEPEND on them, and they’re not Jesus Christ, (which alot of you make Obama out to be), please run away fast

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DAREALRECKLESS/ DAREALRECKLESS

    homophobic is a word CREATED by homosexuals and people who support the homosexual agenda to make people who refuse to accept their lifestyle feel like they are in wrong. f.u.c.k homosexuals and their supporters. f.u.c.k that black dyke! lemonade anyone? =]

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/AkilSharp/ AkilSharp

    This response is very inappropriate but not surprising in the least that it’s not been reported like Ms. Sykes joke has been. I don’t agree wih her lifestyle but for a white man to call a Blck woman “a black” anything is crossing the line. His punk azz wouldn’t have called Ellen Degeneres a “white dike” if it was her makin’ the comments.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/smacky770/ smacky770

    DAREALRECKLESS I can’t agree with you enough. I wonder if the whole NAACP supports gay marriage newsone article is still available. I stated facts and my opinion. Then here come a lil sweet boy attacking me. Next thing I know a punk ass tried to complain to me by trying to post it on my guestbook. lol, it’s funny how they try to be nice and convince you it’s ok but when you don’t comply with that BS then they wan’t to get very aggressive. I ain’t talkin bout in real life though, face to face it ain’t gone go down like that.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/BroAshanti/ BroAshanti

    Hitchens was spot-on. He called a spade a spade, Skyes is a Black dyke, a low-class one at that.

    In my view she should have keep her wooly head, foul mouth arse in the CLOSET!

    BROTHER ASHANTI has spoken!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/conservative_sista/ conservative_sista

    BroAshanti! You the Man!!…lol

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/toyab_baby/ toyab_baby

    first off nobody has to answer to anyone but GOD, so if she munches carpets, thats between her and the man upstairs. now as for a white man calling anyone of any race something like that is wrong. if someone was to call ellen white and trashy it would be an uproar. oh and for that comment about black people treating obama as if he himself were God-no one is treating him as if her were God. people of color are happy for a change. a clean up of what the white bush administration f**ked up. i mean arent you ready for a change?

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/bjhawklawes/ bjhawklawes

    These kind of comments will continue to happen until we as a people start putting a ass whipping on those type of fools. He has just exposed his true inner feelings about Blacks and Lebians with his sly remarks. Personally I’m for whipping his ass, I just wish I knew more about him, haven’t heard of him before, lol.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/mseducated527/ mseducated527

    you know what’s sad is the fact we waste so much time and energy worrying and pointing the finger of peoples choices of their lifestyles and less about how we can improve or better ourselves. i.e Wanda Sykes this woman is a STRONG BLACK WOMAN who probably faced countless challenges to get to where she is today and probably goes home at night and says thank you lord for letting me see another day. not to mention a successful comedian, self proprietor, business owner and one of the consistent charity givers for education. but then again what do i know i just took a few moments to read about the sista’ and less on judging her. PEACE

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/pinktwizler/ pinktwizler

    I’m so tired of this small minded idiots and their opinion.Since when did a comedy routine, And a new president with good intentions become the focal point of more than a few words. George Bush f**ked up the whole entire world where were all the big mouth critics at for the last eight years? Get a life and a clue

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/smoothjjz975/ smoothjjz975

    1st, I do have an grievance with Wanda Syke’s entire carreer has been based on relationship & “male” bashing. Only just to recently pronounce she’s an same-sex agenda female fixated on her own physical anatomy for her sexual, mental social environment …********* 2nd As far as her political comedy platform.., The propaganda repubican conservative media has revealed their true selves by publicly callin Sykes a dyke to counter her political comedy routine…(((which should be a comment considered during any election time)))…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/4_sa-kin/ 4_sa-kin

    It seems like they are bitter. We know they are racist, sexist, and want to dictate peoples lives in the name of “freedom” so this isn’t surprising. Try are just revealing themselves to us one by one. Rush is an idiot. But republicans last hope. Sucks for them. I’m no democrat either

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/EFEEZEE/ EFEEZEE

    I hope she hears about that and does a routine about hiss azz. But he just showed his true colors with that remark….. so it’s all good (Keep ya friends close and your enemies closer) And what does black have to do with her being a dyke. So since were name calling he’s a fat, smelly looking white butt bandit lol, I hope she gets his azz back lol.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/MEMPHIZ_BALLA/ MEMPHIZ_BALLA

    i just have to say that i am a black man and i have every black woman’s back! they won’t be raping and abusing our ladies like they used to ever again. most of them old white politics are murderers and rapist of our black women any way. no other country like white racists but this one. black men are loved everywhere but here, just look at how the other countries embraced Obama and they were throwing shoes at bush. We are the joined with asians, arabic, mexicans, etc… everyone loves us but them dog smelling, lice having mudda fukkaz. so go ahead and kick off this damn revolution thease nationalities with kick y’all azz. punk!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Jauharah/ Jauharah

    First since she’s openly a lesbian what is the issue? If one objects to be called names then one should change themselves as they can to be normal and not deviant – period!

    Despite what I do for a living – work to uphold the rights of all people – I personally am repulsed by gays and keep them out of my inner circle so as not to contaminate my morals. Any insults or harm that comes to those that choose an “alternative” lifestyle they bring on themselves – and yes it is a choice and not some “hard wiring” issue as science insists.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/davettalashley/ davettalashley

    Well-known critic, Christopher Hitchens??? I’ve never even heard of this person until just now. The Daily Beast??? Never heard of ‘em before. Well, I guess that’s how you become famous – you talk about people who are actually famous.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/LACEDBBW/ LACEDBBW

    The issue is: dyke is to lesbian and n****r is to african american.
    Some people just have no respect of person. When you’re given an audience you have to mind your words… “black dyke” is like when don imus said “nappy head hoes”… funny how people aren’t in an uproar behind this… or when jamie foxx said miley cryus “should make a sex tape and snort coke to become famous” or when he called her “a lil white cracked out hoe”… my people (black ppl) are amazing, the this we take serious are confusing…

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/sbufford/ sbufford

    thats what she is 2 them there way of calling her a gay n****r

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