Isaiah Washington has now decided racism was behind his Grey’s Anatomy departure
I am getting pretty tired of Isaiah Washington’s incessant excuse making for why Grey’s Anatomy decided not to renew his contract. Why can’t he just own up to the fact he screwed up not once but twice, and move on? But no, he’s coming out once again to dig that hole even deeper to now claim that racism was why his contract was not renewed. And it drives me nuts that he keeps referring to it as a “firing”. His contract wasn’t renewed, plain and simple.
As you will recall, his excuse last week was that it was actually all T.R. Knight’s fault (the one who was the target of the homophobic comment) because T.R. wanted to further his career and publicized the incident in the first place. And because T.R. supposedly pulled this publicity stunt, he should have been the one fired. Puleeeeze. However, everyone will remember T.R. did not comment publicly on what Isaiah Washington said until after Washington’s outburst at the awards show… the second time Washington used the epithet.
“My mistake was believing that I would get the support from my network and all of my cast mates across the board. My mistake was believing I could correct a wrong with honesty and sincerity,” he said in the interview posted online Thursday.
“My mistake was thinking black people get second chances. I was wrong on all fronts,” he said.
His unwillingness to act like a submissive black at work was part of the problem, Washington said.
“Well, it didn’t help me on the set that I was a black man who wasn’t a mush-mouth Negro walking around with his head in his hands all the time. I didn’t speak like I’d just left the plantation and that can be a problem for people sometime,” he said.
“I had a person in human resources tell me after this thing played out that `some people’ were afraid of me around the studio. I asked her why, because I’m a 6-foot-1, black man with dark skin and who doesn’t go around saying `Yessah, massa sir’ and `No sir, massa’ to everyone?
“It’s nuts when your presence alone can just scare people, and that made me a prime candidate to take the heat in a dysfunctional family,” he said.
He is also appearing on Larry King Live on Monday, bet his pubicist can’t wait to hear what comes out of his mouth during that one! Isaiah Washington is one person who definitely needs to learn the art of knowing when to keep his mouth shut… something he obviously hasn’t achieved yet. If he was smart, he would have apologized and let it all blow over, and then maybe he would have a shot at getting a job in this town again. Not surprisingly, his supposed NBC deal has stalled.
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June 30th, 2007 at 8:14 am
I get sick and tired of black people accusing others of being prejudice whenever someone punishes them for something they did. Do they really think that just because they were enslaved and later segregated that they automatically are entitled to immunity whenever they do something wrong? Damn! Isaiah screwed up by being a homophobic bigot! He got what he deserved! His only problem is that he can’t handle the consequences of his actions like a real man. And to think that society claims that gay people are a bunch of pussies. Well Isaiah is definitely taking the trophy for pussy of the year. Damn! Once again we lose to a straight guy!