Tim Hardaway: ‘I Don’t Hate Gay People’
Tim Hardaway‘s apology tour continued on Sunday, with his taking to a South Florida radio station to once again say he’s sorry for ranting on and on about his homophobia. By now, you all know the comments he made on a Miami TV station – “I hate gay people” … “I am homophobic” – and this week, his publicist, agent, and the NBA are hoping you’ll know just how sorry he is.
“I don’t hate gay people,” Hardaway said. “I’m a good-hearted person. I interact with people all the time. … I respect people. For me to say ‘hate’ was a bad word, and I didn’t mean to use it.”
We’re just about through with the “Is an apology too little, too late?” argument. (Answer: Yes.) But our policy on calling bullshit when it’s stepped in? Yeah, that game is still on.
In case you missed Hardaway’s original rant, it’s after the jump.
Hardaway apologizes again for anti-gay comments [NYB]
As Concerned Women for America pointed out, Tim Hardaway really is making homophobia look bad.
http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2.....k-bad.html
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remember how the black community demaded that
michael richards meet with every black leader????
where are those black leaders now? where is
al shaprton and jesse jackson…….
jack
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Hardaway, in an interview at his home with CBS affiliate WFOR, acknowledged he made a major mistake by saying “I hate gay people” when asked how he would react to having a gay teammate. “I don’t hate gay people,” Hardaway said. “I’m a good-hearted person. I interact with people all the time. … I respect people. For me to say ‘hate’ was a bad word, and I didn’t mean to use it.”
1. Congrats! HardAway is literate. He knows history.
2. Alas, HardAway is too literate and a plaigarist!
He stole this rant from a 1933 speech in Munich, where Hitler said:
…when asked how he would react to having a Jewish colleague. “I don’t hate Jewish people,” Hitler said. “I’m a good-hearted person. I interact with people all the time. … I respect people. For me to say ‘hate’ was a bad word, and I didn’t mean to use it.”
L’il Timmy should read the article in the NY Times “Double Lives On The Down Low” By BENOIT DENIZET-LEWIS
Published: August 3, 2003:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/f.....A9659C8B63
Black America’s dirty Hershey Hiway secret:
The love that dares not speak its name (except in the locker room)
Come CLEAN, Tim! Pick up the soap-bar from that “manly” shower room. Gays have AIDs? Oh yeah? Who are all those guys in sub-Sahara Africa (and Haiti) with AIDs? And just HOW DID THEY CATCH IT? No one will ever say so.
Stop dropping the soap, Timmy and stay away from the Hershey Hiway from now on!
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Jack,
Why do you want Revs. Jackson and Sharpton to speak on this? Seems to me from the NBA office down to the players Mr. Hardaway’s comments have been rebuked. What else do you need?
Rural Strait,
You trying to make a point or what? So now Tim Hardaway, a former NBA player who has never held political office, is now Hitler? Is that your argument? We all can be critical of his ideas, which are silly, but to compare him to Hitler is really just high flying rhetoric.
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The thing that asshole is doing, is to state that he is a nazi towards gay people (homophobic), he won’t live long, mark my words.
The problem with people is just how they think about gay peoples. When they hear about someone being gay, they will immediatedly start to think about the way they have sex, and they hate it for some reason. We live in a free world, and we have the right to love the one we love.
Sure, let him be homophobic, let him disrespect homosexuals, this apology he made up is so lame that even a stone could’ve made up something better.
And James, Tim Hard.. whatever, can be compared to Hitler. Adolf Hitler hated jewish people, Tim hates gay people. So Hitler killed jews, and I bet that if Tim was the leader of America, he’d make up a law saying “No gays allowed within the American boarders”. Tim Hardaway has the right to hate but he should’ve kept it to himself. When he passes away, i’ll seek up his grave and pee on it.
(Tim Hardawayphobic)
Yes, I’m gay. 0 respect to Hardaway, may he die painfully.
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I’m sure why Tim Hardaway apologized. You have to listen to the full length interview to know his apology is just not sincere. He’s sorry because his career is threatened for hating. Nothing else. His view towards gay people will stay the same. That goes to show he’s a hypocrite. With this kind of hypocricy I don’t think he can represent a “good hearted person”. If he hadn’t apologized maybe he may just be ignorant. Now he’s also hypocritical and weak. This is why I don’t spend my money and time in sports feeding people like him. And just for the record, gay people DON”T choose to be gay. They were born gay. Why would they choose to be second class citizen and condemned by society? Isn’t it just all peachy being straight? And for those to claim that how come some people “become” gay? They come out late because they were terrified of society and people like Tim Hardaway. Have you heard of many gay people “become” straight? Life is full of different people and things. Let God decide who’s nasty and who’s not. Peace.
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Mr. Hardaway hates the hit his pocketbook is taking.