The media is totally attacking Rampage Jackson, says Rampage Jackson. The Ultimate Fighting Championship star who plays B.A. in the new A-Team movie, who throws around the F-word and compares acting to being gay, wants everyone to lay off him. “EVERYBODY LIGHTEN THE FUCK UP! LET’S HAVE FUN! THAT’S THE MOST IMPORTANT THING WE CAN DO RIGHT NOW! THERE’S TOO MUCH NEGATIVITY IN THIS WORLD, SO LET’S JUST FOCUS ON THE POSITIVE THINGS AND I GUARANTEE IF WE DO THAT THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER!” Oh Rampage, if only.
In a blog post on his website, Jackson revisits 2008’s hit and run (with a truck bearing his face) as a low point in his life — and one which THE MEDIA won’t let him bounce back from.
Now I got my life back together from all that doing positive things, trying to be the best role model I can be. Instead of the media congradulating me from this obstical, it chooses to paint a picture of me as a gay basher. Let me teach you a little something about me cause I know y’all don’t really know me. I am a black man from Memphis Tennessee who grew up in the south where I faced discrimination my whole life. I know very well how it feels for someone to judge you for something you have no control over so having gone through that I know how it feels. I took a vow that I didn’t even have to say that I would never discriminate against anybody for anything other that how they treat me or others around them. So not only DO I NOT HATE gay people, I actually accept them for who and what they are. They always seem happy and most of them I met are very kind and nice individuals. Yes, and like most straight guys I joke around with the whole gay thing and I see it as comedy, not saying that’s right or wrong but I don’t do it out of hate. I don’t hate fat girls but I make fun of them too.
So what was that interview all about then?
When I did that interview I didn’t even know I was being interviewed. I was on the set of shooting the movie the A Team and my friend that worked on the set brought the interviewer to my trailer. As he did so, he made fun of me for a poster that was made of me promoting a UFC event at my homegirls bar in Vancouver. The poster was a picture of me with a rainbow flag on the poster somewhere. This girl has been a friend of mine for 7 years and never used me as a meal ticket and if I would die for one friend it was nothing for me to help a friend promote business. So I offered to help promote her bar not knowing that the poster would make its way back to the set and I would be made fun of for going to a gay bar. But I have to say that I visited her bar several times before this event. Not only did I enjoy myself but I was relieved that the guys at this bar did not hound me once. No one offered to buy me a drink. Not once did anybody try to take pictures with me with their arms all around me or do the what I call the ‘prom date picture’.. taking a picture while holding your lower back.. which is my pet peeve by the way.
Oh, so it’s the interviewer’s fault for quoting the words coming out of your mouth? Got it. Meanwhile, how can anyone accuse Jackson of being a homophobe when he lets homosexual men fawn all over him?
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Honestly I mean this in the best way, me being a sports figure I attract a lot of male attention wherever I go and MOST straight fans act GAYER than any guys that was at this gay bar that I visited my homegirl at. When I’m in the club guys always offer to buy me drinks, do the prom date picture, stare at me, try to get my attention, tries to dance with me.. even if I’m dancing with a hot chick already. Even though I love ALL MY FANS, this can be overwhelming sometimes, especially when I’m trying to unwind and have fun which in my line of work you don’t get much time to do.
And besides, everything was taken out of context!
This being said, when I did this interview the interviewer witnessed my friend giving me shit and calling me gay. I was so embarrassed and didn’t want my ego tainted because I’m a big tough fighter. So yes, I got quite defensive and I’m known to be the best shit talker in my business and a fighter in all aspects in life. So I made fun of him back, calling him gay. Only reason why I got a bad report from it was because this guy who was making fun of me and has been my friend on set for about four months (time spent working on the movie) and was gay for real and the reporter being the type of guy he is chose to make THAT his story not knowing that the guy and I were only shit talking like we did everyday. OR DID HE KNOW WE WERE SHIT TALKING OR NOT AND JUST WANTED A HOT SCOOP?
Wow. Way to totally write yourself out of any blame. Well done, sir.
John in OKC
That pic is not Rampage Jackson. It is Rashad Evans.
Mike L.
@John in OKC: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! I had to check b/c I don’t watch UFC that much but LOL!!!
Awkward.
I guess white people do think all black poeple look alike if you can’t tell rashad from rampage.
wondermann
@Awkward.: This is sad
Robert
Oh lord, Queerty
Jon Bon Jovi
Bradley Cooper is hot with those blue eyes.
Jimmi
A-Team–a trash movie for trashy people. You know Jackson is a power bottom.
Jerrold
FAIL!!!
Jerrold
@Awkward
It’s not all white people. It’s apparently just Queerty.
I’m white and I knew that wasn’t Rampage even without double checking.
Andy
So, going by the comments, I want to see if I have this right:
1) Rampage Jackson makes ill-advised comments about gays.
2) Queerty gets upset.
3) Rampage Jackson apologises for offence caused and explains there was no malice intended.
4) Queerty fail to recognise a black guy when being self-righteous about discrimination.
5) Queerty readers cringe en masse.
is that about it?
ossurworld
Queerty plays fast and loose with Rampaging Jockson.
Chitown Kev
OK, leaving aside Queerty complete and total racial asshattery (I didn’t know who it was but then again I don’t watch UFC) he didn’t want his “ego tainted?”
What kind of straight man would use the word “tainted” in that context?
Jimmi
@Andy: Honey, I wouldn’t know Ms. Jackson from a can of Heinz Beans. I never watch that silly sports stuff.
Lefty
is rampage his real name?
thats embarrassing lol.
James_From_The_Great_City_of_Cambridge
“I don’t hate fat girls but I make fun of them too.”
“…obstical…”
“Not once did anybody try to take pictures with me [at the gay bar] with their arms all around me or do the what I call the ‘prom date picture’.. taking a picture while holding your lower back.. which is my pet peeve by the way.”
“…MOST straight fans act GAYER than any guys that was at this gay bar…”
When Queerty posted the original story, I thought this guy was a flaming asshole. Now I see he’s comedy gold. He’s my new, Black, Betty White.
And I don’t make a policy of defending the stupid things Queerty editors do (and they do it often) but as a biracial boy, I gotta admit Rampage and this Rashad guy do look alike. We don’t all look alike but like White people, sometimes we do. Similar features are not unusual because despite what Jason might think (where are you by the way racist asshole? Queerty is talking about your favorite subject, Black people), all ethnicities come from the same gene pool.
jason
I don’t see this as an apology. Rather, I see it as a PR-inspired attempt to save his image.
Note how he plays the black card. A lot of blacks do this. They fall back on the discrimination they suffered to virtually justify their own discriminatory attitudes to gays.
alan brickman
he’s learning …cut him some slack..you want straight guys in the camp for equal rights….
It's read
gee, thanks for loving the fags, nigger.
James_From_The_Great_City_of_Cambridge
@It’s read: Oh Jason. Poor, pathetic, Nazi Jason. How many aliases can one “proud” racist have??
Shade
Ummmm… I think we have bigger enemies than a guy who called something “gay” when he meant stupid. We certainly have bigger enemies than a guy who said that and said he doesn’t discriminate against us.
Especially worth noting he compares his experience with racism to our struggle with homophobia. Do you know how significant that is? It is really really really really rare for prominent black celebrities to equate those two things so I think we take the high road here, accept the apology, wish him a successful new movie launch, and not post pictures of someone else and say they are him.
jason
Isn’t it amazing how, when blacks call gays all sorts of names, people rush to defend the blacks? Oh, leave him alone, he’s black.
Perhaps we in the GLBT community should respond by referring to Rampage as a nigger. What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. I’m opposed to slurs but if he’s going to dish it out, I’m going to dish it right back.
You’re a nigger, Rampage.
MickW
So basically this guy was playing around with his gay friend in ptv and the reporter thought like most white gay people…..he’s black so he must be homophobic. Got it.
James_From_The_Great_City_of_Cambridge
@jason: I know Black people won’t give you the Big Black Cock you so crave but this is no way to go about getting it, you crazy nazi attention whore you!
jeffree
Tune in tomorrow when Queerty accidently inserts a photo of DAN CHOI in an article about MARGARET CHO…..
@Jason: get some professional help. Those voices in your head appear to be getting out of control. Queerty should have “moderated” your posts due to your unforgivable uses of the N word.
Bad boy !
whatever
@jason: Or, you filthy swine (oops offensive to swine), how about not using those epithets at all?
PAT
@jason: Are you all in the gay community really offended when someone refers to you as ‘gay’? Get used to it. that words not going anywhere. SISSIES! thats why most straight guys vote no on same sex marriage and generally laugh at you guys. Not because you have sex with other men (ew), not because you shove dick up your mouth (i could care less what you do), but because you guys are fucking pussies. honestly.
“oh my god, rampage jackson called us gay!”
well yah, you are, aren’t you? I could call you a buttpirate, buttslut, FAGGOT, etc and those names would be pretty offensive. But gay? go cry about it. and when your walking around crying like a little girl, go shoot yourself.
99% OF STRAIGHT GUYS ARE LAUGHING AT YOU GAYS BECAUSE YOU ARE SISSIES. MAN THE FUCK UP. FOR REAL. YOU (SISSY) GAYS ARE PATHETIC.
Yet Another
Geez. You can’t win on Queerty. Racists, homophobes…and then there are the commenters….
Billy
Somebody call his agent, his 15 minutes are up.
Hilarious
This obsession Queerty and certain posters have with bashing black people nonstop, specifically black men, is downright creepy, childish, and idiotic all at the same time.
White celebrities both male and female have uttered slurs against gay people and I have yet to see a full fledged hate article reserved for them. Even if there was one you wouldn’t see it full of hateful comments.
This is just ridiculous.
Does it really bother you that much when someone says something nasty about you? This is the real world, it happens everyday, grow up and get over it. If it wasn’t about being gay it would be about something else.
If you want to get upset over something expend that energy on fighting for our rights, fighting for equality within our own “community”(because currently race apparently still matters), and living life to the fullest because focusing on someone saying something unimportant is just stupid.
MickW
It’s websites like this that help to create an environment of hatred for black gay men.
Get Equal R @ Least Doing Something (John from England)
@Yet Another:
Right?
This place is INSANE. The commenters AND the editors! Comedy gold!
@jeffree:
“Tune in tomorrow when Queerty accidently inserts a photo of DAN CHOI in an article about MARGARET CHO…..”
Lol!
ChrisM
@MickW:
I think you’re buying into his story a little too much. Last time Queerty reported this, they said that Rampage freaked out and screamed every gay slur he knew. Sounds like a little more than playing around with a gay friend. I would think the guy who was called these names would come forward and defend his friend if that were the case.
jason
If a black person calls me a faggot, I’ll retaliate by calling him a nigger. Simple, ain’t it?
I’ll never call him a nigger first up, of course. But I’m not going to stand by and let him get away with it.
Black people need to realize that they must play by the same rules as everybody else. You’re equal, not special.
Joey O'H
I really don’t care what Jackson has to say about anything. I won’t be going to see “A-Team” because of him, it’s Bradley Cooper!
ossurworld
Long ago and faraway Rampage Jackson would be called “rough trade.”
SIEGE
I realize this was posted yesterday and some changes may have been made. But I am a huge MMA fan and that is most definitely Quinton Jackson in the picture at the beginning of this article.
Diya
Who gives a twat? Almost every straight guy I know acts like that and talks that ish. Rampage was just dumb enough to be open about it. Gays have bigger enemies, like white Mormons. Queerty needs to calm the F down.
Diya
@No.29 – Hilarious:
SO TRUE. Gay white men are the most racist assholes around. I avoid them. Must be the fact that after 30 they are not attractive anymore (their type ages the worst) and they get bitter b/c no one pays them attention, so they aim their hate at minorities (see Prop. 8 anti-black backlash, etc. etc. etc.)
I’ll vote for gay causes, but my days of marching with the queens, gay pride, etc. are over, as long as HRC and the HRC types around.
There are better causes that require my attention.
Peace!
Black Hispanic
@Diya. I hear you and I agree with you.
Kev C
To a large extent, we should be holding the industry people accountable for their role in promoting and profiting from QJ. From producers and casting directors, to publicists and their hired hands who try to smooth out his image and counteract negative press.
Alfonzo
Yet another post becomes about race, boooo-ring….
Grace Jones
DON’T BE BITTER BITCHES
I’m just gonna speak from my heart
This song ain’t about every man
But sometimes when you’ve had your heart broken
And there’s pain
You gotta let it out exactly how you feel it
I realize it right now I’m just bitter
I remember the times we shared and I
Remember the long phone calls at night
You used to say the sweetest things
But today my phone rings and I wish
That you would just stop talking
I just can’t take this anymore
You broke my heart and I know for sure
You’re not the man I thought you was
Compromised myself enough
Now it’s time to stop living this lie now
Don’t follow me home nigga
Stop ringing my phone nigga
Just leave me alone nigga
I wish you well but
Right now I’m just bitter
Why did you come into my life
You didn’t plan to do me right
If you didn’t mean forever more
Why’d you get with me for?
No free nook that’s not yours anymore, no, no
Don’t follow me home nigga
Stop ringing my phone nigga
Just leave me alone nigga
I wish you well but
Right now I’m just bitter
Don’t follow me home nigga
Stop ringing my phone nigga
Just leave me alone nigga
I wish you well but
Right now I’m just bitter
You make me sick nigga
I ain’t your dog nigga
You made me write this song nigga
I wish you well but
I’m gonna find another nigga
*laughs
Dionte
Black people are the most diverse group of people on the planet when it comes to the way we look. Only the blind would think we all look alike, shades from almost pale to pitch black, every facial feature in the book.
I was probably going to go see that movie, I’m not now.
Daddy Grace Fish Sandwich
I went to see the A Team today and it was a great movie with lots of action. This is more of a guy movie that most masculine gay and straight men will enjoy. Girly gay men usually don’t like action packed violent movies. They prefer Sex In The City, a grils movie. Bradley Cooper, Patrick Wilson, and Liam Neeson are very sexy men in this movie. It will be #1 at the box office this weekend.
Ron B of LA
@John in OKC: sorry that IS Rampage Jackson
Ron B of LA
This article is pathetic. I’ve met Rampage Jackson, his old trainer is one of the owners of my Jiu Jitsu gym, he is the nicest guy you’d ever meet. And I can tell you he is no where near a gay hater. He, like most African Americans joke about anything like this from a place of fun and love. Just like we gays seem to like to call each other queens or queer. He uses the word nigga like 98% of all black comedians as well, but I notice you didn’t mention that. I am not one to defend anyone or any action that is not worth defending. But I find this article offensive in that no matter how this guy tries to explain his perspective you still find a reason to bitch and whine about it. You may not agree with his use of language well that’s your prerogative. I don’t like the way that Perez Hilton acts, talks or behaves but who the hell cares. Someone else posted that we in the gay community have bigger enemies like the Mormon Church. That person is right. If you’re going to spend time busting somebody’s balls make them worth busting. And stop being such a sore whiney queen.
travis
@Jerrold: Isn’t Queerty a group of Asian guys? Serious question. Have the Queerty writers revealed themselves? I’m a new reader thanks!
scott ny'er
@travis: I really doubt that. U might be confusing them with Queerclick.
adman
Whoever said that wasn’t Rampage in the photo was lying, just mistaken or a troll trying to stir up racial strife, and of course they were successful. That IS Rampage, and yes, Rampage is a raging homophobe and not to mention a stereotypical douchebag athlete. Fact, just google it, sheesh.
jeffree
@Ron B of LA: @adman: Queerty put in a NEW photo after the error was pointed out.
Probably you should read prior posts before letting yourselves play GOTCHA.
John (CA)
@travis:
The editors of Queerty are white males.
As is the case here, the tone of their commentary when it comes to minorities is fairly revealing in and of itself. But for the record, those are European – not Asian – surnames.
Jesse Helms
It looks like the 2 white men in the picture is going to do a threesome with the colored man.
Jesse Helms
@John: You know the white gays are racist towards you colored gay men. In the privacy of an all white gay male party or group, they talk about blacks like a dog. Welcome to the real world. White gay fruit cakes are more prejudice than white heterosexual men against black gay fruit cakes. Think about it colored men.
adman
@jeffree: Bullshit, I was reading minutes after it was posted the other day. You’re mistaken, this is the same pic they had from jump, nice try.
Tackle
This is not the same picture that was posted on June 7th. Queerty initially had a face pic of Rashad Evans. And took it down within 45-min and replaced it with this one after it was pointed out by several posters they had a pic of the wrong man.
James_From_The_Great_City_of_Cambridge
Ha ha!!!! Revenge on Rampage is so sweet…check out this link!!! Looks like it’s back to feeling up men for a living for you bitch!
‘KARATE KID’ REBOOT KICKING ‘A-TEAM’ BUTT
FRIDAY PM, 4TH UPDATE: My studio sources tell me that Sony’s kid-friendly Karate Kid reboot of the ’80s hit film now starring Will Smith’s son and Jackie Chan will be #1 this weekend with at least $52M. That’s almost twice what the studio was predicting. “The crazy thing is we might be a little low,” one amazed exec told me. Eleven-year-old Jaden led the pic to $19M today, and broke the June Gloom that descended over domestic box office this summer. Expectedly, Fox’s film action version of the 80’s hit TV series The A-Team will finish #2. But it only made $9.5M today and will be lucky to get to $27M for the weekend. That’s embarrassing for what was supposed to be the start of another franchise and a nailbiter between the two opening movies. It turned out not even close. “A pretty spectacular win,” one Sony exec exulted tonight.”
http://www.deadline.com/2010/06/karate-kid-reboot-kicking-a-team-butt/
Jai
@No. 26 – PAT
Go suck a cock you sissy lil’ tbitch. =D You seem like you seriously need to.
Jai
I meant ‘bitch’, not tbitch. Sorry.
Thom
@PAT:
Pat I could kick your ass.
Jesse Helms
I am trying *so* hard to behave. It’s like there are different personalities in me.
This movie was very good and taught me not to judge people unlike myself.
PAT
JAI
“I meant ‘bitch’, not tbitch. Sorry”
hahaha your such a fag you gotta apologize for not talking shit correctly on some fag messageboard? no need to apologize, princess.
and to thom,
the only way you could ever take me down is if you spit your AIDS tainted blood in my face after I’d kick the shit out of you for being a little princess sissy bitch, right before id rape your mother. or sisters. or whatever.
point is, your all fags
KatyGirl
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