Everyone hates Tracy Morgan’s apology for his anti-gay rant in which he said that he’d stab his gay son if he ever whined about getting bullied. But once upon a time Morgan made an anti-bullying PSA for NBC which presumable included gay kids and chubby black kids with speech impediments. So we guess all those commenters who wanted Morgan to make an It Gets Better video can strike that one off their lists.
Ricky
I think people need to get over what he said.It was a joke.People laugh when the joke is about others but can’t when it’s about them.He’s right about one thing kids that are bullied need to stop being pussies and stand up for themselves.
Richard Head
What, you guys figured Tracy Morgan was pro-gay? Seriously?!? Have none of you ever SEEN the man? Jesus Christ, he wears his homophobia on his sleeve, but I guess because he’s a typical liberal, you assumed he was on your side. Live and learn, people, live and learn.
Josh6852
Tracy Morgan has three boys, this is what he said last Friday to a packed TN audience..“ If my son told me he was gay (high pitched voice), I would take a knife and stab him in the chest” EVERYONE (Tina Fey-NBC-Comedians-Athletes…etc) needs to read and take action against the vicious hate that Mr. Tracy Morgan (30 Rock- SNL) said in his (rally for violence against the LGBT community- FOX can take a day off) questionable comedy act on June 3, 2011…NO NO NO apology accepted…20 yrs in entertainment working side by side with many gay parents and people with gay children and potraying us in offensive skits on SNL… NO surprise you would sperminate your flock of uneducated bible belt bullies in TN of all places ( Where two bills recently passed 1) you can be fired from your job for being gay 2) you cant use the word gay in schools….look it up) I can take a joke- Im ALL for free speech- not hate speech…Now it’s time for the gay community and supporters of equal rights for ALL to raise your voices and be heard…..
Josh6852
We as a community pushing equal rights for ALL need to make our voices heard NOW and encourage celebrities and politicians through TWITTER- FACEBOOK- EMAIL-…ETC. that they need to speak up when its not convenient to advance their careers…..You accept our hard earned money and go to our award shows and preach tolerance and standing up to bullies….Time to STAND UNITED in the fight for Equal Rights…. Tina Fey and 30 rock have received many awards from GLAAD….NO MORE LIP SERVICE- ACTION NOW…You use free speech Mr. Morgan as a front to spew hate…. Now its time to pay the piper…..I speak up for the thousands of GLBT kids who have no voice….. kids that don’t even have parents that love them enough to let them live at home….. church leaders telling 8 yr old kids they’re going to hell to their face…When family, friends, church leaders and your community abandons you all based on nothing you can control because your same sex attraction is natural, SUICIDE MIGHT SEEM LIKE THE ONLY OPTION….ITS NOT KIDS….IT GETS BETTER…IT IS BETTER…. WORDS HURT….. WORDS KILL !!!!!!
Josh6852
Tina Fey your half as@ed apology sucked… Tina fey says “ Tracy is to sleepy to cause anyone harm” What does that mean Tina? Mr. Morgan is FINISHED in my book. Don’t go down with the ship Tina. You hired Tracy knowing that his stand up is very homophobic. Now pay the price. This is the core of Tracy’s beliefs…..Believe what you want Tracy…. Say what you want Tracy….. Now pay the f@@king price you piece of sh@t….You would think growing up being black you might be a more thoughtful person when it comes to the LGBT issues and working with them for over 20 Years…. WRONG……TIME TO HOLD OUR POLITICIANS AND CELEBRITIES ACCOUNTABLE FOR THE THINGS THEY SAY OR DON’T SAY IN REGARDS TO LGBT ISSUES FROM NOW ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Josh6852
*****ALL THE FOLLOWING COMEDIANS NEED TO STAND UP AGAINST TRACY MORGAN NOW* ****** 1) Kathy Griffen 2) Lisa Lampanelli(Your 15 mins with the F word is up) 3) Sarah Silverman(been hitting up Sarah’s twitter) 4) Margret Cho 5) Whoopie Goldberg 6) Joy Behar (Finally a good topic for The View/ All The View does is talk about their other gigs and SPONSOR EVRYTHING/ LOVE YOU RO and…… The Talk is on …..No more View 7) ALL GAY COMEDIANS……WE HAVE TWITTER NOW……TELL THESE COMEDIANS TO STAND UP AGAINST TRACY MORGAN’S HATE SPEECH…. YOU AND I CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN WHAT THESE AWFUL COMICS CONSIDER FUNNY ABOUT YOU AND I…..DO IT FOR THE KIDS THAT HAVE NO VOICE OR HOPE LEFT…. JUST DO IT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!! COMEDIANS, NOW IS THE TIME TO SPEAK UP.NOT WHEN YOU’RE COUNTING OUR HARD EARNED MONEY. Thank You Wanda Sykes- Chris Rock for realizing his mistake and most of all LADY GAGA. Shes been a fierce advocate around the world.
Josh6852
*****ALL THE FOLLOWING COMEDIANS NEED TO STAND UP AGAINST TRACY MORGAN NOW* ****** 1) Kathy Griffen 2) Lisa Lampanelli (Your 15 mins with the F word is up) 3) Sarah Silverman(been hitting up Sarah’s twitter) 4) Margret Cho 5) Whoopie Goldberg 6) Joy Behar (Finally a good topic for The View/ All The View does is talk about their other gigs and SPONSOR EVRYTHING/ LOVE YOU RO and…… The Talk is on …..No more View 7) ALL GAY COMEDIANS……WE HAVE TWITTER NOW……TELL THESE COMEDIANS TO STAND UP AGAINST TRACY MORGAN’S HATE SPEECH…. YOU AND I CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN WHAT THESE AWFUL COMICS CONSIDER FUNNY ABOUT YOU AND I…..DO IT FOR THE KIDS THAT HAVE NO VOICE OR HOPE LEFT….JUST DO IT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!! COMEDIANS, NOW IS THE TIME TO SPEAK UP.NOT WHEN YOU’RE COUNTING OUR HARD EARNED MONEY. Thank You Wanda Sykes- Chris Rock for realizing his mistake and most of all LADY GAGA. Shes been a fierce advocate around the world.
Bear
It’s one thing to be joking, it’s another to take a joke in a violent direction. It wasn’t just a joke about telling your kid to toughen up, it was about telling your kid if you are different I will kill you. I was bullied as a kid, you can’t just stand up for yourself when it’s you against four or five other students. It’s hard to be the victim of violence, and anyone that says “kids that are bullied need to stop being pussies and stand up for themselves.” Has never been a victim. You have no idea what you’re talking about Ricky.
ewe
Blacklist him and be done with it.
ewe
It borders criminality to go around telling people you would stab someone for being gay.
Pete n SFO
There may have been a time when this could have been dismissed as bad humor by an idiot, but that ship has long sailed. In today’s world; teen-suicides, bullying, removing rights at a ballot box, ‘don’t say gay’ etc … Ya know, it just no longer flies.
As far as I’m concerned, it’s over for me and Tracy Morgan. I understand that lots of people work on 30 Rock, that don’t share his views, but as long as he’s on (my fave) show, I really don’t see myself tuning in. It’s just how it is.
Commenters above are correct; the people with access to a mic need to call-him-out when the opportunity presents itself, and then sweep his career into the dustbin and move on.
emb
Not accepted, and I don’t accept the “lighten up it’s a joke” nonsense either. It was a hateful ramble, and Mr Jordan needs to be held accountable. The statements from NBC and Fey are nice, but it looks to me like this irrational, irresponsible, violent rant is being tolerated because there are no consequences. When Michael (Kramer) Richards went on a racist rant in 2006 in a comedy club, it was headline news and has utterly disappeared from public view. I suspect Tracy Morgan will be right back on “30 Rock” in the fall, doing just fine. After all, he was only being viciously awful toward the gays.
Queer Supremacist
@ewe: This falls under the rubric of “communicating threats”. Therefore, it is not free speech. Every day that this piece of breeder shit continues to walk free, justice has failed.
Cue the gay-white-man-bashing by the usual suspects in 5, 4, 3…
IAbuseGays
@Richard Head:They figure the situation is complicated, and that, in all the attempts to use this situation (which is a bad one on its own terms) the people using it don’t care that its complicated. I don’t have a problem saying the skit was homophobic (again from the limited knowledge I have of the act since I didn’t see it, and nor did you). But, there is a difference between saying that and making this into simply people
@Queer Supremacist: I really hate when people know nothing about the law online just go on and on about something they know nothing about. First up this is not really a free speech issue since its not a government action. Second, even if it was, the exception you are talking about is inapplicable because the situation in which you are describing is where words take on the form of action such as yelling fire in a crowded theater. The threat, if you want to call comic act that, must be immediate as in he’s yelling to people stab the guy right next to you, stab the guy right next to you. Not if someday I find out my kid is gay… Why people need to make a bad situation worse just to reinforce their craziness I will never know.
fuzzy
The irony would be if one of his kids really was gay, or otherwise “unacceptably different.” What would the stupid bastard do then? I’m actually worried for his children.
Shannon1981
I don’t care about his apology. The thing is, this was no joke. Violence against a marginalized group of people who are still KILLED FOR WHO WE ARE is NEVER a joke. Never. And the suggestion of killing his own son? Sickening.
Mr. Morgan needs to go away. If Tina Fey, NBC, and 30 Rock keep him….well then I just don’t know what to say. Will make me seriously question their morals, values, and priorities.
christopher di spirito
Tracy Morgan is a marginally talented, comedic hack. He’s extremely lucky he has gotten as far as he has attaching himself to a TV program starring Tina Fey.
My prediction is, a decade from now, he will be working at a Burger King, weigh 350lbs., and and signing autographs for $5 a piece.
manfred
No, not this time. He was NOT joking. And please, no more fake “it gets better” bullshit or other PSAs from people who don’t have a clue how to raise children.
IAbuseGays
He wasn’t joking although he was giving a comic performance. He was actually in the middle of a debate on CNN on the subject. Or so he thought. I could tell he thought that because of his body language, and secretly, I am a little bit psychic. You could clearly see it. I know this to be true because that’s what I believe. And what I believe is true regardless of the surrounding facts of the situation or any thing that’s contra to my position that you may present in this article or later articles. its true because I believe its true.
Cam
@Ricky: said…
I think people need to get over what he said.It was a joke.People laugh when the joke is about others but can’t when it’s about them”
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So if a comediane made a joke along the lines of…if they found out their wife was half black, that he would lynch her….would you still say “It was a joke, get over it”?
The fact is, the gay community has been convinced that we shouldn’t offend people by defending ourselves. That OTHER communities can take offense to violent imagery and threats but that we need to suck it up and not complain.
Xtian
not being funny but I really always thought he was mentally comprimised in some way OR a crack head- he comes off like someone who is not wholly “there” which prob explains why he made such awful comments and thought they would be funny.
Jeffree
Chris Rock, who’s known his share of controversy, came out with a second Tweet calling TJ out for his remarks, saying “…that sh1t wasnt called for and i don’t support it at all.”
Comics’s careers die on the vine when venues won’t book them & audiences stop showing up. There are many comedians out there who have better material *and*superior delivery, who can navigate the icy ledge between pointing out bigotry & participating in it.
Jordan needs to make amends. Whether that will be enough to make up for his statements will depend on the people who’re willing to go see him & the places who will let him perform.
Mike
@Jeffree: Tracy Jordan is only his character’s name on 30 Rock. 😀
Adman
@ Whomever is using the Iabusegays sockpuppet at the moment> “Why people need to make a bad situation worse just to reinforce their craziness I will never know.” It starts with the “You overprivileged gays need to stop whining when we take away your rights” argument and ends with the “You’re crazy” argument. And you’re done here, because you’ve been dead on script with the formula. I wonder if Queerty is ever going to take the time to find out which blogs these clowns like IAG work for, or which Teapartying Koch entity supports them. It’s really easy you know, just hire an IP guy….
Kev C
@Adman: I do know that the poster known as James from Cambridge (biracial gay male) also posts on Mediatakeout and freely uses the N* word as an insult, and then comes on to gay boards (JMG, Queerty) and calls white gays racists.
tsk tsk
Jeffree
@Mike: LOL, thanks for pointing that out!
I got flummoxed. Sorry !
[there’s a comedy meme floating around out there suggesting Tracy Morgan run for office as a Republican, because he now has “Family Values” credentials. Ah, when one door shuts, another opens!]
Vinci S.
Well, obviously, in this NBC promo, he’s lying. And in the standpoint routine from a few weeks ago, he was telling the truth.
How do I know this?
Because I live inside his mind!
Seriously, those who have their tighties in a bunch are a bunch of cherry pickers.
CHYKOLAETHAI
@Queer Supremacist: Why should anyone bash you for ur opinions?? This Should not become racial issue because a homophobe can come in any color. I’m a GAY BLACK man and i don’t feel welcomed in either community. Just like IABUSEGAYS stated let’s not make a bad situation worse. PEACE.
Velocifero
Oh Jeez. When someone shows you who they are — believe them. The comedy stage is not some magic platform where you get a free pass to assholery. He obviously is playing to the lowest of black male stereotypes for a cheap laugh. Fine, though when someone comes out tap dancing in white face when he is in the audience and tells black Americans to get over themselves about lynching, then he or any other defender of Tracy Morgan don’t have an ideological plank to stand on.
Queer Supremacist
@CHYKOLAETHAI: You haven’t been here very long, have you? This site and many like it are just swimming with racist attacks on gay white men. They swim around this site like sharks waiting for every time a black person is called out for a homophobic statement, so they can inject race into the issue.
I know it shouldn’t become a racial issue. But it did. Am I therefore supposed to ignore the white elephant in the room (no pun intended)? The sad fact remains that there is a difference between the homophobia perpetrated by blacks and that perpetrated by whites. Whites do not, and cannot, hide behind a history of oppression to justify it (although whites have been oppressed for their ethnicity; remember “No Irish Need Apply”?)
COCO
The sad part is that He ain’t going nowhere.Tina Fay his BFF won’t fire him. How sad.
CHYKOLAETHAI
@Queer Supremacist: no I haven’t been on this site long but i have been a black gay man for over 30 years and i have encounterd racism from white gay men more times than i care to remember. There are black homophobes just like there are white gay racist and i have no respect for either but i refuse to assume that all white gay people are racist, just like white gays shouldn’t assume that all “urban” blacks are homophobes….. A homophobe is a homophobe man oppression ain’t got nothing to do with.
ewe
@Queer Supremacist: you need to travel more.
Kev C
Gays can’t be racist because they don’t have the social power to enforce discrimination or oppression against any race.
Also because they don’t want to be stabbed.
ewe
@Queer Supremacist: My previous comment is because I was caught off guard about your statement regarding “gay white men.” I don’t even know what you’re talking about.
CHYKOLAETHAI
@Kev C: Really? SMH. moving on.
TheRealAdam
Just so everyone is clear:
CHYKOLAETHAI = IAbuseGays
The trolls are being fed, and it needs to stop. “Chykolaethai” has been going to many of the posts supporting IAbuseGays, bumping them up, and expressing support.
TheRealAdam
And even here, you can see that “CHYKOLAETHAI” is basically saying the same bs as that fool IAbuseGays, but with a different writing style.
CHYKOLAETHAI
@TheRealAdam: The reason I support SOME of what he said is because what he is saying is the truth IMHO. I don’t understand some gays if u don’t see eye to eye and agree with what they are saying then you must be a troll. Sorry mister if we didn’t travel the same “gay path”.. Until you have walked a mile in my stylish shoes then u can assume that I am IABUSEGAYS and how do u know IABUSEGAYS is black anyway?
TheRealAdam
@CHYKOLAETHAI: Oh bitch please! Troll harder, cunt.
CHYKOLAETHAI
@TheRealAdam: ur maturity level is really showing now. Since I shot down ur assumptions that I was IABUSEGAYS, now you want to stoop to name calling like a little girl who can’t get that pretty doll in the window. Who’s the troll now Becky?
CHYKOLAETHAI
@TheRealAdam: “wasn’t” IABUSEGAYS
TheRealAdam
@CHYKOLAETHAI: And your writing style, consistency, and lame attempts at responses continue to show that you are IAbuseGays. So, why don’t you keep replying so that any further doubt is erased? Thanks, dumbass.
B. Allan Ross
If you’ll lay there accepting (in this case) your black Christian het supremacist-assigned role as a pile of dog shit, letting anyone talk to you or about you, your friends, your family, your kids like this, in any venue at any time — and you dare to encourage others to cool out, shut up and take it, don’t stir things up or you’ll make it worse for us, etc. — then you are a deeply despicable, lazy, self-centered, ghetto-ized coward who absolutely deserves to have his/her ass whipped non-stop by untalented anti-gay creeps and other ghetto-ized, pathetic, anti-gay profiteers like the het supremacist and filthy, nasty, low-talent, cheap-shot artist, Tracy Morgan. Fuck you and him for your blatant cowardice and for the actual harm you’re doing to human equality in the U.S.A. today.
CHYKOLAETHAI
@TheRealAdam: child whatever, what just cause some people agree with what dude was saying then we all must be the same person, how stupid of you. So u can assume what the hell you want to i couldn’t care less.. no more responses Have a blessed day. The first rule of handling a troll.. Never let a troll make u mad.. so it won’t work here.
Ricky
“If gay people can take a d**k up the a*s, they can take a joke.” – Tracy Morgan. How is that? not funny?
Ricky
I have a question why is it ok for
Lisa Lampanelli to use the N-word?
IAbuseGays
@Adman: This is hillarious- do you nut jobs really think you are going to get me to stop posting by claiming that my screen name is a sock puppet. First sock puppet means using multiple screen names. Not someone using my screen naming. Second up, I am making a joke about all the testomonials here that pass as “evidence” as to why one syould think one or the other on this issue. I feel x therefore you should convinced arguments.
IAbuseGays
@Kev C: there are no white gays?
IAbuseGays
@Adman: For the record, much of the use o my screen name started this weekend when I complained that racists use the situation with homophobia coming out the black community to attack all black people with it and that the reaction to this as per any thign black related is often heightened due to the racial issue- the people using my screen name are likely people like Jason or Real Adam. I can’t prove it , but they are the one’s most up in arms by my statements about the racial angle.
Vinci S.
@ CHYKOLAETHAI
are you by any chance Afrika from Awards Daily?
*sips tea*
IAbuseGays
@CHYKOLAETHAI: Agree completely. THis is not about all whites no more than black homophobia is about all blacks. I said as much in another exchange in which I mentioned this sort of thing. That saying some whites does not equal all whites. Just as I said that talking about Pro8 is not valid if one is going to ignore DC. As I said, what disturbs me is that someone like Jason with Adam Real and others backing him will say shit like “We should not have marched with blacks in the 60s” because of an incident like this. I don’t see, and nor will I ever, how making such a generalized statement based on what one feels about Morgan’s comic act is not racism. The fact is Morgan’s act on their own terms is a problem. Nor do I think its right to ignore the racist remarks while chiming in about the homophobic ones. Both should be condemned, and yet only one is.
Adman
@IAbuseGays: There is a post that clearly wasn’t written by you, as it takes you’re opposite stance, even going so far as to promote homophobia in a snide, “fuck you” kind of way, and you’ve said nothing about it. I find that interesting, and more than a little telling. Having said that, this is Queerty, where there are no safeguards against someone posting as you, so if “that’s ridiculous” babycakes? Then you’re too dumb to throw shade, since you’re not even paying attention.
Queer Supremacist - Lynch Tracy Morgan
@B. Allan Ross: I agree. Gays who try to rationalize gay bashers’ actions and deflect the blame deserve what they get.
BTW, I adore your avatar. Gays bash back!
Vinci S.
http://www.deadline.com/2011/06/video-tracy-morgan-apologizes-for-homophobic-remarks-in-nashville/#comments