Comments on: Halle Berry calls out BBC DJ on racist impersonation http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/05/20/halle-berry-calls-out-bbc-dj-on-racist-impersonation/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 05:28:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: martin http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/05/20/halle-berry-calls-out-bbc-dj-on-racist-impersonation/#comment-9132 martin Wed, 07 Jun 2006 15:23:50 +0000 http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/05/20/halle-berry-calls-out-bbc-dj-on-racist-impersonation/#comment-9132 the comments Moyles made were not well judged and he probably does regret them. But imilarly I have no doubt that he did not mean them in they way they were taken. If you heard the interview live (and i don't think many of the above have) you will remember the pause after the question from halle. We have all had them where you mentally go over what you have said to double check it. He answered her with a no and what has happened since is the result of people not realising that not everyone can be as perfect as them and produce the most popular show in the UK using a script. Moyles has always approached these visits by people onto radio to promote their film/book/song by talking about random funny things. In this case he (for some unknown reason) thought that using an american accent would work for bond. It didn't, it sounded ridiculous and was very funny. Is Hugh Jacksons question, "Are you Brooklyn Bond" racist? If he was Brooklyn bond does that mean he was black? What this comes down to is intent. Was he making a racist comment. No. Was he not really thinking about what he was doing and just did a stupid accent. Yes. I would also like to point out that from the very start Halle did not want to join in with the interview and as we will all admit when you wake up grumpy you can be snappy. Not racist....just not well thought out. the comments Moyles made were not well judged and he probably does regret them. But imilarly I have no doubt that he did not mean them in they way they were taken.

If you heard the interview live (and i don’t think many of the above have) you will remember the pause after the question from halle. We have all had them where you mentally go over what you have said to double check it. He answered her with a no and what has happened since is the result of people not realising that not everyone can be as perfect as them and produce the most popular show in the UK using a script.

Moyles has always approached these visits by people onto radio to promote their film/book/song by talking about random funny things.

In this case he (for some unknown reason) thought that using an american accent would work for bond. It didn’t, it sounded ridiculous and was very funny. Is Hugh Jacksons question, “Are you Brooklyn Bond” racist? If he was Brooklyn bond does that mean he was black?

What this comes down to is intent. Was he making a racist comment. No. Was he not really thinking about what he was doing and just did a stupid accent. Yes.

I would also like to point out that from the very start Halle did not want to join in with the interview and as we will all admit when you wake up grumpy you can be snappy.

Not racist….just not well thought out.

]]> By: vegankid » stand by your man http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/05/20/halle-berry-calls-out-bbc-dj-on-racist-impersonation/#comment-9131 vegankid » stand by your man Wed, 07 Jun 2006 15:10:30 +0000 http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/05/20/halle-berry-calls-out-bbc-dj-on-racist-impersonation/#comment-9131 [...] You may remember a couple of weeks ago when BBC radio host Chris Moyles decided to do his impersonation of a "big, fat black guy" for Halle Berry. Berry's unrelenting stance that this racist impersonation deserved punishment and an apology really won me a lot of respect for her. But MS. Berry, in the end, is just another Black womyn - not the BBC's high-brow target audience. So the BBC's Board of Governors decided unilaterally that Moyles' impersonation was, in fact, not racist and that MS. Berry was simply getting riled up over nothing. Another case of the hyper-sensitive, hyper-defensive Black womyn syndrome, of course. White people sure know how to serve us some justice, don't we? We're experts on what is and isn't racist. We should be, right? After all, we created it. [...] […] You may remember a couple of weeks ago when BBC radio host Chris Moyles decided to do his impersonation of a “big, fat black guy” for Halle Berry. Berry’s unrelenting stance that this racist impersonation deserved punishment and an apology really won me a lot of respect for her. But MS. Berry, in the end, is just another Black womyn - not the BBC’s high-brow target audience. So the BBC’s Board of Governors decided unilaterally that Moyles’ impersonation was, in fact, not racist and that MS. Berry was simply getting riled up over nothing. Another case of the hyper-sensitive, hyper-defensive Black womyn syndrome, of course. White people sure know how to serve us some justice, don’t we? We’re experts on what is and isn’t racist. We should be, right? After all, we created it. […]

]]> By: eric daniels http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/05/20/halle-berry-calls-out-bbc-dj-on-racist-impersonation/#comment-7774 eric daniels Thu, 25 May 2006 05:59:41 +0000 http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/05/20/halle-berry-calls-out-bbc-dj-on-racist-impersonation/#comment-7774 I would have whipped his white ass simple as that, I am not into the MLK solution to dealing with racism or insenstive acts. I would have whipped his white ass simple as that, I am not into the MLK solution to dealing with racism or insenstive acts.

]]> By: justin http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/05/20/halle-berry-calls-out-bbc-dj-on-racist-impersonation/#comment-7541 justin Mon, 22 May 2006 07:12:10 +0000 http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/05/20/halle-berry-calls-out-bbc-dj-on-racist-impersonation/#comment-7541 Being sensitive and grouchy is like a counter offensive, pre empting an attack on political correctness. I can imagine halle berry's question becoming like patter, in high school I put up with a lot of 'not that there's anything wrong with that' . . . Being sensitive and grouchy is like a counter offensive, pre empting an attack on political correctness. I can imagine halle berry’s question becoming like patter, in high school I put up with a lot of ‘not that there’s anything wrong with that’ . . .

]]> By: Sara R. Anderson http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/05/20/halle-berry-calls-out-bbc-dj-on-racist-impersonation/#comment-7539 Sara R. Anderson Mon, 22 May 2006 06:02:48 +0000 http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/05/20/halle-berry-calls-out-bbc-dj-on-racist-impersonation/#comment-7539 Halle Berry was right on the botton to call out the jerk and I can't believe Hugh Jackman let that slide. Friend or co star he should had at least stood up for Miss Berry, I'm very proud of Halle for standing up for herself and others, there was no misinterpitation here on her part. Halle Berry was right on the botton to call out the jerk and I can’t believe Hugh Jackman let that slide.
Friend or co star he should had at least stood up for Miss Berry,
I’m very proud of Halle for standing up for herself and others, there was no misinterpitation here on her part.

]]> By: Brad http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/05/20/halle-berry-calls-out-bbc-dj-on-racist-impersonation/#comment-7532 Brad Sun, 21 May 2006 21:18:23 +0000 http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/05/20/halle-berry-calls-out-bbc-dj-on-racist-impersonation/#comment-7532 I applaud Ms. Berry! Most people can't stand having the mirror put up to their bigotry. A lot just say that anyone who protests racism is just too "sensitive." What's really offensive is the robbery and "black man" being linked together so easily. BTW, do you know that Hugh Jackman and his wife adopted a biracial (African-/Caucasian-American) child a few years ago? Here's a picture of Jackman, his son, and daughter: http://celebrity.aol.com/people/ataol/galleries/0,19884,1144079_9,00.html I applaud Ms. Berry! Most people can’t stand having the mirror put up to their bigotry. A lot just say that anyone who protests racism is just too “sensitive.” What’s really offensive is the robbery and “black man” being linked together so easily.

BTW, do you know that Hugh Jackman and his wife adopted a biracial (African-/Caucasian-American) child a few years ago? Here’s a picture of Jackman, his son, and daughter:

http://celebrity.aol.com/people/ataol/galleries/0,19884,1144079_9,00.html

]]> By: Merq http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/05/20/halle-berry-calls-out-bbc-dj-on-racist-impersonation/#comment-7413 Merq Sat, 20 May 2006 19:40:11 +0000 http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/05/20/halle-berry-calls-out-bbc-dj-on-racist-impersonation/#comment-7413 Justin: I definitely agree; it <i>is</i> like looking in a carnival mirror. But I disagree with your "hands in the air" interpretation. I could be wrong (hell, it's anyone's guess, at this point), but I don't think that was the connection. Moving right past the whole Charles/Lyonside exchange... I'm really glad Halle openly calling him on it. I'm all for confronting it whenever possible (as some may have noticed from my Race in the Workplace story). Plus, calling him out on a live radio broadcast was just golden. Of course, Halle's now being cast as "sensitive" and "grouchy." Isn't that just typical? Justin:
I definitely agree; it is like looking in a carnival mirror. But I disagree with your “hands in the air” interpretation. I could be wrong (hell, it’s anyone’s guess, at this point), but I don’t think that was the connection.

Moving right past the whole Charles/Lyonside exchange…

I’m really glad Halle openly calling him on it. I’m all for confronting it whenever possible (as some may have noticed from my Race in the Workplace story). Plus, calling him out on a live radio broadcast was just golden. Of course, Halle’s now being cast as “sensitive” and “grouchy.” Isn’t that just typical?

]]> By: justin http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/05/20/halle-berry-calls-out-bbc-dj-on-racist-impersonation/#comment-7371 justin Sat, 20 May 2006 17:08:13 +0000 http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/05/20/halle-berry-calls-out-bbc-dj-on-racist-impersonation/#comment-7371 Trying to guess what people think is like looking into a carnival mirror. Trying to guess what people think is like looking into a carnival mirror.

]]> By: justin http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/05/20/halle-berry-calls-out-bbc-dj-on-racist-impersonation/#comment-7368 justin Sat, 20 May 2006 17:01:51 +0000 http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/05/20/halle-berry-calls-out-bbc-dj-on-racist-impersonation/#comment-7368 it's still offensive and all. but i think the inference is 'hands in the air and spread them' vs. 'hands in the air and wave them like you just don't care'. it’s still offensive and all. but i think the inference is ‘hands in the air and spread them’ vs. ‘hands in the air and wave them like you just don’t care’.

]]> By: Charlette http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/05/20/halle-berry-calls-out-bbc-dj-on-racist-impersonation/#comment-7361 Charlette Sat, 20 May 2006 16:18:55 +0000 http://www.mixedmediawatch.com/2006/05/20/halle-berry-calls-out-bbc-dj-on-racist-impersonation/#comment-7361 What the hell does being a big fat black guy have to do with a white man playing the body double for Hugh Jackman? Hugh has a great bod and is that BBC white guy big and fat? How were we suppose to know that? Can you impersonate big or fat? and do fat people speak differently than other people? Black? What did black have to do with anything? All people all blacks don't have the same accents and when white people infer that ALL black people automatically speak gangstereeze that is a slur. What a BBC asshole. and yes whites have mastered the art of making a racial slur just short of cordiality but we are now taking offense at that side slap. Good for your Halle!!!!! What the hell does being a big fat black guy have to do with a white man playing the body double for Hugh Jackman? Hugh has a great bod and is that BBC white guy big and fat? How were we suppose to know that?
Can you impersonate big or fat? and do fat people speak differently than other people? Black? What did black have to do with anything? All people all blacks don’t have the same accents and when white people infer that ALL black people automatically speak gangstereeze that is a slur. What a BBC asshole. and yes whites have mastered the art of making a racial slur just short of cordiality but we are now taking offense at that side slap. Good for your Halle!!!!!

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