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Tracy Morgan Loves His Dead Gay Son

by Alex Alvarez | 2:57 pm, June 14th, 2011

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Yes, that’s a Heathers reference.

30 Rock actor Tracy Morgan is attempting to perform a complete 180 in order to make up for a series of homophobic comments he unleashed during a recent show in Nashville. The comedian had informed his audience that, were his son to ever come out, he would “pull out a knife and stab that little [slur]” and that gay people shouldn’t take offense because if “they can take a [verbing] [noun] up their [noun]… they can take a [verbing] joke.”

Morgan’s comments garnered a wave of attention after a young man who attended that show posted a very descriptive note about Morgan’s performance on Facebook and alerted LGBT organization “Truth Wins Out” about the rant.

Morgan eventually apologized for the tirade, even telling our sister site GossipCop that he “clearly went too far” and that his comments were “not funny in any context.” Besides, you guys, his friends know what’s in his heart.

To further make amends (or, you know, improve his public image), Morgan has now announced his desire to attend a rally in favor of same-sex marriage. In an interview with GlobalGrind conducted by Russell Simmons, Morgan says that he would likely love his son even more were he ever to come out:

The truth is if i had a gay son, I would love him just as much as if he was straight… I might have to try to love even more because I know of the difficulty that he would have in society.

Now this really and truly is some bull[noun].

I don’t care what’s in your heart, Tracy Morgan. I don’t care what your family or famous friends believe is in your heart. I don’t much care to hear you spit euphemisms about your inner state or how wonderful you are as a human being, really pinky promise. And I don’t actually care about whether or not you hate gay people. What I care is about is the impression you seem to have that any community – in this case, the gay community and its allies – would be so completely stupid and gullible and easily placated as to buy the act you’re attempting to sell.

You have displayed a history – not one isolated instance, but a pattern of behavior – of bashing gay people, but, when faced with scorn and disgust, when presented with the consequence of delivering hate speech, you suddenly turn around and announce you’re suddenly pro same-sex marriage? It doesn’t work like that. Sociopolitical issues wrought with tension and history are not yours to use as strategic game pieces to win back favor with the public and the media. This is an issue that matters to people, and it matters beyond what supporting or denouncing it might mean for their popularity and paychecks.

You’re apologizing to save face and, hey, that’s fine. You have a career and a reputation to think about, and there are times when individuals in the public sphere have to hide their true feelings behind a mask that’s palatable and marketable. But don’t use same-sex marriage as your pet project to try and win back favor and then walk away from it as soon as the frenzy around your colossal hatred dies down and America can go back to laughing and sighing at your antics as Tracy Jordan.

You’re not a warrior for gay rights; you’re a hypocrite trying to save face in addition to acting as a symbol of an extremely flawed celebrity culture. And I think – I hope – the American public is intelligent enough to know the difference.

h/t GlobalGrind

Gay, Gay Marriage, LGBT, Russell Simmons, Tracy Morgan

http://TheDividedStatesBlog.com Publius219

“And I think – I hope – the American public is intelligent enough to know the difference.”

We aren’t.
Just4thefax

Fact: He’s on 30 something so that itself makes him a lefty.
Just4thefax

Fact: 30 rock on that NBC nutwork channel
calitexican

i hope so too! but yah, he’s full of bull[noun] is right. i’m sick of celebs doing shit after the fact. [expletive]!!
Jon Bershad

I’ll have you all know that I just looked across the office and applauded Alex when I saw this headline.
http://www.sarainitalyblog.blogspot.com/ sarainitaly

he’s a closet gay. it’s obvious.
http://www.snowspot.net Snowspot

Just4thefax said:
Fact: He’s on 30 something so that itself makes him a lefty.

Just4thefax said:
Fact: 30 rock on that NBC nutwork channel

With people like this on the right, it’s no wonder Obama is in office, lol.
Laddy Go-Rod

Tracy is “good masturbation material”-

(If you’re Sasquatch)
Moderate

He forgot one of the rules in the hood, “Keep that stuff on the down-low”.
Pablo

Very nice argument, Alex.

You have displayed a history – not one isolated instance, but a pattern of behavior – of bashing gay people, but, when faced with scorn and disgust, when presented with the consequence of delivering hate speech, you suddenly turn around and announce you’re suddenly pro same-sex marriage? It doesn’t work like that. Sociopolitical issues wrought with tension and history are not yours to use as strategic game pieces to win back favor with the public and the media. This is an issue that matters to people, and it matters beyond what supporting or denouncing it might mean for their popularity and paychecks.

Unfortunately, that is exactly how it works. Legitimate grievances become never ending industries that require leaders who come to care a lot more about their power and their influence than in actually solving the problem they started trying to fix, if it still exists. Then, somehow, through the power of their righteousness, they become the official suppliers of penance, which we’ve all decided the sinner must buy, like so many carbon credits, if they are ever to become acceptable in polite society. (See Sharpton, Jackson, Imus, et all) PR people did this to us. Handlers did this to us, and we fell for it. We really are weird.

You’re not a warrior for gay rights; you’re a hypocrite trying to save face in addition to acting as a symbol of an extremely flawed celebrity culture. And I think – I hope – the American public is intelligent enough to know the difference.

I think we’re intelligent enough, and there’s enough of us who can explain it over and over to the slow people. I think we just don’t care enough to pay attention.
Dem4Ever

On April 1, 1984, Marvin Gaye’s father (Marvin, Sr.) fatally shot him when Gaye intervened in an argument between his parents over misplaced business documents.

So, I guess you could say that Marvin Pentz Gaye, Sr. Loved his dead gaye son too.
Jerps

If you give “Headline of the Month” prizes, this is an early front-runner.
Azarkhan

So he doesn’t like gay people…so what? It’s a free country with freedom of speech. Get over your self-righteousness.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Claudia-Higginbotham/100000062542337 Claudia Higginbotham

Yes, Indeed, Azarkhan, it is a free country with freedom of speech for everybody, including me. You calling me self-righteous doesn’t make me self-righteous. If I choose to speak against homophobia, I will do so. If I chose to speak out against this guy, I will do so.
MrTPar_taY

Anybody ever tell this creep he’s butt ugly?
http://www.facebook.com/people/Michelle-Harding-McCarrie/683567702 Michelle Harding McCarrie

i love how everyone is so up in arms about something a comedian said. honestly, why should anyone care? if you take offense then you just move on. he now knows some people didn’t find it funny. because with all comedy, you either think it’s funny or you don’t. it hasn’t physically hurt you, so stop crying.
Raygun

Azarkhan said:
So he doesn’t like gay people…so what? It’s a free country with freedom of speech. Get over your self-righteousness.

I think I’m quite comfortable with being loudly self-righteous when instances of evil bigotry arise.
LOGICandREASON

Sometimes I wonder where all the political correctness nonsense will lead future generations to come after our time has long passed. The only part of his initial statement I think was offensive was the violent talk about pulling a knife and stabbing. I respect a man for standing for what he believes in, rather than pretending to be someone else as he is doing now due to pressure from political correctness.

Tracy Morgan can NOW say how much he loves gays and homosexuality; but from the experience I have about life, I have come to learn that such expressions or feeling that are not true from the heart wont last long or bear good fruit. They are so shallow that they will be easily blown away by the winds of time.

“To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man.” —-William Shakespeare

“Right is right, even if everyone is against it; and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it” —-William Penn

“Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.” —-Winston Churchill
Just4thefax

Snowspot said:
With people like this on the right, it’s no wonder Obama is in office, lol.

Fact: Can’t you just feel 2012 at your heels. WhooHoo….Hahahahahaha…….
http://www.facebook.com/people/Jim-Treacher/542957672 Jim Treacher

The headline gave me hope.

Then you felt the need to explain it.
Raygun

LOGICandREASON said:
Sometimes I wonder where all the political correctness nonsense will lead future generations to come after our time has long passed.

To a much more sane, respectful, sensitive and less bigoted, hurtful place.
http://politicallyincorrectlibertarian.wordpress.com PoliticallyIncorrectLibertarian

“Azarkhan said:
So he doesn’t like gay people…so what? It’s a free country with freedom of speech. Get over your self-righteousness.”

—Yeah, as long as you make fun of gays. Try making fun of blacks without being black and then it’s not such a free country.

Liberals created political correctness, now they must live with it.

http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/