Steele gives Jindal some "Slum Love"

[traxster]

Seriously...???

This an interview that he did with an ABC Radio Show. And it ends with "Playa, Playa."

Classic ignorance.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0209/Steele_offers_Jindal_slum_love.html?showall

SLIWA: Now, using a little bit of that street terminology, are you giving him any Slum love, Michael?

STEELE: (laughter)

SLIWA: Because he is — when guys look at him and young women look at him — they say oh, that's the slumdog millionaire, governor. So, give me some slum love.

STEELE: I love it. (inaudible) ... some slum love out to my buddy. Gov. Bobby Jindal is doing a friggin' awesome job in his state. He's really turned around on some core principles — like hey, government ought not be corrupt. The good stuff ... the easy stuff.

[ErinBerin84]

1. weird

I hated when people made that reference here (even if they were trying to be "ironic" or whatever), and it's fucked up there too. Plus, "friggin awesome"? This train wreck is going to be interesting to watch.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Is this their idea of reaching out to the youth vote??

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

7. See my post #6 below, the cartoon.

[ellacott]

3. Micheal Steele will be at Tavis Smiley's State of the Black Union this weekend

It should be interesting. I don't know of he'll be on the morning or afternoon panel. I'm sure Tavis will be comfortable with Steele but Steele better make sure he doesn't put his foot in his mouth.

[traxster]

4. Tavis was firmly AGAINST Obama, so Steele will feel right at home.

I watched the State of the Black Union last year, and it was a big waste of time. Just a time for Tavis to have his ego stroked.

[firedupdem]

21. Yep...Travis the hater and Steele. No thanks! n/t

[Window]

24. Exactly. n/t

[ellacott]

35. You're right, It's just a time for Tavis to stroke his ego

This will the 10th year and all they do is talk and some of the panelists try to outperform everybody else.

[vaberella]

5. Is it just me or is this veiled racism...

I recognize that I'm hypersensitive to this stuff.

[ej510]

8. I am tired of this brutha. I try to ignore threads about him. He reminds me of my drunk uncle at the

family reunion.

[vaberella]

10. We all got one of those fools in the family. ~sigh~

But I can honestly sit there and have to wonder who he's really making a fool of...Black people, Black people who obviously hate Blacks, or the Republican party. At this point I can't decide but he's as bad as the idiot with the busted eye on CNN or Tiger Woods (thank God he's not in politics, we'd be done years ago).

[Rashel]

14. So odd. Is this the blackface of the new millenium?

[vaberella]

17. Blackface?! Huh....

What does that have to do with this? There have always been Blacks who have undermined Blacks (Minorities in general) and have upheld/supported racist ideology and/or agenda. You have the House Slave who at many times was like the spy for the slave owner. You have this going on during revolts and uprisings, you have this during the Civil Rights movement, and on and on it goes. ti has nothing to do with "Blackface" since those people are not "Whites" by any stretch of the imagination.

[Rashel]

23. My point being that the blackface, or giving the people the stereotyping they want

is not being done by someone White, but by someone Black.

[vaberella]

25. I'd agree with that by half...

He has been mocking/ridiculing Black culture and Blacks in general all the time. His "playa, playa", his "taking this to the streets to get the "urban youth""<----it's all manipulation by abusing the culture of sorts to get ahead. So it's not just Jindal, although I find that also grossly offensive, but he's been doing this to ALL Minorities except East Asians, yet.

[Rashel]

30. Thanks for your reply.

I don't know how to reply privately so let me just say I'm not feeling well enough to give you the reply that you deserve. And I mean that in a good way.

[ej510]

33. I've had one too many embarrassing moments with my family. Michael Steele

reminds me of my friend Jamar when his mama popped up with hair rollers and a bath robe at our 8th grade dance. I never laughed so hard in my life.

[Baikonour]

31. It strikes me as more racist than the usage of "Piyush" instead of Bobby, that's for sure. nt

If not racist, then certainly classist.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

6. What a "friggin'" buffon Steele is. What's next?

http://www.giantrobot.com/blogs/eric/uploaded_images/Flavor+Flav-799920.jpg

Yea boyeee!

[GreenPartyVoter]

15. "Ganstas o' Phat"? *snickering*

[YOY]

16. Love the toon.

The pants completely falling down at the end is the best part!

[sufrommich]

9. Well, he has a vast amount of entertainment value

if nothing else.

[vaberella]

11. I don't know how entertaining I find this..I was actually more offended. n/t

[traxster]

12. Me too. Clearly he doesn't think of black people as "real" Americans.

And it seemed like he and the interviewer were making fun of people.

[vaberella]

18. Exactly. That's what I'm talking about...

there's some serious veiled shit here. Like he's(both idiots) were trying to push the line as to how far they can go. I'm not happy about what I read.

[Thrill]

13. Is that a reference to Slum Dog Millionaire?

The whole India connection?

[vaberella]

22. Yeah, not many brain cells needed on this one.

The fools are bloody disgusting. I can't stand Steele and at this point I know he's mocking and ridiculing Blacks and the language sub culture at the same time taking a veiled pock shot (along with the interviewer) at Indian's. I'm a bit pissed.

[Hutzpa]

19. These guys are desperate

:wow: imagine the gross stupidity.

[opihimoimoi]

20. More like SLUMDIOT in my book.....

There is no escape from the BLACK HOLE....the GOP has crashed their bus into a large one....

Not even LIGHT can escape....them GOPers are trapped with themselves to blame....

[Saphire]

26. Creepy....just creepy.

[Cash_thatswhatiwant]

27. Can he please use skeet-skeet to describe how he feels about a Republican initiative? Can he compare

the way Regan's policies are still relevant to the way Tupac keeps releasing albums? Please?

[Colobo]

28. Michael Steele is pathetic.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

29. I LOVE the new Republican Party...

And Letterman, et. al. thought that all the easy jokes were gone when Bush left town! These guys are an unending source of untintentional humor.

[Frank Booth]

32. Yeah. It's a goldmine, with Steele, Jindal, Palin.

Then you got Ron Christie, who cracks me up. Mittens is great too. Even McCain's senile angry old man routine was pretty funny.
They're a barrel of laughs.

[SoxFan]

34. What next?

[Jennicut]

36. Can he be any more offensive? Being "cool" does not mean calling out to your homies!

God he is so stupid! Obama is cool without trying Michael..you are trying WAY too hard buddy.