In years to come, we will refer to this as The Brandi Glanville Defense. When a celebrity is called out for doing or saying or tweeting something blatantly racist, that celebrity declares that they are not racist because – wait for it – they’ve banged black guys. It’s the new “I have black friends” defense. It’s the defense for the 21st century racist.
So, obviously, we’re still talking about Chelsea Handler’s racist tweets during the Oscars. She loves this, incidentally. She loves that we’re talking about her. She interprets our scorn as interest, like she’s mega-controversial for being so bold and unconventional. She’s pretty much a garden-variety racist, only she has a public platform and no one seems willing to call her out on her BS. Case in point: Chelsea tweeted all of that racist crap when she took over the HuffPo feed. HuffPo still has the tweets up. They are unashamed to associate with her.
Here’s another example. Chelsea appeared on Good Morning America yesterday and George Stephanopoulos asked her about the racist tweets. And when I say he asked her about the tweets, I mean he asked her about how people reacted to the tweets, because hack journalism.
Chelsea says:
“People are mad at me all the time. If was worried about that then I would be spending a lot of time online. I’d rather be a little more productive. I’m not racist. I date a lot of black people, so that would be a difficult thing to explain to them.”
I don’t get the “If was worried about that then I would be spending a lot of time online. I’d rather be a little more productive” thing. Is she saying that it’s only bloggers who think she’s racist and she’s so busy and important and famous, she doesn’t have time to worry about us? Er… this current controversy started because she was online… live-tweeting the Oscars. To promote her book, which she is promoting online. Lord, she’s dumb.
As for the whole “I can’t be a racist because I bang black guys” defense – it’s not a defense, just like the “I have black friends” thing isn’t a defense. Just because you know, befriend and sleep with black people, those associations don’t inoculate a person from racism. I mean, Phil Robertson knows some black people too. And he thinks they were just fine when they couldn’t vote and there were lynchings every so often.
PS… Yes, I noticed how she looks like a Botox-monster in that video too.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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