Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid isn’t the only one making headlines with racially insensitive remarks regarding the President. Former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, who was ousted last year amid alleged abuses of power and attempts to sell legislative appointments and authorizations, told Esquire Magazine:
“I’m blacker than Barack Obama. I shined shoes. I grew up in a five-room apartment. My father had a little laundromat in a black community not far from where I lived. I saw it all growing up.”
The White House has declined to comment on Blagojevich’s remarks, probably because everyone knows he’s just trying to get his name in the news; he’s set to appear in the latest season of The Celebrity Apprentice. View Blagojevich’s apology from Monday morning (January 11th) below.
lunacy!
Oh, no he didn’t!!
Idiocy at its best.
Poverty is something that affects all races, not just black ppl. SMH
It really frustrates me when white people say “im blacker than…” they always equate being ghetto, poor, or uneducated with being black. Which it getting old, were in 2010 here, you dont have to be black to struggle, he could have gotten his same point across just saying i had a tough life and i worked hard. Gotta love ignorant people, but i guess that’s what u have to say to keep some attention.
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I was just about to say that.
The black experience is more than being poor, or ghetto. That is just showing how ignorant some ppl from other races really are about us. Then again, great example, no one would look at him and assume those things about him. Thank you for proving a point.
Lord help him
smh
The guy epitomizes ignorance. He needs to go home to his jump-off.
BOO YOU LIVED IN A “FIVE” BEDROOM APARTMENT AND YOUR FATHER HAD HIS OWN BUSINESS..I DONT THINK ANYBODY IN THE GHETTO HAS EVER EXPERIENCED THAT…. #FAIL
Classic!
Yep no need to even waste their breath, he’s beyond irrelevant.
Sad to say but Reid, though he should have kept it to himself or behind closed doors, statement is right on target-If Obama had of looked like Flavor Flav (using Chris Rocks’ example) he would have never been president, let alone the Democratic Nominee.
idiot just plain stupid
I’M GETTING REALLY SICK OF PEOPLE SAYING STUPID SH*T THEN APOLOGIZING FOR IT. JUST THINK BEFORE YOU OPEN YOUR MOUTH DUMMY.
Lmao! Wow. What’s next? He’s going to say he’s black because his favorite food is fried chicken and watermelon with a glass of kool-aid on the side? Smh.
SIT DOWN FOOL.
What an idiot! Racism and the hardship black people had (or still have) to face is nothing to laugh about. Anyway, he’s bitter because he’s unemployed and Obama runs the country. End of discussion.
Well I was born and raised on the West-Side of Chicago, and just 40 years ago it was nothing but white people over here. We didn’t get this territory in full until the 1980′s after they tore down all the projects. Now since gas prices went up these honkeys want it back, because there spending over $400 monthly in gas just to commute to their down-town offices which is only 10-15 drive from the West-Side. They need to seriously do a documentary on Chicago+Illinois, and exposed all the corruption this CD has. These people aren’t right at all.
And secondly, you’re not black enough to be in the white house you racist bastard! Do you know what being black is? Being black was a struggle, you have to overcome things to classify yourself as BLACK. Our parents didn’t own laundromats, dry cleaners, and fortune 500 companies on the corner. We didn’t have the luxury of having a 5-BEDROOM APARTMENT! Ya’ll honkeys gave us PUBLIC AID and through us in 2-3 SMALL BEDROOM/CONDEMNED BUILDINGS. Only thing that we thought was ours was the dope SPOT! Which was given to us by the WHITE MEN! Black people didn’t know how to cook COC, and sure as hell don’t know the process to growing marijuana. Ya’ll implented that on the West-Side of Chicago for years plus our Projects. YO PEOPLE DID THAT BLAGOVEICH! Why didn’t the DOPE ever get to the WHITE NEIGHBORHOODS?
Another QUESTION CHICAGO? Why the hell was it easy to fund a 475 MILLION DOLLAR PARK(MILLENNIUM PARK), BUT U HAD 2 CLOSE AND CONSOLIDATE OVER 40 PUBLIC SCHOOLS THROUGHOUT THE POVERTY NEIGHBORHOODS JUST BECAUSE YA’LL DIDN’T HAVE THE MONEY? Why ON EARTH DO CTA(CHICAGO PUBLIC TRANSIT) CHARGE 2.50 FOR ONE BUS RIDE, BECAUSE THEY SO CALL HAD BUDGET CUTS, BUT WE’RE CONSTANTLY SEEING NEW BUSES, AND NOW WE HAVE THIS COSTLY STATE-OF-ART SYSTEM THAT TELLS US WHEN AND WHAT TIME OUR EXPECTED BUS IS SUPPOSED TO BE THERE, AND SET-UP THE PERFECT ROUTE FOR US 2 GET WHERE WE NEED 2 GO?
CHICAGO IS SOLELY TAKEN ALL THE MONEY FROM IT’S PEOPLE AND ALL THEY PASSING US IS SNAP BENEFITS(FOOD STAMPS ON A CREDIT CARD)
everyone knows if it wasnt for political correctness or maybe being black(i shouldnt say this on a black culture website lol…) evryone would have a little snigger under their breath.. this “nigger” hungry for fame
oh ho ho i kill myself sometimes
You can’t get anymore ignorant than that comment!
A damn shame!
I hate stereotypes!
All black people don’t go through hard times…what a fool!
It’s one thing to see it all but have he lived it?! And what you seen and where you came from does not determine if one is black or not!
These White folk is showing out lately against the President. SMH.
i love how being black is a synononym for destitute now…not.
LOCK THIS CLOWN UP ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HOW THE HELL HE STILL OUT AND HE GOT KICKED OUT OF OFFICE FOR TRYING TO EXTORT MONEY FOR PRESIDENT OBAMAS SEAT. NO WAY THEY WOULD LET A BLACK MAN RUN AROUND MOUTHING OFF AND GETTING ON CELEBRITY APPRENTICE IF HE DID WHAT THIS FOOL DID A BLACK MAN WOULD BE UNDER THE JAIL RIGHT NOW. STOP GIVING THIS KKKLOWN PUB.
Why are we (blacks) are always the butt of all white folks snide or ignorant remarks. Then 5 minutes later they apologizing for it. Just sick of it!
i wish i could find this dude and just bitch slap him