The fact that this was on Facebook makes it a complete non-issue, IMO. Man, people take Facebook way too seriously...
It's one thing to claim privacy if his phone got stolen and someone posted the pictures and another to make an effort to post them on the internet to an audience. If your career relies on social media and your public persona like most Media personalities then you make your own bed.
regarding the totally predictable "but they compared George Bush to a monkey" responses- you have to look at those photos in a humorous fashion to get the comparisons- they show Bush and his facial movements in comparison with some monkey with a similar facial movement, and by god they do look kind of similar. I don't see the same with the current president. I don't see the similarity in the two Halloween masks. I don't see side by side comparisons showing photos of Obama next to a monkey, I see the same old "black man looks like a monkey" assumptions and people trying to brush off racism because the former president had a bunch of photos of his mug next to a chimpanzee.
I hate everything PC. People need to learn to relax. However, if you're in the media, you're a dumb ass if you think it's a good idea to say anything the least bit sexist, racists, or controversial.
I don't see how it's 'PC' to not support racist ****. Also, my 75 year old grandma is probaby more high tech than the 'high tech texan'. Although apparently his views on race do come from her generation.
well Pat Ewing has a unique skull structure but that doesn't mean I don't cringe every time the ape comparison gets made...
Stop using the bush-monkey photos as an excuse to make this okay. That's completely different, because Bush is a white guy who just happens to look like a monkey, especially when he makes those facial expressions; while there is an untrue stereotype that all African-Americans kind of look like a monkey. The High Tech Texan deserves whatever he gets from this. It's just too bad he involved his son in it.
Somewhat agree, even though the Facebook page was likely done for commercial or publicity reasons I do think there's a certain of amount of trust involved in accepting the friend request; don't think it's too much to ask to not be publicly NARC'd in return. I really hope it wasn't Malcolm Jamal Vernon Reid in that clip over there.
