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Originally Posted by GullFoss
I continue to believe that it's hard to come to the conclusion that don cherry is a racist when you put the rant into the context of:
1) previous don cherry rants
2) previous 85 y/o don cherry rants
3) all the charity work and community service don cherry does and has done in the past
Don Cherry is a good guy (and a blow hard, loud mouth). He's not politically correct. He mispeaks. It happens. He didn't mean it the way it came out. It came out the way it did, he and he should have been able to go on the air and clarify his words.
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I'll give you your last 2 points, but the first 3 don't really prove anything. The defence that it's ok Cherry says this now because he's said all this kind of stuff before, and he's 85, doesn't make it alright. Times change, and if people Cherry don't, this is the kind of consequences they face. Happens in tv and comedy all the time. Stuff that was acceptable 10 or 20 or 30 years ago just isn't anymore.
As for his charity work, most people aren't "good" or "bad." They have good parts and bad parts. It's possible to give sincerely to charities while still have bigoted or racist thoughts about other groups. It's possible to help an old lady across the street and then sell drugs.
Just because Cherry does some good things doesn't mean he can't also do or think some bad things.
If he said it wrongly or misspoke, than he should have apologized on air. But he refused to. It's possible to apologize for misspeaking or for saying something the wrong way when you meant something else, if that's what happened.
It was his choice not to.