Marc Anthony adresses racist remarks

I agree with one commenter who suggested that social media is putting the nation's innards on display. The media elites on both ends of the political spectrum are no longer able to wrap the news in a nice package with a pretty bow. Information technology has enabled some very mean-spirited and oft-ill-informed people to spread their vitriol with abandon. I wonder what Mary-Louise Parker has to say about this latest episode.

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it is nice to hear God Bless America sung by anyone...when some schools consider it too offensive to be sung at all

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It's not even just ignorance, but a willfull lack of desire to think differently or learn something different. They don't want to look past themselves and their own to even acknowledge that people can be different and from the same place or even the age old argument that any family can be traced far enough back to show immigration from somewhere to somewhere.

And while on the subject of the scum of the earth... 'Sup, Sue?

"It had nothing to do with racism, I had no way of knowing he was American. Can you blame me? After all, he doesn't look like an American. Not to me. Portaricans don't look like Americans to me. They do look like Mexicans so that's why I said he was Mexican, well, excuse me for livin'. And now everybody is calling me a racist! Christ. I may have made a mistake, but then again, when I think of "God Bless America" I think of, well, you know, regular Americans singing it, not, well, you know, people from somewhere else, I mean, they can be from somewhere else way back in the olden days, sure... but, I mean, from somewhere else where people don't look like Mexicans."

"It had nothing to do with racism, I had no way of knowing he was American. Can you blame me? After all, he doesn't look like an American. Not to me. Portaricans don't look like Americans to me. They do look like Mexicans so that's why I said he was Mexican, well, excuse me for livin'. And now everybody is calling me a racist! Christ. I may have made a mistake, but then again, when I think of "God Bless America" I think of, well, you know, regular Americans singing it, not, well, you know, people from somewhere else, I mean, they can be from somewhere else way back in the olden days, sure... but, I mean, from somewhere else where people don't look like Mexicans."

Oh, that poor ignorant ASSWIPE! To go through life with his head permanently ensconced up his ASS!

Updated On: 7/19/13 at 01:41 PM

These people....from what crack in the ass of America do they come from?

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Mikey's back on hiatus!

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Immigrant goes to America
Many hellos in America
Nobody knows in America
Puerto Rico's in America!

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"Repeat after me: PUERTO RICANS HAVE BEEN U.S. CITIZENS SINCE 1917."

^THANK YOU!!

Even if he wasn't born and raised in the states he still should have every right to sing that song. Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory and while we value our own Idiosyncrasy above any other, we are still american. We sing the Star Spangled Banner, recite the Pledge of Allegiance, we celebrate the Fourth of July, the American flag always stands next to our own, and most importantly our people also fight and die for this nation.

Updated On: 7/19/13 at 03:14 PM

Henrik, I didn't read the comments. Did someone actually say that?

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Celine Dion sang the song on the TV special America: A Tribute to Heroes shortly after 9/11.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfcdrUDQ_tc

Where was the outrage then? Is it 'cause she's Canadian and/or white?

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"Where was the outrage then? Is it 'cause she's Canadian and/or white?"

Remove the Canadian part and there you go. That's all you need. White, white, white! That's the white way.