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Why Can’t Artie Lange Enjoy A Good ‘Ole Slave Rape Fantasy?

by Elon James White|  November 6, 20142:07 pm| 16 Comments

This post is in: This Week In Blackness

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Do you enjoy your comedy with misogyny and racism? Then perhaps Artie Lange is for you. The comic, a frequent guest on The Howard Stern Show, tweeted this sexual scenario using ESPN’s First Take moderator Cari Champion, who is black:

“Here’s the scenario I’m using to jerk off to chick on First Take I’m T. Jefferson & she’s my slave. She beats the shit out of me & runs free,” he wrote, later adding, “Then I cum & she’s free! Happiest ending ever!”

Because it’s never too soon for slavery sex fantasies, are we right? Lange has since been banned from ESPN and dropped from @midnight. Lange apologized for the tweets, sort of. He went the route of “PC groups are ruining comedy, but I’m sorry if I offended Cari Champion.”

Team Blackness also discussed a Florida man who was jailed for feeding the homeless, Harvard University’s anal sex class, and a look at some of our newly elected Republican officials.

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  1. 1.

    Jerzy Russian

    November 6, 2014 at 3:47 pm

    Christ, what an asshole.

  2. 2.

    Mandalay

    November 6, 2014 at 4:03 pm

    The vile situation you mention in Fort Lauderdale deserves its own OP. The city has passed laws that effectively make it all but impossible to feed the homeless, under the phoney guise of “public safety”. The real reason, of course, is that Fort Lauderdale is a tourist destination, and local politicians don’t want homeless people to be seen in public. The mayor even (inadvertently) admits it:

    Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler said the new ordinance is not meant to stop advocates, but to better serve the homeless.
    “We’re not a city that lacks compassion or lack kindness,” said Mayor Seiler. “We just feel that if someone is homeless on the streets of Fort Lauderdale, we need to get them off the street and in the right places where they can improve their position, their situation.”

    But the city may have shot itself in the foot by arresting this guy:

    A 90-year-old homeless advocate was once again cited for violating Fort Lauderdale’s new ordinance that bans feeding the homeless when he began handing out meals Wednesday.
    Advocate Arnold Abbott resumed his feeding mission Wednesday at Fort Lauderdale Beach Park, three days after he was cited, along with The Sanctuary Church Pastor Dwayne Black, for violating a new municipal ordinance that outlaws groups from feeding the homeless in public…
    Abbott, who runs a nonprofit group called Love Thy Neighbor Inc. and has been feeding the homeless for 23 years, was cited Sunday along with Black. They could face up to 60 days in jail and a $500 fine.
    “You can’t sweep the homeless under the rug,” Abbott said. “There are 10,000 homeless in Broward County, most of them in Fort Lauderdale, and there isn’t a rug large enough to sweep them under.”

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    Mnemosyne

    November 6, 2014 at 4:15 pm

    I still don’t understand why guys who make jokes that Shecky Green would have thought were too old-fashioned in 1960 get treated like they’re “edgy” and “modern.”

  4. 4.

    GHayduke (formerly lojasmo)

    November 6, 2014 at 4:24 pm

    This is absolutely protected under the first amendment

  5. 5.

    Jerzy Russian

    November 6, 2014 at 4:31 pm

    @GHayduke (formerly lojasmo):

    This is absolutely protected under the first amendment

    Yes, but he is still an asshole.

  6. 6.

    Wally Ballou

    November 6, 2014 at 4:41 pm

    What the actual fucking fuck. People are sick.

  7. 7.

    CONGRATULATIONS!

    November 6, 2014 at 4:43 pm

    The vile situation you mention in Fort Lauderdale deserves its own OP. The city has passed laws that effectively make it all but impossible to feed the homeless, under the phoney guise of “public safety”.

    @Mandalay: We went through this dance in Santa Cruz from the early 1980s until sometime in the late 1990s. The feeders of the poor eventually won, barely (the founder damn near got a “three-strikes” life in prison sentence for doing it) and that’s in what really could be argued as being the most liberal town in the United States (although, as I always say, Santa Cruz is a part of the United States merely through an accident of geography). I don’t see this working out in Florida, although if they move it out of sight, they may indulge it until the old guy who’s getting all the sympathy press dies.

    As for our good friend Artie Lange, well, hey pal, enjoy whatever kind of fantasy you like, no law against it. However, political correctness isn’t ruining comedy, shitty racist assholes who labor under the illusion that they’re some sort of “comedian” are ruining comedy. I’ve heard genuinely good race-based comedy. This doesn’t even clear the first hurdle of “being remotely funny”.

  8. 8.

    Mnemosyne

    November 6, 2014 at 4:45 pm

    @GHayduke (formerly lojasmo):

    ESPN is not part of the government, so they can fire his ass if they feel like it. I think the courts have consistently found that employees don’t have First Amendment rights, and even government employees have very strict rules they have to operate under.

    Also, don’t forget this lovely part: the “slave” in this scenario is one of his co-workers, identified by name. Can you say “hostile workplace lawsuit” if he didn’t get fired?

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    Shakezula

    November 6, 2014 at 5:04 pm

    I like the part where she beats the shit out of him.

    And this is not an apology:

    Lange apologized for the tweets, sort of. He went the route of “PC groups are ruining comedy, but I’m sorry if I offended Cari Champion.”

  10. 10.

    Jerry

    November 6, 2014 at 5:06 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    Also, don’t forget this lovely part: the “slave” in this scenario is one of his co-workers, identified by name. Can you say “hostile workplace lawsuit” if he didn’t get fired?

    I don’t think Lange was an employee of ESPN. I think he is now banned from appearing on any ESPN show though, so look for him to make an appearance on the Dan Le Batard show any time.

  11. 11.

    GHayduke (formerly lojasmo)

    November 6, 2014 at 5:19 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    I meant to reply to the post about the guy feeding the homeless in Florida. Artie Lange can Go to hell.

    Apologies to jerseyrussian as well

  12. 12.

    Mnemosyne

    November 6, 2014 at 5:25 pm

    @Jerry:

    At the Giant Evil Corporation of which ESPN is a part (and I am an employee), the company is equally liable for sexual harassment by a contractor or vendor as they would be if it were an official employee, so Champion would absolutely be able to make an official complaint about Lange.

    We all have to do a training on this every year, so I know the policy. :-)

    ETA: To clarify, I’m an employee of the parent company, not ESPN specifically.

  13. 13.

    Mandalay

    November 6, 2014 at 5:59 pm

    @CONGRATULATIONS!:

    I’ve heard genuinely good race-based comedy. This doesn’t even clear the first hurdle of “being remotely funny”.

    Right. I’ve also heard funny jokes about rape, but they are mostly told by women, and invariably at the expense of the rapist.

    Being deeply offensive can be funny, but it is not automatically or inherently funny. You need to pick the appropriate target, and a female colleague is almost certainly not an appropriate target.

  14. 14.

    shelley

    November 6, 2014 at 6:45 pm

    The main component of the non-apology is ‘sorry if anybody was offended,’ translation: ‘too bad you uptight PC’ers can’t take a joke.’

  15. 15.

    The Other Chuck

    November 6, 2014 at 7:06 pm

    @CONGRATULATIONS!: Indeed, Dave Chapelle can do racial comedy. Chris Rock can do racial comedy. And it isn’t because they’re both black.

    I thought certified professional engineers were annoyed at random hackers calling themselves software engineers, but comedians have it worse in that every other random asshole who won’t shut his yap will label himself a comedian.

  16. 16.

    Jerry

    November 6, 2014 at 9:07 pm

    @Mnemosyne:
    Gotcha. Thanks for the clarification.

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