*Social media networking is getting too many people in trouble, including award-winning actor Don Cheadle.
After he told Jet Magazine (and posted by Bossip) that he doesn’t think the president has been ‘gangsta’ enough, his comments sent the blogosphere to a whole ‘nother level.
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So of course he needed to clarify his ‘careless’ words. Here’s what he posted via TwitLonger.com:
“I realize that when speaking to reporters who are looking for the juiciest comments to print, a word like gangster in connection with a black president uttered by a black celebrity can almost be too much to resist,” the Oscar-nominated actor wrote. “I say this not in defense but to offer some perspective. I believe I used the word gangster and I meant it. But I wasn’t talking about pants sagging and forties and ‘hoes’ or any of that other nonsense and I find it hard to believe that that is what some people thought I was saying. I was talking about wish fulfillment; my own and my desire to witness something more than I had.”
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He continued explaining that he was true blue to the President Obama’s 2008 campaign and will gladly support him in the coming election, however he has not seen the anticipated and promised changes he (Obama) afore preached about before he won the position.
Read the full post here
There was nothing to clarify. I got the point he was making from the jump. He does need to go gangsta. I just happen to believe that it’s just not in him though.
I have to agree with you, Musbherbs
WORD. But I’m holding out hope that Obama proves us wrong if he gets re-elected.
I “hope” as well but if holding out hope was a panacea to our problems, he’s definitely a shoo-in.
Don Cheadle:
“Coming out of eight years of a president who I believe in many ways took us as dangerously close to the brink of destruction as any before him, I was hoping for a seismic shift in the other direction. I don’t think we’ve had that. … I want to see somebody go to jail over the financial crisis and not just black, brown and poor whites over humbles and minor drug beefs. I want the president to bail out homeowners who fell for the okey doke from predatory lenders and are two seconds from living on the streets or are already there.”
Don, you may want to hold your tongue before the usual suspects start cussing you out for not sticking to acting and leaving politics the hell alone.
You don’t want to end up like Tavis and Cornell.
BTW, where the Obama apologists at?