Anthony Michael Hall uses the n-word on video
by Carmen Van Kerckhove
I was wondering when the first celebrity racist incident would occur in 2007. I didn’t expect it to come from Anthony Michael Hall though. From TMZ.com, where you can also view the video:
Brat packer Anthony Michael Hall used the N-word twice while signing autographs and posing for pictures with fans last night, and it all went down outside the Laugh Factory, of all places.
Hall, the star of such 80s classics as “Sixteen Candles” and “The Breakfast Club,” uttered several obscenities as he joked around with fans and photographers outside the same Hollywood comedy club where Michael Richards made his infamous rant back in November. When a particularly large, Hispanic looking fan came up to Hall looking to take a picture with him, Hall jokingly said, “I am scared of this nigga right here.”
About a minute or two later, while posing for a pic with another fan, Hall says to someone off camera, “What up nigga?”
Throughout the video, Hall half-seriously told several people to “get the f**k out of here” and joked that the cameraman would sell the video to a TV show — ha, close! During the taping, Hall also joked several times about being high.
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inciquay wrote:
Anthony Michael Hall always did like to play at acting Black. Remember the bar scene from Weird Science? Racism is the new way to get some exposure!
Posted 11 Jan 2007 at 5:18 pm ¶
Anonymous wrote:
Maybe the laugh factory is haunted by the ghost of an old racist comic?
Posted 11 Jan 2007 at 6:29 pm ¶
kim wrote:
inciquay-
Racism is the new way to get some exposure!
Think you’re right. Let’s all turn left.
Posted 11 Jan 2007 at 11:41 pm ¶
H. Lewis Smith wrote:
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Posted 12 Jan 2007 at 1:53 am ¶
Amendmen7 wrote:
It’s pretty clear from the delivery that the guy isn’t using the term in the interest of offending black folks as Kramer was. Although distasteful, this was totally innocuous.
Posted 13 Jan 2007 at 7:46 am ¶
rob wrote:
who cares. i disapprove of it and think its very distasteful, but this is america and if you wanna exercise your freedom of speech and say the “N” word, by all means, go ahead and say it. It doesn’t keep blacks from calling me a cracker or honky. Everyone is so politically correct in this country. People are so paranoid about being labeled a racist; but you can’t even state criticism or a fact about another race without being labeled a bigot or a racist.
Posted 13 Jan 2007 at 4:44 pm ¶
Nick wrote:
Oh my god a White Male uses the word nigger. stop the presses. Quick ruin his career. Holy crap he is the lowest of the low. Make him bow down before the PC police and beg for mercy. There is too much white liberal guilt in this country.
Posted 13 Jan 2007 at 6:21 pm ¶
matt wrote:
I think everyone needs to get over the whole n word crap. I mean seriously its like its all kewl for one black guy to go up to another and say it but let a white guy say it and its a degrading term all of a sudden. thats like me going up to a friend and saying whats up bro and then saying it to a black man and it offending him. I say you don’t want people to call you a n**** don’t go around calling eachother one.
Posted 14 Jan 2007 at 1:15 am ¶
george wrote:
It is a free country with free speech. As a black man let expalin something. You can say the ‘n’ word as much as you want yes I say it to some of my aquaitances so you should say it too if you want. Most of the time, if anyone is even offended, they wouldn’t say much. But some of the times, you will get your ass kicked, assault charge and all. It is a free country after all.
Posted 14 Jan 2007 at 11:37 am ¶
Lyonside wrote:
It’s in the tone and intention, folks. What a lot of people here said, but of COURSE not the mass media, was that what Michael Richards said was made MOST offensive because 1) he used the word “nigger” in a direct hostile sense at appropriate targets, and 2) he referenced LYNCHING while using the epithet, again at appropriate (!) targets. The fact that the media picked up on the word and not the intention/context was absolutely annoying yet typical.
A white boy saying “nigga” in the colloquial sense is probably stupid and posing, and by this report, AMH was using a type of humor that will likely fall flat (and did), but that’s NOT what’s really offensive about any version of the word itself. It comes across as stupid frat boy, not aggressive racist.
Posted 14 Jan 2007 at 5:28 pm ¶
Marshall wrote:
Matt, I would encourage you to be a bit more enlightened and realize that not all African-Americans are the same, and not all African-Americans behave (talk) the same way.
Posted 14 Jan 2007 at 7:35 pm ¶
Lyonside wrote:
ETA: by “discussed here” I meant on Racialicious during the whole Richards debacle, not this thread.
Posted 14 Jan 2007 at 8:18 pm ¶
squidfly wrote:
I suggest everyone on this thread, read NIGGER,
The Strange Career of a Troublesome word, Randall Kennedy, you people need context…real bad.
A note to matt,Lyonside,Nick:
by the way the only people who scream PC at the drop of a hat, are usually bigots that feel constrained, because they can’t say what they want, where they want, when they want.
White people have used up their Nigger priveleges…get over it.
Posted 15 Jan 2007 at 11:34 am ¶
Lyonside wrote:
Everyone here needs context? Thanks squid. *eyeroll*
BTW, I agree – “PC” has become an epithet used in a knee-jerk fashion to shut down debate, when it really should mean common decency and common sense.
Posted 15 Jan 2007 at 11:41 am ¶
squidfly wrote:
Lyonside: tell me why Chink, Kike, Wop, never arouses the same reaction?
Answer, the emotional currency of Nigger is Historical.
My suggestion is White Folks need to get over their obsession with Black people; wanting to be Black, acting Black, talking Black, dressing Black.
Context, research, gives the uniformed individual an opportunity to move from ignorance to enlightenment.
I give you these two quotes on this very special day.
Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. – Martin Luther King Jr.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains. – Mary Pettibone Poole
Posted 15 Jan 2007 at 1:21 pm ¶
kim wrote:
“…gives the uniformed [sic] individual…”
the opportunity to become a well-informed INDIVIDUAL.
***
Nice quotes squidfly, and I’m just messing with you, as we often fly over the keys, trying to catch up with the speed of our brains.
Hello there, Lyonside. Don’t know if you’ll be making an early – or extended – exit from the forum so I want to say good day to you on your side of the world.:)
Posted 15 Jan 2007 at 1:58 pm ¶
Lyonside wrote:
Squid:
Yeah, I KNOW all that. And I’ve said as much on other threads. I just don’t like the insinuation that I’m ignorant as to the historical usage and application of the word (look up the Michael Richards thread for some real ignorance). Please don’t lump us all together, is all!
Nice quotes – again, they don’t apply to me, but thanks for the insult
Kim: and hello to you as well – Happy MLK!
Posted 15 Jan 2007 at 2:45 pm ¶
squidfly wrote:
kim wrote:
“…gives the uniformed [sic] individual…”
the opportunity to become a well-informed INDIVIDUAL.
my bad, low blood sugar, and all. Thanks anyway.
Lyonside no insult intended.
Posted 15 Jan 2007 at 3:48 pm ¶
Donnyboy wrote:
Who cares what he called anybody? Nobody bats an eye whenever somebody says guinea, mick, dago, polock, etc, etc, But let a white guy say nigger or anybody say ‘ fag’ and man- oh -man- watch out!! What a joke. There are real problems out there. This is NOT 1 of them.
Posted 02 Feb 2007 at 5:54 pm ¶
Lyonside wrote:
Hey Donny: Glad you don’t live in MY world. ALL those words are offensive.
I’ve said this before to many others: if everyone around you thinks those words are appropriate, you need to get a better caliber of people to hang around.
Posted 02 Feb 2007 at 6:23 pm ¶
nora wrote:
hello,
i m writing you from france, i can’t believe that this actor michael hall is racist, the movie “dead zone” is very famous in france and it will be sad, if it’s the truth i’ll watched the serie.
sorry for my english
Posted 27 Apr 2009 at 7:10 am ¶