Tuesday, January 22, 2013
What Do You Give Me For? Bill Russell and Morgan Freeman
George Stephanopoulos made a major fuckup during the inauguration coverage. The camera panned to an older black man with a white beard. Stephanopoulos said "that's Morgan Freeman, I think" but it was Bill Russell. Live TV is tough, and this certainly doesn't make him a racist, but does it make him bad at this game?
That's really funny. It definitely doesn't make him a racist as you said, but I'm sure he was really embarrassed.
ReplyDeleteA couple of years ago I was in a court conference with a white attorney and a black attorney. The black attorney stepped out to make a phone call, and like 4 minutes later a different black attorney of a similar age came into the courtroom. The white guy I was with walked up to the black guy and started asking him about what the (totally different) black attorney had just proposed. It was totally not an act of racism, and I was biting my tongue not to laugh hard at the situation.
That is a very funny story. How did the black attorney react?
ReplyDeleteSugar Ray Leonard can eat here on the house.
ReplyDeleteThe black attorney had a WTF look on his face and after like 5 seconds the white guy realized his mistake and said something like "sorry, never mind." Thankfully the other black attorney that we were dealing with didn't come back for about 15 minutes, so he had no idea what happened and they weren't in the same room together.
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