Radio talk show host refuses to back off remark about Rice

Radio talk show host refuses to back off remark about Rice

BY TOM HELD

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

MADISON, Wis. - (KRT) - African-American leaders in Madison on Friday criticized a local radio personality, calling his use of the pejorative Aunt Jemima to describe Condoleezza Rice insulting and inappropriate.

The talk show host, John Sylvester, did little to mollify those he offended. Instead, he apologized to the character Aunt Jemima and gave away boxes of pancake mix and syrup on his morning show.

Sylvester, a white man who performs as Sly on WTDY-AM 1670, said he respected the woman who portrayed Aunt Jemima to advertise pancake mix in the early 1900s.

"It is with a heavy heart that I apologize this morning to Aunt Jemima," Sylvester said during his broadcast. "She wasn't a self-serving hack politician who got up in front of Congress and lied. Aunt Jemima didn't kowtow to Don Rumsfeld or Dick Cheney."

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I'm glad someone has decided to speak it and not back off.

Powell would rather you cuss, show skin, pork your puppy on live TV before you can get away with messing with his buds in this administration. Just ain't done. This guy is just begging for a visit from the Gestapo.

What a joke after someone like Col. Powell, a sure sign that the country is going to the Bushes.