The Grey's Topic

Ok, I am going to write a post here that will likely be pretty polarizing. If anyone has any comments and wants to post without using your name, I understand.
I am so sick of hearing about Washington's firing on Grey's Anatomy. First all of the gay community was up in arms over his "faggot" comment. And they fought to have him booted from the show.
But he apologized and the fire was dying down.
Then the dumb ass used the offensive term again, knowing it was STILL wrong. Making it worse still was the he used the comment while simultaneously denying that he had ever said the word in the first place. What in the hell was he thinking?
So the gay community was up in arms again. And the cast began to publicly turn on him, most notably Katherine Heigl.
ABC threatened to fire him. They issued statements.
But he apologized again. And he offered to take an anger management course. He also took tolerance classes. He then agreed to make tolerance PSAs for television.
So ABC made no other comment and the show went on.
BUT, somewhere along the way the choice was made to go ahead and write Washington off of the show. And Shonda did so in a classy and fitting way that gave great closure to the story and the character.
BUT somewhere in all of this I missed the point. I somehow missed that ABC had actually released Washington, not because he is a bigot, a hot head, has anger management issues, or that he caused a giant rift in the ensemble. Hell no, they fired him because he is black. HMMMM?
Well that's the latest coming out of L.A.
Apparently a leader from one of the gay rights organizations (who wanted Washington fired when he used the gay slur) is fighting for Washington's immediate reinstatement because the firing has now been deemed racist. Seriously.
Did I miss something? At what point did this become about race. Wait, how stupid of me. I forgot that its always about race. And ABC would never fire anyone who was a bad employee. They only fire people that are black. I mean they got rid of Michael and Walt, the two main black characters on Lost. That couldn't have had anything to do with the story line. It mist have been because Carlton Cuse and Damon Lindeloff couldn't dare work with black people one day longer.
I know that racism is rampant in our country. Hell, all over the world. And I do not condone it at all. But this is another case of what I call crutchism. When are people going to be held accountable for their actions and their lives and stop using their race as a crutch and an excuse? I for one am sick of it.

My intent here is not to offend. It is simply to beg the media, the activists, and the fans to let Dr. Burke ride off into the sunset. Let's quit fighting for this guy. It's apparent to me that he's a bad guy. He was obviously not sincere in his apologies. He even admitted that he "jumped through hoops" and "did everything ABC asked" and he was still released. That tells me that ehe was jumping through these hoops to keep his job, not because he wanted to make real amends.
The gay/race activist who is leading the charge for Washington's re-hire even went as far to say that Washington has done more for gay rights than T.R. Knight. How low down is that?
This whole thing has become a giant mess and I am sick and tired of hearing about it. I wish the new season would start already so that maybe people will be able to move on. Unfortunately something tells me this discussion is going to pop up in a big way again right around the time for the premiere.

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