Lindsay Lohan: “…Our first, you know, colored president.”
Posted by Dirty Harry on Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
Where does a twenty-two year old American girl pick up the term “colored?” Has she been hanging with Daniel Craig, or something?
“It’s an amazing feeling. It’s our first, you know, colored president,” the 22-year-old actress said in response to a question from Maria Menounos on “Access Hollywood” about her reaction to Obama’s win in the 2008 presidential race.
The oft-troubled starlet muttered the offensive term in the midst of an interview about her role on “Ugly Betty,” gay marriage, and cancer research.
“Colored” It doesn’t even make sense. The n-word would make more sense because of the whole rap culture, but unless she’s been using the downtime of her career crash to catch up on All In The Family reruns, this is a bit of a head scratcher.
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Mighty Skipon 11 Nov 2008 at 3:47 pm 1Whilst browsing the internet, I had seen the headline and blurb on Fox News online: “Lindsay Says ‘C-Word’ - You’ll never guess what Lohan called President-elect Obama on national television.”
I didn’t read the article because I could care less what she said. However, I swear I thought they meant cunt. Which did strike me as an odd thing to call Obama.
Buck Turgidsonon 11 Nov 2008 at 3:48 pm 2Exactly why the hell is colored considered offensive? I can see it being considered “square” to use an outdated term, but if the NAACCCP can use it, why not anyone else?
Mr. Blankon 11 Nov 2008 at 3:53 pm 3If she picked it up from Daniel Craig, she would have called him “coloured.”
Raoul Ortegaon 11 Nov 2008 at 3:54 pm 4her role on “Ugly Betty,” gay marriage, and cancer research.
Three different things on which she has no clue. Well, she might be vaguely aware of the first one…
moviebobon 11 Nov 2008 at 4:10 pm 5Buck
“Exactly why the hell is colored considered offensive?”
It’s the linguistic implication. The “ed” suffix on “Color-ed” infers that the person/object in question exists in a state altered from whatever the default or “normal” state would be. So, on a certain level, it could be read to imply that dark-skinned individuals are in some way merely an alteration or even deviation from the “normal” state of whiteness.
kishkeon 11 Nov 2008 at 4:13 pm 6“Colored” as in the rainbow coalition.
Katoon 11 Nov 2008 at 4:16 pm 7Not to defend her, but I think she meant “person of color,” which seems to be the preferential term du jour. Not surprisingly, she fumbled it.
I’m really more intrigued by her views on cancer research, however. Is she for, or against?
Stephanieon 11 Nov 2008 at 4:17 pm 8Why does she even exist? WHY? WHats the point? She is now famous for maybe being a lesbian anymore. My god.
BoffoTMCon 11 Nov 2008 at 4:18 pm 9It seems easy enough to mix up the politically correct “person of color” with the politically incorrect “colored.”
You know, assuming you’re on a truly astounding amount of drugs.
Harry R. Wilkenson 11 Nov 2008 at 4:19 pm 10Now I find this bisixual girl sympathetic. According to Wikipedia, during the 2008 US presidential campaign, she offered her services to Barack Obama’s election effort, including hosting events aimed at young voters; but her offer was declined by the campaign, who stated she was “not exactly the kind of high-profile star who would be a positive for us.” She nonetheless weighed in publicly on the her choices in that election, urging voters to support Obama, criticizing media coverage of vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, and posting MySpace blogs describing Palin as homophobic, anti-abortion and anti-environmentalist.
Salon 11 Nov 2008 at 4:20 pm 11Looking at that photo, all I can say is “Don’t taunt the wretched.”
thudon 11 Nov 2008 at 4:22 pm 12My family is of mixed race…to describe one as coloured here is an everyday accepted occurence…isn’t her girlfriend English or something?
Stephanieon 11 Nov 2008 at 4:41 pm 13Wouldn’t that make her relationship transatlantic then? Just asking.
The_Rickon 11 Nov 2008 at 4:42 pm 14Poor Lindsay.
She was HOT in Mean Girls, but immediately started a huge nosedive all the way to the drugged out angry lesbian she is today. I blame Tina Fey.
(for those of you who are not cool enough to know, Fey was also in Mean Girls)
The_Rickon 11 Nov 2008 at 4:53 pm 15…and yes, she was 18 in Mean Girls…as far as I can tell from IMDB — and that’s good enough for me!
whiskeyon 11 Nov 2008 at 5:13 pm 16Lindsay does not look good.
Major Grahamon 11 Nov 2008 at 5:14 pm 17One can only hope that her left-wing lifestyle gets mugged by reality eventually. Maybe one day she will pull a Dennis Miller or Robert Downey Jr. What a sad, sad individual she is.
Major Grahamon 11 Nov 2008 at 5:15 pm 18BTW - going to make a little contribution to Saxby Chambliss’ effort in Georgia via GOPTrust.com. I agree with Dick Morris that these guys could be our version of Moveon.org.
Cambiason 11 Nov 2008 at 5:18 pm 19Maybe she’s been hanging out with those racist hate speech mongers at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Jimbo2on 11 Nov 2008 at 5:22 pm 20My mother, born in Arkansas in 1913, always referred to Negros as “colored’, never with an an insulting intent.
Until the National Association of Colored People (NAACP) and the United Negro College Fund change their names, I will continue to use the terms.
ScottDSon 11 Nov 2008 at 5:22 pm 21Mr. Blank: “If she picked it up from Daniel Craig, she would have called him “coloured.””
Ha!!
mjkon 11 Nov 2008 at 5:30 pm 22I couldn’t figure out for a sec if Linds was involved in some TV show I’ve never seen, gay marriage (true since she’s a lesbian for now), and cancer research (didn’t know she was a scientist). Colour me disappointed when I found out she was TALKING about these things, not actually doing them. She’d be one skank-kay cancer researcher….
The_Rickon 11 Nov 2008 at 5:34 pm 23With that super-fair freckled-out skin always exposed, her history of random sexual encounters and drug use and the volume of cigarettes she smokes, I’d say that Lindsay is doing plenty of research — on, you know, how to get cancer.
Stephanieon 11 Nov 2008 at 5:45 pm 24MG Leftwing lifestyle? She wouldn’t know a leftwing if a chicken detached herself from her own leftwing, told her it was a leftwing and handed it to her…..
Lindsey is a PEOPLE person..whatever that means………
Enderon 11 Nov 2008 at 5:49 pm 25I think this quote from the great film Dr. Detroit sums it up:
JUDGE: Take this colored girl away!
HOOKER: Didn’t nobody color me, I was BORN this way!
This may have been from the equally great Night Shift (my recollections of the early-80’s Hookers With a Heart of Gold ouvre is pretty fuzzy by now) but I think the inference is clear.
fiestamomon 11 Nov 2008 at 5:50 pm 262 weeks ago, my 7 y/o daughter was talking to me, and said something about her “colored friend”. I swear that my husband and I have never, ever used that word do describe someone who is black. I have NO idea where she got that. She’s homeschooled, so she didn’t pick it up at school. She’s only 7, so she didn’t use it in a derogatory way. My daughter’s skin is pretty white, so I think she was just using it as a descriptive term. I’m glad we weren’t in public, though.
Stephanieon 11 Nov 2008 at 6:04 pm 27Congrats on the homeschooling Fiesta…wave of the future I swear.
Daliaon 11 Nov 2008 at 6:18 pm 28Hate to say it, but I couldn’t agree more with all of you. She is an untalented wretch. I do blame her parents. What kind of life did she have? Nothing more than a show dog gone wild.
Tried to post on the gay marriage thing, but couldn’t. Thread full? I don’t agree with you there, I guess enough said. Many thanks to Supramom with the med advice. After twenty six rather dreadful hours, they all seem to be on the mend. Thanks to Ben as well.
whiskeyon 11 Nov 2008 at 6:23 pm 29It seems that both Ace and DH have problems with their gay marriage threads. Some fairly uncool language and sentiments expressed.
Sigh.
Bennett Marcoon 11 Nov 2008 at 6:32 pm 30I’m remember the great Fred Sanford answering a question from the investigating officers about the race of the guys who had robbed him.
“Yeah they was colored. They was colored white.”
Ginaon 11 Nov 2008 at 6:32 pm 31How ever will Cinematical spin this one?
SDPlisskenon 11 Nov 2008 at 6:37 pm 32Who Cares.
All she has to do is show off her snatch.
It has more brains than what’s between her ears, and makes her more money too!
Twofer!
trzupron 11 Nov 2008 at 6:45 pm 33Scariest thing about that pic: it’s actually full color. Lindsay needs some iron supplements, ASAP.
maatkareon 11 Nov 2008 at 6:54 pm 34And why are we surpised at anything La Lohan says??
Colored is archaic as chinaman or oriental. I only would expect to hear it (or negro) from very, very old people. The NAACP and UNCF use those terms out of respect for their traditions, I suspect, but Jimbo2, if you use them to a black person you will will be thought of as a dick. (But you will live on in their lives: “you can’t believe this guy actually called me a negro today!”)
whiskeyon 11 Nov 2008 at 7:03 pm 35Lindsay is not racist, just … dumb and brain fried. Like most of Hollywood. Sad to say.
Joe the unlicensed phlebotomist and part time phrenologiston 11 Nov 2008 at 7:20 pm 36The dude’s half black and half white. Who keers? Both halves add up to a colossal jagoff what is goink to roon dis country.
Lindsey Lohan- wanna be lipstick lesbian, more like wax lips lesbian- would that she shuts her piehole, forevah. Once cute, never hot, now a dried up husk of what she once was- all at the ancient age of what, 22?
I anxiously await her appearances at the Rosemont Horizon selling autographs for $20 on Saturday afternoons in February, sharing a booth with Erik Estrada and Tina Youthers.
Buck Turgidsonon 11 Nov 2008 at 7:37 pm 37I look forward to the day “African-American” is taboo.
Jack Marinoon 11 Nov 2008 at 8:10 pm 38I look forward to when liberals are taboo and all their anal racist categories they us in. We are all Americans and who cares where our ancestors came from and what happen to them. Why should we care what went on in the past, it is over with and gone. We have to worry about what is going to happen in the future. If our ancestors could have solved all these problems we have been dealing with if they were so wonderful. They are all gone and the things they fought over are gone.
We have our own problems to deal with and since we now have a black American President the bill is now paid in full and I don’t give a shit what anyones says or whines about. PAID IN FULL….
Now lets move on because this new president is going to rule like a Marxist and it will take a generation to fix with these liberal lunatics set up for their sick paradise.
In the past two years the democrats never appointed any of Bush’s appointments of judges in both the appellate & circuit courts. The fascist libs did this to Obama or Hillary would pack all these lower courts with freak liberals.
The America I grew up in is fading away, the America my Dad fought in WWII to keep free and he gave to my generation who pissed it away because they are spoiled shits. I can only hope that the Lord Divine Obama screws up so bad that it all comes crashing down and in the end no one, not even Michelle will vote for him or any Democrats. We need to get them all out of power and this means all the lifers that work in the departments. Or the United States of America is gone and all of the assholes of the world have won.
David A.on 11 Nov 2008 at 8:48 pm 39maatkare wrote:
“Colored is archaic as chinaman or oriental.”
I’m not too bothered by colored, although I could see the points some might make about it.
Negro is less bad and I could perfectly accept. Negro (or some similar word) means black in so many languages. Then again, it could be said that it has a quasi-scientific sound to it that the term “white” doesn’t, thus making the negro almost like some specimen.
That leaves “black” which is the best term. It’s negro in translation.
Still, there is something bothersome in that that the description changes so much, but I won’t get into that here.
African-American is just a terrible term. I’d rather have “colored,” “negro,” or “black.”
As for “chinaman” or “oriental,” I actually miss oriental. It’s more specific and literally true. “Asian-American” is just a stupid term, much like “African-American” is a stupid term.
What is someone brown who apparently hails from either India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, or Nepal? If you said that they were of Asian descent, you’d be right, but everyone else, who did not know these folks, would be thinking white skin and almond shaped eyes.
Asians can look like Yao Ming, Gandhi, Saddam Hussein, and (perhaps) Vladimir Putin.
Bubba, a Happy Warrioron 11 Nov 2008 at 10:14 pm 40Maatkare:
Colored is archaic as chinaman or oriental.
“Chinaman” is not the preferred nomenclature. “Asian American,” please.
(The man in the black pajamas.)
(Who’s in pajamas, Walter?)
(Shut the f— up, Donny.)
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Anyway, I think that Lindsay Lohan once had the looks and the talent to be our generation’s Ann Margaret, and it’s truly a damn shame that that’s so thoroughly wasted.
And, I don’t see what point she’s trying to make. Everyone knows Bill Clinton was the first black president. Civil rights leaders told us so.
EPorvaznikon 11 Nov 2008 at 11:00 pm 41Hell, The Rick, Tina Fey wrote Mean Girls. As kooky lefty as she’s gotten since then, I’ll never blame her for that movie (or what it may have done to Ms. Lohan). Tim Meadows’ mini-rant on Anfernee alone worth the price of the movie.
Jack Marinoon 11 Nov 2008 at 11:24 pm 42Lohan isn’t a racist, she is just a rich dumb chick that like to get stones and have sex. That is her life.
Jimbo2on 12 Nov 2008 at 4:45 am 43Nothing is wrong with the term “oriental”, either. I am not offended to be called an “occidental.”
I refuse to use the term “African-American”.
In all of my conversations, the issue of the race of my conversant is rarely, if ever, mentioned.
There is a black part of town. I heard it referred to as “Democrat Country” and it stuck with me.
wanketteon 12 Nov 2008 at 5:46 am 44Joe the unlicensed phlebotomist and part time phrenologist
You’re back!! Hurrah!
Cambiason 12 Nov 2008 at 5:53 am 45Lately, with my kids, I just call people “dark-skinned.” I think it’s a useful term, because it’s accurate and because it gets out from under the suffocating beached whale of victimhood identity politics. Last week was “historic” because we elected a man to be President with darker skin than the others. Maybe next time we can elect someone who can do the job.
Helenon 12 Nov 2008 at 6:21 am 46I honestly don’t understand why Daniel Craig used that word. Contrary to what people seem to believe, it is not one that is ever used in Britain. (Oh yes, I do live here.) We say Afro-Caribbean, African, West Indian (or the particular island such as Jamaican, Trinidadian) or just black as in Black British. I have never heard coloured. Craig, who is after all just a luvvie i.e. not somebody who can speak without a script, may have thought that it was the polite word for Americans.
Danon 12 Nov 2008 at 7:09 am 47Yeah, everybody knows Obama isn’t colored.
He’s translucent.
ItsOmaron 12 Nov 2008 at 8:41 am 48Tina Fey a “kooky” lefty, EP? How so? Any more than Rush Limbaugh is a “kooky” righty hypocritical druggie?
JohnFNWayneon 12 Nov 2008 at 9:29 am 49Leave it to the compassionate to equate addiction to pain pills for a back problem and being a “druggie” like most of their heroes are. Class.
And why is Lohan famous again? I forget.
Brandonon 12 Nov 2008 at 10:05 am 50Stupid cracker.
fozzyon 12 Nov 2008 at 11:22 am 51Bennett
The Sandford episode is here at 2:30
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U18pf4BTDQA
“They was coloured white!”
Glennon 12 Nov 2008 at 11:33 am 52Jack - I agree with you that things do not look nice right now - but I disagree that it would be good if “it all comes crashing down.”
Let’s say the economy totally goes into the toilet in 2009 and 2010 - REALLY into the toilet. Who here believes that Obama will take the blame?
“The Bush economic legacy.”
“The Bush economic legacy.”
“The Bush economic legacy.”
Get used to hearing that phrase, because if the economy really tanks, we’re going to hear it over and over and over.
Bush and the CAPITALIST, for-profit system will take 100-percent of the blame. Most people are pre-conditioned and pre-prejudiced to believe that GREEDY BUSINESSMEN are detroying the economy and government “oversight” is the remedy.
That’s the state of the culture. Conservatives let it happen because they have been too busy going after the next promotion, playing golf, and investing money so they can make more money and pass it on to their children. The question is, are wealthy conservatives ready to do something NOW?
Joe the unlicensed statistician and stock index tobboganeron 12 Nov 2008 at 5:58 pm 53Glenn, you have a year’s supply of hamburger helper on it’s way to your house for making the comment of the thread. Couldn’t be more correct.
Wankette- how yas?
Glennon 12 Nov 2008 at 8:06 pm 54Hmmm . . . Hamburger Helper!
Memories of the 70’s!
Dear Mom who disapeared to California with her boyfriend. High-school dropout father attempting to support two teenaged boys . . . welfare . . . food stamps . . . Kraft Macaroni & Cheese . . . hmmmm!
maatkareon 12 Nov 2008 at 9:06 pm 55Bubba, we agree–chinaman, like colored, is outdated , archaic, and doesn’t need ot be used anymore. Several of my asian friends have remarked when we discuss race (which is rare), that orientals are rugs, and asians are people. Most Indians I know prefer that term to Native American. My general rule with people is to ask them what they prefer if it comes up. Otherwise it’s not that big a deal, and whatever term the media/punditocracy chooses to use doesn’t really affect me at all.
But I admit I get totally confused with the Latino/Hispanic/Chicano thing.
Growltigeron 13 Nov 2008 at 7:34 am 56I don’t use the word “colored”, however, I do wonder at the broughaha over it. What are we supposed to call the NAACP? The National Association of can’t say the word People? Silly.