If you’re not a racist, don’t apologize for being one
The remarks sports radio host Tony Massarotti’s made earlier this month weren’t racist — but the response of the far-left crybabies was.
Michael Felger, half of the “Felger and Mazz” show on 98.5 The Sports Hub with Massarotti, was broadcasting remotely from New Orleans. They were in a hotel business service center where people could access computers, and two Black men were sitting behind Felger at the time.
“Yeah, I want to know now who the two guys behind you are, that’s what I want to know. Because if I were you …” Massarotti said, as Felger told the guys behind him that he’d be off the air in two minutes. “… They can’t hear us, right?” Massarotti then asked Felger, who said the people couldn’t hear the hosts broadcasting from Waltham.
“OK, so I would be careful if I were you because the last time you were around a couple of guys like that, they stole your car.”
Sports are the last thing people on the far-left care about unless it’s a disgruntled, washed-up, secondstring quarterback Colin Kaepernick kneeling during the National Anthem, or LeBron James, who has a $97.1 million two-year deal with the Los Angeles Lakers, most of which he will spend injured, flopping and losing, complain about how oppressed he is.
The refuge of sports, where men and women could escape everyday troubles, has been overrun with politics and social justice warriors.
Massarotti later explained that he was attempting to “poke fun” at Felger. But there is no “poking fun” around the left. Social justice warriors and others with a desperate need to be offended concluded that Mazz made a racial stereotype because the two men who the joke was made about are Black, and all Black people steal cars, right?
Would the same frenzy have been whipped up had the men been white? Of course not. Even though he didn’t call the Rutgers women’s basketball team “nappy-headed hoes,” Mazz went from being a quirky radio sports broadcaster to Don Imus.
With the cancel culture mob baying at his heels, Mazz quickly issued an apology for the remark. That was a cowardly move. No one should ever apologize for something they did not do. The racists who wrongly concluded that Mazz was saying that all Black people steal cars need to apologize. One of these people are 98.5 cohost Christopher Gasper, a Boston Globe columnist who tweeted. “I found them deeply disheartening and disappointing. I condemn them. There’s no place for ‘humor’ reinforcing harmful and hurtful stereotypes about Black males being criminals.”
Who exactly is reinforcing the harmful and hurtful stereotypes about Black males stealing cars?
Unfortunately, any ship for redemption has sailed because Mazz refused to stand up and defend the intention of his comments. His life’s work from here on out will be riddled with apologies as he becomes the new face of racism in Boston. The radio station suspended Massarotti without pay for the remainder of the week. Way to stand by your employee, 98.5.
Massarotti’s unfortunate situation should be a lesson to any public figure: if you aren’t a racist don’t apologize for being one.