Radio Host Under Fire for Racist Remarks About Manny Pacquiao

[Bogler]

Carolla doesn't have his radio show anymore. He has a podcast which is currently one of the most downloaded in the U.S. The problems with people like you is that you've never listened to the guy. I've been offended by some of his comments before but that's how the guy is. He usually says things based on his perspective. The things he usually says is based on ignorance rather than racism. He's said worse things about Germans and Mexicans but do you see those people creating Facebook groups saying that they want to kill him and calling him a child ******er?

The guy has already apologized and what do my fellow Filipinos do? They don't even accept his apology because "they want to hear it not read it". What happens when he actually apologizes on his podcast? I bet my fellow Filipinos would petition to get him fired from NBC. You really cannot appease my fellow Filipinos.

please, stop saying 'fellow filipinos' when you dont even know the culture back there. you didn't even live or grew up there, you only go there for vacations.

[PureBoxer]

please, stop saying 'fellow filipinos' when you dont even know the culture back there. you didn't even live or grew up there, you only go there for vacations.

Be careful before you get boycotted by American Filipinos.

[Bogler]

So is it not true what he said about the obsession with Manny Pacquiao in the Philippines? Imagine if it was the other way around and the US was revolving everything around Floyd Maywether. Maywather was our biggest movie star, our biggest music star and our biggest political star just because he was great at boxing. That would be ridiculous. *******s would be saying the same thing about the United States as Carrolla is saying about the Phillipines.

no, aint true. ppl are obsessesed w/ pac w/in the boxing world only. ppl feel represented by his achievements. pinoys dont think he's a good singer, actor and politician. all his movies flopped. he lost the last election and probably will again this time.

[Pocket Dogs!]

please, stop saying 'fellow filipinos' when you dont even know the culture back there.

Then what is the culture back there?

[PureBoxer]

no, aint true. ppl are obsessesed w/ pac w/in the boxing world only. ppl feel represented by his achievements. pinoys dont think he's a good singer, actor and politician. all his movies flopped. he lost the last election and probably will again this time.

I think it was HBO that revealed Pacquiao's CD's went Platinum in the Philippines.

[Pocket Dogs!]

I think it was HBO that revealed Pacquiao's CD's went Platinum in the Philippines.

Double Platinum.

[shadeyfizzle]

Are people really actually accusing a ***ish guy of being racist???

[Pocket Dogs!]

Are people really actually accusing a ***ish guy of being racist???

He's not ***ish, he's Italian-American. He just has a ***-fro.

[e_boxer]

Radio Host Under Fire for Racist Remarks About Manny Pacquiao
Monday April 5, 2010

Who knew someone's decision not to give blood could provoke a racist rant? I certainly didn't, but when talk radio personality Adam Carolla learned that Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao chooses not to give blood before major matches, Carolla went on a hate-filled tirade in which he not only insulted Pacquiao but the Philippines as a whole.

"I gotta tell you, if that was a white fighter, and probably even a black fighter--even if the black fighter was from Atlanta or somewhere like that--someone would go, 'What the f_ck are you talking about? Give your drop of blood. It's not going to make a difference,'" Carolla remarked. "But because he's from the Philippines and because he's, you know, praying to chicken bones and stuff like that, everyone's kind of like, 'Uh, well you gotta respect him for his belief system.' No, you don't--he's a f_cking idiot..."

Carolla's remarks are not only jaw-droppingly offensive but ignorant as well. Because the Phillipines were once colonized by the Spanish, many Filipinos are Catholic, and, thus, aren't "praying to chicken bones," as Carolla suggests. Moreover, Carolla is incorrect when he suggests that indigenous belief systems--which he equates with idiocy--may lead one to erroneously think that giving blood saps one of energy. I don't know if Carolla has ever given blood, but one of the warnings medical personnel give when one donates blood is that the donor may feel weak for a few days after doing so.

That said, a white boxer or a black boxer would likely also choose not to give blood in the days leading up to a fight. So, what has Carolla done here? He's committed the sin ********** are constantly accused of making--playing the race card in a situation that has absolutely nothing to do with color or creed. The fact that Carolla's knee-jerk reaction to learning that Pacquiao declines to give blood in the days leading up to a fight is to bash his culture reveals just how race-conscious Carolla is.

Unfortunately, Carolla decided not just to rant about Pacquiao specifically but about the boxer's country generally.

"Here's how you know your country doesn't have a lot going for it: when everything is about Manny Pacquiao...Get a f_cking life, as a country. All you've f_cking got is this illiterate guy who won't give up blood, who happens to smash other guys in the head better than other people. That's all you have, Philippines? You want some guy with brain damage running your country? Why don't you get your sh_t together? They've got this and sex tours. That's all they have over there."

The narrow-mindedness revealed in these comments is stunning. Why shouldn't the Philippines be proud of one of its biggest celebrities? The United States has lavished its athletes with fame and adoration for decades and continues to do so. Isn't this why something as insignificant to our nation as Tiger Woods' marital infidelity has made newspaper headlines since last Thanksgiving? Yet, no one would suggest that the U.S. is a backwards country because of this. And, while Pacquiao may be adored in the Philippines, he's not running the country, as Carolla so sarcastically implies. But even if he were, Carolla needs to take a look at American legislators and the fact that Minnesoata elected a wrestler as governor, California elected an action star as governor, and the American people as a whole elected an actor to run the country. Once again, do these incidents make the U.S. backwards? Carolla apparently wouldn't think so because overall America is white, Western and Christian. The Philippines, in his eyes, is simply a country made up of ignorant brown people with foolish customs and belief systems. The fact that Carolla jumped to this conclusion with seemingly little knowledge about the country's history, including its ties to Spain and the Catholic Church and the West's role in fueling sex tourism there, shows who the real idiot is in this situation, and it's not Manny Pacquiao.

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Everything he said was true **** these ****lipinos!!!! And about the sex tours its true I was there last year for a fight hahahah

[PureBoxer]

Double Platinum.

Thanks for this fact!