Isaiah Washington goes for the race card

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Isaiah Washington is bitter and angry about getting fired (not having his contracted renewed) for Grey’s Anatomy for it’s third season and recently, he’s now made it a race issue.

Last fall, Washington, by his own admission, picked a fight with Patrick Dempsey, one his costars on the ABC hospital drama “Grey’s Anatomy.” Fighting with a co-worker is never smart, but Washington took it even further by using an offensive term to refer to a gay cast member during the altercation. “Patrick and I had a philosophical disagreement that got out of hand and that I regret a great deal,” Washington says. “I said a lot of negative things that were never reported, but there was one word that caught everyone’s attention, particularly someone who wasn’t even in the room with us. It was a fight between two men that shouldn’t have happened. But someone heard the booming voice of a black man and got really scared and that was the beginning of the end for me. I see that now, but I didn’t then.”

Afraid of a black man? How about maybe just afraid of a man? A man that doesn’t like “faggots”, can’t seem to control himself, and has anger issues.

Washington is bitter about the whole situation, especially since he did everything the network asked to atone for his mistakes. “I apologized and showed my remorse for what I said and for the pain I caused anyone,’’ says Washington. “If a black man can’t get forgiveness in this country, when so many other people like Robert Downey Jr. and the governor of California get second and third chances … I think that says a lot about race and this country where we stand.”

Newsweek

I honestly don’t think this is about race. It’s the fact that he’s an ass. He said things that caused a great deal of friction on the set, and that wasn’t going to help the show for the long haul. He’s definately bitter about it.

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