"Twilight" Actor Makes Some Racial Statements About "Negroes"

POLITICS

» by tffhthewriter February 23, 2010, 11:50am

Here we go again and in the midst of Black history Month. Robert Pattinson, best known for the Twilight saga, recently had an interview with Details magazine writer Jenny Lumet . Everything was flowing great until you get to the part of the article where the journalist states:

"Rob, did you know that every time you say actor or acting you lower your voice to a whisper?"

Nothing wrong with that, but then the conversation gets deeper when the journalist feels the need to further explain in detail what she meant by the statement.

"Yes, so quietly it's like you're saying Negro."

After the journalist gets Pattinson to ease up with the statement, I guess Pattinson decides to do some probing of his own when he asks the writer

"What if we were 'acting' like 'Negroes?"

According to the online version of the interview, [Pattinson] laughs, and the journalist follows up with the rather bold statement of:

“Then we'd be fu&%ed—we couldn't hear anything…"

Although the statement can be taken in a variety of ways, it goes to show exactly how comfortable and disrespectful that certain ethnicities are about being intolerant of others' differences.

What is even worse is that Details felt that it was relevant enough to include the statement in the article.

SMDH, if that would have been an interview with Kanye, we all know what would be the topic off all conversations right now.

Peep the article here and let us know what you think.

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  • chris10101

    I'm so embar*****ed right now as a black person and a Rob Pattinson fan. This is why people say we are oversensitive. This is just another way we lose respect because other people will see that we are over sensitive and actually don't read anything. What Rob said was not degrading. Negroes is not used often (like the interview implied) but it's not a slur. It's a perfectly acceptable word.

    Also, the interviewer is part black. Did you know that? He was just saying that if you were to say the words "acting" and "negroes" quietly then you wouldn't hear anything. I'm astonished by the few people that were not able to understand the sentence. I'm embar*****ed that it also mainly seems to be black people. I think it says something about our society today and how racist we are within ourselves. We don't research anything or try to get another point of view. We just take things out of context and run with it. Please explain to me as a black woman why you have compared his remarks to John Mayer when the comments are as different as night and day?

  • chris10101

    I was very annoyed when I wrote that first comment so I don't think I was very clear. My main point is if we cry foul at everything we begin to lose our voices. What John Mayer said should make him a pariah in society for the rest of his life. As a black woman, I will never listen to or buy his music again. I hope everyone follows suit because he was a cr*****, hateful moron and if I could hate a celebrity I would hate him. However, nothing RPattz said here was racially insensitive and I think we lose a lot of points if we cry foul at things when they aren't anything. I don't know. It just makes me feel dumb when stuff like this happens because it takes away our voice and makes what John Mayer did not seem so bad because "black people get upset over everything" if we are going to take what RPattz said out of context.

    • Sue Carter

      I see your point Chris10101 but do you really think it's okay for him to stereotype that all "negroes" are loud?

      The point of the matter is that the man said, "negro."

      This is not an acceptable term, it is a term that was used during segregation to bar us from having the same rights as whites.

      I don't know how you can think being called a negro by someone WHITE is okay, I find it very offensive

      If someone were to call me a negro today, I'd more than likely have a fit but maybe that's just me....

  • Deliajkrenton

    northernlibertyalliance what?????
    you are jennifer aniston fans?

    new orleans Project ,Make It Right ,
    Pitt is a great philanthropist:charities ,adoptions...
    Pitt is very intelligent,good man and great actor

  • chris10101

    He's not calling anyone a negro. The partially black interviewer said he lowers his voice when using the word acting. It's how a white person perhaps may lower their voice when using the word Negro because to them it's not acceptable. So RPattz wasn't saying anyone is loud. He was saying that if he were to use the word ACTING in a sentence and use the word NEGRO in a sentence then we'd be effed because you wouldn't hear anything. YOu wouldn't hear anything because the voices would be so low when saying both words. Do you get it? That's what I read and the only thing that makes sense and why Jenny Lumet who is partially black wasn't offended and why no one at Details thought it was offensive. Because it wasn't. I understood it the first time I read it but I've read a couple comments that make me think it just doesn't read right for some people.

  • chris10101

    Also, I agree that I would not want anyone calling me a negro. However, the census for does have the word Negro and there are institutions in the US with the word Negro in it so that's what I meant by it being acceptable, i.e., not a slur.

  • Angel

    Agreed w/ Chris:
    He was saying that if he were to use the word ACTING in a sentence and use the word NEGRO in a sentence then we'd be effed because you wouldn't hear anything. YOu wouldn't hear anything because the voices would be so low when saying both words.

    Perhaps if one were to substitute "negro" in the interview w/ another word it would make sense for those that are misinterpreting the interview

  • heffalumpwoozle

    YES, this is embarr*****ing to those of us with reading comprehension skills.

    He wasn't "stereotyping negroes," people.

    She said he says "actor" quietly, like people say "negro" quietly. He then used the word actor and Negro in one sentence and said it--- quietly. The comment actually had NOTHING to do with how he thinks anyone acts.

    We have to be smarter than this.