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jade goody; the saint of the racially bigoted

Jade Goody is dead. I saw it in a newspaper.

It is news, worth printing.  Apparently Jade Goody was the major person of note to die recently.

Outside of England people may not know of Jade Goody.

She is famous for being a reality TV star, and a little racist.

For the Australian’s who want someone to compare her to, she is the English version of Pauline Hanson.

Both were famous for bull shit reasons, one on TV the other as the leader of a group of hillbilly fucktards political party.

Both say stupid things with alarming regularity.

And both went from the punch lines of left wingers to the queen of the bogans/chavs when their private lives got shit.

By shit I mean jail for Hanson and cancer for Goody.

While Hanson got some good publicity for going to jail, and a reality show gig, Jade Goody got sainted.

It was almost as if her having cancer was more important than her being a racist.

It trumped it completely.

The left wingers left her alone, and right wingers made her into a dirty uneducated rough as fuck Princess Di.

How many non famous people die everyday of cancer, leaving behind young families, old families, and loved ones.

Some of these people are racists. Some aren’t, come are charity workers, some are social workers, some have given up their treatments to help their families, some of them are good honest people.

The fact that someone who is a racist would get promoted because she has an illness is not a good enough reason, if she donated her life to helping poor Indian women, educated people on why racism was wrong, set up a charity devoted to helping immigrants to the UK then maybe she would have gone some way to earning some new respect.

She didn’t, instead she had a reality show, supported her incarcerated lover, never admitted her comments were racist, and became some sick pin up girl for a community who deserves heroes like Jade.

I am sorry her children have no mother, but how many other children lost their mothers today, and how many of those were not racists, and didn’t make the front page of a paper.

March 23, 2009 Posted by Jrod | living in london | jade goody, racism | 8 Comments