Essay 236

Ready for the weekend with MultiCultClassics Minutes…

• Operators are standing by — and they’re plenty pissed off in India. Indian call centers are popular targets for angry customers who hate outsourcing and often take their tirades to racist extremes. It’s all giving U.S. customers a bad reputation in India. If only folks from India realized U.S. customers have a bad reputation in the U.S. too.

• A former college basketball coach claims he was fired for NOT making racist comments about players. University of Arkansas’ ex-coach Nolan Richardson insists he was terminated for speaking out against racism at the school. Richardson once complained at a press conference that the university treated him like a slave; plus, he publicly commented that Black students were not integrated into the local social scene. Looks like at least one Black coach was not integrated either.

• Robert Blake is liable for his wife’s murder, according to the verdict rendered in a civil trial. A jury awarded $30 million to the children of Blake’s wife. Damn, the actor will probably be seeking loans from Fred the cockatoo, Rooster and every member of Our Gang.

• Police continue to have no solid leads in the shooting of rapper Cam’ron and his entourage a month ago. Plus, Cam’ron has offered zero help in the investigation. At this point, the list of suspects probably includes Robert Blake and Nicole Simpson’s killers.

• DMX was MIA for his sentencing at a courtroom in Queens. The rapper/actor claimed an asthma attack prevented him from arriving on time. The man better take a deep breath, as the judge will probably send him to prison for at least a month.

• “Don’t ask, don’t tell” seems to be the position for gays in the U.S. Army — and the Salvation Army too. A gay Jewish man is proceeding with a discrimination lawsuit against the goodwill organization, charging that a former female boss abused him in numerous ways. “I wonder how the officers would all feel if they knew they had a Jewish fag working for them?” the supervisor allegedly said. It all means the coins you drop into those little red buckets this holiday season will probably go directly toward the charity’s legal defense fund.