Rick Sanchez's Meltdown on Sirius Radio

Rick Sanchez

"I think Jon Stewart’s a bigot" followed by "I'm telling you that everybody who runs CNN is a lot like Stewart" said Rick Sanchez,52, 6 year employee of CNN.

The overly flamboyant anchor of Rick's List on CNN and Miami native got fired after an ethnic offense towards the Jewish community. He has been in difficult situations before but has managed very well.

However there are doubts about a new revival of his career. Many think this last stunt makes him radioactive and no network executive will deal with that. Sanchez unemployment is most likely due to remarks he made during a satellite radio interview about being a victim to prejudice towards hispanic among the Jewish executives. 


The declarations were  also strong-handed against Comedy Central comedian John Stewart, a jewish men, who he called a bigot. The declarations are surprising given the fact that Sanchez should know that this are very sensitive issues for which there are a hurtful histories among both the hispanic and jewish communities.  He does have a history of getting in trouble.


In Miami he got caught during an FBI investigation of accepting financial favors from a Hialeah politician. Sanchez's racist remarks fell on the shoulders of a new president executive at CNN. This is the same channel that is trying to eliminate any 'drama' in the news room, an understandable move from a company that has dropped 40 percent in the ratings since 2009. 


Sanchez became part of the new CNN programming reshuffling. Campbell Brown came and went; Lou Dobbs was finally forced out; Larry King at long last retired.  
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MY OPINION


This is something that many people think "the whole jews-control-the-world thing."

It belongs in 1945 and has no place in today's world. If he has an insecurity complex that's his own doing and should not be dealt with in public. Everyone has stereotypes but he has to understand how to deal with them. If he says something he better have proof to back it up. He didn't back it up. Then again it's Rick Sanchez "Mr. Channel 7." The same man who revived this station after it moved towards sensationalism.

I think he will end up in a nice job in FOX news network soon enough. Why? because he fits their style of "journalism". Too much.

Wish him the best luck, but he needs to deal with his stereotypes by getting informed. Sanchez back your mouth diarrhea with facts; I'm sure he wont get in trouble again if he facts check this.

Your Data Suggest a Slight Automatic Preference for European American.

I've come to respect these type of socio-analitic test; however, these result are disheartening.

The test answered my, "am I racist?" question in a very polite form. Slightly. I found that amusing. I've never considered myself racist, but then again neither do most people. 

If I were to redefine the terminology of the result given to me I would say "you feel slightly uncomfortable by a culture very unlike yours." Here is why.

In my native country (Venezuela)  and in my personal experience I've found that the color is not what people have prejudice about. In Venezuela, if you are calling a person over and you don't know their name but are in good enough terms you call them by whatever makes that person stand out to you. For example: if a men is very white and blonde, they are called "catires" (blondee) ; if they have light eyes "tigre"(tiger); if its an old person "viejo" (old) and if they are black(negro).  In other words the "racist" thinking was never labelled as such during my upbringing. Only when I arrived to the U.S. did I notice that does words I heard people call each other where labelled racism and were "politically incorrect."

However, this long explanation is not to excuse my results but to explain what the results mean to me. 

So the Venezuelan negro is not the same as the American negro. When I saw the test label before I took it my  frame of mind changed from black and white preference to European and African (there is a difference). The geographical reference made me think of slavery but when I was going through the test I could not refer back to that thought since the answers had to be quick and almost subconscious. 

The key to my answers are in my subconscious, which is built on many hours of TV and short handed encounters with the African American culture. But if the test titled would have been in spanish and said "Preferencia entre blancos y negros" (preference between white or blacks) I dare say the result would have been different. My frame of mind would have switched over to the definitions of those two words in Venezuela and the subconscious reaction would have been different.

The issue was to analyze the test and what it does to you. In my case there are a complex combinations of variables that I think might have affected the results. 

At a less personal view we find that I'm not minority in the results gathered but rather in the moderate group. I make a conscious effort to be informed and as open minded as possible since, after all, I live in south Florida. I think that exposure to different cultures is what kept me from being placed in the "strong automatic preference for white people" category.