Tracy Morgan has been under fire for his most recent tirade about the gay and lesbian community, continuing a history of doing so. This time he is in trouble time for claiming things such as "...gay is a choice...God don't make no mistakes." Tracy also informed a crowd that if his son ever came out to him as gay, Tracy would stab him to death. Clearly comments like these are outrageous and unacceptable, but I have one problem with the public's outcry.
All of this was said in a comedy club.
Now let me be sure to assure everyone that I do not dislike the gay community in anyway, I have a surprising amount of gay relatives and I think anyone who has a problem with gay rights or any such thing is an extremely bigoted person.
But as long as I have been alive, the comedy stage has been the epitome of free speech. Up there, a comedian can choose to shock a crowd into laughter using highly offensive humor, or he/she can stand there and make jokes. Tracy Morgan has done the former for many years, so this type of thing shouldn't even be news.
The real problem here is that a bunch of people who know him from the hit comedy TV show "30 Rock" went to see their favorite (and clean) character Tracy Jordan, and what they got was an uncensored and uncut Tracy Morgan.
It's easy to get sucked into the Tracy Morgan hate in all of this, because his comments were despicable and the media does a great job of sensationalizing everything, but it is important to remember that everything he said was within the confines of a comedy club. Tracy Morgan isn't roaming the streets gay bashing, he simply made jokes he normally would have, to an audience that wasn't targeted well for his type of comedy.
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