# Tracy Morgan: I'll kill my son if he talks in a gay voice **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 10, 2011, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracy-morgan-ill-kill-my-son-if-he-talks-in-a-gay-voice/585027 "2011-06-10T21:13:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracy-morgan-ill-kill-my-son-if-he-talks-in-a-gay-voice/585027/1 "2011-06-10T21:13:26Z")
That’s not the entire comment of course. Everything has a context. Specifically his was "“Gay is something that kids learn from the media and programming” and that his son “better talk to me like a man and not in a gay voice or I’ll pull out a knife and stab that little nigger to death.” [Full story](http://www.tmz.com/2011/06/10/tracy-morgan-homophobic-act-rant-comedy-gay-threats-kill-son-30-rock/) As for gays being offended, "I don’t “fucking care if I piss off some gays, because if they can take a fucking dick up their ass … they can take a fucking joke.” Nevertheless I predict the countdown to the prerequisite “I had no idea my words were hurtful” mediapology will begin in 10…9…8… ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracy-morgan-ill-kill-my-son-if-he-talks-in-a-gay-voice/585027/2 "2011-06-10T21:18:39Z")
Tracy Morgan is fucking crazy in his roles, and he is not acting. And clearly Oscar Wilde got it from TV. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracy-morgan-ill-kill-my-son-if-he-talks-in-a-gay-voice/585027/3 "2011-06-10T21:19:42Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Nevertheless I predict the countdown to the prerequisite “I had no idea my words were hurtful” mediapology will begin in 10…9…8… [http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/06/10/tracy-morgan-apologizes-for-jokes-critics-call-anti-gay/?mod=google\_news\_blog](http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/06/10/tracy-morgan-apologizes-for-jokes-critics-call-anti-gay/?mod=google_news_blog) ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracy-morgan-ill-kill-my-son-if-he-talks-in-a-gay-voice/585027/4 "2011-06-10T21:23:24Z")
> [@hajario](#): > > [http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/06/10/tracy-morgan-apologizes-for-jokes-critics-call-anti-gay/?mod=google\_news\_blog](http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2011/06/10/tracy-morgan-apologizes-for-jokes-critics-call-anti-gay/?mod=google_news_blog) That might be the new record. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracy-morgan-ill-kill-my-son-if-he-talks-in-a-gay-voice/585027/5 "2011-06-10T21:37:23Z")
So what he apologized. As Bart Simpson said, “Can’t you just apologize and not mean it. In fact I don’t think I’ve ever meant it in my life.” As for Tracey if I as a white man said, “I’ll kill my son if he talks in a black voice…” Well you can imagine I’d be getting threatened with death 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracy-morgan-ill-kill-my-son-if-he-talks-in-a-gay-voice/585027/6 "2011-06-10T21:51:23Z")
I can take a joke as well as anybody, but considering the bullying and suicide problems of young gay kids, those “jokes” are reprehensible. And I’m sure his so-called “apology” is meaningless. And many people in the audience are equally at fault. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracy-morgan-ill-kill-my-son-if-he-talks-in-a-gay-voice/585027/7 "2011-06-10T21:55:19Z")
Personally I hope this costs him his job with _30 Rock_. I should note I say this less from being offended as a gay man than from somebody who thinks _30 Rock_ has gone from being funny to being the ho-hum show about a bunch of wacky zany crazies that pads out the hour with _Community_ and Tracy is the weakest link and the easiest to get rid of. Let his wife (Sherri Shepard) take his role and retain Grizz and DotCom who are funnier anyway. All Tracy Morgan does on this show is the same thing he did on SNL which is be loud and annoying and punch the hell out of the last word on every single sentence he utters. Or just cancel it. Without something to shake things up (and I don’t mean Liz having a baby- babies are done to death on sitcoms) there’s really nothing to drive it. Baldwin and Tina Fey won’t hurt for work, Jane Krakowski (whose talents are largely wasted on the show) can go back to Broadway, Morgan can go somewhere, and Jack MacBrayer- well, he was good as Kenneth but how long can you milk hillbilly from deranged Southern Gothic town? If he doesn’t get work surely he’s save some money and can go back to Georgia. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracy-morgan-ill-kill-my-son-if-he-talks-in-a-gay-voice/585027/8 "2011-06-10T21:56:28Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > And many people in the audience are equally at fault. Uh…what? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracy-morgan-ill-kill-my-son-if-he-talks-in-a-gay-voice/585027/9 "2011-06-10T22:00:38Z")
Alec Baldwin calling his daughter a pig. Tracy Morgan threatening to kill his son if he acts gay. You have to figure any day now Jane Krakowski’s going to announce that she didn’t have her new baby circumcised as a protest against ZOG. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracy-morgan-ill-kill-my-son-if-he-talks-in-a-gay-voice/585027/10 "2011-06-10T22:03:25Z")
As noted on The Superficial website: \ ***TRACY:** Now that’s some good crack. Best green room evah! AHAHAHA! _walks onstage_ One Hour Later… **TRACY:** I said what in front of a what now?\* ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracy-morgan-ill-kill-my-son-if-he-talks-in-a-gay-voice/585027/11 "2011-06-10T22:09:28Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > “Gay is something that kids learn from the media and programming” and that his son “better talk to me like a man and not in a gay voice or I’ll pull out a knife and stab that little nigger to death.” How old is the little nigger now anyway? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracy-morgan-ill-kill-my-son-if-he-talks-in-a-gay-voice/585027/12 "2011-06-10T22:17:53Z")
> [@spark240](#): > > How old is the little nigger now anyway? In human years or nigger years? ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracy-morgan-ill-kill-my-son-if-he-talks-in-a-gay-voice/585027/13 "2011-06-10T22:26:52Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > In human years or nigger years? Dear Lord forgive me, I laughed at that. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracy-morgan-ill-kill-my-son-if-he-talks-in-a-gay-voice/585027/14 "2011-06-10T22:31:35Z")
I thought Tracy Morgan was a Country singer. I wonder who I’m thinking of? StG ---
**Author:** ![Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimmy_Gibbler)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracy-morgan-ill-kill-my-son-if-he-talks-in-a-gay-voice/585027/15 "2011-06-10T22:32:44Z")
… ---
**Author:** ![WotNot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e19b73/32.png) [@WotNot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WotNot)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracy-morgan-ill-kill-my-son-if-he-talks-in-a-gay-voice/585027/16 "2011-06-10T22:36:15Z")
Well, I just don’t know what to think. I thought Tracy was a girl’s name. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracy-morgan-ill-kill-my-son-if-he-talks-in-a-gay-voice/585027/17 "2011-06-10T22:36:19Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > Uh…what? It was reported that many of them were applauding and cheering him on. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracy-morgan-ill-kill-my-son-if-he-talks-in-a-gay-voice/585027/18 "2011-06-10T22:45:33Z")
> [@WotNot](#): > > I thought Tracy was a girl’s name. Nope, goes both ways, though its popularity for American boys has fallen dramatically since the '60s. > [@StGermain](#): > > I thought Tracy Morgan was a Country singer. I wonder who I’m thinking of? Trace Adkins, Tracy Byrd or Tracy Lawrence? (All men.) ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracy-morgan-ill-kill-my-son-if-he-talks-in-a-gay-voice/585027/19 "2011-06-10T22:46:44Z")
> [@StGermain](#): > > I thought Tracy Morgan was a Country singer. I wonder who I’m thinking of? > > StG Tracy Byrd or Tracy Lawrence come to mind. They’re both country singers. And Trace Atkins. All country singers, and all male. **ETA** : Damn you, **spark240!** ---
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2011, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracy-morgan-ill-kill-my-son-if-he-talks-in-a-gay-voice/585027/20 "2011-06-10T22:53:07Z")
I don’t know who this person is, but I’ve heard that the black community is harsher towards gay blacks. Something about ‘handicapping yourself twice’ in a white man’s world. It’s similar to Latinos and gay men: black men are supposed to be tough stuff and Latinos are supposed to be macho. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracy-morgan-ill-kill-my-son-if-he-talks-in-a-gay-voice/585027.md?page=2)