‘Racist?‘ Tom Hanks Appears With Man in ’Blackface,‘ Bashes O’Reilly at 2004 Fundraiser
- Posted on March 20, 2012 at 7:43am by
Billy Hallowell
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Video footage that has emerged of a 2004 Episcopal school fundraiser has racial undertones that may make some uncomfortable. The clip has already led to at least one organization condemning actor Tom Hanks, one of the individuals who is depicted in it.
In the clip, Hanks and Eagles musician Glenn Frey are seen hosting an auction for St. Matthew’s Parish School in Pacific Palisades, Calif. Now, here’s where it gets controversial: the two entertainers can be seen playfully interacting with a white man who appears to be dressed as an African native.
The man, who The Daily Caller reports is identified in the clip as James Montgomery, an investment banker who is the CRO of Montgomery & Co., is wearing blackface makeup and has a giant Afro wig. To top his costume off, he also has an arm band that looks like it is composed of animal teeth and is wearing a leopard-print toga.
Hanks and Frey likely chose to host the event based on the fact that their children attended the school. The fundraiser’s theme was “Castaways,” which was reflective of Hanks’ 2000 hit film, “Cast Away.” The DC has more about the event in question:
The final item auctioned in the 2004 fundraiser depicted in the video was a large stuffed “trophy gorilla” that came with what Hanks described as a “dowry”: 5,000 shares of pre-IPO stock in Corus Pharmaceuticals, a company whose limited partners included Montgomery’s family trust.
The video shows Montgomery in blackface, holding the stuffed animal and standing with Hanks, while Frey is heard saying into his microphone: “This is as close to diversity as we’ll get at St. Matthew’s.”
It also shows Hanks taking his own stab at humor while he stands next to Montgomery and the stuffed gorilla, saying, “Ladies and gentlemen, a celebrity in our midst! Who would have thought that Bill O’Reilly would join us?”
But the O‘Reilly quip wasn’t the only comment about conservatives. Frey also says that Montgomery is “just back from a Jerry Falwell sensitivity training seminar.” Additionally, Frey also proclaimed, “All I know is, this school is so conservative that Jamie Montgomery was almost not allowed in. They stuck him in the parking lot — they let him in. These are the jokes, people.”
While they may have been jokes, the Congress of Racial Equality, a civil rights group, isn’t laughing. Niger Innis, the organization’s national spokesperson, called the incident “orchestrated, heinous, and racist.” Additionally, he called for President Obama to remove Hanks’ narration from his new campaign video, “The Road We’ve Traveled.”
The DC obtained the video from “an observer” who filmed the auction. She explained that it was Hanks’ partisanship that caused her to digitize the tape and share it with the outlet. That being said, the tape is nearly eight years old and may cause some to wonder why it didn’t make its way out into the open sooner.
“Tom would be the first to scream ‘racist’ if a conservative put their arm around a ‘Wall Street Banker’ in blackface while their co-emcee made racists remarks,” the woman who taped the event said. “He’s a hypocrite.”
Watch the video in question, below:
This story has been updated.
(H/T: Daily Caller)
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PPMStudios
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 8:58amCome on Blaze, Hanks is not just an ignorant lefty but he’s an ignorant, Hollywood lefty.
Those folks get a free pass on stuff like this…. Jeez, we thought you knew that….
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 7:01pmMaybe the New Black Liberation Militia will show up at his mansion to perform a citizens arrest.
Report Post »CincinnatusAmericanus
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:39pmI was going to say the very same thing, brilliant thought though, eh? Tom‘s movie’s aren’t doing so well now either are they?
Report Post »harumph
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 8:58amMany Hollywood actors seem to do better when they’re told what to say and where to stand. That’s why they like Barry so much. They can relate to him, and vice versa.
Report Post »Easy to be hypocrites ’cause, when cornered, they can say they’re just acting.
Detroit paperboy
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:14amHe is immune from charges of racism….. He’s a Democrat !!!
Report Post »turkey13
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:38amTommy is now on my no fly list along with Woppie, Strisand and many more. It’s like Andy from Mayberry giving the Green Winnie to seniors with the Obama Ad pushing Obamacare. He took big bucks to stab his own in the back. Its like The Rev. al and Jessie Jackson doing the same to their own for money. This started back 45 years ago by Henry Belfontia.
Report Post »Lotus503
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 12:16pmLooks like Side Show Bob off the Simpsons has escaped from prison….
Report Post »smokeysmoke
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 1:11pmremember when MEL GIBSON went on his drunk antisematic rants… THIS IS WORSE… this is planned, a stage show of racism… but liberals are the same biggots while saing were the most fair
Report Post »Maji
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 1:42pmTom”sk-Hanks”…is sorry man!
Report Post »Haven’t watched him for years.
When I see his name I just turn or cut it off.
Sleazy Hippo
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 2:29pmJealous H. Rice. Hanks is a wonderful, talented and intelligent compassionate Catholic. Just like Michael Moore.
Report Post »Shasta
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 2:31pm@harumph posted:
“Many Hollywood actors seem to do better when they’re told what to say”
Well, at least OBonzo doesn’t do that. He is told what to day by his teleprompter.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 4:43pmIs that… Forest Gump… the Kid in a Man’s Body?
Report Post »ambrosia
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 4:44pmHanks, Oprah, Damon, Clooney, Sarandon and on on-
they are SO full of their precious selves.
the higher they climb the hypocrite ladder, the farther they’ll fall.
Keep climbing, morons,
be sure to stuff your drawers with some of that cash Americans shelled out
for your overrated work…to soften the fall.
Never heard Tom Cruise mention politics
or malign anyone,
even Michael Jackson said he “stayed away from politics”.
Don’t care who they support, thats their business
but
what’s with dolts like Hanks & Deniro, going out of their way,
to make unjustified, mean-spirited comments, juvenile attacks ?
I would have expected better, from Hanks-
he’s been on a mission to push his agenda, like no other,
mocking anyone & everything, opposed to his liking.
There is something truly, ugly-hearted, about him
and the sad thing is, he’s the last one to take note.
Hanks has become, as insufferable, as his “brilliant” boy-king, Obama.
Report Post »If money CAN’T buy you class….Hanks is nothing more,than a rich LOSER !
Carol in MA
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 8:54amThe woman is right….he is a hypocrite~!!!
Report Post »Ruler4You
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:04amYou can’t be a pretender and not be a hypocrite. It’s part of the (lack of) ‘character’ test if you want to work in this town.
Hanks knows on what side his bread “IS” buttered. Which “IS” about the only thing he does know. He’s a tool. If some one didn‘t hand him a page with what he’s expected to say, he’d have nothing to say. His ideas and his ‘values’ are hollywoods. If they weren‘t he’d be just another gay guy serving fries at the local ‘weenie’ joint.
Report Post »oneshiner
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:57amI can remember when Tom Hanks dressed like a woman for some stupid TV program. Over the years people thought he was a good role model…..HA! This man became too big for his own britches and is ACTING his part of helping tear down America, for his own glory. His type scares me, siding with socialism, when his career was built because of Capitalism. Sure Tom, side with the enemy. That’s an acting job I believe in.
Report Post »johngs54
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 8:52amjkjj
Report Post »johngs54
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 8:56amOpps. wrong key. I can’t believe that anyone cares what these people do or say. But, the younger people take these people seriously. That is a problem. Obama depends on the Hollywood crowd to help him in his reelection. These people don’t even really know or care anything about Government. They need to shut up and make their millions.
Report Post »TheCurator
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 8:47amFolks, do not patronize these people (don’t buy their products, nor anything that they endorse). Do this not as a protest, but as a tactic and general strategy, for the money they get from you, is used against us and America. Do not contribute to their war chest, at all.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:10amWith Hanks, it’s very easy to do. You won’t miss a thing.
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 12:49pmI’m already with you. I quit going to movies of those who are outspoken, hateful Liberals. Just added
Report Post »Reece Witherspoon to my list.. Will not watch them on TV or old movies where they make money when we watch.
Do NOT support any of these Ultra Liberal liars who are out to destroy our country including the little people who support them and we, who do not support them. The difference is: we know who they are and avoid them and what their “craft” does to this Country.
rationallyurs
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 8:42amtom hanks—is now the thin alec baldwin—or the balding morgan freeman—sad–but dimocrap liberal
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:13amHe’s not that thin last time I saw him.
Report Post »Mateytwo Barreett
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 8:36amThis HAS got to be opinion- news it ain’t!!
Report Post »TNE1
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 8:33amThe heat is—- on!
Report Post »crazyoz
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 8:32amTom Hanks has fallen to the level of Michael Moore. Hanks hasn’t had a financiall hit movie in ten years so he has to do something. Personally I will not go to a movie or by a DVD that is associated with Hanks.
Report Post »greatgrandma
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 8:40amI’m with you on that one. I wish these celebrities would do what they do best and stay the hell out of the political arena. Who gives a hang about their opinions anyway.
Report Post »NICHOLAS.STL
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 4:22pmExcept that little film called DaVinci code that grossed $758,239,851 at the box office.
Report Post »So
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 8:26amHollow-wood at it’s finest.
So many actors I used to like, gone. Once I find out they are out to destroy America as we know it, they are OFF my viewing list.
I want no part of your, Animal Farm, Mr. Hanks.
Report Post »AmazingGrace8
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:24amActors are actors…don’t like their politics if over the top and (not-today) movies were affordable for me and enjoyed going to the movies….it is what it is…still like Hanks movies….Encore is showing a belly-laugh movie of his, “The Money Pit” The sequence of when his character trips & starts a dominos roll for laughs. It just takes me away, for awhile, from all the bad news that is happening today. Probably get slapped along the head but Sean Penn, “Mystic River” & other movies..don’t like his politics but he is a great actor. Jane Fonda..don’t like her politics & during Nam, but she is a great actress. I’ll stop now…probably in trouble with a few of you…but hey, people are people..God Loves All!
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 8:23am.
I bet Tom could Burn a Obama Effigy & a US Flag…….
And they’d call it ART!!!!! And clap like trained seals, for a week…………
Report Post »GeorgieJo
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 10:44amHarvey Weinstein would FINANCE it
OMG 2012
Report Post »HKS
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 8:16amHave you noticed that every Hollywood type that thinks they know whats best for you end up looking a fool. They live in fairyland and should stay there, where everything is beautiful all the time. That’s why most of them are drug addicts, can’t take reality.
Report Post »jacobstroubles
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 8:15amAll Americans: BOYCOTT EVERYTHING TO DO WITH TOM HANKS, AND ALL OTHER PEICE OF GARBAGE HOLLYWOOD TYPES. Just do it. Dont talk about it… just do it!
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 3:55pmI DO IT already. Their self righteous attitudes make me diss them with gusto.
Report Post »THXll38
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 8:13amIf this bothers people we are in a world of hurt.
Report Post »SoupSandwich
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:53amBothers isn’t quite the word. It is descriptive of the duplicitous cant and lean the elite and media take on certain issues. Tom Selleck would have been run out of town on a rail, but he has class, and wouldn’t have been caught out being small and belittling to any race or demographic. Not so much on display with any liberal today. I poop in your general direction and claim it is art, and I like all the aspiring artists in Detroit, say yo, Fluke you too, yo.
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 8:11amSideshow Tom.
Report Post »Highland
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 8:10amThere‘s no one more bigoted than today’s “liberal.”
Report Post »Slowman101
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 8:09amOooooops, Tom screwed up!
Report Post »dugsok
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 8:19amhe lost me as a fan, how sad
Report Post »IndianaJan
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 8:08amNo, not “blah blah blah”. The interesting bit in this little article is that a black “civil rights” group is calling for Hanks’ narrative to be removed / replaced. That would be wonderful. Go for it.
Report Post »How is Orca’s slobbering love affair with Obama work out for her? Hello? Let’s show these “Hollywood Dumbells” (read: hypocrites) what’s in store for them. Do you think Obama is going to bail out Orca, or support Hanks when he is possibly dumped (wishful thinking) from this project for some silliness years ago? Hanks and Fry, etc, made millions of dollars. They are Capitalists with a Capital C. Same with Orca. Do you think that the “regime” is going to stick up for them? Useful idiots.
Tickdog
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 8:08amI am disappointed in Tom Hanks
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 8:00am.
That’s worse than anything I have ever said….Uncle Tom‘s a Racist Who’d a thunk it…..
But then again, I think everybody should own a Democrat or 2………
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 7:57amSo, haven’t we learned yet? The only people that can be “racists” are Republicans? This will be a non-story and what more if it was reported on MSNBC they would be blaming it on Bill O’Reilly for being theoretically in a Gorilla Suit!!!
Report Post »dreardon31
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 7:53am“Stupid is as stupid does”
Report Post »NancyBee
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:44amlol
Report Post »randy
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 7:52amOoooops another hollywood idiot on my “No watch list”.
Report Post »OH WAIT, HE WAS ALREADY ON IT.
ColoradoMaverick
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 7:51amTom Hanks is a good actor. I enjoy his movies. Just like I enjoy many of Morgan Freeman‘s and George Clooney’s movies. As for their political views… they are clueless in my humble opinion. I could not care less about what they think. They are entertainers and nothing more. How could anyone in Hollywood, making millions of dollars a year have any idea what the country is going through day to day? Now Hanks does this propaganda film for Obama and lies to America for him? I don’t care how much I like his acting, I will never watch another Hanks movie again.
Report Post »LookingforJustice
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 8:16amClueless? Me thinks not!
Report Post »Hanks, Clooney and the Hollywood “Elitest Cabal” have brilliantly gamed the political system all the way to the bank. Are they in the 1% yet? ha.
I truly wish they were only “entertainers”…
Do some research on these guys. Warning: your hair will start to sizzle and the word “clueless” will be replaced with several words. Poseurs, Manipulators, Danny Glover Marxists….
rambosharley
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 8:17amMe either!
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 7:47amBlah blah blah.
Report Post »orthodoxc
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 8:19amIf you’re an ex republican, you were really a rino. A conservative can’t turn liberal unless they suffer a brain injury. Sorry to hear it.
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 11:37amThe President I worked to elect sent 4,300 Americans to their death in the dirty sands of another country without a GREAT reason to do so. Hence my defection. The fact that more people weren’t distubed by this is a sad commentary on politics on both sides.
Report Post »SoupSandwich
Posted on March 20, 2012 at 9:50pmYou finished your work, or felt lacking in intestinal fortitude and became a proffessional *******?
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