Jade\'s new race row (press report & discussion)
 

From the Daily Star:

SARI JADE, WE JUST DON'T WANT YOU
14/03/07

DESPERATE Jade Goody has been pestering a glossy Asian magazine to pose as its cover girl – in a sari.

The Celebrity Big Brother bully thought snaps of her cavorting in Indian gear would build bridges.

But bungling Jade, 25, was told: “Sari, but that’s way too much for Asian people to stomach.”

Staff at Britain’s top-selling Asian women’s mag Asiana were left speechless when Jade approached them with her loopy idea for a PR assault.

The Bermondsey bruiser (lol) is desperate to revive her career after enraging the Asian community here and in India by calling Bollywood beauty Shilpa Shetty (pictured), 31, “Poppadom” and “*******awallah”.

But Jade managed to commit yet another toe-curling blunder during her recent PR offensive in India. She told Asiana reporter Gurmej Singh Pawar, 26: “I can now tell my kids that Indian people are not Pakistanis.” (WTF?)

A source close to Jade told the Daily Star last night: “In her eyes, having her in a sari plastered across this respected magazine was to be a quick fix for all the hurt she caused.

But staff saw through her approach and realised readers would be angry to see Jade in beautiful Indian clothes after the foul-mouthed tirades she hurled at Shilpa.

“Jade was insistent. She had to be told repeatedly it was not going to happen.”

Mum-of-two Jade had told pals she wanted the snaps to show her dressed in traditional Indian style, with a desert backdrop of camels and palm trees.

The source added: “She could not even get her ideas right. She seems to be a walking cultural relations nuclear winter.” Shihab Salim, 35, editor-in-chief of Asiana, said: “The option of a photoshoot with her in a sari was flatly rejected.

“It would been in poor taste. I think our readers would have accused us of falling for a PR trick. We support Shilpa – and so do our readers.

“However, since Jade wanted to apologise to our readers, we felt we could include that in our magazine.

“And our decision to run the story was sealed when she came up with priceless quotes such as: ‘Pakistani people are not from India’.”

Asiana is in the shops today.


omg!

the pig is so desperate...ahaa she got rejected....i don't want to see some ugly, foul-mouthed, fake pig in indian clothing, she would make the dress look bad..disgusting...she's so stupid. god I hate her so much

It's a fairly long and typical story.

The Newspapers are jumping on Jade Goody again.

It may be Danielle and Jo next? who knows and who cares.

Anyway, There are two main points, which are easy to explain
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1) Jade offering to wear Indian clothes in a magazine?

Jade Goody went to India to tell as many people there and in fact, worldwide! That she is very sorry for her offensive words and sentances to Shilpa Shetty, also, she is not a racist person and if some of the words and sentances sounded by many to maybe have "racial-overtones", then she understands that many may have thought they were actually racist, but were not.

The offer from Jade to appear in the magazine in Indian clothes, is just another generous gesture from Jade Goody, to try and mend the situation further.

She could offer nothing at all, but Jade Goody is not like that and will try to make peace for all, especially as the investigation from the police is over and the C.P.S has given their legal verdict, which is in the three girl's favour!

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The other point:-

2) ‘Pakistani people are not from India’.” That is typical Jade Goody. She says funny things like that and that is just her all over.

Nothing nasty or very bad. Just a comment which comes over like that, which sounds thick! But nevermind, it is not worth worrying about.

Many white-skinned people can easily make mistakes like that. It is hard to tell the difference some times, between the two.

If you say, "Asian people" I don't think any Indian woman or man would be offended?

I can't imagine why any Indian man or woman could ever get that worried and look at that as being offensive, even if the word, "Pakistani" was mistaken for "Sri Lanka"

It is Jade's recent quirky comment and nothing offensive!

:laugh::laugh: What's funny is that you ACTUALLY believe that.

There you go again, making racially biased comments. You seem to do that a lot. Perhaps you can explain to us why that is?

1. No actually. Just another pathetic attempt to get herself in the limelight, and one that I find offensive. Why would she specifically want to adorn a sari? Does she then think she will be embraced as part of the Indian community. The usual idiotic, pathetic attempt to exhonerate herself.

2. You may as well refer to me as a European then if we are going to be this vague.

It is obvious that Jade Goody wouldn't make this offer for no reason.

You assume that Jade is just doing this to save face.

Other's would disagree and like you to prove that she is doing it for genuine reasons and also, to further protect her children.

She knows that Shilpa Shetty has completely let off Danielle Lloyd and because of that, Danielle is okay now.
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I don't make racially biased comments!

I just state truths. It is easy to get mixed up.

Ask twenty white-skinned men, woman and children at random and see if I'm right?

Im really sick of seing Danielle on the cover of Daily Star everyday! does she have a different story to tell everyday??

Whoa!!! There you go again. Is it easy to tell the difference between many Caucasian nationalities? No. Why do you never comment on that but you're happy to state that it's difficult to tell the difference between Asian people. That is a racially biased comment. So you DO make racially biased comments. Don't deny it.

If you'd like to concede some kind of bias in this then feel free to do it, but stop acting like we don't know what we're dealing with.

the greedy pig is doing all of this for herself and her image...if you're saying she isn't then why didn't she appear on the cover a year ago? why now?
i'm sure you know deep down inside why she's doing all of this but you're just trying to irritate all of us

She would never expect to be embraced as part of the Indian community.

Jade Goody is not Indian and never will be.

She is just trying to offer a gesture and make a few who do hate her, look at her in a better light.

It is always hard to mend a situation like hers.

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You could be a European?

Visit London and walk into Mcdonalds, Burger King, Kentucky Fried Chicken, Pizza Hut.

Then, tell me who is Polish, Italian, Indian, Jamaican, Pakistani, French, English, Welsh, Sri Lankan, Spanish, etc...

Just by looking..

Yes!

What is the obsession with telling peoples nationalities by looking at them? Why does it matter so much?

Firstly I live in London, and love it for it's cosmopolitan nature. People from all walks of life live, and visit, here. So what you are saying above, is that Jade Goody, in all her life, has never had any interaction with an Indian or Pakistani person? No, you cannot tell if a person is Scottish or Irish say, just by looking at them, but your original post did not say "It is hard to tell the difference some times, between the two, just by looking at them." now did it?

I am just answering previous questions from other forum users.

I just look and talk to people. Race or colour doesn't matter.

People are just people.

If they are nice, that's great!

If they are not and diss or attack me, I shall not bring race or colour into the equasion. But I will be agressive back, just like anyone else would be.

Neither did any of the girls.

LOL!

“I can now tell my kids that Indian people are not Pakistanis.”

Thats just terrible. :hugesmile:

Jade Goody has said a funny remark, (Indians and Pakistani's) in her strange way?

She also, will know people who are Indian people through and through.

Also, she will know people who are mixed race, but have been born in England and have never even visited India or Pakistan.

However, If Jade Goody, youself or I, even. Walked into a Macdonalds in Brixton in London, and was approached by a woman with an Indian looking skin colour, we couldn't tell, just by looking at them, whether or not, that they are from India or wherever.

Does it really matter?

People want to eat in McDonalds and that's it!

So she can say anything, just as long as she says it in her "cute and quirky" way?

Jade: "I'm gonna commit genocide against millions of innocent civilians!"

Awww, isn't she a cute 'un. :spin2:

No you're not just answering questions. You bought it up with the comment "Many white-skinned people can easily make mistakes like that. It is hard to tell the difference some times, between the two.".

Which roughly translated means 'they all look the same'. And that is a racist comment

I think it DOES matter to you.

Waffle.

You HAVE bought race and colour into it.

Didn't I make a post saying that you should steer clear of this subject. You then claimed that you can say what you want to say, but I and many on this forum think you're a racist and nothing you've said today can convince me of otherwise. You keep brining the subject up and making racially motivated comments. It is YOU who's exposing your own out of date prejudiced believes, not me.

Getting back to the debate. Jade says:-

But Jade managed to commit yet another toe-curling blunder during her recent PR offensive in India. She told Asiana reporter Gurmej Singh Pawar, 26: “I can now tell my kids that Indian people are not Pakistanis.” (WTF?)


That hardly has anything to do with commiting genocide?

You're getting all worked up here! :bored:

I didn't... say she wanted to commit genocide... :rolleyes: LOL

I was using a humorous example of how you let her get away with saying anything, because it's "cute and quirky"

You are getting your knickers in a spin, GiRTh :spin2::spin2::spin2:

Can you read this:-

But Jade managed to commit yet another toe-curling blunder during her recent PR offensive in India. She told Asiana reporter Gurmej Singh Pawar, 26: “I can now tell my kids that Indian people are not Pakistanis.” (WTF?)


All of my posts earlier are concerning this quote.

I am just explaining how easy it is to get mixed up with different colours of skin and culture.

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Regarding your comment about me saying Racist comments.

That is your own opinion.

Why not try and piece all of the comments that Jade Goody, Danielle Lloyd and Jo O'Meara said in January's Celeb Big Brother and then, look at the C.P.S's conclusion.

Then try to work out what an actual racial comment or sentance is.

This over-scrutiny will ruin Big Brother 8 completely.

Try to calm down and let disagreements between two different people, not come down to race.

That doesn't mean anything. You keep bringing the issue of race into this and I keep seeing implied racism in your words.

I'm extremely well educated thank you. I am in touch with my own intelligence to know that I may not be Einstein but I'm a long long way from being stupid. Trying to insult me is not going to work

The CPS findings were pretty predictable seeing as they didn't have all the evidence.

I think I've already done that in a previous thread and I'm sure I nailed it. Why don't you have a crack and see if we agree.

You bought up race, not me. Stay off the subject and I will to.

You know something nodisharmony, it was you who bought the race issue up in the first place. You should know by now this is a touchy subject. The thing that gets peoples backs up, besides issues of race, is that you never have a bad word to say about Jade. Everything she does is fine in your eyes. She cannot put a foot wrong. Maybe people might respect you more if you gave YOUR OWN honest opinion (I apologise for using capitals, but are merely using this as an emphasis), and stopped seeing everything through Jades' rose coloured spectacles. She is not perfect you know.

It is not nice to assume something of someone now is it nodisharmony? Don't make speculative comments about someone, just because they do not agree with you. It's wrong and you know it.

"Not much to say to your replies?"

Pretty predictable.

The whole situation that Jade, Jo and Danielle find themselves in, is all down to race.

To not debate that, is very stupid indeed.

I don't expect you to agree on that, as you have already made your past feelings clear. We all know that!!:cloud:

The topic title says: Jade's new race row (press report & discussion)

I see the word, (race) in there! Whoops!